Top 100 Quotes About What Life Gives You
#1. You can make almost anything a learning or positive experience. I think I offer a good example of how to make the most out of what life gives you and how to keep moving on.
Augusten Burroughs
#2. You can take what life gives you or you can take what you want from life. Your choice.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#3. No matter what life gives you you have to embrace it and move forward.
Tanya Rider
#4. Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.
Ashton Kutcher
#5. I feel like, as women and men and people on the planet, you just have to do the best with what life gives you.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#6. Quantum physics is teaching us that particles themselves don't create particles. It's what Jesus said 2,000 years ago, that it's the Spirit that gives life and that you don't get particles from more particles.
Wayne Dyer
#7. I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#8. If God gives you a dream, and the dream comes to life and God shows up in it, and then the dream dies, it may be that God wants to see what is more important to you - the dream or him.
Phil Vischer
#9. You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.
Ellen Barkin
#10. Trading gives you an incredibly intense feeling of what life is all about.
Paul Tudor Jones
#11. sometimes life gives you what you want while taking another piece away. The
Karina Halle
#12. When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ, who is the fulfillness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world look to Christ.
Pope John Paul II
#13. Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have the imposition of family to remind you of what is at stake, something else will.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#14. Losing your job gives you the ability to decide what product each unit of your passing life should produce
Sunday Adelaja
#15. I believe in life. I know that life comes in at your heart and it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a filmmaker or a gentleman on the street, it comes at you. What Scientology gives me is the tools to deal with that, to better enjoy my life and to be able to contribute more.
Tom Cruise
#16. To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
Robert Browning
#17. It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.
Tom Wolfe
#18. I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.
Frank Serpico
#19. That living has no value - it's what you do with life that gives it worth.
Michael J. Sullivan
#20. Don't fear opening a Gift God gives you simply because the packaging isn't 't what you expected..we can't know what's in a gift given until it's unwrapped
Kalon Jackson
#21. Life gives you what you expect, what you are prepared to put up with or can change.
Steven Redhead
#22. Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia. It's the understanding that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It's a mode of training your senses and intellect so you're able to perceive the fact that life always gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.
Rob Brezsny
#23. Don't expect your genius to be discovered; do what you must do because it gives you joy. Don't expect your love to be accepted. Love because it justifies your life.
Paulo Coelho
#25. Do you know what gives a woman most pleasure within marriage? 'Sex'? ..No, making food. Watching her man eat
Paulo Coelho
#26. I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
Alexander Payne
#27. What gives you pleasure and joy? Let those be the things that lead you forward in life.
Julianne Moore
#28. I think what I've come to now is, that fear is good; it's what life is about. You need to be afraid because fear gives you the strength to carry on important tasks.
Kristen Stewart
#29. I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.
Olympia Dukakis
#30. When life gives you lemons, make chocolate chip cookies and make the whole world wonder what you've been up to.
Carolyn Brown
#31. Seems like sometimes life gives you what you need instead of what you want, if you know what I mean
Karen McQuestion
#32. The real failure is to rob this world of the contribution only you can make, and to fail to make work that truly gives you that 'this is what I was created to do' feeling that has no equal.
David DuChemin
#33. If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that ... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.
Michael Moriarty
#34. This is the secret to satisfaction in anything: doing what gives you life and not trying to live up to others' expectations.
Jeff Goins
#35. Hey you know what they say you should do when life gives you lemons?"
The sudden change in topic made my head spin, "Make lemonade?" I answered weakly.
"Lemonade? Who the fuck do you hang out with, Girl Scouts? No, when life gives you lemons, you add vodka and make a lemon drop.
Cardeno C.
#36. Passion is not what gives you bliss or makes you happy 24/7, but what you're willing to suffer for, what you genuinely believe to be worth the sacrifice.
Justine Musk
#37. He must be the most singlehanded devotee cricket has ever seen. Cricket has taken up so much of his life that at times you would wonder what is he going to do once he gives up the game.
Greg Chappell
#38. Wisdom gives you the ability to chose what is right.
In the darkness of hate and ignorance, it is the light.
Debasish Mridha
#39. LIFE and YOU : What YOU exactly want from LIFE, it'll never give. LIFE gives for sure, but in pieces. It's YOU who have to assemble, all that LIFE ponders, according to your needs. It's YOU who have to realise how you can get what YOU exactly want.
Vikrmn
#40. Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#41. One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: 'Write what you know.' Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies' cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.
Carol Berg
#42. I can't do small talk really, and that's fine. I've got old friends and family that love me, thank God. I'm grateful for what a city gives you access to, but I do feel that I'm only here until I figure out how to get out again.
Laura Marling
#43. Why Judge someone? What gives YOU the right? We are all humans and we all have stories. Don't be critical on people ... For how would you like it if they said that about you?
Violet Lillydale
#44. You are not here by accident today," she said. "God has a plan and purpose for your life. People are so afraid of failing, but if God wants you to do something, you don't have to worry about failing because God gets results. He gives you wisdom to do what he wants you to do.
Judy Christie
#45. I don't understand dating.. and the other things that people do.. all I know is that you ought to find the one you recognize. The one who gives you four arms, four legs, four eyes, and has the other half of your heart. There's only one of those, so what are all the other things for? Like dating?
C. JoyBell C.
#46. What is the "eternal life" that Jesus gives? Knowledge of God. "This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent" (Jn 17:3).
J.I. Packer
#47. Loving what you do gives you the ultimate joy of life.
Debasish Mridha
#48. Sweetness cloys. Tart fruit and tart women give life its savor ... Daenerys, sweet queen, I cannot tell you what a pleasure it gives me to bask once more in your presence.
George R R Martin
#49. Get the mind right, the body will follow, you lose some battles in life, but if you always put your heart and passion forward first as your main objective, you will win the war, that's what gives you the strength to get off the ground ... and do it again.
Greg Plitt
#50. What's to be the reason for becoming man and wife, is it love that brings you here, or love that gives you life?
Paul Stookey
#51. Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
Dale Carnegie
#52. I believe seeing earth a small blue ball in the vast dark ocean of space, gives you a new perspective on life and what is important. You can see how small we are as compared to the universe and how fragile our lives are.
Anousheh Ansari
#53. I always thought that what Rajima did with those cast-off peels was a metaphor for how she dealt with her arranged marriage. She transformed those peels, with palm sugar for sweetness and tamarind for tang, into something precious.
Padma Lakshmi
#54. Life, he muses, always gives you an excuse to take what you want anyway.
Don Winslow
#55. What was that saying? When life gives you lemons, go to a taco stand.
Mariana Zapata
#56. Captain gives her a hard look. "You know what shit is? Killing three innocent people. Think your life is bad now, try living with that." Her voice is harsh.
Lisa McMann
#57. I am at your service, my lady, I said, standing and releasing her hand. For the first time in my life I understood the true purpose of this sort of formal greeting. It gives you a script to follow when you have absolutely no idea what to say.
Patrick Rothfuss
#58. What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
Andre Gide
#59. It wasn't what I was expecting, but like I've always said: if life gives you lemmings, jump off a cliff.
Mike Carey
#60. Make your Life Exciting. Find out what gives you Joy and makes your heart Dance, and Do it.-RVM
R.v.m.
#61. Life doesn't always give you what you ask for, but it always gives you what you need.
Robin S. Sharma
#62. You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
Eden Phillpotts
#63. Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now.
Joseph Campbell
#64. Anything you want for life is available to you, the universe is just waiting for you to take the necessary action(s) before it gives you what you want.
Hal Elrod
#66. Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning. I think you need somebody to love and take care of, and someone who loves you back. In that sense, I think the New Testament got it right. So did the Beatles. Without love, nothing has any meaning.
Dick Van Dyke
#67. Christ wants to give you hope for the future. He wants you to learn what it means to walk with Him every day. When you come to Christ, God gives you eternal life - which begins right now as you open your heart to Him.
Billy Graham
#68. When life gives you lemons, take out the salt and the shot-glasses and fill them up with tequila. Fight for what you really want and never, ever settle for anything less. Don't exist. Live.
Teodora Kostova
#69. Life gives you no guarantees. So, you love with all you have. And enjoy the time you're given. If not, what's it all for anyway?
Megan Mitcham
#70. I believe that life supports what supports more of life. In other words, motivation does matter. If you're just trying to take care of yourself, you're part of life and I believe life steps in and gives you a certain level of insight.
Tony Robbins
#71. The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about.
Maria Bartiromo
#72. Life gives you what you create ... not what you deserve.
Vivian Amis
#73. I've always made it a rule to have a suit for every day of the week. Perhaps you'll tell me I'm vain, but you'd be surprised if you knew what it had meant to me, at critical moments of my life, to be dressed exactly in accordance with my mood. It gives one such confidence, I think.
Christopher Isherwood
#74. The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
Adam Gopnik
#75. You may discover that the very aspects which make it most unendurable are what gives New York its meaning. Its inconsistencies and anonymity, its seeming indifference to you and every other individual is really what makes it a safe haven for individuals everywhere (Maeve Brennan)
Elizabeth Winder
#76. Without time," the angel said, "you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity."
"FYI, philosophy bores me."
"Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.
J.R. Ward
#77. Change your meanings you alter your destiny. Life does not give us what we want. Life gives us whatever we expect.
Harold Homer Anderson
#78. Life does not always give you what you want, but if you look closely you will see that it gives what you need for growth.
Leon Brown
#79. Wealth gives you options, and your decisions about what to do with your options say much about your character.
Beau Sides
#80. No, that's what I think God does to you. He gives you some great gig in which you make a whole heap of money, and you're just on top of the world and on every magazine cover, but your personal life is miserable. And for most of that time, I have to say, my personal life was pretty miserable.
Joan Collins
#81. If God gives you gifts you must use them to justify your life. It is what the Greeks called divine discontent that drives you.
Mary Fairfax
#82. A dog is the best philosopher because he knows what you want and gives you that with kindness and love.
Debasish Mridha
#83. God gives you a life and says, Okay, what are you going to do with it?
Alice Cooper
#84. He didn't ask for any of this, did he?" "None of them did, come to that." Logan responded. "But that's what life does to you. It gives you a whole lot of stuff you don't ask for and expects you to deal with it. No complaining, no excuses.
Terry Brooks
#85. When life gives you lemons, say, "yeah I like lemons, what else ya got"?
Ann Brashares
#86. What if the most important moment in your life is this one? Can you handle the power it gives you to choose how you will spend the next one?
Miggs Burroughs
#87. life never comes straight at you, it sneaks up and gives you whatever it gives, not what you want. No matter what you think.
Bart Hopkins Jr.
#88. Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you have to know them. No one is more sensitive to what gives man the right to call himself a man: good-heartedness, bravery and virile brotherhood.
Jacques Roumain
#89. Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.
Bruce Barton
#90. Maybe it's impossible to find everything you want in one person. Maybe everyone in your life gives you certain things you need. And your friends give you the rest of what you can't get from your boyfriend.
Susane Colasanti
#91. It's always inspiring to me to meet people who feel that they can make a difference in the world. That's their motive, that's their passion ... I think that's what makes your life meaningful, that's what fills your own heart and that's what gives you purpose.
Maria Shriver
#92. The universe never complains.
When you're wrong or right,
She always loves and cares,
She always gives and shares.
When you get lost she becomes the light,
Helps you to find what is right.
But she never forgets
To show you the light.
Debasish Mridha
#93. Life,' thought Septimus, ... 'you could never trust the bastard. What it gives with one hand, it takes away with the other.
M.L. Stedman
#94. Never be too busy for the people you love. Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priorities than your relationships. Love is what gives meaning to life.
Dave Willis
#95. Focus on what makes you happy, and do what gives meaning to your life
Barry Schwartz
#96. I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.
Boy George
#97. Sometimes life gives you a second chance, or even two! Not always, but sometimes. It's what you do with those second chances that counts.
Dave Wilson
#98. Transcendental Meditation gives you what you need, when you need it. It's literally changed my life. Some of the clearest ideas or epiphanies I've had in life happened during or after meditating. Everything becomes clear and the truth starts coming out.
Hugh Jackman
#99. Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter of my fate?! Who are YOU to question my behavior, HUH??? What gives you the right?!
Hobbes: Santa makes the toys, so he gets to decide who to give them to.
Calvin: Oh.
Bill Watterson
#100. Attentive reading of God's Word will set you up for frequent Holy Spirit warnings as He uses Scripture to set off alarms of danger in your life. As you grow spiritually, you may discover direct "prompts" God's Spirit gives, but they will always be in harmony with what God says in His Word.
James MacDonald
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