Top 100 Sayings About A Life
#1. What a Life: Give some of us pills to stop a fit, give the rest shock to start one.
Ken Kesey
#2. When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#3. The measure of a life well lived is how many good dogs you can fit into it.
[or cats]
Marion Lennox
#4. You can't summarize a story or a life. The story, the life, is the summary.
Marty Rubin
#5. It was just too hard from my standpoint to apply myself properly for the lessons from art school and also work 6 hours a day at the Ben Paris restaurant in downtown Seattle. There was just no time to have a life.
Mike Royer
#6. If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a LOT of time dealing with a life you don't want.
Kevin Ngo
#7. I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.
Calvin Harris
#8. We can live closer to our dreams if we are willing to dream them. And we can create a life as we want it to be.
Alexandra Stoddard
#9. You cannot judge the value of a life by its length.
Esther Hicks
#10. We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every part of a life, is about society as well as an individual.
Marge Piercy
#11. What I find is that it's the middle-aged authors who have lived a life who have the most important, interesting voices. They just need someone to give them the key to unlock the door.
Fiona McIntosh
#12. When I talk about "creative living" here, please understand that I am not necessarily talking about pursuing a life that is professionally or exclusively devoted to the arts.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#13. THALES. Maybe so. Still, I'll defend a life Lived worthily in its brief time on earth. PROTEUS. A life like yours, yes - it persists Well past the bounds of mortal days. Among the crowd of pale and drifting ghosts 8620 I've noticed you these many centuries.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#16. Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.
Pope John Paul II
#17. There is a Life Stream that flows to you, and this is a Stream of clarity, a Stream of wellness, a Stream of abundance - and in any moment, you are allowing it or not. What someone else does with the Stream, or not, does not have anything to do with how much of it will be left for you.
Esther Hicks
#18. Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.
J.K. Rowling
#19. We do what our rising-star photographer failed to do. What all photojournalists fail to do. We go get her out of that death of a life before she dies.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#20. Faith that is not evidenced by a life of integrity is not biblical faith at all.
David Jeremiah
#21. I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.
Elise Valmorbida
#23. We spend more time learning how to make a living than we do learning to make a life.
Muhammad Ali
#24. I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
Kate Christensen
#25. I have a life beyond performance. I love it, and it probably is the better part of my life, but I do have another life.
Eric Burdon
#27. Your only job is creating a life that contains a story worth telling.
Carolyn Parkhurst
#28. The Hebrew original does not say, 'Do not kill.' It says, 'Do not murder.' Both Hebrew and English have two words for taking a life - one is 'kill' (harag, in Hebrew) and the other is 'murder' (ratzach in Hebrew).
Dennis Prager
#29. I've put out kind of a lot of albums and people seem to like it and the crowds keep getting bigger and bigger, so I think maybe I could make a life out of it.
Kevin Morby
#30. A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.
John C. Maxwell
#31. We believers do need to be challenged to a life of committed discipleship, but that challenge needs to be based on the gospel, not on duty or guilt. Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.
Jerry Bridges
#32. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life. If
Catherynne M Valente
#33. Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground, and maybe you'll live to tell the story.
Levon Helm
#34. You would sell your own people?" the captain asked, not sounding surprised.
"Better a life of servitude than death by starvation.
Melissa Landers
#35. in this moment, I could pretend I wasn't a savior or a Saint, that I could simply choose him, have a life, be in love. That we wouldn't have one night, we would have thousands.
Leigh Bardugo
#36. You can have regret from yesterday, fear tomorrow, but peace today by sharing your heart's deepest feelings. A life spent being fearful of showing your soul is a life not worth living.
Shannon L. Alder
#37. Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.
Gregory Benford
#38. I believe such passion-even passion born of fear and anxiety-is far better than a life of banality.
Lori Nelson
#40. A character, sir, may always ask a man who he is. Because a character has really a life of his own, marked with his special characteristics; for which reason he is always "somebody." But a man - I'm not speaking of you now - may very well be 'nobody'.
Luigi Pirandello
#42. She might not have been party to love, but it still took a lot of volume to fill a life.
Colum McCann
#43. Most vices ... demand considerable self-sacrifice. There is no greater mistake than to suppose the vicious life is the life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful - if strenuously led - as Christian's in Pilgrims Progress.
Aldous Huxley
#44. There is only one invitation it would kill me to refuse, yet I'm tempted to turn it down all the time. I get the invitation every morning when I wake up to actually live a life of complete engagement, a life of whimsy, a life where love does.
Bob Goff
#45. I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.
Kacey Musgraves
#46. This book could corrupt or debauch. It would not make suitable reading for Boy Rangers, Aunt Matilda, or those contemplating a life of celibacy. - Eric Bishop-Potter on "Jimmy, Mrs Fisher and Me.
Eric Bishop-Potter
#47. The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.
Jerry Bridges
#48. A life of success comes from seeking a life of beauty.
Bryant McGill
#49. A life of leisure never satisfies anyone who possesses a lively mind.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#50. I grew up in a life where the answer was always there, I guess. But now I'm out on my own and still looking for the answer. Nothing is solved for me.
Katy Perry
#51. If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.
Joan Baez
#52. My students know I have a life, they know I've written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they know about their physics teacher, but I would've told them anyway!
Marya Hornbacher
#53. What is left to be afraid of?' And he said, 'The possibility that a life itself may prove to be the most worthy struggle.
Andrew Krivak
#54. Better to play fair for a life of hate than cheat for a life of love
Holly Bodger
#55. What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.'
James Belushi
#56. Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#57. I have not known of too many people who found Christ on their deathbeds. When we come to Christ in our youth, a life is saved. When we come in old age, a soul is salvaged and life eternal is assured; but the opportunity to live a life for Christ has been lost.
Billy Graham
#58. Every day another miracle
Only death will tear us apart
To sacrifice a life for yours
I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart
The blood of the Lazarus heart
Sting
#59. People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't.
Marianne Williamson
#60. When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its course it is a natural and not unhappy thing that a life comes to its end.
Rachel Carson
#61. There are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, 52 weeks in a year, and X years in a life. Solve for X.
Jenny Offill
#62. It was a life with purpose. And it was also a lot of fun. Fishing is fun. Hiking up mountains is fun. Building a wall out of river rocks dug up from the bottom of a glacial lake is not fun. Not at all. But it does give a work ethic that you can take anywhere in the world.
Leigh Newman
#64. I love you, only you; no one but you. It was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream.
Kate Chopin
#65. Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.
Pete Hamill
#66. But the thing is, a wife is a wife and you can't ditch her like a worn shirt after a life.
Yiyun Li
#67. The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life; they belong to the same social class, the same milieu, they have the same experiences. Once you read one of those books, you have read them all. And this is a problem.
Pascal Bruckner
#68. I thank God for supply me with my deepest needs; a life of love with graceful strength.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#69. A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.
David Sarnoff
#70. Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them (Frank Moore Colby)
Colin Dexter
#71. I may not believe in magic, but I know words have the magical power to change a person or a life in a second.
Debasish Mridha
#72. Every scar has a life of its own and a space in my heart.
Paulo Coelho
#73. Did you know you can't steer a boat that isn't moving? Just like a life.
Paul Lutus
#74. Trying to pretend to oneself that a life of constant self frustration was in fact a great spiritual attainment.
Alan W. Watts
#75. It is up to you whether social, intelligent and wonderful creatures are to be freed from their chains and cages where ruthless people keep them. The animals would, if they could, flee as I did, because a life in captivity is a life full of deprivation.
Natascha Kampusch
#76. I suppose they think me an old man and imagine it is nothing for one like me to resign a life so full of trials. But I am not old - at least in that sense; you know I am not. Oh, no man ever left the world with more inviting prospects, with brighter hopes, or warmer feelings - warmer feelings.
Adoniram Judson
#77. I live my life, breathless ... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!
Eric Burdon
#78. My favorite player is Tiger Woods. I think I can beat Tiger when I'm 20. It's a life goal.
Michelle Wie
#79. You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#80. To live a life of gratitude is to open our eyes to the countless ways in which we are supported by the world around us.
Gregg Krech
#81. Trying to walk around in shoes that were custom made for someone else is a lot like trying to live a life that God custom designed for someone else. It may look pretty on the outside for a little while, but all it will bring is frustration, misery, and pain.
Kathi Lipp
#82. If the choice is a life without dance or death, well then I choose DEATH! Now hand me my whiskey and tights.
Jason Whitman
#83. I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm.
Theodore Roosevelt
#84. He'd never dreamed they could ever be together again after what had happened so long ago, but life is funny, sometimes. The painful past can heal and can even open up into a life you'd never dared to dream of.
Miranda Liasson
#85. She lived a life almost obsessively devoted to triviality. She'd turned into a pond skater, not because she didn't know what lay beneath the surface, but precisely because she did.
Pat Barker
#86. Feel like the recluse who comes out into the world with a life-saving gospel to find everybody has learned a new language in the meantime and can't understand a word he's saying.
Sylvia Plath
#87. ...within invisible walls of dreams, we live a life that might have been...
John J. Geddes
#88. The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.
Sue Grafton
#89. I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And so it seemed normal to study both fiction writing and the literary essay as an undergrad.
Alexander Chee
#90. God calls us to a wild adventure, not a tea party, my dear. I don't follow Jesus because he can give me a life without pain. I follow him because he is good. Someday I will follow him right through death, and into our Heavenly Father's house.
Aunt Wealthy
Martha Finley
#91. We say yes to the society of solidarity and democracy where free people together, in mutual respect and under mutual responsibility, shape a life where everyone has equal opportunities and equal value.
Olof Palme
#92. The evidence of conversion is not a decision card filled out, it's a life being lived out.
Paul Washer
#93. A writer needs solitude : moments that he can spend in introspection and in reflection. These moments make him pensive and thoughtful and help him write his thoughts with clarity. A life of devotion to one's passion gives us meaning to our life.
Avijeet Das
#94. In our quest to prove ourselves, we forget that there is a life beyond those corporate walls
Zahir Chauhan
#95. Death has a life which kills everybody's life
Munia Khan
#96. Once you begin the journey toward a life of purpose, you enter the realm of real magic.
Wayne Dyer
#97. The goal of a life is not to provide material for good stories.
Tim Kreider
#99. In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.
Gail Sheehy
#100. I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.
Sarah McLachlan
