Top 100 Sayings About What Life Is
#1. That's what life is. Life is where you sleep and what you see when you wake up in the morning, and who you tell about your weird dream, and what you eat for breakfast and who you eat it with. Life isn't something that happens to you. It's something you make yourself, all the time." -Celeste
Rebecca Stead
#2. While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt
#3. I just try to write what I think would really happen, and with grief and tragedy, there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that's what life is really like. Sadness gets interrupted, and happiness gets interrupted.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#4. I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.
Cary Elwes
#5. What life is, we know not. What life does, we know well. - LORD PERCEVAL
Elizabeth Gilbert
#6. We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.
David Steindl-Rast
#7. I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
Vince Lombardi
#8. You that seek what life is in death,
Now find it air that once was breath.
New names unknown, old names gone:
Till time end bodies, but souls none.
Reader! then make time, while you be,
But steps to your eternity.
Fulke Greville Baron Brooke
#9. Two things, generally, for me, is what life is about. And they're not funny. Living in the moment, is one. And No. 2 is getting out of yourself and helping other people. Because all of my suffering stems from thinking from myself.
Bobby Lee
#10. The suffering that started off challenging our being and our ideas of what life is and should be ends up opening our heart, expanding our identity, and connecting us forever to the human family and life.
John P. Schuster
#11. And, after all, isn't that what life is all about, the ability to go around back and come up inside other people's heads to look out at the damned fool miracle and say: oh, so that's how you see it!? Well, now, I must remember that.
Ray Bradbury
#12. You have a peace about you. You have a wisdom. You have a way of living life that kicks my butt and pushes me around, and it beats me out of my idiocy and narrow-mindness. You, Addy, you, have shown me what life is all about
Heath Sommer
#13. When my twin grandchildren, Linda and Lyeke, were born two years ago, it changed me. I felt it was the essence of what life is about, and I cried all day. When my son Pierre, their father, was born I didn't cry like that.
Andre Rieu
#14. I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time.
Clive James
#15. The day you witness wrongdoing and fail to feel compelled to do something to stop it, is the day you've lost sight of what life is all about.
Candice Snow
#16. Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple. We're told that we're Ted or Sally or Willie or whatever and that we grow up and have experiences. That has nothing to do with what life is. You are eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#17. To make a difference is just ... I think ... the purpose of what life is.
Anastacia
#18. life is the vessel we have been given in order to find out what life is really meant to be about.
Joan D. Chittister
#19. Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about.
Benjamin Hoff
#20. Many people today have grown up believing that they are entitled to a good time, that that's what life is all about. They put their pleasures ahead of their children, then feel guilty and become placating slaves to the children to make up for it.
Robert Shaw
#21. I've always been physical. I have no concept of what life is like without physical activity.
Jessica Biel
#22. Most people think great god will come from the skies, take away everything, and make everybody feel high. But if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.
Bob Marley
#23. Trading gives you an incredibly intense feeling of what life is all about.
Paul Tudor Jones
#24. If you fall, get back up. That's what life is about.
Keith Sweat
#25. I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.
Wallis Simpson
#26. [I]f you know what life is worth / You would look for yours on earth."266
Dean MacNeil
#27. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce Lee
#28. Nothing could be left to chance, because chance, after all, can be dangerous. But what I didn't realize all that time, what I missed all along, is that chance is everywhere. It's also what life is made of. It's all around us, but most of the time we never see it working.
Jessi Kirby
#29. I did not want to leave her, but this was it, this is what life is, you have to pay for everything that has happened to you. Whether good or bad you have to pay for it, it would be anything, or something or someone you love.
Shaikh Ashraf
#30. All freedom to man, but freedom is useful when we know what life is, when we know what past is, what present is, when we know how to go about things, not that every man should be left to experiment by himself.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#31. What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide.
"That is because I know what life is," said Martin.
Voltaire
#32. God puts certain things in certain people. I'm a restless soul. I'm always searching. I'm always pressing to find what truth is and what life is all about.
Jonathan Jackson
#33. It is something only a few know in their lives. It is a vision of something so clear, so true, it can only be a madness. You see what life is worth, and you know what death means.
Raymond E. Feist
#34. You're afraid? But that's what life is. There are bad surprises, yes. Awful surprises sometimes. But what makes the good surprises so good is that they're unexpected.
A.L. Player
#35. Life is much the same when it's going well
resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?
Mary Oliver
#36. Look to your khal and see what life is worth, when all the rest is gone.
George R R Martin
#37. I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into the sky until it disappeared. And there's something about that, even, that feels very much like what life is, you know, that it's fleeting, and it's temporal.
Pete Docter
#38. Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I'd like to visit there one day.
Meg Cabot
#39. Savor the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the little things that happen while you're waiting for something else.
Joe Abercrombie
#40. To be mature you have to realize what you value most ... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#41. When you refuse to pay attention to what life is saying to you, life will make its point very clear. Life wants us to be aware of ourselves so we can make the necessary adjustments in order to live more harmoniously.
Iyanla Vanzant
#42. He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.
Oscar Wilde
#43. That's what life is, you know: a bunch of baby steps, one after another after another, and sometimes you fall, but you always get back up, and eventually you get where you're going.
Claire Legrand
#44. Now at last I have come to see what life is, Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun, And the brave victories that seem so splendid Are never really won.
Sara Teasdale
#45. When a person has access to both the intuitive, creative and visual right brain, and the analytical, logical, verbal left brain, then the whole brain is working ... And this tool is best suited to the reality of what life is, because life is not just logical-it is also emotional.
Stephen Covey
#46. I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.
Ja Rule
#48. First off, I'd like to thank God for changing my life. He let me really realize what life is all about. Basketball is just a platform, In order for me to inspire people. And I realize that.
Kevin Durant
#49. Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
Jeanette Winterson
#50. Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that it's threatened, when it's threatened, when it's in danger, then it becomes a curse or a blessing.
Elie Wiesel
#51. We can always do anything as long as we are alive. We can always change, grow, evolve into a far better version of ourselves. It is surely what life is for.
Mary Balogh
#52. No relationships should be taken for granted. They are what life is all about, the whole point. How we cultivate our relationships is often the greatest determinant of the type of life we get to live.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#53. Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
Mark Twain
#54. If we don't know ourselves, our essence, where our true power comes from, we will believe our power comes from collecting victories, trophies, money, or recognition. And these are all fine, but it's not ultimately what life is about. When we think it is, we really waste our greatest possibilities.
Arianna Huffington
#55. That's what life is about: finding something you can do that no one else can, and working your hardest at it. It's about finding someone you love like no one else, someone who loves you like no one else does.
A.G. Riddle
#56. You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.
Wayne Newton
#57. I like tricks; I like to dazzle. Dribbling and leaving your opponent on his backside is what life is for. If I achieve what I want to, then I'll mark a distinct era in football. I'm the Che Guevara of modern soccer.
Sergio Aguero
#58. I really love sharing my gift with others. At the same time, I'm just a normal kid having fun and that's what life is all about-having fun at the same time as helping people.
Akiane Kramarik
#59. Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.
Frederik Pohl
#60. We live in an age when we have forgotten what life is all about.
Robin S. Sharma
#61. Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#62. One of the main reasons I write fiction is to try to understand what life is like for people other than myself, to try to see the world through my characters' eyes. I often find that I'm able to understand certain emotional truths about my own life by exploring things from different vantages.
Molly Antopol
#63. It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
Jack Lemmon
#64. To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#65. A street full of shadows will teach you what life is much better than the street full of lights!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#66. But basically courage is risking the known for the unknown, the familiar for the unfamiliar, the comfortable for the uncomfortable, arduous pilgrimage to some unknown destination. One never knows whether one will be able to make it or not. It is gambling, but only the gamblers know what life is. THE
Osho
#67. If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.
Bruce Robinson
#68. Well, that's what life is - this collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments. We just need to pay attention to them all. Wake up and pay attention to how beautiful it all is.
Alexander Payne
#69. But that is what life is all about, he said. It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love.
Mary Balogh
#70. If you really want to find your voice, your goal is to journey toward inner wholeness
which is what life is about anyway. It involves self-acceptance and genuine self-respect.
from Unleash the Writer Within
Cecil Murphey
#71. If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what life is about.
Sandra Bullock
#72. If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love.
Gavin Newsom
#73. I'm a really nostalgic person. I love taking photos and video and having memories. I remember all my childhood videos that my dad used to take. I think that's really what life is about - especially when you start a family of your own.
Kim Kardashian
#74. That's what life is all about - you're busy, I'm busy, and the end result is death. Sooner or later, that's what it comes to. ("The Death Of Wang Asao")
Xiao Hong
#75. As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about.
Afrika Bambaataa
#76. Have fun, because that's what life is all about.
Ryan Lochte
#77. That's what life is, a series of fuck-ups and what you make of 'em.
Stevie J. Cole
#79. That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier.
Hermann Hesse
#80. I love stories that frame that: This is what life is about - you don't have a clue.
Conor McPherson
#81. Understanding is to knowledge what the flesh is to the body. Insight is to wisdom what life is to the soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#82. While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like.
Woody Allen
#83. Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!
August Strindberg
#84. But that's what kismet is. It makes us careen off in odd directions from which we learn not only what life is about but what it is for. This journey may be nothing less than your chance to discover these things." "You're
Homer Hickam
#85. Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing.
Alister E. McGrath
#86. In our final moments we all realize that relationships are what life is all about. Wisdom is learning that truth sooner rather than later.
Rick Warren
#87. Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?
Jules Verne
#88. Maybe that's what life is ... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
Jack Kerouac
#89. Something can be very funny and then suddenly very terrifying-very exciting, and suddenly very ridiculous. I think that's what life is like, that's what interests me.
Joss Whedon
#90. Let me show you what life is like lived in the moment. No past, no future, just the one perfect moment you're standing in and there's no guilt and there's no shame and there's absolutely nothing to be afraid of ...
Tiffany Reisz
#91. That's what life is. One problem after another. You can't control any of it. All you can do is reach out for something good whenever you can. And hold on no matter what.
Lisa Kleypas
#93. That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.
Jon Foreman
#94. People should tell your children what life is all about
it's about work ...
Lauren Bacall
#95. Does anybody realize what life is
while they're living it- every, every minute?
Thornton Wilder
#96. Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
Saul Bellow
#97. That's what life is, it's fucking trying. You don't get a medal for it. It's expected, as a member of the human race, that you try.
Kim Holden
#98. I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#99. Scarlet watched a leaf fall to the ground, lying dead amoung the other leaves on the forest floor. "A brief life seems pointless."
Tristan thought for a moment. "Isn't that what life is, though? A brief opportunity to exist? A short gift?
Chelsea Fine
#100. Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.
Cory Booker
