Top 100 So Much More To Life Quotes
#1. There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
Beatrice Wood
#2. ...there was so much more to life than just money. There were family and friends, there was good, satisfying work, and knowing you had a place on this earth where you were loved and there was nothing to prove.
Natalie Baszile
#3. There's so much more to life than looking a certain way.
Hilary Swank
#4. There's so much more to life than what you're feeling now
Hunter Hayes
#5. You remind me that there's so much more to life. You're my something real to grasp on to at the end of the day. You ground me. I love you and that's not going to change.
Kendall Ryan
#6. There is nothing wrong with loving your work and wanting to apply yourself to it. But there is so much more to life. Balance is what is important, maintaining balance.
Bronnie Ware
#7. There's so much more to life than golf. Family is always first.
Ernie Els
#8. You just realize at the end of the day, everyone is going to have their opinion on your life, more and more so as you go along. As long as you're getting to work and be a part of it - still having fun, learn to just not sweat it so much and keep doing the things you love.
Dianna Agron
#9. Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,
the human soul!
James Russell Lowell
#10. There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 'tis hardly worth while to be here at all.
Viscount Henry St. John Bolingbroke
#11. If I know the outcome is not going to devastate my life, it makes me so much more excited for everything that's to come.
Sara McMann
#12. In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#13. I'm legitimately having more fun doing music, but at the same time I worked my whole life for baseball. If I had to pick, I would probably pick music. I just connect more with the fact that other people connect with that I'm doing so much. It's a much cooler thing than being good at sports.
Mike Stud
#14. I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.
Randy Harrison
#15. Eloise knew that it was so much more complicated than that. There are no trades in this life, and depression is a dark, dark doorway some people have no choice but to walk through.
Lisa Unger
#16. Andrew's kissing Amanda again, her back pinned against the door frame, his hands working through a geometry problem where the goal is to find the point of intersection where two legs bisect. People would like math so much more if it involved real life like that.
Julia Kent
#17. It's just so much more fun to play bad than good. Plus it's just good to get that out of your system so it doesn't show up in your personal life.
Chris Zylka
#18. Maybe I had more wrinkles than I would if I hadn't spent so much of my life outdoors, but I didn't care. It was a privilege to grow old, and not everyone got to enjoy it. I was grateful for every minute I was given.
Diane Chamberlain
#19. Why don't people take the trouble to let you know that they are alive? It is so much more important. The whole system is wrong. No sooner do I die, than all the flowers I have ever longed for in life pour in.
Elizabeth Bibesco
#20. He had seen so much of life, but even more of death. He had seen countless eras come and go and still he braved forward, forever alone. And here she was ready to give up after a few lousy years. She was a coward.
Michelle M. Pillow
#21. Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.
Hill Harper
#22. The training of children is such a serous thing, and it means so much to them to be surrounded from the very beginning with good influences, that I should have thought the holier a man's vocation and the purer his life, the more fit he is to be a father
Ethel Lilian Voynich
#23. I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.
Jennie Garth
#24. I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.
Rufus Sewell
#25. I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life.
Paola Antonelli
#26. I balance things better and don't kill myself so much, but conflict makes me a more interesting actress to watch. The places I go to pull emotions from, I think if you have a perfect, happy life, you just don't have those places. And I want those places. I'm proud of those places.
Vanessa Marcil
#27. Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.
Willie Sutton
#28. Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful ... How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural
you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#29. Eating, drinking. sleeping, pro-creating. A little laughter, a lot of tears. Is this all there is to life? Don't die like a worm on the surface of the planet. WAKE UP and be all that you can be, you are so much more than that.
Sivananda
#30. When I was a child, doctors sent my grandmother home in a wheelchair to die. Diagnosed with end-stage heart disease, she already had so much scar tissue from bypass operations that the surgeons had essentially run out of plumbing. There was nothing more to do, they said; her life was over at 65.
Michael Greger
#31. Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.
Karen Swallow Prior
#32. Each day is another learning experience for me. The more I live ... the more I realise: There is so much more in life that I need to know .
Timothy Pina
#33. I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.
Maisie Williams
#34. I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.
Q'orianka Kilcher
#35. It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.
Jonah Peretti
#36. But reading her journals has helped her to remember more than that morning. There was more to Anthony's life than his death. And there was more to Anthony than his autism. So much more. She can think about Anthony now and not be consumed by autism or grief.
Lisa Genova
#37. I now embrace the pleasures of this life with as much or more passion as I did before, but I do so without expecting those pleasures to provide any more than a foretaste of what is to come - a tremendously liberating knowledge.
Ted Dekker
#38. It's nice to look good and have a great body, but you enjoy your life so much more if you are fit. That is the message I definitely want to get out.
Kacy Catanzaro
#40. it's funny how I'm encouraged to go to school so much, but I've learned more valuable things on google then from school.
James Jean-Pierre
#41. Everybody tries to find the purpose for their life in hopes thst one more day is justified. But once you truly see, the very reason why you're breathing becomes so much more than getting by.
MercyMe
#42. People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.
Nina Garcia
#43. For Foucauld and the Little Brothers, life in the desert was not a flight from the world but rather a school of love and prayer to learn to enter more deeply into humanity. Their goal was to shout the gospel not so much with their mouths as with their lives.
Brennan Manning
#44. For once you yourself cease to take pleasure in the common enjoyments of life, you hate the normal man who is so much more fortunate than yourself.
J.P.V.D. Balsdon
#45. Robin Sharma: "One of the saddest things in life is to get to the end and look back in regret, knowing that you could have been, done, and had so much more.
Hal Elrod
#46. I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.
David Levithan
#47. Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.
Richard Branson
#48. I love my kids so much. They teach me something every day. It always brings richness to my work, and even more in life. I feel lucky to be able to do both.
Blair Underwood
#49. From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students. I decided that, rather than waste the last day of class summarizing the semester, I'd spend my time talking about what I'd learned in life that was useful.
Clayton M Christensen
#50. Story cannot be "studied." It is learned through assimilation, through living in its proximity with those who know it, live it, and teach it - more so through all the day-to-day mundane tasks of life, much more than the clearly ceremonial times. The
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#51. So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters.
Gerald R. Ford
#52. I hate the way my life has been inexplicably overwhelmed by questionnaires. Life is so much stranger and so much more beautiful than the lists that reduce it to an anorexic assembly of tics and obsessions.
Richard Flanagan
#53. So much for my great vendetta, so much for the tireless hunt for my betrayer. Isn't this how life turns out, more often than not? It refuses to conform to your needs - the narrative needs that you feel are essential to give rough shape to your time on this earth.
William Boyd
#54. It is almost a cliche to hear people talking about 'slowing down' but it is true. I have slowed down and through slowing, I see so much more.
Cecelia Ahern
#55. New York used to be so much more than just a place to shop. It was life on the street for the eccentrics; it was an eccentric city. It had many different tastes. Now it's just one - a really rich one - with big tall glass buildings.
Chris Noth
#56. Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]
Agatha Christie
#57. It wasn't that she had so much character, thought Mrs. Pollifax, but rather that always in her life she had found it difficult to submit. The list of her small rebellions was endless. Surely there was room for one more?
Dorothy Gilman
#58. Elder Prest was the most dangerous man I'd ever known. Not because he could kill me whenever he chose, but because he had the power to steal so much more than just my life. He could steal my heart.
Pepper Winters
#59. As I get older, the things that I want are starting to make more sense. Being able to travel makes me happy, and I am a person that lives in the moment. I also want to live a good life. Traveling makes everyday issues seem so much smaller and really changes my perspective on things.
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
#60. My father had been a copper miner, uncles and grandfathers worked in the mines for the Union Pacific. So to me, sitting at a desk all day was not only a privilege but a duty: something I owed to all those people in my life, living and dead, who'd had so much more to say than anyone ever got to hear.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#61. He doesn't know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this ... on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.
Ann Patchett
#62. I'm very ambitious. I always want more after I get something I've dreamed about, so every day, I have a new target and a new path to follow. That's pretty much my law in life.
Thalia
#63. I enjoy life so much more now, and I try hard to appreciate each and every day, but deep down I am still afraid it will be taken away.
Jaycee Dugard
#64. Abuelita speaks no english. she doesn't need to, zoe thinks. her smile fills and communicates so much more than the empty, half-said words of zoe's life.
Mary E. Pearson
#65. If you turn your life over to the Lord he can do so much more with it than we can.
Ezra Taft Benson
#66. I've allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more.
Willy Russell
#67. I left acting for 15 years, and I think it's really nice to have another life. I took too much for granted when I was younger. I didn't really want to be an actor. I didn't really love it. And so I made a lot of mistakes. Oddly, I care much more about it now. I feel like a complete novice.
Jane Fonda
#68. Every minute that you save by making it useful, more profitable, is so much added to your life and its possibilities. Every minute lost is a neglected by-product - once gone, you will never get it back.
Arthur Brisbane
#69. Who you spend your life with-much more so than how you choose to spend it-is the most important decision you can make. Do it right. That's the best advice I can give you.
Eli Broad
#70. I had much more money than you ever need in your life to live on. So I was giving computer labs to school districts. I was - but then I decided you should really give yourself.
Steve Wozniak
#71. When you think with your human minds and act with your human bodies, you'll get human results left and right all the time. It's logical! But when you think and act from your soul, when you live this life like it's already your eternal life, you are able to do so much more.
Sean Patrick Brennan
#72. When you have been to the lowest part of your life, you have no choice but to sit back and just think about things. You just pay attention to so much more.
La'el Collins
#73. I've given up listening to people. What can they tell me that is so much more to the point than what I've always known? All the mistakes in my life came from accepting advice.
Curt Siodmak
#74. Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings.
Henry Martyn
#75. I crouch hidden among the boulders, my body broken and bloodied. Below me, someone is about to murder my best friend, the one person who understands me. If I act, I will likely lose my own life. If I don't, I'll lose so much more ...
Rae Carson
#76. In one's youth, one has tremendous access to one's feelings. And as one gets older, some of those feelings kind of drift away. But so much more happens to you. There's more at stake in life.
Nicole Krauss
#77. I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.
Russell Banks
#78. Don't let lack of sexual communication get in the way of your pleasure any longer. Dare to ask the questions that will make sex so much more enjoyable, boost passion, and facilitate a deeper connection and intimacy in your relationship.
Miya Yamanouchi
#79. If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
Palmer Luckey
#80. It's true that life seems so more much exciting when you write it down as fantasy. But then again, there are some experiences in life that are simply too wondrous to be condensed into words. These are the things that must be felt in reality. The rest I will attempt to convey with the written word.
Ashley Townsend
#81. I think the idea of a heightened reality and then the fantasy that we're able to be swept up in, and then these larger than life heroes and the possibility of someone much more powerful than we are and greater that can come and save the day, so to speak, is inspiring.
Chris Hemsworth
#82. I think that you're going to get so much more out of life if you just say yes at every opportunity.
Richard Branson
#83. If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.
Francis Bacon
#84. This thing that troubles you is only one small part of your life. Don't allow it to be all-consuming when there's so much more to embrace.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#85. I'd broken into his house, but he'd somehow broken into me, cracked me wide open, exposing me to so much more of life than what had existed before. And
Kylie Scott
#86. I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to be more energetic and more faithful in the difficult and painful vocation to which my life is devoted.
Dorothea Dix
#87. I think the time has changed. Because of 9/11, because of the economy, it is more and more now. There is a darker awareness, although it would seem to reason that because life is so much tougher now people would seek entertainment to just totally escape.
Lauren Shuler Donner
#88. It was a far more terrifying idea to imagine how much control he really had over how his life turned out. Easier to believe that he was a gallant ship tossed by fate than to captain it himself.
He would steer it now, and if there were rocks near shore, so be it.
Maggie Stiefvater
#89. I think people should put more emphasis on love, family, and caring for other people. We focus so much on the negative and bad in life, we need to focus more on the positive and happy things.
Delano Johnson
#90. The things you spend so much time on
all this work you do
might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.
Mitch Albom
#91. We can all do so much more than we think we can. Wherever you think you are right now, you can go further, do better, be more than ever! What's wonderful is the future you're looking forward to and also your present potential right now! You're winning regardless. Both now and later.Celebrate you.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#92. Love you more than anyone or anything I've ever known. You've somehow become the song inside of me. It's because I love you so much I'm going to walk out of your life and allow you to heal and find someone worthy of you.
Abbi Glines
#93. Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.
Lynn Coady
#94. Seeing pictures of other places around the world makes me feel more important. Reminds me, even though life is short, there's so much to do.
Travis J. Dahnke
#95. I like life, it's wonderous and chaotic and somewhere in the middle I've created a safe place to do my thing in the world ~ I can't ask for much more & I am already so thankful when everything I got
Nikki Rowe
#97. She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with a chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#98. I'll never approach a part in the same way again. Piaf taught me so much. In terms of my work, I think I'll enjoy it even more than before, because now I know that characters truly exist in their own right. I'll have a way to bring them even more intensely to life.
Marion Cotillard
#99. And all those times that I tried so hard to get you to hang out with me, and I just wanted to be around you so much, I've never been more right about anything in my life. The only way I can think to say it is that you are better than I thought people could be.
Lindy West
#100. In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.
Marcus Aurelius
