Top 100 That Life Quotes
#1. Vanilla, as a spice, is expensive, complex and fulfilling, and those who live that life are worthy of respect.
Lee Harrington
#3. For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
Stanislav Grof
#4. The experience of seeing differences of dogma made moot in practice by the bonds of family affection and neighborly respect was formative for him. It seemed to leave him with a lasting sense that life was more complicated in practice than in theory - and that this was a good thing.
Yuval Levin
#5. The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.
Alfred P. Sloan
#6. The more we remember that life is a gift-that everything changes, we're not in control-the stronger our sense of well-being becomes.
Mark Matousek
#7. I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.
Ben Stein
#8. It is so contradictory that life can be the worst it's ever been and the best it's ever been all at once. It's strange how love can blossom even in the darkest places.
Amanda Hocking
#9. It seems to me that life's moments don't have to be so right or not right anymore, so fraught and weighted with "valve", but just of themselves, what they are ...
Chang-rae Lee
#10. It is not you as the ego who moves through life, but that life flows before you, and you are the immutable awareness containing it all.
Enza Vita
#11. Liberalism is part of a religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable.
Ann Coulter
#12. Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that children learn that life is a magic thing, if "not a rose garden." The parent's role is primarily to stand by with a good supply of band-aids.
Leo Buscaglia
#13. Seek counsel; though we are all skilled and experienced in many ways, no one can experience all that life has to offer in the limited time we are given in this world.
A.J. Darkholme
#14. I feel kind of depressed today ... Do you ever have the feeling that life has passed you by?
Worse than that ... Sometimes I think life and I are going in opposite directions!
Charles M. Schulz
#15. The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.
Saul Bellow
#16. Make uncertainty your ally, not your enemy. All leaps forward depend on reaching into the unknown. Once you see the unknown as the source of creativity, you no longer fear it. Instead, you welcome the fact that life renews itself in unexpected ways.
Deepak Chopra
#17. What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.
Denis Leary
#18. I don't consider myself a gangsta rapper. But I'm probably more qualified to be a gangsta rapper than people who call themselves that. I've been through that life.
Coolio
#19. The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.
Homaro Cantu
#20. Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
Tertullian
#21. But shit happens. Go with the flow and all that. Life happens whether you want it to or not.
Catherine Bybee
#22. Jill had three basic statements about life,
1. It is your life, usually with some added social commentary.
2. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.
3. No one ever said that life was fair.
Nicholas Sparks
#23. For all the types of pain that can lead to suffering there is a solution. Through opening our hearts with compassion to the pain that life brings, we can truly cure our pain and avoid our suffering. Then we can walk in the valley of love and experience the vast space within our heart.
Sebastian Pole
#24. I just don't want to watch TV, and I know that life is short. I feel like I couldn't do all the things I wanted to do if I had several lifetimes to do them in.
Kyp Malone
#25. Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
Paul Theroux
#26. I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight.
Woody Allen
#27. To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#28. I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.
Abraham Verghese
#29. When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.
William Boyd
#30. I firmly believe that life will continually try to teach you the same lesson, with increasing pain, until you heed the call.
Chris Matakas
#31. Such a Big miracle in such a tiny baby. Big things often have small beginnings A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
Carl Sandburg
#32. How do you know that life is such a gift, and that dying would waste it when you've never felt how it is to die?
Jessamine Verzosa
#33. From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others
Pope John Paul II
#34. The morning sunshine brings the message that life is so bright and beautiful that the darkness of night has no power to hide it.
Debasish Mridha
#35. To dream is to carry life and is to bring that life into existence.
Euginia Herlihy
#37. If nothing excites you and nothing makes you wonder, you are going to miss all of the wonderful things that life can offer.
Debasish Mridha
#38. I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#39. [On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life - rather than death and the fear of death - were dominant in society as well as art.
Riane Eisler
#40. In fact, I believe that, barring a couple of key moments, Beli never thought about that life again. Embraced the amnesia that was so common throughout the Islands, five parts denial, five parts negative hallucination. Embraced the power of the Untilles. And from it forged herself anew.
Junot Diaz
#41. I love sports. The spirit and the fight you put to win a game. It is just like life except that life is not a game. There is no "retry" option in real life and you don't get to get a bonus life.
Abdullah Abu Snaineh
#42. Living with faith and courage is
something that life requires of
each of us.
Never, absolutely
never, give up! Never give in no
matter what!
Fight it through!
And I promise you something with
all of my heart-God will help
you.
Kathryn Kuhlman
#43. Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.
John Piper
#44. The church is not a booster organization. We're telling people a serious message about their condition before God, and about the tremendous news of the new life God is offering them in Christ. And we're inviting them to enter into that life by dire and desperate means - repentance and faith.
Anonymous
#45. A life I have lived and have found just that ... life.
M.J. Chrisman
#46. Sometimes life seems like a match between oneself and one's gaolors. The gaolers, of course, are one's mistakes; and the question is, who'll hold out longest? When I think of that, life instead of being too long, seems as short as a winter day ...
Edith Wharton
#47. Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.
Frederick Lenz
#48. I can't imagine that life can be replaced with a computer universe. I can't accept it.
Alexander Mamut
#49. We all eventually find that life is a series of adjustments, but anything can be overcome when there is love around you. Once can be strong on their own, but there is greater strength in knowing when to rely on others.
Starla Huchton
#50. I guess to their wide, innocent eyes it all seemed like normal family life because they had never known any different. In fact, I was the only one who had lived with anyone else, the only one that realized that life didn't have to be this terrifying and this painful all the time
Joe Peters
#51. At times it may feel hopeless. That life is unforgiving. Breathe. In the hopelessness of life, we find hope and promise. We find strength.
Tania Elizabeth
#52. If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.
Maria Sharapova
#53. I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
Andy Rooney
#54. I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.
David Lynch
#55. If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
Anna Freud
#56. What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.
Peter Hook
#57. Faith is always required. There are some things that cannot be proven. We believe that life is worth living. That is an article of faith. The purpose of life is to live, to resist death, perhaps to defy entropy.
George R R Martin
#58. The four Ways reflect a pervasive belief that life will be simple if we practice four basic principles:
Show up or choose to be present,
Pay attention to what has heart and meaning,
Tell the truth without blame or judgment, and
Be open, rather than attached to, the outcome.
Angeles Arrien
#59. No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.
Michael Shermer
#60. The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.
Neale Donald Walsch
#61. I believe that life is valuable, even when it is unwanted, even when it is physically imperfect. I believe our society has a responsibility to defend the vulnerable and the weak. And I believe our nation should set a goal that unborn children should be welcomed in life and protected in law.
George W. Bush
#62. Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.
Theodore Roosevelt
#63. You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
John Cleese
#64. Even when times are dark, the darkest, even when you are sure that life as you know it is over, there are still things that last.
Deb Caletti
#65. There would be love and loss and regret and injustice and the inside knowledge that the way that life fleets can just crush you. So
M O Walsh
#66. So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.
George Saunders
#67. It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if you could predict or foresee everything that was going to happen, you'd lose the motivation to go through it all. The promise was always in the possibility.
Lauren Oliver
#68. We do not have to become or remain the victims that life sometimes makes us all.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#69. As a matter of fact, people erroneously think that life is about spending.
Sunday Adelaja
#70. The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. If happiness is based on feeling pleasant sensations, then in order to be happier we need to re-engineer our biochemical system. If happiness is based on feeling that life is meaningful, then in order to be happier we need to delude ourselves more effectively.
Yuval Noah Harari
#72. So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.
Caleb Carr
#73. Just remember that life is made up of change. We can't run away from it.
Gail Tsukiyama
#74. Each morning she reminded herself that life was a gift, something she'd learned from Pops. Each day was a present to be opened and relished. So today she'd cherish the gift.
Heather Burch
#75. So scared of getting older
I'm only good at being young
So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.
John Mayer
#76. I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules.
Josh Trank
#77. Grant yourself permission to have all that life has to offer, and you will discover it has more to offer than you've ever imagined.
Neale Donald Walsch
#78. We realized that life, even the worst of life, consists of an alternation of joys and sorrow, successes and failure more than the successes.
Varlam Shalamov
#79. What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?
Kurt Vonnegut
#80. I believe love conquers hate, faith overcomes despair, and that life is stronger than death." Wickedly They Come
Cathrina Constantine
#81. You accept that it happened. But you know that life burned this hole in your heart and it's not going to heal.
Scott Turow
#82. 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
#83. Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but the truth is that life itself is music.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#84. In the south of France the phones cut in and out, the electricity isn't particularly reliable. I think many people would get very irritated with that life.
Peter Mayle
#85. There is a large gap between being an activist out of the idealism that comes from books, conversations, the fire of youth and being one because you have lived through the depredations that life has thrown at you.
Neel Mukherjee
#86. I was impressed by the variety of dreams and goals that life could offer.
Haruki Murakami
#87. I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.
Greg Lake
#88. There were moments when I felt seriously unhinged; when I was convinced that I would never, ever recover from what had happened, when it was absolutely clear to me that life from this point on would be constant agony ...
Douglas Kennedy
#89. People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
Katharine Anthony
#90. I've been in love and it doesn't last. And when it's over, it's hell for a while. And then one discovers that life goes on. Eventually, one falls in love again. This pattern repeats itself until one is too jaded to believe in it anymore, or too old for all the upheaval.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#91. If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then follow that life could be, even ought to be, lived as a story, that what one has to do in life is to make the story come true?
Hannah Arendt
#92. I've dedicated my career to fighting the mundane. My hope is that my career will be a shining example to children everywhere that life is more meaningful when you are not afraid to see all colors of the rainbow.
RuPaul
#93. A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude.
Osho
#94. I realized that life is so short: Why waste one minute of it worrying what other people think or say about you, or what score you got on some test? Why not believe what you want to believe, and do what you love?
Meg Cabot
#95. I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.
Ben Okri
#96. Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.
Tabare Vazquez
#97. Actually, I liked the fact that happenstance had brought him to the right place; it was comforting to know that that life would support us if only we were listening.
Neil Abramson
#98. As soon as a baby enters the world, the baby is immediately introduced to pain. It is somewhat symbolic that life begins with a cry.
R.C. Sproul
#99. Watching him getting ready to leave, Judge Arcadio thought that life is nothing but a continuous succession of opportunities for survival.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#100. I remembered her once saying that life was like your shoes. You couldn't simply expect or imagine that your shoes would fit perfectly. Shoes that pinched your feet were a fact of life.
Henning Mankell
