Top 100 Thing Life Quotes
#1. If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion.
Douglas Adams
#2. Death is the solidest thing life has invented so far
Emil Cioran
#3. It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.
Jennifer Armintrout
#4. If there's one thing life is good at, it's surprising you," Jack said. "And sometimes it surprises you in the best ways.
Chris Colfer
#5. One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#6. Destiny. My destiny! Droll thing life is
that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose.
Joseph Conrad
#7. Wherever you may go; Life is a beautiful thing. Life is like a passing season. It comes and go. Whatever may come, it's better to enjoy the changing seasons.
Diana Rose Morcilla
#8. Meanwhile, the reality is that living longer in our ever-more-unequal society is very much a class thing: life expectancy at age 65 has risen a lot among the affluent, but hardly at all in the bottom half of the wage distribution, that is, among those who need Social Security most.
Anonymous
#9. ...always remember one thing, life is and will always be meant to be lived. Taste it, savor it, consume it and let it consume you. Get lost in it. Life is intoxicating if it's lived right. You should never be afraid of life.
Nicole Banks
#10. I haven't seen much but the one thing life has taught me so far is at least one out of every ten friend will not be jealous of your success.
Nikhil Kushwaha
#11. I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.
George Clooney
#12. I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.
P.G. Wodehouse
#13. All scripture points to one thing: life is about God. The process of moving from confused wandering to purpose and joy is marked by faith, by waiting on the Lord in ready obedience.
Ken Wytsma
#14. Droll thing life is
that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself
that comes too late
a crop of inextinguishable regrets.
Joseph Conrad
#15. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean. At any moment you may be strolling peacefully along, and all the time Life's waiting around the corner to fetch you one.
P.G. Wodehouse
#16. The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#17. Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.
Henry Miller
#18. I thought I was unhappy before ... I was just a stupid young kid that didn't know what happiness was. I was like a snot in a candy store who not only wanted all he could eat, but the whole thing. Life is stupid. Stupid. Or at least to this point, mine is.
Beatrice Sparks
#19. Allan didn't even know if the Prime Minister was Left or Right. He must certainly be one of them, because if there was one thing life had taugh Allan, it was that people insisted on being one or the other.
Jonas Jonasson
#20. Just remember one thing , life is not coming at you.Its coming from you.
Jason Mraz
#21. If you always do the easy and comfortable thing, life ends up being difficult and uncomfortable. If you do the difficult and uncomfortable thing, however, life ends up being easy and comfortable.
Ernie J Zelinski
#22. What an awful thing life is, isn't it? It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
Gustave Flaubert
#23. Here's the thing: life is now. It's not ten pounds from now, it's not twenty pounds from now, it's not a million dollars from now. It's right now. And you just have to take a chance.
Jillian Michaels
#24. Poor Amy. I could tell she was suffering. Poor Thing. Life was so tough for the rich, beautiful and magical.
Elizabeth A. Reeves
#25. God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best.
Robert Collyer
#26. Life is not just one thing; life is a lot of things, and I think I've been lucky to do that.
Ally Walker
#27. We were freshman, taking her film class, and we'd spend hours after school sitting in her classroom talking about any old thing - life, sex, Forrest Gump.
Marisha Pessl
#28. What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
Bertolt Brecht
#30. Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.
Lisa See
#31. She knew instinctively that every creature was entitled to one thing: life. To steal that through abuse or indifference argued a crime against
J.K. Accinni
#32. We may think at times that the only thing life offers us tomorrow, is to repeat everything we did today. But if we pay close attention, we will see that no two days are alike.
Paulo Coelho
#33. Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.
Robert Genn
#34. Revenge might be sweet and although friendship might be sweeter, once you find true love you will taste the sweetest thing life has to offer
Morten Hogsberg
#35. It may be a cliche, but cliche or not, I fear the day when the only marsh harriers or peregrines I can look at are in paintings by Joseph Wolf or Bruno Liljefors - and no matter how beautiful those works may be, life is the great thing: life, life, life.
John Burnside
#36. Philosophy is one thing, life another.
Marty Rubin
#37. No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.
Robert Breault
#38. AMELIA: To my friends, and family: You all may be batsh*t crazy, but even if I got to choose, I'd still choose to be with you. Life is fragile, and tomorrow is never a sure thing, so thanks for sharing your lives with me.....
Amelia Hutchins
#39. Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.
Matthew McConaughey
#40. If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.
Ray Bradbury
#41. I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.
Danny Kaye
#42. I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace.
Jimmy Carter
#43. The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it ... I think the great danger in life is not showing up.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#44. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth
we call it life.
Anne Carson
#45. It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.
Jonathan Tropper
#46. You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.
Chris Klein
#47. At this stage of my life, I had reached the conclusion that I would never be the protagonist of any story. The only thing I could hope for was to make an appearance in somebody else's.
Cesar Aira
#48. I don't think they's luck or bad luck. On'y one thing in this worl' I'm sure of, an' that's I'm sure nobody got a right to mess with a fella's life. He got to do it all hisself. Help him, maybe, but not tell him what to do.
John Steinbeck
#49. Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.
H. G. Bissinger
#50. Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.
Bruce Lee
#51. The old white man didn't look into your eyes, he looked clear through your eyes, and straight to the inside of the back of your head. 'Instead of runnin from pain, which is the natural thing in life, in boxing you step to it, get me?
F.X. Toole
#52. In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.
Elena Ferrante
#53. If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.
Sebastian Faulks
#54. I think when people see photos of you out and about in your personal life, they assume that you've asked for it or that you want that attention, but I don't think anyone in their right mind asks for that kind of thing.
Liam Hemsworth
#55. The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in
the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste.
Howard Thurman
#56. In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?
Leo Szilard
#57. Not that pain is the worst thing in the universe. Interesting things happen when you adapt pain for your own. This thing you were prepared to spend your life flinching from is suddenly just another piece of information.
Shelley Jackson
#58. He that willeth to do shall know what he ought to do. He that doeth the thing he does know will know more. And that more done will open the door yet wider into all the fragrance of a strongly obedient life, and into a clear and clearing understanding of the Lord Jesus Himself.
S.D. Gordon
#59. The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.
Lucas Grabeel
#60. O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?
Leonardo Da Vinci
#61. Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.
Jim Woodring
#62. For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be Himself for you. And in the end, what we discover is that this really is enough.
Tullian Tchividjian
#63. Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school.
Ne-Yo
#64. If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.
Jesse Ball
#65. A calling is that thing that you can't not do, an answer to the age-old question, "What should I do with my life?
Jeff Goins
#66. Obviously, for the majority of parents and certainly me you gain a million worlds when you have a child. Certainly, it's the thing that's changed my life and made me unbelievably happy.
Kate Winslet
#67. There are the jobs you get that do something for your confidence, like "I can do this with my life" kind of thing. And then, there are the jobs that maybe bring a certain level of awareness about you as an actor where other people feel like they can hire you.
Rosemarie DeWitt
#68. In the realms of legend and lore, as well as in real life, the triumph of true love is never a sure thing.
Kate Emerson
#69. His eye focused on her face. His lips curved up ever so slightly at the corners. "You shouldn't have come." She forced her face into a scowl. "A fine thing to say to me when I just saved your life." A sigh escaped his lips.
Melanie Dickerson
#70. So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.
Sheryl Sandberg
#71. The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.
Pauline Kael
#72. I think you can make good things happen if you look for them. Life is a very positive thing.
Chris Gethard
#73. Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind.
Jonathan Carroll
#74. Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life into something that is inanimate. You see what a sort of audacious thing it is to move these sort of imaginary people around in a very stylized and patterned world.
Martin Amis
#75. Perfection," Inigo said, "is what we strive for; it is never what we should achieve. There is no such thing as utopia. Life by its nature is a struggle. Take that away and you take away any reason to exist.
Peter F. Hamilton
#76. Life is not about things we do or do not have to do; it's about doing what we should do, about doing the right thing.
Quinn Loftis
#77. You're my dream, Alaric McCabe. And I love you. I've loved you from the moment your horse dumped you at my cottage. I spent so much time being resentful and lamenting the circumstances of my life, but 'tis true that I wouldn't change a single thing because then I would have never known your love.
Maya Banks
#78. The Best and Right thing to do in Life, is Give a Person a Chance to finish what they started.
Joan Ambu
#79. What you think you know about a thing is always the first obstacle you face when trying to get to know it better.
Devon Michael
#80. Hardest thing to face in life is isolation in your own city
Sunil Sharma
#81. It's odd, how those things happen to actors. A thing where you think, "I have no idea how to do this," something will happen in your life comes up and you just get it. I don't know how you get it, but actors are pretty extraordinary, in that regard. I think it's fear that happens.
Michael Keaton
#82. The only thing that stands in the way of an amazing life are the excuses you tell yourself as to why you can't achieve it
Steven Aitchison
#83. One can never rack up his goals mere through hard-work, there is a thing in this world which is known as self-confidence.
M.H. Rakib
#84. Being successful and fulfilling your lifes purpose are not at all the same thing; You can reach all your personal goals, become a raving success by the worlds standard and still miss your purpose in this life.
Rick Warren
#85. A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.
Marianne Williamson
#86. The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.
Fran Lebowitz
#87. Deep down in my heart, I am always smiling because life is such a magical, mysterious, and wonderful thing.
Debasish Mridha
#88. The best thing about a horrible city is that it makes you to understand the beauty of the pastoral life! The bad crystallizes the value of the good.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. The cruelest thing you can do to
someone is force them to hurt alone
Chris Colfer
#90. Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that is your blessed inheritance, and DO YOUR THING.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#91. Veryone has to do one really bad thing in life to call their life a life.
Rick Bass
#92. Our work may be important, but we don't take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life.
Bernie Glassman
#93. The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.
Jean Renoir
#94. You cannot go back and start a brand new beginning, but today is a new day and you can start a brand new thing.
Debasish Mridha
#95. Raise your standards for the one thing over which you have complete control
yourse lf. It means you're committed to being intelligent, flexible, and creative enough to consistently find a way to look at your life in a fashion that makes any experience enriching.
Tony Robbins
#96. In life, there are many hills and valleys to pass and you cannot avoid them! The most important thing you need is to know this: You must pass them!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#97. Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.
Siobhan Davies
#98. This doesn't make sense."
"I know," Kylie said. "And that seems to be the theme song of my life right now. Not a damn thing makes sense.
C.C. Hunter
#99. My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness.
Sri Chinmoy
#100. The best part of being married is, everything we face in life, we face as a team. I don't do a thing - professionally or personally - without discussing it with my wife.
Michael Chiklis
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