We Only Have One Life Quotes

#1. That melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal.

Marcel Proust

#2. There are all kinds of things we have to deal with in life," Eri finally said. "And one thing always seems to connect with another. You try to solve one problem, only to find that another one you hadn't anticipated arises instead. It's not that easy to get free of them.

Haruki Murakami

#3. The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

Havelock Ellis

#4. Time softens all griefs, they say, and it is useless to dwell on lives that might have been. We are granted only one life, and one is enough. Whom do such regrets profit? What do they achieve, except to bring us unhappiness?

Peter Hobbs

#5. Until we see love as the meaning of life, life seems to have no meaning at all. The sense of meaninglessness produces chaos, and the chaos produces fear. There is only one way out of this, and that is to see every moment and every situation as an invitation to love.

Marianne Williamson

#6. Ninety percent of cancers are curable in stage one. We spend billions of dollars and over 40 years searching for a cure, and we're not really that close. So why aren't we teaching people the only cure we have now? Early detection is one sh**ty year, versus the rest of your life.

Yael Cohen

#7. We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?

Michel De Montaigne

#8. We all have to die, Johnrock - every one of us. It is how we choose to live that matters. After all, it's the only life each one of us will ever have, so how we live is of paramount importance.

Terry Goodkind

#9. We have been told mankind will be judged on the intent of the heart. No mortal can see into the depth of another. There is only One who can. His is the role of a judge-not ours. If you are prone to criticize or judge, remember, we never see the target a man aims at in life. We see only what he hits.

H. Burke Peterson

#10. Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine.

Fernando Sabino

#11. We have little control over the circumstances of life. We can't control the weather or the economy, and we can't control what other people say about or do to us. There is only one area where we have control
we can rule the kingdom inside. The heart of every problem is the problem in the heart.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#12. We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or to cherish it in creative, imaginative ways.

Fred Rogers

#13. People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. The only thing we should respect in a person's faith is his desire for a better life in this world; we need never have respected his certainty that one awaits him in the next.

Sam Harris

#14. But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life
no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that
what it's right to do.

L.M. Montgomery

#15. We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.

Susan Moody

#16. Reading has not only changed my life but saved it. the right picked at the right time - especially the one that scares us, threatens to undermine all we have been told, the one that contains forbidden thoughts - these are the books that become Eve's apples.

Terry Tempest Williams

#17. We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live.

Greg Graffin

#18. Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we only have one life and we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day that our real life will begin. And so life passes by.

Ignazio Silone

#19. We have many goals, but only one ultimate purpose of life. That purpose is to be happy.

Debasish Mridha

#20. No one likes the word "failure" and no one wants to ever experience failure ... but the truth is that our failures pave the way for our eventual success and we have only truly failed if we stop trying.

Sheri Kaye Hoff

#21. We have only one shot in this life,make the best of it

Sanaya Roman

#22. If you have life, smile and pursue life! Don't keep your smile; keep smiling! We only need just one great thing in life, and that is life! All else are mere wants to gratify and beautify life. The real beauty of life is in having life and knowing what real life is all about!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#23. Life's not fair. Life's often complicated, leaving us to deal with things that we shouldn't have to. Life can make you smile one day, only to leave you broken into tiny little pieces the next.

Lisa De Jong

#24. Make a life with me, one that comes from love, one that I can watch grow in you. Only a fool would believe that what comes from what we have together would be anything but beautiful.

Nora Roberts

#25. No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try.

Kate Atkinson

#26. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be." That

Rick Riordan

#27. There is no single way to serve God, but the point is this: We each have only one life to live to tell a story about Him, about His ways, about His love. And if we are Christ followers, then God calls us to use our gifts, to exercise our faith, and to become salt and light right where we are.

Sally Clarkson

#28. The only constant factor in life is our feelings and attitudes toward life. One of the few things that we have total control over is our own attitude.

Jim Rohn

#29. We only have one life and one body to care of, and we better do it right. You never know what tomorrow may bring and so we better live this life the best we can and be grateful for everything we have.

Novak Djokovic

#30. If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.

Vincent Price

#31. We only have one life to live. Since everybody has the potential to be successful, I hope we'll all take an action and actually live it.

Gackt

#32. We have only one life to live, we must live it now.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. His philosophy of life had been that we only live once.
Now there had matured in him the sense of another truth about himself and the world: that we have only one conscience - and that a crippled conscience is as irretrievable as a lost life.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#34. Let's not hold anything back in 2015. We only have one life to live and this is not a dress rehearsal!! # allornothing

Christine Caine

#35. Look, you think I like history because I'm fascinated with the possibilities, with how it could have happened, but you're wrong. I like it because it's the one thing we actually know in life. The past is the only thing we can count on. The present? The future? They're anyone's guess.

Rebecca Serle

#36. Eventually, all earthly causes will fail. Only the plan of God will succeed. The Lord is our shield, our glory, and the One who lifts our head. In this life we will have problems, but God encourages us.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#37. Playing Stephen [Hawking] was a constant reminder to put things in perspective: we only have one chance at this

Eddie Redmayne

#38. We're all gonna die someday, and in between being born and then, you only have one f***ing life. If you spend more time being happy with what you've got than you do being unhappy about things you don't have, then you've cracked the secret.

Conor Bowman

#39. Love is more real than sex. Two dogs meeting in the street will have sex, but Love is only from God. Love creates Life and Love is the secret element that holds the universe together. It is because of, and within Love, that we are all One.

Sienna McQuillen

#40. We have only one life. We may waste it, or we may use it to learn of God and what God wants for us. And we all make mistakes. Only one life.

Glenn Beck

#41. the life span of any particular emotion is only one and a half minutes. After that we have to revive the emotion and get it going again.

Pema Chodron

#42. Because we only have one life. We get one shot at making it worth living. We took our shot and ran like hell with it.

J.A. Redmerski

#43. All Egypt is obsessed with death! And do you know why, Renisenb? Because we have eyes in our bodies, but none in our minds. We cannot conceive of a life other than this one - of a life after death. We can visualize only a continuation of what we know. We have no real belief in a God.

Agatha Christie

#44. Many have served Him of Many Faces through the centuries, but only a few of His servants have been women. Women bring life into the world. We bring the gift of death. No one can do both.

George R R Martin

#45. We would not wake up from this nightmare to find out it was someone's real life, and for once that someone wasn't just a poor unlucky nobody in a shack you could forget about. It was our life, the only one we were going to have.

Barbara Kingsolver

#46. God implants Spirit and zeal into our hearts in order to accomplish a work. When the work is done, a quiet rest remains. We do not have to push one another aside because God has prepared our works so that each one can keep out of one another's way. We only have to take heed that we do His works.

Johan Oscar Smith

#47. Think carefully. We only have one life to live. We alone are responsible for it.

Ayse Kulin

#48. That this, right here, right now, is our life. It is not our parents' or our children's, not our husbands' or our wives'. It is not made more or less valuable by our job or how much we have in the bank. Our life is ours. It is the only one we will ever have. And we should love it.

Rob Lowe

#49. In the end, Nora, there's only time. All we have is time ... and even if this wasn't happening, we still don't ever have much ... no one does. We only have the moment we're in. We have right now.

Dennis Sharpe

#50. The life expectancy in Hong Kong is among the highest in the world ... you can come to only one conclusion: we have the most environmentally friendly place for people, for executives, for Hong Kong people to live

Donald Tsang

#51. Because we have only one (life) we go about blundering along him nervous haste.

John Taliaferro

#52. We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give and devote ourselves to righteousness, we not only revolt from our Creator with wicked perfidy, but we also abjure our Savior Himself.

John Calvin

#53. One of the essential tasks for living a wise life is letting go. Letting go is the path to freedom. It is only by letting go of the hopes, the fears, the pain, the past, the stories that have a hold on us that we can quiet our mind and open our heart.

Jack Kornfield

#54. Life is vital and we should relax a little and enjoy it as we only have one life as far as I'm aware.

Murray Mexted

#55. I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.

Isaac Mizrahi

#56. For there is no true failure in life, child. There is only giving up one day before we would have achieved success.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#57. Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many bridges that connect the island of our soul with the great continent of common life ... the broadest, perhaps, but in no way the most refined.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#58. If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway,compared to the eons of rounds before and after-then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?

Ken Kesey

#59. We only have one chance in this life, so don't waste it on trivial people and matters.

Norhafsah Hamid

#60. I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#61. There are so many ways in which our hours can be claimed each day. What a shame that we only have one life.

Lynn Cullen

#62. Things can turn out differently Apollo. That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.

Rick Riordan

#63. 9 God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. 10 This is real love - not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.

Anonymous

#64. The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.

William Sloane Coffin

#65. We have two lives...
The second begins when we know we only have one..

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#66. Life is brutally short, and there's only one go at it. We don't go for the old myths about helping somebody as we travel along life's path or our living will have been in vain. It's for now. Not tomorrow. But now.

Mick Norman

#67. Every person we meet on our journey leaves a memory. That memory leaves an imprint on us for the rest of our lives. I have learnt that the only objective is to keep that imprint a happy one.

Nilesh Rathod

#68. When Lindsey and I played Barbies Barbie and Ken got married at sixteen. To us there was only one true love in everyone's life we have no concept of compromise or retries.

Alice Sebold

#69. We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one.

Tom Hiddleston

#70. Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

Milan Kundera

#71. I used to think only people like Mother Teresa and Gandhi had a mission in life. We all have one. How do you find it? You listen to your life.

All those dead-end jobs? There's no such thing. In God's economy, nothing is ever wasted. The dots all connect in time.

Regina Brett

#72. There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experiences of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying. Such, after all, are the only possessions of which no fate, no cosmic catastrophe can deprive us; nothing can alter the fact if for one moment in eternity we have really lived.

Eric Shipton

#73. There's only one thing that we have to do in life, and that is to die.

T. Colin Campbell

#74. It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#75. Work hard ... have fun ... be nice ... play fair ... dream big. We only get one chance at this life. If you're going to play this game, play it to win.

Robert Herjavec

#76. Maturity in the Christian life is measured by only one test: how much closer to his character have we become?

Elyse Fitzpatrick

#77. I only have one fear in doing all of this," he said, which is "that people will see these documents and shrug, that they'll say, 'we assumed this was happening and don't care.' The only thing I'm worried about is that I'll do all this to my life for nothing.

Glenn Greenwald

#78. We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong.

Fernando Pessoa

#79. It is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

S.I. Hayakawa

#80. Knowing yourself and coming to trust your feelings and your intuition will open up your life to greater possibilities and keep you moving toward your goals. One thing I have learned is that I should trust my 'gut' instincts. Ultimately, only we know what is best for us.

Miranda Kerr

#81. But in this life on earth we have not only the fear but the certainty that we shall lose it. For one day we must die. Therefore true happiness... lasting, everlasting happiness cannot be our lot on earth. Nor could it be otherwise. For everlasting happiness is only another name for God.

Louis De Wohl

#82. This life is only one of a series of lives which our incarnated part has lived. I have little doubt of our having pre-existed; and that also in the time of our pre-existence we were actively employed. So, therefore, I believe in our active employment in a future life, and I like the thought.

Charles George Gordon

#83. Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

Lois Wyse

#84. We can only truly love, when we realized we have been loved all along, by the one person who gave their life for simply our forgiveness, and for us to truly live.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#85. Hitchens: Since we only have one life to live, I can help people make it free as best I can, and assist them in their real struggle for liberty, which in its most essential form, is the struggle against theocracy, which is the original form of dictatorship and the violation of human rights.

Keith Howard

#86. We are all time travelers, we just don't know it yet.The only problem is that we only have a one way ticket, destination: FUTURE.

Alina Radoi

#87. To think big is to love the universe, to embrace our passion. To love is to fight for what we love. What a waste not to, when we have only this one life to live.

Michael Port

#88. The return to love is hardly the end of life's adventure. It's the real beginning. A course in miracle says we think we have many different problems but we really only have one: denying love is the only problem and embracing it is the only answer.

Marianne Williamson

#89. Live life to the fullest. It's too bad we're not cats ... we only have one life.

Nick Carter

#90. We face those that we have to face, and there will be times when we must make the choice to act for a greater good, even at risk to ourselves, but we do not lay down our lives needlessly. Each of us has only one life to live, and one life to give.

John Connolly

#91. And we, from the whole of our life experience there, have concluded that there is only one way to withstand violence: with firmness.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#92. Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.

Kurt Vonnegut