Top 100 What Makes Life Quotes
#1. Millie told me once that the ability to devastate is what makes a song beautiful. Maybe that's what makes life beautiful too. The ability to devastate. Maybe that's how we know we've lived. How we know we've truly loved.
Amy Harmon
#2. I feel there are so many things in this world that have been and are being created that I could spend the rest of my life thinking about, and I couldn't cover all the things I'm interested in. That to me is what makes life sweet-learning and exploring.
James Franco
#3. AT THE CENTER of Wilson's work was an attempt to solve a deceptively simple puzzle: what makes life worth living when we are old and frail and unable to care for ourselves?
Atul Gawande
#4. An angel and a devil are always beside us, and the one we listen to more will prevail. This confrontation is what makes life so magical because you are always challenged by the circumstances - we are good and evil depending on how we act
Paulo Coelho
#5. There's always something else. That's what makes life so much fun.
Sue Grafton
#6. I think there are two types of people - those who view life's uncertainty with dread and fear, and those who recognize that life's unpredictability is what makes life worth living.
Christopher E. Long
#7. It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you can. That, to me, is what makes life interesting.
Rod McKuen
#8. The way I see it, we're all a little bit crazy, and that's what makes life interesting.
H.M. Ward
#9. That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust in the universe.
Tess Gerritsen
#10. When it's allowed to be free, love is what makes life alive, joyful and new.
Michael Jackson
#11. What makes life 'worth living'? - The awareness that there is something for which one is ready to risk one's life
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful, and great. No! Only in this friendship are the doors of life opened wide. Only in this friendship is the great potential of human existence truly revealed.
Pope Benedict XVI
#13. For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.
Michael Sheen
#14. Once you realize that the universe is made up of processes, not things, you are really on a roll, for what makes life truly interesting are the connections between events.
Silver RavenWolf
#15. To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.
Marsha Sinetar
#16. In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful.
Demetri Martin
#17. What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever.
Emma Stone
#18. What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
George Eliot
#19. There's that unpredictability factor, that chance that something completely unexpected - something amazing - could happen. That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust the universe.
Tess Gerritsen
#20. Getting up in the morning and having work you love is what makes life different for people. If you get into a position where you don't love what you're doing, get off it.
Bob Woodward
#21. What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
Anne Carson
#22. Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
Jeanne Moreau
#23. Somentimes challenging and different and risky is what makes life worth living.
Jennifer Archer
#24. Love is not necessary to life, but it is what makes life worth living." - Anon
C.J. Duggan
#25. Danger is the spice of life and you've got to take a risk now and then ... that's what makes life worthwhile.
Anthony Hopkins
#26. What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.
Klaus Nomi
#27. Taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting.
Amy Poehler
#28. Life is made of connections. Who knows why fate throws things in our direction, but one thing's for sure, new things are there to offer value to our lives and teach us something new about ourselves. It's what makes life exciting.
Serina Hartwell
#29. The possibility of having dream come true is what makes life interesting
Paulo Coelho
#30. Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
Edmund Phelps
#31. Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
Johnny Ball
#32. GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
Robert Kennedy
#33. Holding on to love is not wrong, but you need to learn to hold it lightly, caressingly. Let it fly when it wants. When it's allowed to be free, love is what makes life alive, joyful, and new. As long as love is in my heart, it's everywhere.
Michael Jackson
#34. When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.
Daniel Goleman
#35. That's what great art does - that's why these men and women counted. It shows us what makes life worth living.
Kate Lord Brown
#36. I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.
Alexis Bledel
#37. True love is what makes life worth living.
D.F. Jones
#38. One needs something to look forward to - that's what makes life worth living.
Brian Williams
#39. Everything has a shadow-side. In my opinion, that is what makes life interesting.
Anne Fortier
#40. It's okay to lose. Losing teaches you something. Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting.
Elizabeth Banks
#41. A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.
Phyllis Battelle
#42. You never know ... that's what makes life interesting.
James Clavell
#44. Live the life you love to live. Because love is all what makes you happy and happiness is all what makes life.
Kritika
#45. Flow is more than an optimal state of consciousness - one where we feel our best and perform our best - it also appears to be the only practical answer to the question: What is the meaning of life? Flow is what makes life worth living.
Steven Kotler
#46. Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what makes life interesting.
Martin Amis
#47. I've had the experience of seeing what makes life easier for an actor and for the crew, and what makes it feel bogged down and challenging. We're all really fortunate that we get to make our living as artists.
Eric Balfour
#48. The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile.
Tom Rath
#50. I guess that's what makes life special. It's unexpected. Scary as hell. But in the end, totally worth it.
Rachel Van Dyken
#51. Everything eventually ends. We all eventually die. That's why every day we have is so special. The fact that we only have limited amount of time is what makes life precious.
J.T. Geissinger
#52. You know, I use organic products, but I get [laser treatments]. It's what makes life interesting, finding the balance between cigarettes and tofu.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#53. If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning ... The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living.
Marion Woodman
#54. I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
Kajol
#55. Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.
Robin Hobb
#56. That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.
Anna Quindlen
#57. That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.
Emily Dickinson
#58. What makes life interesting are the challenges we face.
Paulo Coelho
#59. If it can be verified, we don't need faith ... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.
Madeleine L'Engle
#60. Death is what makes life possible. It's the balance, Meridian. There always has to be balance.
Amber Kizer
#61. See, Six? This is what makes life worth living. Men who don't know if they wanna fight or fuck, but will climb into a cage to figure it out in front of everyone in the sector.
Kit Rocha
#62. We have on this earth what makes life worth living: April's hesitation, the aroma of bread at dawn, a woman's point of view about men, the works of Aeschylus, the beginning of love, grass on a stone, mothers living on a flute's sigh and the invaders' fear of memories.
Mahmoud Darwish
#63. What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
J.I. Packer
#64. When someone wants something then they should be aware that they are taking a risk. But this is precisely what makes life interesting.
Paulo Coelho
#65. Life is a journey of astonishing beauty, and this is what makes life worth living.
Debasish Mridha
#66. I don't think perfect is interesting. I think what makes life exciting is the imperfections.
Mary Frann
#68. What makes life beautiful,
Big Ears to listen more,
Small Tongue to speak less,
Nose only to smell,
Eyes only to see,
Big Heart to accommodate less fortunate ones,
&
Big Smile to for being fortunate to know the above secret..
Adil Adam Memon
#69. What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
Zane Grey
#70. I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.
Andrew McMahon
#71. There's always competition out there. That's what makes life exciting.
Carolyn Murphy
#72. The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras.
Barack Obama
#73. What makes life in Indian organizations difficult is the widespread prevalence of this very contemptuous pride. It stops us from listening to our juniors,
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#74. Danger is what makes life precious. Death is the constant danger of life.
Clarice Lispector
#75. If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that ... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.
Michael Moriarty
#76. The thing I would wish for anybody I loved would be the possibility of never coming to the end of discovery. I think it is what makes life worth living.
Joyce Grenfell
#77. No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.
Leszek Kolakowski
#78. When you know love ... that's what makes life worth it.
Carrie Ryan
#79. Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden; it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#80. The essence of what makes life beautiful is the fact that it can go away.
Carlos Mencia
#81. Continually setting goals and striving to achieve them is what makes life worthwhile!
Joan
#82. We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting.
Robert E. Sherwood
#83. My message for all my readers is: Don't believe in those who claim that youth is a passing disease you just have to get rid of. Don't believe, that maturity is a goal and an asset to go after. Nothing will ever be ready, that is what makes life interesting. Read!
Tuula Kallioniemi
#84. I think what makes life matter,what makes it good,is knowing that someday we'll die. Maybe death is God's joke on us but I think it is also his gift.We have our allotted time and the is's over.It's up to us to make in meaningful and special.
Philip Carter
#85. Consider your actions and words. Be thoughtful when expressing your feelings or concerns. Sometimes it's not what you say, but the way you say it. That makes all the difference
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#86. If my life can inspire people, then a television show where guests talk about their challenges and what makes them unique would work.
Anupam Kher
#87. Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
Aleatha Romig
#89. Any accolades that anybody puts toward this band really makes me feel good, because I have devoted such a big part of my life to this band, making it what I want it to be.
Charlie Daniels
#90. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people participate.
Stephen Chbosky
#92. I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
Kate Winslet
#93. The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
Norman Cousins
#94. How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That's where your life is.
Joseph Campbell
#95. I enjoy people who aren't afraid to say what they mean. It makes life so much easier!
Alex Flinn
#96. Life is weird. And guess what makes it weird? People.
Amy Dickinson
#97. One who understands the limits of the good life knows that what eliminates the pains brought on by need and what makes the whole of life perfect is easily obtained, so that there is no need for enterprises that entail the struggle for success.19
Epicurus
#98. Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.
Helen Mirren
#99. Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.
Sam Harris
#100. When you realise that money doesn't actually make you happy, it's a quick fix to have things you've always wanted, but then when you have it, you realise that's not what actually makes you happy. It's more about having a great marriage and happy children; that's what life's all about.
Shane Filan
