Top 100 When Life Begins Quotes
#2. Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.
Evan Sayet
#3. Even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen.
Richard Mourdock
#4. The Handsome Prince Handbook is mute on the subject of chronic workaholism - Prince Charming, apparently, knew how to delegate - and I didn't know where else to turn for help. What do you do when life begins to go wrong and you've used up all three wishes?
Nancy Atherton
#5. When we look to the unborn child, the real issue is not when life begins, but when love begins.
George W. Bush
#6. Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House.
Evan Sayet
#7. It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations.
Mac Thornberry
#8. If you're uncertain when life begins, why not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt and oppose abortion?
Jonah Goldberg
#9. The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
Rand Paul
#10. Every other civilized country has determined when life begins and it's something that eludes us. We've got things that have to be done! "We didn't fix that bridge because you are all down at the meeting house discussing abortion again."
Lewis Black
#11. The ethical argument regarding abortion hinges on the question of when life begins. Some believe life begins at forty.
Kevin Nealon
#12. It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the Catholic Church on the moral status of the embryo. It has a more developmental view of when human life, in the sense of personhood, begins than does the Catholic Church.
Michael Sandel
#13. I would sell my life to avoid
the pain that begins in the crib
with its bars or perhaps
with your first breath
when the planets drill
your future into you ...
Anne Sexton
#14. Every book has it's destiny, Like a human life , Sometime when an Author is dead the destiny of the book begins" The days of Childhood !!!!!
Tushar Upreti
#15. In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and the child sleeps; the tones are companions of his dreams- they are the world in which he lives
Bettina Skrzypczak
#16. We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.
Leo Tolstoy
#17. It's a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery.
Adrian Rogers
#18. Life begins when you learn that life is an opportunity.
Debasish Mridha
#19. A person begins to live a moral life when they cease asking what life will provide them and begins to determine what he or she expects from oneself.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#20. Get up to pray in the dark when all are asleep and see how your path is lit and your life begins to shine.
Mufti Ismail Menk
#21. Years don't begin and end because everybody gets together at the same time and says they do. Years really start when important things happen to you. When you're born. When you find the human you're going to live with forever. Your life begins when it becomes important.
Gwen Cooper
#22. There is a point when life, having showered us with jewels for nothing, begins to exact our life's blood for paste.
Peter De Vries
#23. Inner peace begins when nothing can disturb the calmness of your mind.
Debasish Mridha
#24. For to define is to isolate, to separate some complex of forms from the stream of life and say, "This is I." When man can name and define himself, he feels that he has an identity. Thus he begins to feel, like the word, separate and static, as over against the real, fluid world of nature.
Alan W. Watts
#25. The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#26. Who are we when we leave our families? Who do we become? What are we capable of? That's something that never leaves us. It begins at that point in your life when you leave the nest, and I don't think we stop wanting to explore that question.
Naomi Watts
#27. The problem in middle life, when the body has reached its climax of power and begins to decline, is to identify yourself not with the body, which is falling away, but with the consciousness of which it is a vehicle. This is something I learned from myths.
Joseph Campbell
#28. Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.
Aristotle.
#29. Midlife crisis begins sometime in your 40s, when you look at your life and think, 'Is this all?' And it ends about 10 years later, when you look at your life again and think, 'Actually, this is pretty good.'
Donald Richie
#30. The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.
George Eliot
#31. It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.
Armistead Maupin
#32. It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.
Daisaku Ikeda
#33. When gratitude begins, then life finds the abundance and suffering ends.
Debasish Mridha
#34. We were simply made for glory, but not just the shadow glories of the created world. We were made for the one glory that is transcendent - the glory of God. When you grasp this, your life begins to make a difference.
Paul David Tripp
#35. Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger.
Kate Bornstein
#37. When you tidy, you gain a little confidence. You start to believe in the future. Things begin to go more smoothly. The people you meet change. Unexpected things happen in a positive way. Change begins to accelerate. And you begin to really enjoy your life.
Marie Kondo
#38. Life begins when we get tired of our own bullshit. We must all get bloody tired of our own bullshit, in order for our lives to begin.
C. JoyBell C.
#39. My mom,Sarah used to tell me that you could be anywhere when you life begins but you wouldn't know it until it changed everything you thought you knew
Shey Stahl
#40. I have had you in my life for so long, I want to know when the dream ends and the fairy-tale begins...
Virginia Alison
#41. In that book which is my memory,
On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,
Appear the words, 'Here begins a new life'.
Dante Alighieri
#42. It is not the quantity of your thoughts but the quality of your thoughts that make the difference. Thoughts can either be productive or a hindrance. But, when we focus our attention on faithfulness and truthfulness the restoration process begins.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#44. It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.
Bill Vaughan
#45. Many Christians have the mistaken notion that eternal life begins when they die. But that is not biblically accurate. Eternal life begins when we are born again into the Kingdom of God.
David Jeremiah
#46. Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end.
Marcelene Cox
#48. As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action.
Eckhart Tolle
#49. When one is at the edge and falls then it's a splendour to many an eyes until the flow begins all over again - keep flowing because that's what's life is about.
Amit Abraham
#50. Don't be sad by what you see
It's true life has it's miseries
But one thing's always worked for me
Worry ends when faith begins.
Sami Yusuf
#51. I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#52. Life begins when we decide it's going to begin for us.
Shahrukh Khan
#53. With the inner software all you knew is, life begins with the mind, but when you look deep in you, you realize the working of life energy in you.
Roshan Sharma
#54. The future begins when we tear down the walls that keep us in the past. We must be thankful for those who walked through the pain and helped us to see the way out.
J. Loren Norris
#55. When you are introduced
to the clarity inside of you,
to the simplicity inside of you,
to that beauty inside of you,
the journey of life begins.
Prem Rawat
#56. As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
Henry Ward Beecher
#57. There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.
Martha Ostenso
#58. We begin to ask questions, such as: "What is the purpose of life? What is my true nature? What is the source and origin of this entire creation?" When questions of this kind arise in a person's mind, his or her quest for knowledge begins.
Tejomayananda
#59. Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.
Gerry Mulligan
#60. Real life, however, begins when I die to the false god that is me.
John Ortberg
#61. The first 50 years are for learning, and the second 50 years are for living. Life just begins when you're in your 50s.
Vy Higginsen
#62. Whether necessary or not, they occur. When he begins fighting for his dreams, man has no experience, and makes many mistakes. But the secret in life is to fall seven times, and rise up eight times.
Paulo Coelho
#63. To age, General Epanchin was in the very prime of life; that is, about fifty-five years of age, - the flowering time of existence, when real enjoyment of life begins. His
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#64. Forgiveness begins the healing process - when you forgive God, life, yourself and other people - magic happens within. That's why every religion talks about forgiveness.
Brandon Bays
#65. Success, meaningful success, begins when we take ownership and actively take responsibility for our part in the shortcomings of our life.
Eric Thomas
#66. Baptism is the critical priesthood ordinance which opens the door to eternal life for each one of us. It is the benchmark from which we count our many blessings because this is when our accountability to follow Jesus Christ and live his Gospel begins.
Elaine L. Jack
#67. Christ wants to give you hope for the future. He wants you to learn what it means to walk with Him every day. When you come to Christ, God gives you eternal life - which begins right now as you open your heart to Him.
Billy Graham
#68. Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly.
Alain De Botton
#69. Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.
Arthur Keith
#70. But the sun rises again when the night is past, and, as it begins a new life with renewed strenght and vigour, it became the type of the new life which the Egyptian hoped to live in the world beyond the grave.
E.A. Wallis Budge
#71. Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#72. The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech ... As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere ... When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#73. A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.
William Ralph Inge
#74. Halloween, the one night when we embrace the darkness from which all of America is descended. October is the gateway to the wonderful, mystical finale of the American year. A place where life ends and the celebration of life briefly begins.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#75. When the personal soul life is burnt to ashes, a woman loses the vital treasure and begins to get dry boned as Death. In her unconscious, the desire for the red shoes, a wild joy, not only continues, it swells and floods, and eventually staggers to its feet and takes over, ferocious and famished.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#76. As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.
Emil Cioran
#77. Success on any level begins when you accept responsibility for creating life what you want. You are the only person who can truly make it happen. Not your boss, your business partner, your financial planner, your spouse of life-partner. Just you.
Paul Clitheroe
#78. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.
Marianne Williamson
#79. Over the years, I had something in principle against autobiographical writing altogether because memory plays tricks on us, and we also tend to reinvent ourselves. But there comes an age when one begins to observe life, and there are things that need time to mature, also in terms of literary form.
Gunter Grass
#80. Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.
Harshit Walia
#81. When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul.
Harold S. Kushner
#82. Entering into the flow of abundance begins when exceeding expectations becomes a way of life.
Robin Crow
#83. The real miracle is a man who can walk with God every day ... When a person walks with God, he finds joy in the everyday things he does. Gradually his life begins to expand.
Harold Klemp
#84. When someone is young, he is not capable of conceiving of time as a circle, but thinks of it as a road leading forward to ever-new horizons; he does not yet sense that his life contains just a single theme; he will come to realise it only when his life begins to enact its first variations.
Milan Kundera
#85. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
Fidel Castro
#86. I had to stop traveling alone because I missed so many planes. When somebody runs up to you in the airport and begins to tell you their life story, you can't say, 'Excuse me, boo,' as they're weeping on your bosom.
Iyanla Vanzant
#87. When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.
William Barclay
#88. Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
Karen Armstrong
#89. When one begins to purposefully perform acts of kindness, the spirit changes and soon doing good deeds becomes a focal point for our life; doing good begins to be the same as feeling good. The periods of emptiness when we search for the "meaning of it all" begin to fill with acts of kindness.
Gary Blair
#90. It is much more difficult to deal with the truth about your life when you have no idea that you have feet of clay and it suddenly begins to rain.
Sheila Walsh
#91. ... everything we do is decent when the mind begins to forget - the design of life; and good when we are forgotten - the design of death.
Djuna Barnes
#92. The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.
Brian Tracy
#93. What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.
Mehmet Oz
#94. When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.
Pat Mora
#95. Your life really begins when you learn to realize that no one else but you is responsible for your amazing life.
Debasish Mridha
#96. When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#97. It's because others have said you were bad and they made you live in bad conditions. When a man hears that over and over and looks about him and sees that his life is bad, he begins to doubt his own mind.
Richard Wright
#98. When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.
Marianne Williamson
#99. The true test of a man, the beginning of his redemption, actually starts when he can no longer rely on what he's used all his life. The real journey begins when the false self fails.
John Eldredge
#100. In life when we feel we have reached a limit, that is when the true battle begins. Just when you despair and think it is impossible to go any further, will you become apathetic, or will you say it's not over and stand up with an unyielding spirit? The battle is decided by this single determination.
Daisaku Ikeda
