Top 100 When Life Quotes
#1. At moments when life is at its worst there are two things you can do:
1.) break down,lose hope and refuse to go on while lying face down on the ground banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2.) laugh. Bobby and I did the latter.
Cecelia Ahern
#2. When life descends into the pit
I must become my own candle
Willingly burning my self
To light up the darkness around me.
Alice Walker
#3. When life hands you lemons sometimes you just have to say screw the lemons, and bail.
Magan Vernon
#4. There are moments in time when the axis of the universe shifts, when life as you knew it is irrevocably altered. When the hiss and grind of the gears fell silent, some deeply rooted instinctive part of me knew this was one of those moments.
Jennifer Silverwood
#5. The times that were the most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly, totally gone she was.
John Green
#6. Childhood is supposed to be happy, and if you can't remember yours with any happiness, what hope have you later, when life starts handing you fresh grief?
Amity Gaige
#7. When life gives you lemons ... they could really be oranges.
Ellen DeGeneres
#8. Making the most of every second, because seconds became minute sand minutes became precious when life could be taken in less than a breath.
Amy Harmon
#9. When life throws you a curve ball just give up, no need messing around with that off speed shit
Bradley Bowman
#11. Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
Marya Mannes
#12. My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When I went to see his work, it was special. Somewhere along the line, I felt I was special. I didn't know why.
Ralph Lauren
#14. Men as yet need some help to their imagination. There remains still room for a little illusion. It is better for men, it is better for women, that each somewhat idealize the other. Much is lost when life has lost its atmosphere, and is reduced to naked fact.
Mary Abigail Dodge
#15. When life hands me lemons I hand them back and pick something else.
Behdad Sami
#16. Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more certain the end, the more tempting the minute.
Theodor Fontane
#17. When life gives you a lemon, chuck it right back ... and add a few lemons of your own.
Clara DeLemos
#18. There are periods when life is so pleasant one can almost imagine the world is sun-dappled and safe.
Phyllis T. Smith
#19. Even when life turns out different than what you've planned, it's always better to try and fail than to wonder what could have been.
Kirsten Hubbard
#20. It's only when life is broken and shattered into tiny pieces when you understand that love prevented you from falling apart.
P.J. Bayliss
#22. Some people make their best music when life is horrible.
Vince Staples
#23. When life gives u lemons, smile, because the apple tree that you have been searching for is a mile or so down that bumpy road.
April Margeson
#24. Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious
Yann Martel
#25. Nothing is truly free. Every gift has a price, paid for by someone in coin, favors, expectations or goods.
Things get a little sticky when Life shows up wanting to collect on something you thought was free.
Always ask the price.
Jaime Buckley
#26. Ecstasy is the energy of spirit. When life flows, ecstasy is natural.
Deepak Chopra
#27. When life tends to get too complex, too fast, too cluttered, too deadline oriented, or too type A for you, stop and remember your own spirit. You're headed for inspiration, a simple, peaceful place where you're in harmony with the perfect timing of all creation.
Wayne Dyer
#28. When life feels heavy, these two remedies relieve life's complexities: simplicity and purity. Simplicity seeks God. Purity enjoys him.
Thomas A Kempis
#29. When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.
Dean Koontz
#30. When life gives you lemons, squirt your friend in the eye with it.
Amanda Kellogg
#31. When life is boring, have a funky dance and watch yourself dancing after closing your eyes.
Debasish Mridha
#32. When life's got you down, keep your head up ... you can't see the ground anyway
Nicole Rae
#33. When life is kicking others in the teeth, Become a dentist.
Kevin Myers
#34. What counted was how you behaved while death let you live, and how you met death when life released you.
Edith Pearlman
#35. There's a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt.
Gena Showalter
#36. What have you learned from those times when life was easy?
Sylvia Browne
#37. She's your soft place, son. A man needs a soft place to land when life gets fucked.
Nicole Jacquelyn
#38. As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.
Shawn Johnson
#39. The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost it's meaning
Jean Baudrillard
#40. He's one kind of person, you're another. When life is going along normally, you're sort of the same. But when life turns strange and scary, when there's a crisis, suddenly you're completely different people.
Michael Grant
#41. You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing.
Norman Vincent Peale
#42. Listen, listen, listen well. There was an age before the Seasons, when life and Earth, its father, thrived alike. (Life had a mother, too. Something terrible happened to Her.)
N.K. Jemisin
#43. There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise astronomy only during that habitable time interval in cosmic history.
John D. Barrow
#44. it was thus that she felt herself; and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures. When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless. And to everybody there was always this sense of unlimited resources, she supposed; one after another,
Virginia Woolf
#45. When life gives you a perfect afternoon, you have to guard against anything that tries to steal it away.
Alice J. Wisler
#46. The next step in the process of liberation is to break this chain reaction of suffering whenever life is unpleasant and feeling content only when life is pleasurable.
Noah Levine
#47. When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page.
Eileen Caddy
#48. When life offered you everything you ever wanted, you savored it.
Kristen Ashley
#49. When it rain, think of me. I'll be your umbrella, Kate. I'll be your barrier from the storm, when life gets too heavy. Don't let the storm wash you away. Allow it to nourish new life.
Lisa De Jong
#50. When life throws a lemon at you, you throw it straight back at life and miss completely. That's my logic.
Anonymous
#51. We don't need to have the answers. We'll never have them. They'll come and go and change. And all we can do is figure out the best way to behave when life comes at us. Even if society says it isn't right. Right is so subjective, after all.
Na
#52. Until then, have great expectations. Keep believing you dreams will come true. And remember, when life throws you a pit ... plant a cherry tree.
Coleen Murtagh Paratore
#53. I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.
John Muir
#54. Even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen.
Richard Mourdock
#55. even when life abandons you, you are in the arms of God. I
Ann Voskamp
#56. When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.
Ajahn Brahm
#57. When life gives you dirt, grow flowers.
Unknown
#58. Believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of things.
Clive Barker, Abarat
Cornelia Funke
#59. When Life throws you down, stand back up once again.
Aaron Morgan
#60. When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.
Arianna Huffington
#61. God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.
Francis Chan
#62. When life gives you lemons ... You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you sure as hell aren't ever going to see any lemonade.
Rob Thurman
#63. When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.
Cathy Guisewite
#65. The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level.
Nick Cave
#66. Only one thing matters: live a good, happy life. Do your heart's bidding, even when it leads you on paths that timid souls would avoid. Even when life is a torment, don't let it harden you.
Wilhelm Reich
#67. When life closes a door, God opens a window.
Paul Smith
#69. There are times when life's just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, "Well, what are you really like?"
Robin Williams
#70. When Life knocks at the door no one can wait,
When Death makes his arrest we have to go.
John Masefield
#71. When I had to be a badass all day and cases got tough and I came home, or when life just sucked, or when life was awesome and going along fine, I knew this was what Ren Zano would give me.
Always.
Exactly what I needed.
Kristen Ashley
#72. When life throws shit at you, grow great, big, fuck off roses.
Heather Hill
#73. When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death
Tom Robbins
#74. The old saying is that when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. I say f*** that. When life gives you lemons, make margaritas.
Kristin Neff
#75. When life gives you lemons... chuck them at someone's head. You'll be surprised how good it feels.
Nicole Hofmann
#76. Above all, children need our unconditional love, whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.
Barack Obama
#77. There are things without explanation, moments when life will become arranged in such odd ways that you imagine a whole vocabulary of meaning inside them. The breakfast smell struck me like that.
Sue Monk Kidd
#78. When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
Ann Landers
#79. When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless ... Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by. Her horizon seemed to her limitless.
Virginia Woolf
#80. Any man is good when life treats him well, and bad when it treats him badly.
Simonides
#81. I think you have a right to whine. Honestly, Lucy. We all have the right to whine when life gets tough.
Nancy Werlin
#82. When life doesn't make sense, we can still have peace.
Rick Warren
#83. Even with this disaster I had dragged us all into, she was still proud to be my mother. It occurred to me that I had never seen my mother defeated, even when life presented difficulties and disappointments. I hoped that our resemblance extended beyond our blue eyes.
Piper Kerman
#84. When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.
Shauna Niequist
#85. When life gets tough, just love it a bit harder.
Mounia Bagha
#86. When life goes on doesn't it just trample over what was there before?
Catherine Dexter
#89. When we look to the unborn child, the real issue is not when life begins, but when love begins.
George W. Bush
#90. When life happens, you can be either the author of your life or the victim of it. Those are your only two choices - accountable or unaccountable. This may sound harsh, but it's true. Every day we choose one approach or the other, and the consequences follow us forever.
Gary Keller
#91. Why rush through things when life should be cherished? Take a step back and see the big picture.
Atlanta Hunter
#92. It's easy to be humble when your life's prosper.
Nothing could be denigrated when life's so poor.
Toba Beta
#93. And when life's sweet fable ends,
Soul and body part like friends;
No quarrels, murmurs, no delay;
A kiss, a sigh, and so away.
Richard Crashaw
#94. When life gives you lemons, add vodka.
Denise B.
#95. A Dad gives hope
When life is low
A Dad's a place
Where you can go
A Dad is honest
A Dad is true
A Dad is precious
My DAD is You
Happy Birthday to YOU
Happy Birthday to YOU
Happy Birthday , Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday to YOU
John Walter Bratton
#96. It is what it is"... and "You can only eat an elephant one bite at a time, and sometimes when life throws things at you that are pretty challanging and it is really big elephant, envision it to be chocolate covered to make the bites much more yummy and easier to swallow."
T.L. Wood
#97. That was the trouble with smart men. They thought they had all the answers, and then when life knocked them aside, they thought it was all their faults.
Jade Lee
#98. Life's mystery continued to trouble me
A question came to my mind,
is freedom dearer than life?
or does it become easier to live
when life becomes difficult?
Suman Pokhrel
#99. It was your little white soul I tried to keep near me- even when life was at its loudest and every intellectual idea of God seemed the sheerest mockery. - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Benediction
F Scott Fitzgerald
#100. When life kicks you, let it kick you forward.
Kay Yow
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