“Sometimes life will make you give up what you love most.”
Danielle Steel book The Gift
Variant: She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most.
Source: The Gift
Quotes about life page 88
“Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
---"On death”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Source: Complete Poems and Selected Letters
“She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.”
Maya Angelou book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer
Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams Reaching Your Destiny
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.”
Yann Martel book Life of Pi
Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 56, p. 178
“Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.”
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
Source: Wild Geese
“I'd sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you'll always be what I wanted most."
~ Hardy Cates”
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Sugar Daddy
“Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.”
Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker
“Everything in life has a place, and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else.”
Cecelia Ahern book A Place Called Here
Source: A Place Called Here
“In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.”
Richard Brautigan book In Watermelon Sugar
Source: In Watermelon Sugar
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
Source: 1900s, Our National Parks (1901), chapter 1: The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West <!-- Terry Gifford, EWDB, pages 465-466 -->
Context: Wander here a whole summer, if you can. Thousands of God's wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted. If you are business-tangled, and so burdened by duty that only weeks can be got out of the heavy-laden year … give a month at least to this precious reserve. The time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will indefinitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal. Nevermore will time seem short or long, and cares will never again fall heavily on you, but gently and kindly as gifts from heaven.
“Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Infamous
“and I think that everything in life is kind of unreal, isn't it?”
James Patterson book Sundays at Tiffany's
Source: Sundays at Tiffany's
“A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.”
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
“When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.”
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Awakened
“There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.”
Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst
Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
“There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons… You'll wait and wait.”
Susan Minot (1956) American author and screenwriter
Source: Evening
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Quoted by Lord Normanbrook in Action This Day: Working With Churchill. Memoirs by Lord Norman Brook (And Others) http://books.google.com/books?id=qxchAAAAMAAJ&q=%22in+the+course+of+my+life+I+have+often+had+to+eat+my+words+and+I+must+confess+that+I+have+always+found+it+a+wholesome+diet%22&pg=PA28#v=onepage (1968) <br class="br">Often misquoted as: Eating my words has never given me indigestion. http://books.google.com/books?id=vbsU21fEhLAC&q=%22Eating+my+words+has+never+given+me+indigestion%22&pg=PA486#v=onepage. <br class="br">Post-war years (1945–1955)
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Variant: I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Blue-Eyed Devil
Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Variant: There are so many torturous things in this life. Don't let a man who doesn't love you be one of them.
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange”
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
Source: Life Itself
“I do care about real life. It's just not as interesting as what's in my books.”
Christina Dodd (1957) American writer
Source: Storm of Shadows
Anne Morrow Lindbergh book Gift from the Sea
Source: Gift from the Sea (1955)
Context: The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many other things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires. I want to give and take from my children and husband, to share with friends and community, to carry out my obligations to man and to the world, as a woman, as an artist, as a citizen.
But I want first of all — in fact, as an end to these other desires — to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact — to borrow from the languages of the saints — to live "in grace" as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony.
Context: The shape of my life today starts with a family. I have a husband, five children and a home just beyond the suburbs of New York. I have also a craft, writing, and therefore work I want to pursue. The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many other things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires. I want to give and take from my children and husband, to share with friends and community, to carry out my obligations to man and to the world, as a woman, as an artist, as a citizen.
But I want first of all — in fact, as an end to these other desires — to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact — to borrow from the languages of the saints — to live "in grace" as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony. I am seeking perhaps what Socrates asked for in the prayer from Phaedrus when he said, "May the outward and the inward man be at one." I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.
Maya Angelou book Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker
Source: Don't Worry, Make Money: Spiritual and Practical Ways to Create Abundance and More Fun in Your Life
“Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?”
Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters
Source: Invisible Monsters
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker
“That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.”
Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer
Source: This is Where I Leave You
“The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.”
Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist
