Life Quotes

The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin.

Dwight L. Moody

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

Margaret J. Wheatley

I ran into Ellen at a photo shoot. She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life.

Portia de Rossi

Any point of view reflects some side of truth and must not claim that it is complete

Anatoliy Obraztsov

Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.

Douglas Adams

Much of my life seems in retrospect to have been spent in the company of putative national leaders passing through the process of being denounced and imprisoned for sedition, as part of the inevitable progression towards the Prime Ministership and the ritual tea-party at Windsor Castle.

James Cameron (journalist)

Life is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing.

Max Frisch

We are not made for life at all, old horse. It is made for us. We live it. We leave it.

David Gemmell

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

Geoffrey Rush

...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.

John Boyne

There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

William Golding

Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.

Nam June Paik

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Jean Paul Sartre

Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.

Jeannette Walls

A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

Alain de Botton

The only perfection which modern civilisation achieves is mechanical; machines are magnificent and immaculate but the life which serves them or is served by them isn't magnificent or shiny or more perfect or more comely.

Karel Capek

If I imagine my soul, as I do when I pray, it's shaped like Stapafel. No change of place or religion can alter that. I lived beneath Stapafel from the hour I was born until I was sixteen. I've never seen it since, but that doesn't matter. My soul is in the likeness of a jagged peak with a rock like a man standing on its summit, and snags of rock shaped like trolls along its spine. Screes defend it, although it's not quite inaccessible if you know the way up.

Margaret Elphinstone

A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.

James Thomas Fields

Ah Life,Thou art a false truth!

Raheel Farooq

Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?

Jandy Nelson