Life Is Quotes - Page 31

• Not everyone gets a happily every after. Life is real and sometimes it's ugly and you just have to learn how to cope.

  Colleen Hoover

  Real, Ugly, Sometimes

  Colleen Hoover (2013). “Hopeless”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I believe in living in a land of little water because life is drawn together. And I believe in the gathering of bones as a testament to spirits that have moved on. If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Believe, Humility, Self

  Terry Tempest Williams (2008). “Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert”, p.77, Vintage

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• Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.

  Ai Weiwei

  Interesting, Effort, Littles

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• When you know something or someone in your life is unhealthy or unproductive, that you have grown beyond where they are and where they want to keep you, you must let go. If you tell yourself you do not see it when you do, or if you tell yourself it will get better, you are not being honest with yourself. Stop trying to fix things or change things. Simply let go.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Letting Go, Trying, Get Better

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Nov 22, 2015

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• The effect of our knowledge rather ought to be, first, to teach us reverence and fear; and, secondly, to induce us, under its guidance and teaching, to ask every good thing from [God], and, when it is received, ascribe it to him. For how can the idea of God enter your mind without instantly giving rise to the thought, that since you are his workmanship, you are bound, by the very law of creation, to submit to his authority?-\-\that your life is due to him?-\-\that whatever you do ought to have reference to him.

  John Calvin

  Teaching, Law, Ideas

  John Calvin “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It depends on me whether life is good or not. Not on life, on me.

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Life Is Good, Depends

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• I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.

  Dhani Jones

  Beautiful, Long, Realizing

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• Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.

  Antony Sher

  Years, Honest, Closets

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• If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as though it increases. I must be honest about such strange feelings: I now want to be thought unfaithful about as much as a bougie aristocrat wants to be thought a hobo.

  Criss Jami

  Christian, Song, Numbers

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• Music is not my life. My life is music.

  Criss Jami

  Music Is

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.3, Criss Jami

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• It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Simple, Doe

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.18, Criss Jami

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• The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment.
  Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy.
  But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Real, Ideas, People

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• Sometimes having no script, having no idea what is going to happen next, having no map, might be the way to go. Because life just happens, and when it does, how you handle it will teach you more about who you are than any class or test ever can. The best preparation for the rest of your life is, maybe, no preparation at all. Dive right in. Make mistakes. Break a few rules. Wing it.

  Valerie Thomas

  Mistake, Class, Wings

  Valerie Thomas, Stacy Kramer (2013). “From What I Remember”, p.267, Egmont UK

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• I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella. That’s one of my favorite lines of all time. It’s from a movie called Almost Famous. I think what it means is that life is going to throw all kinds of stuff at you, good and bad. But all you can do is get out there and try to stay dry.

  Valerie Thomas

  Mean, Rainy Day, Men

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• So this is one of those times when life is just handing you something, telling you what to do, which way to go. So enjoy it. It'll be fun. I guarantee. I can't guarantee we'll find the goddamn thing, but it'll be interesting. Then if we do find it - if we do- the payoff's huge.

  Nicole Mones

  Fun, Interesting, Way

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• Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!

  Brit Marling

  Thinking, Space, Car

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• Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Noble, Rich

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.14

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• The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

  Charles de Lint

  Life, Real, Thinking

  "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, 1995.

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• There is no objective reality. But there is only an illusion of consciousness, there is only an objectivication of reality, which was created by the spirit. The origin of life is creativity, freedom; and the personality, subject, and spirit are the representatives of that origin, but not the nature, not the object.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Creativity, Reality, Origin Of Life

  "Dream and Reality: An Essay in Autobiography". Book by Nikolai Berdyaev, 1949.

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• A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

  Ouida

  Vices, New Life, Lessons

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• The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms and resolves him back to gas and air. But the revolutionary, below in the crowd, hears, and only translates what he hears thus to his brethren: 'Let us drink while we may; property is robbery; this life is all; let us kill and eat; there is no God.

  Ouida

  Men, Air, Soul

  Ouida (1890*). “A village commune. Idalia. Silver chimes and golden fetters. "Deadly dash."”

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• Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perception, Should, Threatened

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.471, Library of America

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• All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. C. S. LEWIS, The Four Loves Life is short. Eternity is long. BENTLEY LITTLE, His Father's Son What we do now echoes in eternity.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Father, Love Life, Life Is Short

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• A running theme in my life is my inability to say no to anything.

  David Pogue

  Running, Inability, Theme

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• The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Principles, Forfeit, This Life

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.110, Cambridge University Press

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