L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.”
“Life has trained many of us to think of love as temporary and conditional.”
Source: The Christian Atheist: Believing in God But Living as If He Doesn't Exist
“Life has tried to break me,
the wounds have not yet healed.
But I am not a victim,
never been and never will.
My heart was born a warrior,
each day I'm fighting still.
I am everything
the darkness could not kill.”
“Life has turned into a fascinating experiment on how to optimize a damaged mind and body in a biologically toxic environment.”
“Life has turned so dark; it's like we never saw the sun.”
“Life has two distinct chapters: one before you know how to cook, and the other after you know how to cook.”
“Life has two faces - the beautiful and the ugly. Life is a responder and not an initiator or a dictator. It responds not to your circumstances but to your attitude to them. It waits in the wings until you dictate your attitude to a situation. Life then responds with a corresponding face that matches your attitude - ugly for ugly, beautiful for beautiful. In essence, you choose your own life. It would seem that God has given you an enormous power to be the initiator or the dictator of the life you wish to live.”
“Life has two faces - the beautiful and the ugly. Life is a responder and not an initiator or dictator. It responds not to your circumstances but to your attitude to them. It waits in the wings until you dictate your attitude to a situation. Life then responds with a corresponding face that matches your attitude - ugly for ugly, beautiful for beautiful. In essence, you choose your own life. It would seem that God has given you an enormous power to be the initiator or the dictator of the life you wish live.”
“Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.”
“Life has ups and downs, ride them and find joy, resist, and you will be in trouble”
“Life has ups and it has downs. I don't care who you are.”
“Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.”
Source: The Philosophy of History
“Life has very little even ground.”
Source: J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection
“Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.”
“Life hath more awe than death.”
“Life hath set
No landmarks before us.”
“Life, he supposes, is like that – not simply a catalogue of events, but an internal narrative that imposes shape and order on those events, and adds and subtracts, and lends meaning where there is none. And if one makes no attempt to separate invention from reality, or to impose some discipline on that inner storyteller, one might wonder whether one has in fact lived dozens of lives, countless lives. Reality, he thinks, is not the same as the truth.”
Source: Loving Imogen
“Life, he told me, was like a fork of lightning. He could see exactly where one decision violently parted company with another and a new future flared up before him.”
Source: Trumpet
“Life held a different meaning, a deeper purpose. On the surface it would go on just the same; but the deeps had been stirred. It must not be the same with her as with poor butterfly Ruby. When she came to the end of one life it must not be to face the next with the shrinking terror of something wholly different—something for which accustomed thought and ideal and aspiration had unfitted her. The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must begin here on earth.”
Source: Anne of the Island
“Life helps those who help themselves.”
“Life, here I come!' he said. And was immediately and fatally run over by a bus.”
Source: The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden
“Life here on Earth is promised suffering and one needs to find ways to live through it. Many people turn to meditation and prayer—anything that can connect us deeper into ourselves and with the divine.”
Source: Anatomy Of Illumination
“Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.”
“Life hereafter for God's children, will be an extension or an amplification, a multiplication of the joy and thrilling, exciting lives we now lead! Hell is the extension, multiplication, amplification, endless continuation of the same awful lives that the wicked people of the world lead even now! Hell is just the opposite of the ecstasies of life in Heaven for the saved and the blessed!”
“Life - hers and her family's - had become like a constantly twisting road and you never knew what fresh horrors might confront you around every bend; a road full of ruts and jolts. And sometimes you said you couldn't take any more jolts - but somehow you did. You took what came, and you took it with a stamina that you never imagined you possessed; but always you were tense, apprehensive, scared - wondering what was coming next.”
Source: Patriot's Daughter: The Story of Anastasia Lafayette for teen-age girls
“Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life but a series of relationships?-and we can correct our mistakes, here on earth within our life span.”
Source: Redemption
“Life hit him with the biggest burden it could find but yet it couldn’t knock him down. He is smiling as a little Nepali boy with rhododendron flowers in his hands high up in the Himalayas and is making everybody around him cheerful and calm.”
“Life hitherto Learning is Lifeless”
“Life hits you hard. But it takes you three seconds to decide if you are a superhero or not. I am.”
“Life-hoarding (as I coined it) keeps you stuck to your stuff, slow to action, and ironically, makes you miss out on greater joyful experiences.”
“Life holds many, many, many mysteries, abstract things we all think about. In a film when things get abstract, some people don't appreciate that and they want to leave the theater. Others love to dream, get lost, try to figure things out. I'm one of those people. I like a film, a story that holds concrete things but also abstractions. So when ideas come along that have those things, I'm falling in love and going to work.”
“Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.”
“Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.”
“Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.”
“Life holds so many simple blessings, each day bringing its own individual wonder.”
“Life holds timeless fortunes for you.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Life, how I have dreaded you," said Rhoda, "oh, human beings, how I have hated you! How you have nudged, how you have interrupted, how hideous you have looked in Oxford Street, how squalid sitting opposite each other staring in the Tube! Now as I climb this mountain, from the top of which I shall see Africa, my mind is printed with brown-paper parcels and your faces. I have been stained by you and corrupted. You smelt so unpleasant, too, lining up outside doors to buy tickets. All were dressed in indeterminate shades of grey and brown, never even a blue feather pinned to a hat. None had the courage to be one thing rather than another. What dissolution of the soul you demanded in order to get through one day, what lies, bowings, scrapings, fluency and servility! How you changed me to one spot, one hour, one chair, and sat yourselves down opposite! How you snatched from me the white spaces that lie between hour and hour and rolled them into dirty pellets and tossed them into wastepaper baskets with your greasy paws. Yet those were my life.”
Source: The Waves
“Life, however simple, is hard to live.
Life, however hard, is simple to live.
Mindset is everything.”
“Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, "look at me move.”
Source: The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
“life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.”
Source: The Best of Willa Cather
“Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.”
“Life hurts.... so does hell. Learn to live in it”
“Life hurts.... so does hell. So, deal it!”
“Life I'd learned, is a revolving door. Most things that come into it only stay awhile.”
Source: Funny Story
“Life I love you, all is groovy.”
“Life, I realized, was not a meticulously edited movie. It was a tapestry of scenes, each more real and raw than the last, stitched together in a pattern that often made sense only in retrospect. Each day was a snapshot, a moment frozen in time.”
“Life id far more abrasive experiencing it's individual components than the sum itself”
Source: Finding Parker
“Life if curious when reduced to its essentials”
“Life, if you please; bundle of surprises, it is.”
Source: You By You
“Life imitates art -- but badly.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness