L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Life is best spent in alleviating pain, assuaging distress, and promoting peace and joy. The service of man is more valuable than what you call service to God. God has no need of your service. Pleas man, you please God.”
“Life is best understood in playfulness.”
“Life is best when you are in love.”
“Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters.”
“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.”
Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction
“Life is better than death. But death comes eventually to everyone. It is something which many in their prime may prefer not to think about. But at 89, I see no point in avoiding the question. What concerns me is: How do I go? Will the end comes swiftly, with a stroke in one of the coronary arteries? Or will it be a stroke in the mind that lays me out in bed for months, semi-comatose? Of the two, I prefer the quick one.”
“Life is better when I get lost in natural beauty.”
“Life is better when we imagine it”
Source: Cellophane
“Life is better when you do what you must. Dream, plan, and work hard. Embrace the tough times, do what is vital in life and never turn back. Thrive and make an indelible mark.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“Life is BETTER when you're SMILING!”
Source: A Gallery of Scrapbook Creations
“Life is better when you share it.”
“Life is better when you surround yourself with people whose kindness isn’t a strategy, it’s a way of life.”
“Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.”
“Life is beyond hunting. And the Labour of gathering. It's all about love in the light of Life.”
“Life is beyond just watching movies and studying.”
“Life is beyond self.”
“Life is bigger than our attempts to live it.”
“Life is bigger than our explanations of it. To be in touch with life, go beyond your explanations.”
“Life is bigger than processes and overflows and dwarfs them.”
Source: How to stop worrying & start living
“Life is biting into a cupcake and finding an eyeball at its center.”
Source: The Telling
“Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.”
“Life is Black and White,
Kinda Gray,
And nobody cares.”
Source: Notes Of A Dead Man Sequel
“Life is bliss. It is unbounded, deep within; and it is full of boundaries outside. So we advise the people to turn the attention within, experience that unbounded wholeness of life, and bring the mind out fully saturated with that--start to live unboundedness in the field of boundaries.”
“Life is boring when everything is perfect. Life is exciting and joyful when we continuously adjust and change to overcome the imperfection in life.”
“Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.”
Source: All Families are Psychotic
“Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.”
Source: Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee
“Life is both a particle and a wave, Lacey taught me, and also it's neither. But only when no one is watching. Once you measure it, it has to choose. It was the act of witnessing that turned nothing into something, collapsed possibility clouds into concrete and irrevocable truth. I'd only pretended to understand before, but I understood now: When no one was watching, I was a cloud. I was all possibilities.”
Source: Girls on Fire
“Life is both more and less than what we think.”
“Life is both much simpler and more complicated than it appears to be.”
“Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?”
“Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other - and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World”
“Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other---and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.”
“Life is both short and complicated. People sometimes make baffling choices.”
“Life is both simple and complex; simple because you live and you die, very simple! Complex because a short life span is a long tangle of problems!”
“Life is both too short and too long to live it half-heartedly.”
Source: Walking With Angels: The True Story of One Woman's Inspirational Walk With Her Two Sons, Aged 12 and 16, For 33 Exceptional Days Over The Pyrenees and Across Spain For 800kms to Santiago de Compostela.
“Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.”
“Life is brief but love is LONG .”
“Life is brief, young maiden, fall in love; before the crimson bloom fades from your lips, before the tides of passion cool within your hips, for those of you who know no tomorrow. (Gondola no Uta)”
Source: Boogiepop Doesn't Laugh Vol 1
“Life is brief, even at its longest. Whatever you are going to do with your life, get at it. All good will be attacked. All values must be defended. In all areas of the human existence, what we put into this world, we get back from it.”
“Life is brief. Always act out of love, never fear.”
“Life is brimming with things to be discovered and known, skills to be mastered, challenges to be overcome. And when you are discouraged, dig a hole in the earth and think of the possibilities. So many things can be planted in your lifetime, skills that once mastered will bear fruit forever. . . . Pluck up some enthusiasm for the business of life, for the loamy matter that supports us all. Become a handyman and spread your skills wide, digging deeper into the earth's crust to uncover its secrets.”
“Life is bringing me everything I need and MORE!”
“Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.”
“Life is brought down to the basics: if you are warm, regular, healthy, not thirsty or hungry, then you are not on a mountain... Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.”
“Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.”
Source: Endymion
“Life is brutal, tragic, unbearable, and inhumane at times. The pain one man can cause another is limitless, but I didn't see, I couldn't see, how creating more pain made anything better.”
Source: The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
“Life is built on our daily utterances. Never declare any wickedness of some sort upon your life, words create a reality.”
“Life is busy, and demands on our time are constant; carving out some for ourselves can be difficult, but remember, it's quality that counts more than quantity. Even a few minutes a day can make a big difference. Strive for balance, and regularly do things that replenish your reserve in all areas of health - body, mind, heart, and soul.”
Source: The Gandhiana Jones Project: An 8-week Course in Becoming the Change You Want to See in the World