L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Life is hope.
Hope is faith.
Faith is believe.
Believe is possibilities.
Possibility is miraculous.
Miraculous is divine.
Divine is supernatural.
Supernatural is spiritual.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring.”
“Life is horrible, horrible, horrible, said the philosopher.”
Source: The Black Prince
“Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony, or you can watch the Marx Brothers, and this will give you a pleasant escape for a while. And that is about the best that you can do.”
“Life is how you brew it. Wake up, you have a story to tell. Don't chase vain glory, your story will tell it. You owe it to yourself to write the lines of your story in the ink of purpose!”
Source: Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
“Life, is how you decide to perceive it.”
“Life is how you look at it.”
“Life is immeasurable breath.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Life is impermanent and in the face of that impermanence, cavort! Look death in the eye, tell him you’re as cute as a button, flash a little deviant guile his way, and tell him to go feast on somebody’s else’s sweet flesh.”
“Life is important for the living.”
“Life is impossible without a “mistake.” Perfection, without an error, is death. Nothingness must be perfect because nothingness is incapable of a mistake. The only real “perfection” is life. Life is the price for a mistake and deceit.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Life is improvisation.”
“Life is improvisation. All of those [improv] classes were like church to me. The training had seeped into me and changed who I am.”
“Life is in a constant state of evolution and that involves countless, big-and-little breaking-downs for things to be made-up, reformed, reborn.”
Source: Touched by Love
“Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.”
“Life is in different stages.
Every stage of life is the foundation for the next stage of life.
Every stage of live must be fully-lived.”
“Life is in every culture, but no one culture is the whole of life.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.”
Source: Theory of Fiction: Henry James
“Life is in infinite motion; at the same time it is motionless.”
“LIFE is in living. It is not a thing, it is a process. There is no way to attain to life except by living it, except by being alive, by flowing, streaming with it. If you are seeking the meaning of life in some dogma, in some philosophy, that Is the sure way to miss life and meaning both.
Life is not somewhere waiting for you, it is happening in you. It is not in the future as a goal to be arrived at, it is herenow, this very moment - in your breathing, circulating in your blood, beating in your heart. Whatsoever you are is your life, and if you start seeking meaning somewhere else, you will miss it.”
“Life is in motion so everything is changing: your body, your mind, your relationships, your environment. You can’t control what happens around you, but you have control of what happens within you.”
“Life is in one of its smoother phases ... I've no responsibilities in the world except friends and students and cherishing the life of the world -- and the belief that there is enough love to go round.”
“Life is in ourselves and not in the external.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
“Life is in stages.
There is a stage where, like grasshoppers, we hop from grass to grass.
And another, where we move from grass to grace.”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“Life is in the here and now.
Either we meet it, we live it-or we miss it.”
“Life is in the living. Love is in the giving.”
“Life is in time; seconds, minutes and hours”
“Life is incomplete without understanding the language of the beauty of the flowers, rocks, fine mountain lines, autumn leaves, clouds, stars and galaxies in the deep sky, music of the early birds, sunshine into the trees, and movements of the butterflies. The extravaganza of nature ignites the light that you have inside.”
Source: Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity
“Life is inconveniently complex.”
“Life is incredibly fragile on its best days.”
“Life is incredibly revealing, but for all its revelations we have a choice on how we wish to react moving forward. Value yourself by moving forward with newfound wisdom and not holding onto the foolishness of your mistake by refusing to forgive yourself. Instead, let go of that guilt and embrace the freedom of acceptance in loving the authenticity of who you are within.”
“Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.”
Source: Search and Destroy: Cartoons
“Life is indeed a gamble, the ultimate game of chance, based purely upon having the ability to make the right choices at the right time. You never win or lose in life if you realise it is all just for the experience. Learn to create your own destiny, don't wait to see what fate throws your way.”
Source: Keys to Creating Your Reality
“Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain.”
“life is indeed darkness save when there is urge,
And all urge is blind save when there is knowledge.
And all knowledge is vain save when there is work,
And all work is empty save when there is love;
And when you work with love you bind your self to yourself, and to one another, and to God.”
Source: The Prophet
“Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.”
“Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.”
“Life is indeed short so eating dessert first is an appropriate religion for many.”
“Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.”
“Life is indeed unfair,but remember we were made from nothing.Therefore make it fair enough.”
“Life is indefinite--a bundle of contradictions. We men, with our ideas, strive to give it a particular shape by melting it into a particular mould--into the definiteness of success.”
Source: The Home and the World
“Life is infinite energy coupled with limitless creative imagination. It is the invisible essence and substance of every visible form. Its nature is goodness, truth, wisdom and beauty, as well as energy and imagination. Our highest satisfaction comes from a sense of conscious union with this invisible Life. All human endeavor is an attempt to get back to first principles, to find such an inward wholeness that all sense of fear, doubt and uncertainty vanishes.”
Source: The Art of Life
“Life is Infinite Great,”
“Life is infinitely more interesting when considered for the questions it raises rather than for the answers it bestows.”
Source: Figuring
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.”
Source: The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”
Source: The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - books 1 and 2 (illustrated)
“Life is inherently cruel and deep down we all have to suffer for our fate, suffer in our own, personal and private way. It is however up to us how we carry this burden.”
Source: We Tragic Few
“Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of what here seems to be.”
“Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.”