--- title: "8 Life Increasing Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 8 Life Increasing quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Life Increasing sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c99/peter-lynch-2902_degrees_if-you-re-lucky-enough-to-have-been-rewa_514919.png" --- > [If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-lynch/if-you-re-lucky-enough-to-have-been-rewarded-in-life-to-the-degree/) [Peter Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-lynch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c99/peter-lynch-2902_degrees_if-you-re-lucky-enough-to-have-been-rewa_514919.png) > [The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-f-hamilton/the-penalty-for-a-long-life-is-increasing-resistance-to-change/) [Peter F. Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-f-hamilton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/013/peter-f-hamilton-11355_change_the-penalty-for-a-long-life-is-increasin_576249.png) > [There is more to life than increasing its speed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/there-is-more-to-life-than-increasing-its-speed/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0c/anonymous-1_life_there-is-more-to-life-than-increasing-it_1381935.jpg) > [We live in times where the speed of our life is increasing but leading us nowhere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/we-live-in-times-where-the-speed-of-our-life-is-increasing-but/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb9/anonymous-1_attitude_we-live-in-times-where-the-speed-of-our_1465462.jpg) > [“Each Death marks your increasing dependence on Divine Love and Truth, on God, as the very lifeblood of your existence and purpose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padma-aon-prakasha/each-death-marks-your-increasing-dependence-on-divine-love-and-truth/) [Padma Aon Prakasha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/padma-aon-prakasha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87f/padma-aon-prakasha-7212_burning-desire_each-death-marks-your-increasing-depende_1532997.jpg) > [We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/we-are-accustomed-to-live-in-hopes-of-good-weather-a-good-harvest-a/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc9/anton-chekhov-298_affair_we-are-accustomed-to-live-in-hopes-of-go_1581102.jpg) > [“I know quite clearly what I want out of my life. Life and my emotions are the only things I am conscious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-j-bhabha/i-know-quite-clearly-what-i-want-out-of-my-life-life-and-my-emotions/) [H.J. Bhabha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-j-bhabha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71f/h-j-bhabha-132511_life_i-know-quite-clearly-what-i-want-out-of_1619195.jpg) > [There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/there-is-more-to-life-than-increasing-its-speed-gandhi-gave-my-life/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f14/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_beautiful_there-is-more-to-life-than-increasing-it_1646751.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life-increasing/#itemlist", "name": "Life Increasing Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a slave to your net worth by devoting the rest of your life to increasing it or to let what you've accumulated begin to serve you.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Peter Lynch" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-lynch/if-you-re-lucky-enough-to-have-been-rewarded-in-life-to-the-degree/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c99/peter-lynch-2902_degrees_if-you-re-lucky-enough-to-have-been-rewa_514919.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c99/peter-lynch-2902_degrees_if-you-re-lucky-enough-to-have-been-rewa_514919.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c99/peter-lynch-2902_degrees_if-you-re-lucky-enough-to-have-been-rewa_514919.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which…” — Peter Lynch", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Peter F. 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The Five Deaths become Five Steps to Eternal and Divine Life, the ever increasing life of the expanding soul, the openings into the Reality of Divine Love through the permanent establishing of deep humility as your foundation, burning desire as your guiding, living light, holy choice as perpetual harmony, and your total willingness to obey the laws of love at all times in all parts of your life simply because it is true and what you desire most of all.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Padma Aon Prakasha" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padma-aon-prakasha/each-death-marks-your-increasing-dependence-on-divine-love-and-truth/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87f/padma-aon-prakasha-7212_burning-desire_each-death-marks-your-increasing-depende_1532997.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87f/padma-aon-prakasha-7212_burning-desire_each-death-marks-your-increasing-depende_1532997.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87f/padma-aon-prakasha-7212_burning-desire_each-death-marks-your-increasing-depende_1532997.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Each Death marks your increasing dependence on Divine Love and Truth, on God, as the very lifeblood of your…” — Padma Aon Prakasha", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of chief of police, but I've never noticed anyone hoping to get wiser. We say to ourselves: it'll be better under a new tsar, and in two hundred years it'll still be better, and nobody tries to make this good time come tomorrow. 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