Life Instead Quotes

85 quotes by 81 authors

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities… — Leo Tolstoy
Just pausing for two to three breaths is a perfect way to stay present. This is a good use of our life. Indeed, it is… — Pema Chodron
If you can accept the flow of life and give in to it, you will be accepting what is real. Only when you accept what… — Deepak Chopra
All paths lead to God, but only one path will present you before God without fault and with great joy. Pick a path, any pathâ€”it… — Kevin DeYoung
Work to connect yourself to the allness of life -- instead of identifying with the smallness of it -- and you'll awaken to a greatness… — Guy Finley
Reason #7 For Not Getting a Tattoo: People will know you are running your own life, instead of listening to them! — Sailor Jerry
When one has reverence for life, one will never do anything to harm, hinder, or destroy life. Instead one bends every effort to help life… — Wilferd Peterson
Appreciate life instead of resisting it. — Judy Tatelbaum
Wander a whole summer if you can. Thousands of God's blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the… — John Muir
Wander a whole summer if you can. Â Time will not be taken from the sum of life. Â Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it… — John Muir
[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life… — Amy Dickinson
I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to… — Charles de Lint
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway… — Og Mandino
I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it. — Alanis Morissette
I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead… — Scott Stapp
For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name… — John Travolta
Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have themâ€”because I have this life instead. With me… — Philip Roth
Dr. Ambrose himself told Mark Nechtr...that the problem with young people, starting sometime in about the 1960s, is that they tend to live too intensely… — David Foster Wallace
What has happened to create this doubt is that a problem (such as a deep conflict or a bad experience) has been allowed to usurp… — Os Guinness
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account! — Epictetus

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