Best True Life Sayings

116 True Life quotes by 102 unique authors

...it is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public...should be proud of being in… — Leo Steinberg
I write about true-life type things. — Karen Kingsbury
When you suppress your true feelings or follow a path that isn’t really yours, you aren’t living your authentic self. Your soul made a plan… — Deborah King
No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted… — Frederic Farrar
I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us.… — Tama J. Kieves
Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear that those who… — Saint Basil
I regard the Masonic institution as one of the means ordained by the Supreme Architect to enable mankind to work out the problem of destiny;… — Theodore Roosevelt
The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is. — Frederick Lenz
Sometimes we believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now, that we need a few more conditions to be happy. So we… — Nhat Hanh
In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy. — Leo Tolstoy
A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window… I was… — Garry Disher
To experience true life, we must continue the Christian journey the same way we began it - by faith. — Bill Bright
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. — Max Frisch
If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in… — Nhat Hanh
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that… — Lewis Mumford
To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must… — Joyce Carol Oates
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true.… — Francoise Sagan
The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not… — Wallace Stevens
True life is lived when tiny changes occur. — Leo Tolstoy
Life is a game and true love is a trophy. — Rufus Wainwright
True life lies in laughter, love and work. — Elbert Hubbard
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. — George Orwell
We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we… — John Eldredge
Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it. — Paul Tillich
He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin… — Ann Patchett

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