Best True Life Sayings
116 True Life quotes by 102 unique authors
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...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
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I write about true-life type things.
— Karen Kingsbury
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.
— Leo Tolstoy
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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
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To experience true life, we must continue the Christian journey the same way we began it - by faith.
— Bill Bright
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It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
— Max Frisch
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
— Rufus Wainwright
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True life lies in laughter, love and work.
— Elbert Hubbard
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We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.
— George Orwell
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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
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Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.
— Paul Tillich
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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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102 authors contributed a total of 116 True Life Quotes, led by these top contributors: