Like Life Quotes

I feel like life is really short, and it's important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way, whether it's a challenging day or a great day, just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are, you can't escape challenges; they are part of life. ~ Miranda Kerr

To enjoy the world without judgment is what a realized life is like. ~ Joko Beck

As the years go on, you see changes in yourself, but you've got to face that - everyone goes through it ... Either you have to face up to it and tell yourself you're not going to be eighteen all your life, or be prepared for a terrible shock when you see the wrinkles and white hair. Getting older doesn't frighten me, but I wish I didn't have to because I like life a lot. ~ Audrey Hepburn

I clean my own utensils, my house and I even travel alone. I don't know what the life of a superstar is like. ~ Esha Gupta

... "you'd better go first or you'd better go last. No one will remember what come in the middle."
- "So what's the point of the middle than?" I asked. "If everyone only remembers the beginning and the end?"
-"Without the middle, being first or last means nothing."
The middle gave the rest its meaning.
Like life, maybe. People were born and then they died. Everyone remembers those events. But without the life in between... ~ Lindsey Frydman

Much like life, you don't complete a puzzle by throwing away the pieces. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Many things look like life or death at four a.m.,' she said. 'They generally look better in their day clothes. ~ Sheila Turnage

True friendshipmultiplies the good in life and divides its evils. strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island ... to find one real friend in a lifetime is a good fortune;to keep him is a blessing ~ Baltasar Gracian

Precancer?' she had repeated quietly, for she was a quiet woman. 'Isn't that ... like life? ~ Lorrie Moore

But that's what makes it so fun! Life is scary. So why wouldn't we enjoy and make fun of that fear? It's like life is trying to makes us fear it, and on this day we just mock its attempts and say 'no, not today, today I'm not scared of anything you throw at me'. ~ Patricia Morais

A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it! ~ Marilyn Monroe

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Business, like life, is about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard. ~ Daniel Meyer

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish. ~ Graham Taylor

She knew there were only small joys in life
the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through
and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off. ~ Lorrie Moore

In the movie business, the ones we call Lucky are usually those idiots who are just too damn stubborn to take no for an answer. Come to think of it, the movie business is kind of like life. ~ Lois Greiman

Democracy, like life, is hard to learn and doesn't have a teacher, ~ Jose Gonzalez

Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works. ~ Angela Young

I admire people's marriages, and I think it's a wonderful thing to have, but I don't think it's the only way to live. I think there are many ways to live and many ways to establish intimate support in your life that can be from family or friends or great roommates that you like. ~ Linda Ronstadt

A piece of freedom is no longer enough for human beings ... unlike bread, a slice of liberty does not finish hunger. Freedom is like life. It cannot be had in installments. Freedom is indivisible
we have it all, or we are not free. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

I don't like life that much. It's not that big a deal for me ... I don't want to know I have cancer till it's visible to the naked eye. ~ Doug Stanhope

Music, she thought, perhaps could be a continuing process, like life, a shedding of one skin as fast as another grew. Instead every tune seemed to exist with its notes firmly rooted in an event or an emotion or a period of time. ~ Winston Graham

Time is cruel like life. It slows down so that you can truly experience the worst moments of it. Only if you make it through them do you get to say 'It all happened so fast. ~ J.A. Redmerski

I'm convinced that the catastrophes of the next two decades will be so vast as to bring about a world where life, if it survives, will be far simpler - and the technologies, too. Then we will have come full circle to something like life on the savanna. ~ Kirkpatrick Sale

I really like life, don't you? There's nothing else quite like it. ~ Mason Cooley

You know, once," Robert said, "I was working in the shop, doing some repairs on a music box, and it was all going wrong. Da took me aside and told me to think of it like life: 'It looks complicated when you see all the separate pieces, but the purpose of the music box is to play joyful music. You just have to remember how to fit them together so it will. The same with life really. It's just about the living of it. That's all you have, and all you can do: live and be happy. ~ Peter Bunzl

Don't you think...doesn't it seem sometimes like life is like a plane?...And we're all piloos, you know, of our own planes. When things are going smoothly then we're, like, on autopilot, but sometimes things get a little, well, turbulent and then we have to land the plane on our own..."What about the air traffic control?"...Well, sure. Sometimes the guy is helpful, but maybe he's drunk?...Or maybe there's this big fog so you just put your hands on the controls and look for the runway lights and do your best. On your own. ~ Gayle Friesen

Maybe espresso is one of those universal words because it's a little like life. You have to enjoy life slowly, savoring every single moment so you don't miss anything important. Like your brother's despair and your own self-destruction. Like surprise honeymoons and your kids growing up before your very eyes.
Slow down, pay attention, and drink it in. And don't forget to share it with the ones you love. ~ Cassia Leo

Reading a book is like life: you live it one page at a time. ~ Ronald E. Yates

Life without a pasta machine is like life without music! ~ Margo Vader

What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology? ~ Richard Louv

An actor's life is all about rejection. It's you they don't want; it's you who's too tall or too short or too fat. With stand-up, it doesn't matter what you look like. ~ Mark Billingham

If you are idle, ask "why?" If you feel like life is boring for you, ask "why?" When you get into a disappointment, ask "why?" Even if you come out of all torments and disturbances, ask "why? ~ Israelmore Ayivor

What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like. ~ Joe Klein

You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at one time; move up, not down; and when you reach the top, you may move as you like. ~ Leo Rosten

She threw her head back and laughed. The kid fucking laughed, eyes shining. Like there was no greater adventure she could possibly be on. Like life was turning out to be the most exhilarating, fantastic roller coaster ride she could ever have imagined. Fuck the pain. Fuck the misery. In the middle of the hopeless, brutal hell her short existence on this earth had been, that girl laughed. You don't snuff out a life like that. You honor it. You take measures to protect it, even from itself when necessary, and keep it alive. ~ Karen Marie Moning

Remember an arrow can only be shot by pulling it backwards; so when you feel like life is dragging you down with difficulties, it simply means that it's going to launch you to something great. So just focus and keep aiming - Unknown ~ Megan Street

It's always been you, Troy. Always." Always is such a bullshit word, a lie, a farce, a road that promises to go on forever. But roads, like life, branch off, and merge and meander. And they both always, always end. ~ Leylah Attar

Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations. ~ Aman Jassal

I like life to surprise me. ~ Martin Freeman

The ocean, like life, always has movement. A sailboat with all its parts together, in its wholeness, can lead it's own way, cutting through challenging waves with strength, ease, purpose and determination, no matter the pull and push of the waves. ~ Elaina Marie

I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son. ~ Mara Brock Akil

I feel like life imitates art, or art imitates life. I always take on roles that I'm passionate about. ~ Tia Mowry

I'd always loved the chance to become someone else for a few hours. Someone for whom the words had been written, every gesture and emotion plotted, and the ending figured out. Almost like life. Just without the surprises. ~ Morgan Matson

Mark my words: Being dead isn't all sitting around in remorseful reflection and bitter self-recrimination. Death, like life, is what you make of it. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

The speech of God's beautiful woman is a fountain of life to those around her. ~ Elizabeth George

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything. ~ Willie Stargell

Love is like life but longer. ~ Simon Van Booy

Just like life." "What?" "The clouds. They never hold still. Sometimes you think you're seeing one thing, and a second later, the whole picture changes. ~ Stacey Lee

I love to read about what my love life is really like. ~ Jennifer Aniston

A novel of the kind that Prudence enjoyed, well written and tortuous, with a good dash of culture and the inevitable unhappy or indefinite ending, which was so like life. ~ Barbara Pym

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that. ~ Gardner Dickinson

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

Love is love just like life is life. You don't define it every time. ~ Shweta Suvarna

Love is like life-merely longer. ~ Emily Dickinson

Football is like life and I know life. ~ Rush Limbaugh

Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life. ~ Dennis R. Miller

Gately's snapped to the fact that people of a certain age and level of like life-experience believe they're immortal: college students and alcoholics/addicts are the worst: they deep-down believe they're exempt from the laws of physics and statistics that ironly govern everybody else. ~ David Foster Wallace

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. ~ Mark Haddon

Human being" is more a verb than a noun. Each of us is unfinished, a work in progress. Perhaps it would be most accurate to add the word "yet" to all our assessments of ourselves and each other . . . If life is process, all judgments are provisional, we can't judge something until it is finished. No one has won or lost until the race is over . . .

In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity. Without impermanence, there is no process. The nature of life is change. All hope is based on process . . .

It is taken me somewhat longer to recognize that a diagnosis is simply another form of judgment. Naming a disease has limited usefulness. It does not capture life or even reflect it accurately. Illness, on the other hand, is a process, like life is.

Much in the concept of diagnosis and cure is about fixing, and the narrow-bore focus on fixing people's problems can lead to denial of the power of their process. Years ago, I took full credit when people became well; their recovery was testimony to my skill and knowledge as a physician. I never recognized that without their biological, emotional, and spiritual process which could respond to my interventions, nothing could have changed at all. All the time I thought I was repairing, I was collaborating. ~ Rachel Naomi Remen

But still, it broke my heart, like life did. ~ M O Walsh

Failing at something is one thing, but Buddhism tells us that it is up to us how we interpret that failure [Buddhism] a philosophy and way of life that resonates with me I identify with it. I agree with so much of the sentiment behind it. I enjoy the liberating effect it's had on me to get back into the game Buddhism, with its concepts of karma and rebirth, have freed me from the twin fears of death and life without rugby, like life, will also come to an end. ~ Jonny Wilkinson

I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It's more important. ~ Jim Valvano

I thought using three cameras was a lot better than one, because you could see where you were going, where you'd been, and all kinds of things - more like life. I think photography has colored our vision. We're now in an area where it might break something. I think this is a time. I feel it. I don't know whether I'll be here long enough to experience it. I've no plans to leave yet. ~ David Hockney

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ~ Hans Christian Andersen

My eyes shifted to the trickling river. Come spring, it would be ten times as wide and just as deep. On and on it went, rushing toward the distant horizon. Like time. Like life. Sometimes gently falling from one pool into the other, other times fast and cascading, and still other times narrowing into a funnel, a torrent of knots and waves. ~ Lisa Tawn Bergren

Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done. ~ Jerome Robbins

I feel like life is so special and so great, every year I feel like I learn more, and I grow, and I think it's exciting to grow up. ~ Gisele Bundchen

Like God
Gumbo is hard
to get right
& I don't bother
asking for it outside
my mother's house.
Like life, there's no one
way to do it,
& a hundred ways,
from here to Sunday,
to get it dead wrong. ~ Kevin Young

Does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it? ~ Alexandre Dumas

Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life. ~ Ernie Harwell

Just like life, reality shifted and twisted out of her grasp [Elena's view on Gran Sasso] ~ Kirsten Arcadio

Plus-sized women shouldn't think of themselves as a size. They should think of themselves as women with rich goals in life. Size doesn't mean, really, anything. You can carry your size with pride and dress in a way that you like. ~ Donatella Versace

No point in living a life less ordinary if you don't know what the other side looks like. ~ Adi Alsaid

They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Love, like life, flows
through the heart.
Feel the thrill of the flow
and say nothing. ~ Rumi

Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles. ~ Millicent Fenwick

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass. ~ Jonathan Kellerman

Art like life is an open secret. ~ Lawrence Durrell

Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you're maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there's that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it's like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it's rather tedious to fill in the branches ... ~ Alan Rickman

Therapy, like life, is a process -- a journey toward greater self-awareness and healing -- where the in-the-moment experience is often as enriching as discovering one's destination. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

I lean back into my clothes and take some deep breaths. Why does it always feel like life is a stupid puzzle I'll never figure out? ~ Erika L. Sánchez

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. ~ Renzo Piano

No matter what ... ball made my heart beat faster, made me want to jump up and down and be Superman. That's what life was about anyway, being Superman and living like life itself was important. Basketball made my life important. ~ Walter Dean Myers

It's like life, isn't it? You think you'll outrun it, that you're better than it, but it makes a fool of you every time. It runs you into the ground and steams off whistling away, happy as buggery with itself. ~ Richard Flanagan

We alternate choosing places to go, but we also have to be willing to go where the road takes us. This means the grand, the small, the bizarre, the poetic, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising. Just like life. But absolutely, unconditionally, resolutely nothing ordinary. ~ Jennifer Niven

It's difficult to be the best version of yourself all the time. But perhaps life isn't about that. You don't have to always be in a good mood; you don't have to always be sociable or productive. It's about how much you try, even when it feels like life keeps flipping upside down. ~ Courtney Peppernell

Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn ~ Holly Black

A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart. ~ Bill Crawford

If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be able to imagine what life without you there would be like. ~ Ross Mathews

Tell me something wonderful," he said to Dane. "Tell me that we are going to die dreamfully and loved in our sleep."
"You're always writing one of your plays on the phone," said Dane.
"I said, something wonderful. Say something about springtime."
"It is sloppy and wet. It is a beast from the sea."
"Ah," said Harry. ~ Lorrie Moore

Maybe it's working because I'm an author, and maybe it's working because Karen works like life depends on this bookstore, or because we have a particularly brilliant staff, or because Nashville is a city that is particularly sympathetic to all things independent. Maybe we just got lucky. But my luck has made me believe that changing the course of the corporate world is possible. Amazon doesn't get to make all the decisions; the people can make them by how and where they spend their money. If what a bookstore offers matters to you, then shop at a bookstore. If you feel that the experience of reading a book is valuable, then read the book. This is how we change the world: we grab hold of it. We change ourselves. ~ Ann Patchett

Maybe marriage, like life, isn't only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things - like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day - that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond. ~ Sarah Dessen

Life is the ultimate technology. Machine technology is a temporary surrogate for life technology. As we improve our machines they will become more organic, more biological, more like life, because life is the best technology for living. ~ Kevin Kelly

The flies buzzed in answer above the dirty water standing in the washbasin, in which floated a solitary black hair. It, too, was like life
and as meaningless. ~ Stella Gibbons

Here am I, a little animal called a man--a bit of vitalized matter, one hundred and sixty-five pounds of meat and blood, nerve, sinew, bones, and brain,--all of it soft and tender, susceptible to hurt, fallible, and frail. I strike a light back-handed blow on the nose of an obstreperous horse, and a bone in my hand is broken. I put my head under the water for five minutes, and I am drowned. I fall twenty feet through the air, and I am smashed. I am a creature of temperature. A few degrees one way, and my fingers and ears and toes blacken and drop off. A few degrees the other way, and my skin blisters and shrivels away from the raw, quivering flesh. A few additional degrees either way, and the life and the light in me go out. A drop of poison injected into my body from a snake, and I cease to move--for ever I cease to move. A splinter of lead from a rifle enters my head, and I am wrapped around in the eternal blackness.

Fallible and frail, a bit of pulsating, jelly-like life--it is all I am. About me are the great natural forces--colossal menaces, Titans of destruction, unsentimental monsters that have less concern for me than I have for the grain of sand I crush under my foot. They have no concern at all for me. They do not know me. They are unconscious, unmerciful, and unmoral. They are the cyclones and tornadoes, lightning flashes and cloud-bursts, tide-rips and tidal waves, undertows and waterspouts, great whirls and sucks and eddies, earthquakes and volcanoes, ~ Jack London

I still wasn't convinced that tossing a shoe didn't mean you harbored an anger-management problem, but I did understand love now. How it wrapped around you and made you more aware of the prickles on your skin, the roots of your hair, the intensity of every touch and every inch of you. It was like life on hi-def. Everything was sharper. ~ Erin McCarthy

She stood up. Something inside her had changed. "It was finally time," she thought.
It was finally time to leave the past in the past. And move on.
She took her first step. It felt like walking for the first time. It was strange to not be chained anymore.
It felt like life. Like hope. Like happiness. ~ Yasmin Mogahed

I found the final plot twist unsatisfying, as plot twists often are: nothing like life, which - it seems to me - turns less on shocks or theatrics than on the small quiet moments, misunderstandings, or disappointments, the things that it's easy to overlook. ~ Harriet Lane

Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction. ~ Robert Breault