Life Is Like Quotes - Page 6

• You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt

  William Watson Purkey

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The problem with worry is that we attract the very thing we are trying to avoid. We live a self-fulfilling prophecy. Life keeps its agreement with us through our beliefs, because whatever we think about, we bring about. Life is like a mirror. It reflects back whatever image we present to it.

  Robert Anthony

  Thinking, Self, Agreement

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.142, Morgan James Publishing

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• Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Time, Quilts, Children

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Guardian Angel”, p.179, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

  Josh Billings

  Climbing, Mountain, Sides

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.173

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• Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A balanced life is like a three legged stool. Each leg - nutrition, fitness and wellness- is necessary and supports the other.

  Ellie Krieger

  Support, Three, Legs

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• Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees.

  Garth Brooks

  Real, Guarantees, Therapy

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• It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure in itself.

  Nick Carter

  Work, Adventure, Said Life

  "Backstreet boys". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 4, 2007.

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• I think the only reason you visit an Apple store is because you wonder what life is like on another planet.

  Lewis Black

  Thinking, Apples, Wonder

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• My love life is like everyone else's - great, and then terrible.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Love Life, Life Is, Terrible

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• Your past history and all of your hurts are no longer here in your physical reality. Don't allow them to be here in your mind, muddying your present moments. Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much longer. But all are necessary, otherwise they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Moving On, Letting Go

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 03, 2012

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• I had a stroke in 1985... I called it a "stroke of luck." I said, "Life is like a train trip. You're looking out the window and everything is whipping past and you're not really seeing anything, and you need to get off the train and walk around a bit."

  Hugh Hefner

  Past, Said Life, Perspective

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• Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Life, Book

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• Life is like animal porn, it's not for everyone.

  Doug Stanhope

  Animal, Life Is

  "Something to Take the Edge Off". Comedy album by Doug Stanhope, August 4, 2000.

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• Life is like a film screen: pictures come, make an impression, go, and then make a place for new pictures with new impressions which obscure the previous ones. Some of those old pictures fade, but the impressions they leave will never pass away. Such an impression is the image of Hein Sietsma -- a joyful Christian who loved life so much but was still willing to give it to the great, good, and holy cause.

  Diet Eman

  Christian, Giving, Passing Away

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• Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?

  Mary Oliver

  Life, Disaster, Wells

  Mary Oliver (1986). “Dream Work”, p.71, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Happiness, Beautiful, Summer

  Hans Christian Andersen (2013). “The True Story of My Life”, p.143, Lulu Press, Inc

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• My life is like a Harley Ride. When I'm on my bike that's really one of the places I feel completely at home.

  Brantley Gilbert

  Home, Harley, Feels

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• Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.

  Douglas Adams

  Food, Yellow, People

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.509, Pan Macmillan

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• Life is like a field of newly fallen snow.
  Where I choose to walk every step will show.

  Denis Waitley

  Snow, Fields, Steps

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• Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.

  Roger von Oech

  Inspirational, Trying, Mazes

  Roger Von Oech (2001). “Whack on the Side of the Head”, Mjf Books

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• Life is like a great jazz riff. You sense the end the very moment you were wanting it to go on forever.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Forever, Goes On, Jazz

  Sheila Ballantyne (1988). “Life on Earth: Stories”, Simon & Schuster

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• Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Wheat, Plant

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• My life is like shattered glass." said the visitor. "My soul is tainted with evil. Is there any hope for me? "Yes," said the Master. "There is something whereby each broken thing is bound again and every stain made clean." "What?" "Forgiveness" "Whom do I forgive?" "Everyone: Life, God, your neighbor especially yourself." "How is that done?" "By understanding that no one is to blame," said the Master. "NO ONE.

  Anthony de Mello

  Glasses, Broken, Evil

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• Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Life, Happiness

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