Best Things In Life Quotes - Page 2

• In the democratic way of life it is not the best things in life are free, but rather the best things in life are worth working for!

  Ruth M. Leverton

  Work, Things In Life, Way

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• I still learn, but I think it's the best thing in life to have a kid.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Sports, Kids

  "'I really miss him': Cristiano Ronaldo on Sir Alex Ferguson". CNN interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 16, 2012.

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• The best things in life make you sweaty.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Philosophical, Purpose

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• The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.

  Robert Breault

  Life, Simplicity, Lines

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• The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Things In Life, Handicaps

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• One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Things In Life

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• We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.

  Donald Miller

  Things In Life, Being Free, Needs

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.198, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

  Timothy Keller

  Things In Life, Best Things, Counterfeit

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.11, Penguin

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• The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing in life, that little incandescence you see in people when the charm of a thing strikes them, or the humor of it. 'The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart.' That's a fact.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Eye, Heart, Light

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.53, Macmillan

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• If you want the best things in life you have to earn them for yourself.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Things In Life, Want, Best Things

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to expect that it can satisfy our deepest needs and hopes. Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

  Timothy Keller

  Thinking, Idols, Things In Life

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.11, Penguin

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• Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pain, Things In Life, Agony

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

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• Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.

  David Hobson

  Life, Laughter, Two

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• At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Fate, Should Have

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself.

  J. I. Packer

  Jesus, Things In Life, Giving

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• The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

  Dorothy Day

  Inspirational, Life, Christian

  "TIME" Magazine, December 29, 1975.

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• For me, the best things in life - meaningful work, meaningful relationships, interesting experiences, good food, sleep, music, ideas, sex, and other basic needs and pleasures - are not, past a certain point, materially improved upon by having a lot of money.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Meaningful, Sex

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• I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Things In Life, People

  "Famous Quotes About Sex" by Ron Grisham, March 18, 2017.

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• According to the fortune-cookie logic most people live by, the best things in life are free. That's crap. I have a gold-plated robot that scratches the exact part of my back where my hands can't reach, and it certainly wasn't free.

  Josh Lieb

  Hands, Things In Life, People

  Josh Lieb (2009). “I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President”, p.28, Penguin

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• The best things in life don't make sense

  Alice Cooper

  Things In Life, Make Sense, Best Things

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• I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

  Tori Amos

  Dream, Thinking, Things In Life

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• All my main characters are people I'd love to sit around having coffee with. They are people who will tell you honestly about the things that scare them and worry them and trouble them. Because those moments of connection between women-when they really decide to be honest with each other about their lives-are some of the best things in life.

  Katherine Center

  Coffee, Character, Things In Life

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• The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.

  Lauren Bacall

  Order, Things In Life, Moral

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• I like posing with a guitar better than I can play the guitar, so I think I found the right field. But I've spent enough time with rock stars to tell you that the best thing in life to be is a rock star.

  Samuel Bayer

  Thinking, Enough, Rock Star

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Stars, Flower

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