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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• 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 game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are acculated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life!

  Alan Rufus

  Life, Moving, Unconditional Love

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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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• 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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• 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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• My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Writing, Who I Am, People

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• The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.The Sunday World was a dry-stall interlude in my wanderings.

  A. J. Liebling

  Christmas, Fall, Mean

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.14, Macmillan

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

  Richard Louv

  Technology, Night, Our Lives

  Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.3, Algonquin Books

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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 ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Life, Happiness

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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 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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• My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.

  Arthur Symons

  Enchantment, Rage, Halls

  Arthur Symons, Roger Holdsworth (2003). “Arthur Symons: Selected Writings”, p.38, Psychology Press

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• If you take real-life circumstances and take out all the pauses then you have a thriller. It has to be non-stop, high stakes and fascinating all the time. Real life is like that from time to time.

  Hank Phillippi Ryan

  Real, Thrillers, Stakes

  "Interview: Hank Phillippi Ryan, 'The Other Woman'". Interview with Pamela Clare, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 4, 2012.

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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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• 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 school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Life, School, Graduates

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.384, Ballantine Books

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• Life is like any other contact sport. You may encounter hardships of one sort or another. Wise people find happiness not in the absence of such hardships, but in their ability to understand them when they occur.

  Sydney Banks

  Sports, Wise, People

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