True Life famous quotes
03-23-2025
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All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson.
-- Amy Carmichael -
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 while you went out in the world and met the obligations required of you. Certainly he knew (though did not completely understand) that opera wasn't for everyone, but for everyone he hoped there was something. The records he cherished, the rare opportunities to see a live performance, those were the marks by which he gauged his ability to love.
-- Ann Patchett -
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
-- Aristotle -
To experience true life, we must continue the Christian journey the same way we began it - by faith.
-- Bill Bright -
I have a great family, great kids. I have practically everything, you know? Sometimes I have to pinch myself. It's really true: Life starts at 50.
-- Bjorn Borg -
Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.
-- Cesar Chavez -
We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
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 for this life before you incarnated, and that plan is your true life purpose. Acting in line with your life purpose is one way to live in the light, another step on the path toward expanded consciousness.
-- Deborah King -
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.
-- Don DeLillo -
Whoever lives true life, will love true love.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
-- Gao Xingjian -
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 wrapped in a pleasurable dreaminess. I was in a better place. If true life existed elsewhere, then I had almost found it.
-- Garry Disher -
How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows ...
-- Gene Stratton-Porter -
Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
It's hard to find really original, compelling works of fiction, for women especially. I find that these true life stories about these women that I'm so blessed to play are some of the most compelling stories, and the truth is stranger than fiction.
-- Hilary Swank -
Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
-- James Joyce -
This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.
-- Janet Erskine Stuart -
The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded.
-- John Churton Collins -
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 want less than that is to lie.
-- John Eldredge -
Our world spins upside down and sometimes we have to lose our grip on the things we value in this life in order to grab on to true life.
-- Jon Foreman -
...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 this predicament, because nothing else would seem to us quite true to life; and art, after all, is supposed to be a mirror of life.
-- Leo Steinberg -
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.
-- Mark Strand -
I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.
-- Mary E. DeMuth -
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
-- Max Frisch -
Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.
-- Patty Duke -
Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.
-- Paul Tillich -
In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.
-- Phil Jackson -
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 pretend to be tolerant because they wish to flatter---those who thus fail to correct sinners---actually cause them to suffer supreme loss and plot the destruction of that life which is their true life.
-- Saint Basil -
Don’t be sad by what you see It’s true life has it’s miseries But one thing’s always worked for me Worry ends when faith begins.
-- Sami Yusuf -
You know, your career is just your career; your life is your life!
-- Sissy Spacek -
Lately, they were always reassuring each other that nothing was wrong; and probably it was true—life wasn’t supposed to be incredible, after all. Life wasn’t some incredible movie. Life was all the movies, ever, happening at once. There were good ones, bad ones, some went straight to video.
-- Tao Lin -
There is no true life within a false life.
-- Theodor Adorno -
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.
-- Thomas Merton -
I’ve played on literally every brand of US drums out there, and I’ve finally found my home. I’ve been looking for drums like these my whole life. True American hot rod custom kits. From the look and sound to the service and attention, it’s good to now be a part of the SJC family.
-- Tre Cool -
The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others; he will feel that time spent in company is time lost; he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.
-- Vita Sackville-West -
Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it.
-- William Booth -
It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.
-- William Boyd -
No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.
-- William Gilmore Simms -
The best of life is always ahead, always further along.
-- William Mulock -
I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one.
-- Ali Shaheed Muhammad -
I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in any of my plottings or in any of my valuations that doesn't ring true to life. I'm a novelist. I'm not a theoretician.
-- Richard Grossman -
Most of the jokes that I wrote were funny and there always seems to be an aspect of comedy in my long-form work. I think that's how life is. I think even the more dramatic moments of one's life are often punctuated by very funny comments or situations. I like to say, "Keep your comedy serious and your drama funny, and you'll be pretty true to life."
-- Victor Levin -
It has nothing to do with age, it's not our languages, religion, gender, coulour of our skin; It's a soul within a well, that echoes deep beneath the ego's shell. True life can't ever start, until we offer up our heart.
-- Dawud Wharnsby Ali
