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BEST QUOTES ABOUT LIFE

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. 

George Bernard Shaw

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters. 
Audrey Hepburn

I love those who can smile in trouble. 
Leonardo da Vinci

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. 
Arthur Rubinstein

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. 
Abraham Lincoln

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. 
Denis Waitley

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. 
Marcus Aurelius

We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one. 
Tom Hiddleston

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. 
Andre Gide

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.  
Oprah Winfrey

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box. 
Kevin Spacey

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. 
Samuel Butler

Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life. 
Anne Hathaway

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching. 
Randall G Leighton

You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching. 
William W. Purkey

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. 
Alexander Graham Bell

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. 
William James

There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book. 
Josh Jameson

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager. 
Susan Sontag

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. 
Allen Saunders

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. 
Gustave Flaubert

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, and to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I tell you, in this world being a little crazy helps to keep you sane. 
Zsa Zsa Gabor

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. Henry James

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. William Shakespeare

Life is a progress, and not a station. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things. 
Kenneth Branagh

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. 
Emily Dickinson

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it. 
Helen Mirren

It is not the length of life, but depth of life. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. 
Omar Khayyam

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. 
Dennis P. Kimbro

Life is too important to be taken seriously. 
Oscar Wilde

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. 
William James

Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. 
Thomas Edison

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold. 
Bob Marley

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. 
Martin Luther King Jr.

I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to. 
Jimi Hendrix

Life is about making an impact, not making an income. 
Kevin Kruse

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. 
Albert Einstein

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. 
Oscar Wilde

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. 
Ludwig Jacobowski

An unexamined life is not worth living. 
Socrates

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. 
Elizabeth Kenny

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. 
Soren Kierkegaard

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. 
Steve Jobs

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. 
George S. Patton

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. 
Helen Keller

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. 
Mark Twain

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. 
Les Brown

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. 
St. Augustine

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. 
Mae West

The mind is everything. What you think you become. 
Buddha

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. 
Lao Tzu

The unexamined life is not worth living. 
Socrates

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. 
Steve Jobs

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. 
Mahatma Gandhi

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. 
Henry David Thoreau

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. 
Eleanor Roosevelt

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. 
Albert Einstein

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. 
Forrest Gump

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. 
Albert Einstein

Where there is love there is life. 
Mahatma Ghandi

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GREAT QUOTES ABOUT LIFE

Life is to enter upon with courage. 
Alexis de Tocqueville

Life is the moment we are living right now. 
Paulo Coelho

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. 
Samuel Butler

Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. 
Anne Wilson Schaef

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present. 
Alan Watts

My life is my argument. 
Albert Schweitzer

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together. 
Alejandro Jodorowsky

Love the life you live. Live the life you love. 
Bob Marley

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. 
Anais Nin

Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up – it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale. Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not. 
Bruce Lee

All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream. 
Edgar Allan Poe

Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I’ve certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you – and some of those places are kind of wonderful. 
Alan Ball

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key. 
Alan Bennett

Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life. 
John Wooden

Life is a gift, given in trust – like a child. 
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art. 
Anselm Kiefer

You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated. 
Maya Angelou

Life is a dance floor. So dance, don’t miss the chance. 
Bar Refaeli

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor. 
Benjamin Disraeli

Life is beautiful because it doesn’t last. 
Brit Marling

In order to write about life first you must live it. 
Ernest Hemingway

To live is to express, and to express, you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation. 
Bruce Lee

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems. 
Bruce Lee

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. 
Albert Schweitzer

Life is a highway. I want to ride it all night long. 
Tom Cochrane

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal. 
Albert Schweitzer

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. 
Albert Schweitzer

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. 
Hans Christian Andersen

Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier. 
Bruce Lee

Life is a lively process of becoming. 
Douglas MacArthur

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. 
Charlie Chaplin

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is amazing. Life is fucking messy. Life is what you make of it. 
Dwayne Johnson

Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. 
Carl Sandburg

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. 
Citium Zeno

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. 
Carl Rogers

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. 
Oscar Wilde

Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be. 
Eckhart Tolle

Life is just one damned thing after another. 
Elbert Hubbard

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. 
Grandma Moses

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. 
Helen Keller

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations. 
George Bernard Shaw

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. 
Benjamin Franklin

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition tat’s troublesome. 
Isaac Asimov

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses. 
Isabel Allende

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. 
Jack London

Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on. 
Jeff Ross

Life is truly a ride. We’re all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he’s ripping your ticket and away you go. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang on to that bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hairs messed, you’re out of breath, and you didn’t throw up. 
Jerry Seinfeld

The energy of the mind is the essence of life. 
Aristotle

Life is empty, and realizing that, we want to fill it, we are seeking – seeking ways and means, not only to fill this emptiness but also to find something that is not to be measured by man. 
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Our whole life is solving puzzles. 
Erno Rubik

Life is a dead-end street. 
H. L. Mencken

Life is largely a matter of expectation. 
Homer

Life is tragic but it’s equally comic. 
John Banville

Life is hard. After all, it kills you. 
Katharine Hepburn

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. 
Marcus Aurelius

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. 
Leo Tolstoy

The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy — it’s all that matters. 
Audrey Hepburn

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. 
Morihei Ueshiba

Life is really a dance if you are original, and you are meant to be original. 
Osho

Life is not a problem. To look at it as a problem is to take a wrong step. It is a mystery to be lived, loved, and experienced. 
Osho

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. 
Marge Piercy

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying. 
T. S. Eliot

Life is a zoo in a jungle. 
Peter De Vries

Life is a continuous process of adjustment. 
Indira Gandhi

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. 
Ralph Ellison

Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. 
Rose Kennedy

The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values. 
Wassily Kandinsky

Life is lived on the edge. 
Will Smith

Life is a game and true love is a trophy. 
Rufus Wainwright

Life is not an exact science, it is an art. 
Samuel Butler

Life is one long process of getting tired. 
Samuel Butler

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. 
Sholom Aleichem

Life is a movie; death is a photograph. 
Susan Sontag

Life is available only in the present moment. 
Thich Nhat Hanh

Life is fragile. We’re not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you’ve got. 
Tim Cook (Apple CEO)

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die. 
Tom Clancy

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SHORT QUOTES ABOUT LIFE

I don’t want to earn my living; I want to live. 
Oscar Wilde

Love the life you live. Live the life you love. 
Bob Marley

Life must be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards. 
Kierkegaard

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. 
William Shakespeare

The trouble is you think you have time. 
Buddha

Life is short, death is forever. 
Chuck Palahniuk

Whatever you are, be a good one. 
Abraham Lincoln

Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass. 
Rebecca Wells

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. 
Lou Holtz

Fortune and love favor the brave. 
Ovid

Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young. 
John Green

What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. 
Colette

It’s better to dance than to march through life. 
Yoko Ono

This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time. 
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

We are who we choose to be. 
Green Goblin

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INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ON LIFE

Love the life you live, and live the life you love. 
Bob Marley

I’m always doing things I can’t do. That’s how I get to do them. 
Pablo Picasso

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet. 
Sarah Louise Delany

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. 
John Barrymore

Try and fail, but never fail to try. 
Jared Leto

The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive. 
Indira Gandhi

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. 
Ernest Holmes

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. 
Mother Teresa

Life is wasted on the living. 
Douglas Adams

Be willing to sacrifice what you think you have today for the life that you want tomorrow. 
Neil Strauss

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. 
Anthony Robbins

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. 
Theodore Roosevelt

Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead. 
Anonymous

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. 
Maya Angelou

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. 
Barbara Sher

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. 
Mark Twain

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one’s will. 
Paul Gauguin

Be so good they can’t ignore you. 
Steve Martin

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. 
Bruce Lee

If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. 
Mary Engelbreit

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. 
William James

I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it’s not just divinely assigned. 
Michael J. Fox

Change your thoughts and you change your world. 
Norman Vincent Peale

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. 
Walt Disney

The self is made, not given. 
Barbara Myerhoff

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. 
Oscar Wilde

Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose. 
Mary Anne Radmacher

If you say you can or you can’t you are right either way. 
Henry Ford

The secret of success is constancy to purpose. 
Benjamin Disraeli

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. 
Colin Powell

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for. 
Bryant H. McGill

I am thankful to all who said no to me. It is because of them that I’m doing it myself. 
Albert Einstein

What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question. 
Margaret Atwood

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HAPPY LIFE QUOTES

HAPPY POSITIVE QUOTES

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life. 
John C. Maxwell

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. 
Oprah Winfrey

The dreamers are the saviors of the world. 
James Allen

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone see it. 
Confucius

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. 
Abraham Lincoln

Keep looking up… that’s the secret of life. 
Snoopy

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. 
Joshua J. Marine

Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men! 
Epictetus

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. 
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. 
Maya Angelou

In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer. 
Albert Camus

When you arise in the morning think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, and to love. 
Marcus Aurelius

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful. 
Thich Nhat Hanh

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant. 
Paulo Coelho

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. 
Washington Irving

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. 
Henry Miller

Every second you have on this planet is very precious and it’s your responsibility that you’re happy. 
Naval Ravikant

There is no education like adversity. 
Benjamin Disraeli

I will go anywhere as long as it’s forward. 
David Livingston

You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. 
Walter Hagen

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. 
Emily Dickinson

You have just one life to live. It is yours. Own it, claim it, live it, do the best you can with it. 
Hillary Clinton

When you stay on purpose and refuse to be discouraged by fear, you align with the infinite self, in which all possibilities exist. 
Wayne Dyer

Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure. 
Napoleon Hill

In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity. 
Albert Einstein

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best. 
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

May you live all the days of your life! 
Jonathan Swift

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. 
Zhuangzi

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. 
Michael Jordan

Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. 
Dale Carnegie

The purpose of our lives is to be happy. 
Dalai Lama

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. 
Christopher Reeve

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about. 
Marilyn Monroe

There is only one happiness in life – to love and to be loved. 
George Sand

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. 
Truman Capote

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FUNNY QUOTES ABOUT LIFE

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. 
Elbert Hubbard

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. 
Charles Bukowski

I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here. 
Arthur C. Clarke

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank. 
Woody Allen

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. 
Kurt Vonnegut

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. 
Albert Einstein

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You’d have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I’m not dead. 
Tom Stoppard

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt. 
Charles Schulz

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay. 
Christopher Hitchens

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny. 
Stephen Hawking

Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer. 
Ellen DeGeneres

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books. 
Julian Barnes

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. 
Douglas Adams

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. 
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. 
Robert Frost

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear. 
Mark Twain

When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye. 
Cathy Guisewite

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television. 
Woody Allen

Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something. 
William Goldman

If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That’s what people remember. 
Terry Pratchett

A woman’s mind is cleaner than a man’s: She changes it more often. 
Oliver Herford

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. 
Robert Benchley

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. 
Albert Einstein

I can resist everything except temptation. 
Oscar Wilde

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. 
Albert Einstein

To get back my youth, I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. 
Oscar Wilde

The planet is fine. The people are fucked. 
George Carlin

All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. 
Blaise Pascal

This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid. 
George V. Higgins

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. 
Douglas Adams

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. 
Allen Saunders

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept. 
George Carlin

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. 
Mark Twain

Short cuts make long delays. 
J.R.R. Tolkien

I love deadlines, I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. 
Douglas Adams

Never trust people who smile constantly. They’re either selling something or not very bright. 
Laurel K. Hamilton

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life. 
Terry Pratchett

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. 
Robert A Heinlein

If you’re too open-minded; your brains will fall out. 
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. 
J.M. Barrie

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. 
Jim Carrey

I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens. 
Woody Allen

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife. 
Rodney Dangerfield

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DEEP QUOTES ABOUT LIFE

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand. 
Jack London

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living. 
Jonathan Safran Foer

If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. 
George Harrison

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. 
Niels Bohr

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. 
Charles Dickens

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. 
Terry Pratchett

I can’t decide whether I’m a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I’m a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that’s how I know I’m a woman! 
C. JoyBell C.

Reality continues to ruin my life. 
Bill Watterson

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. 
Arthur Schopenhauer

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it. 
Arthur Schopenhauer

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times. 
Mark Twain

In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back. 
Charlie Brown

If at first you don’t succeed then skydiving definitely isn’t for you. 
Steven Wright

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it. 
Carl Jung

If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? George Carlin

We no longer live life. We consume it. 
Vicki Robin

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it. 
Indy Kaling

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. 
William Goldman

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. 
Norman Cousins

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. 
Dr. Seuss

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. 
Rick Riordan

It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. 
Annie Gottlier

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome. 
Isaac Asimov

Life is a question and how we live it is our answer. 
Gary Keller

There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why. 
William Barclay

Life does not owe you anything because life has already given you everything. 
Ralph Marston

To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations. 
Emily Dickson

The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race. Bob Marley

Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars. 
Jack Kerouac

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. 
Thomas Szasz

Never miss a good chance to shut up. 
Will Rogers

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. 
Charlie Chaplin

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QUOTES ON LIFE LESSONS

WISE SAYINGS ABOUT LIFE LESSONS

In this life, when you deny someone an apology, you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness. 
Toba Beta

Life’s too mysterious to take too serious. 
Mary Engelbreit

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. 
Rita Mae Brown

No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around. 
John Green

The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything. 
Frank Sinatra

But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can't please everyone, so don't try. 
Chris Colfer

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. 
Maya Angelou

You can't wait around for something to become good, it either is, or isn't. 
Toni Aleo

A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors that will do. 
Osho

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. 
Alfred Adler

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. 
Al Franken

If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so. 
Lev Grossman

We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking. 
Santosh Kalwar

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. 
Soren Kierkegaard

Life is to enjoyed, not endured. 
Gordon Hinckley

We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead. 
Roy T. Bennett

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love. 
The Notebook

Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular. 
Roy T. Bennett

Don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want. 
Heath Ledger

Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while you could miss it. 
Ferris Bueller

A fear-oriented man is always calculating, planning, arranging, safeguarding. His whole life is lost in this way. 
Osho

See: it’s a never-ending upward spiral. And if you think at any point you’re allowed to stop climbing, I’m afraid you’re missing the point. Because the joy is in the climb itself. 
Mark Manson

I didn't get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it. 
Estee Lauder

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed. 
Christopher McCandless

When you want something in life, you just gotta reach out and grab it. 
Christopher McCandless

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create. 
Roy T. Bennett

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I cannot accept not trying. 
Michael Jordan

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. 
Alexander Pope

In every success story, you will find someone who has made a courageous decision. 
Peter F. Drucker

If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different. 
Dave Thomas

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren’t already complicated enough. 
Carlos Ruiz Zafón

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. 
Winston Churchill

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. 
Robert Frost

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn. 
David Russell

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. 
Lao Tzu

Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out. 
Jack Buck

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. 
Sophia Loren

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. 
Lao Tzu

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QUOTES ABOUT LIFE AND LOVE

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. 
Lucille Ball

Love is the goal, life is the journey. 
Osho

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. 
Morrie Schwartz

I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth. 
Doug Hutchison

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you. 
Roy Croft

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. 
James Baldwin

If I know what love is, it is because of you. 
Herman Hesse

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love is a friendship set to music. 
Joseph Campbell

Where there is love there is life. 
Mahatma Gandhi

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. 
Blaise Pascal

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. 
Gilbert K. Chesterton

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love. 
Mother Teresa

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live. 
Soren Kierkegaard

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. 
Rumi

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. 
Lao Tzu

A drop of love can bring an ocean of tears. 
Jewish Proverb

You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness. 
Julia Roberts

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. 
Plato

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever. 
Alfred Tennyson

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. 
Helen Keller

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. 
Oscar Wilde

Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever. 
Leo Buscaglia

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. 
Henry Miller

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do. 
David Wilkerson

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. 
Benjamin Franklin

Love does not dominate; it cultivates. 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. 
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. 
Lao Tzu

We are most alive when we’re in love. 
John Updike

Love is a better teacher than duty. 
Albert Einstein

The love we give away is the only love we keep. 
Elbert Hubbard

The giving of love is an education in itself. 
Eleanor Roosevelt

The more one judges, the less one loves. 
Honore de Balzac

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. 
Ingrid Bergman

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world. 
Wayne Dyer

You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. 
Dr. Seuss

Every person has to love at least one bad partner in their lives to be truly thankful for the right one. 
Author unknown 

The art of love is largely the art of persistence. 
Albert Ellis

Love is what you’ve been through with somebody. 
James Thurber

The best proof of love is trust. 
Joyce Brothers

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. 
Honore de Balzac

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. 
George Sand

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. 
Carl Sagan

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LIFE QUOTES ABOUT FRIENDSHIP

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. 
Hubert H. Humphrey

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. 
Elbert Hubbard

A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother. 
Benjamin Franklin

Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself…” 
C.S. Lewis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. 
C.S. Lewis

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?” 
A.A. Milne

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. 
Albert Einstein

The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families. 
Jay McInerney

Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts. 
Margaret Lee Runbeck

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. 
Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. 
Jane Austen

Happiness is only real when shared. 
Jon Krakauer

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. 
Linda Grayson

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HAPPY FAMILY QUOTES

FAMILY LIFE QUOTES

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. 
George Bernard Shaw

A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. 
Agatha Christie

It is a wise father that knows his own child. 
William Shakespeare

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. 
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Family is not an important thing. It’s everything. 
Michael J. Fox

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. 
Harry S. Truman

I sustain myself with the love of family. 
Maya Angelou

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. 
Anita Baker

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. 
Henry Ward Beecher

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. 
Jane Howard

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces. 
George Santayana

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it. 
Ann Brashares

We must take care of our families wherever we find them. 
Elizabeth Gilbert

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. 
Bill Cosby

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. 
Napoléon Bonaparte

Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. 
Brad Henry

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. 
George Herbert

To understand your parents’ love, you must raise children yourself. 
Chinese proverb

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family. 
Jim Butcher

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. 
Anthony Brandt

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. 
Barbara Bush

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. 
Confucius

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them. 
Johnny Depp

My family comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys. 
Bobby Darin

Family is not an important thing, it’s everything. 
Michael J. Fox

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. 
Charles R. Swindoll

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family. 
Jonathan Foer

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. 
David Ogden Stiers

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony. 
Friedrich Nietzsche

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. 
Lee Iacocca

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. 
George Bernard Shaw

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. 
Mother Teresa

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. 
Andre Maurois

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. 
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. 
Desmond Tutu

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close- knit family in another city. 
George Burns

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently. 
Chinese Proverb

Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home. 
Anthony Liccione

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. 
George Burns

A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. Agatha Christie

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. 
John Bowring

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. 
George Moore

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. 
Theodore Hesburgh

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material. 
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Children are a poor man’s riches. 
English Proverb

Spare the rod and spoil the child – that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well. 
Martin Luther

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career. 
C.S. Lewis

Family is the most important thing in the world. 
Princess Diana

Children have more need of models than critics. 
Joseph Joubert

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. 
Richard Bach

Think of your family today and every day thereafter, don’t let the busy world of today keep you from showing how much you love and appreciate your family. 
Josiah

When she can’t bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt. 
Libba Bray

At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable. 
Mark V. Olsen

A mother discovers with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. 
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. 
Dodie Smith

There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more…secure. 
Jim Butcher

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. 
Buddha

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. 
Walt Whitman

Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together. 
Sam Levenson

Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life. 
Lisa Weedn

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. 
Leo Tolstoy

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LIFE SUCCESS QUOTES

Life is trying things to see if they work. 
Ray Bradbury

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. 
Charles Darwin

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. 
Leonardo da Vinci

Success is about creating value. 
Candice Carpenter

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you. 
Bette Midler

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. 
Winston Churchill

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. 
Herbert Bayard Swope

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. 
W.C. Fields

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. 
Albert Einstein

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. 
Herman Melville

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. 
Mark Twain

Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great. 
Simon Cowell

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. 
W.P. Kinsella

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it. 
Salvador Dali

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. 
Confucius

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. 
Winston S. Churchill

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LIFE CHALLENGES QUOTES

QUOTES ABOUT HARDSHIP IN LIFE

Without the rain there would be no rainbow. 
Gilbert Chesterton

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’ 
Sydney Harris

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. 
Confucius

Challenges, failures, defeats and ultimately, progress, are what make your life worthwhile. 
Maxime Lagacé

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive. 
Joan Rivers

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. 
Steve Jobs

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. 
George Bernard Shaw

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. 
Steve Maraboli

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot find peace avoiding life. 
Virginia Woolf

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live! 
Alfred Adler

Live each day as if your life had just begun. 
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. 
Margaret Mitchell

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. 
Charles Swindoll

We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one. 
Tom Huddleston

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low. 
John Wooden

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. 
Stephen Hawking

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. 
Isaac Asimov

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. 
Eminem

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. 
Lucille Ball

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. 
Eleanor Roosevelt

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching. 
Gerard Way

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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BEST LIFE QUOTES OF ALL TIME

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. 
Charles R. Swindoll

Most of life is tragic. You’re born, you don’t know why. You’re here, you don’t know why. You go, you die. Your family dies. Your friends die. People suffer. People live in constant terror. The world is full of poverty and corruption and war and Nazis and tsunamis. The net result, the final count is, you lose – you don’t beat the house. 
Woody Allen

Life is a series of baby steps. 
Hoda Kotb

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon. 
Woody Allen

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