Life Quotes
90 hand-picked lines on life
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”
— Steve Jobs →
“Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.”
— John Lennon →
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
— Mae West →
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt →
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
— Mahatma Gandhi →
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
— Oscar Wilde →
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.”
— Walt Whitman →
“Do what you love, love what you do.”
— Ray Bradbury →
“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”
— Joseph Campbell →
“Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.”
— James Dean →
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”
— Charles R. Swindoll →
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
— Maya Angelou →
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
— Abraham Lincoln →
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
— Bertrand Russell →
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
— Confucius →
“Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.”
— Oliver Goldsmith →
“May you live all the days of your life.”
— Jonathan Swift →
“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back.”
— Tony Robbins →
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
— Mark Twain →
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
— Helen Keller →
“Life is short. Do stuff that matters.”
— Siqi Chen →
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson →
“My life is my message.”
— Mahatma Gandhi →
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw →
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
— Benjamin Franklin →
“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
— Samuel Butler →
“The good life is not one immune to sadness but one in which suffering contributes to our growth.”
— Alain de Botton →
“Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.”
— Roy T. Bennett →
“Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.”
— Sarah Louise Delany →
“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”
— Oscar Wilde →
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt →
“Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.”
— Danny Kaye →
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
— Khalil Gibran →
“Life is too short to be little.”
— Benjamin Disraeli →
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
— Confucius →
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
— Søren Kierkegaard →
“Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives.”
— Unknown →
“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”
— Marilyn Monroe →
“Life is not a rehearsal.”
— Rose Tremain →
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.”
— Calvin Coolidge →
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
— Dr. Seuss →
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”
— Oprah Winfrey →
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
— John W. Gardner →
“In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.”
— Lewis Carroll →
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
— Victor Hugo →
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
— Emily Dickinson →
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”
— Helen Keller →
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.”
— Henry Ford →
“The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.”
— Mark Twain →
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
— Anaïs Nin →
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt →
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them.”
— Lao Tzu →
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
— George Bernard Shaw →
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive.”
— Marcus Aurelius →
“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.”
— Jack London →
“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain.”
— Vivian Greene →
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
— Robert Brault →
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson →
“Life is not a spectator sport.”
— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis →
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.”
— Mark Zuckerberg →
“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now.”
— Simone de Beauvoir →
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
— Helen Keller →
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
— Les Brown →
“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
— Coco Chanel →
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson →
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
— Anne Frank →
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
— Lao Tzu →
“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
— Dr. Seuss →
“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”
— Coco Chanel →
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
— Walt Disney →
“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”
— Grandma Moses →
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
— William Shakespeare →
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
— Marilyn Monroe →
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.”
— Confucius →
“Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.”
— Peter Hagerty →
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.”
— Mother Teresa →
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.”
— J.K. Rowling →
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
— Omar Khayyam →
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
— Marcus Aurelius →
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
— Robert Frost →
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
— Robert Frost →
“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”
— Dr. Seuss →
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.”
— Mark Twain →
“Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.”
— Unknown →
“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
— Mark Twain →
“Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.”
— Rabindranath Tagore →
“Wherever you are — be all there.”
— Jim Elliot →
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
— Albert Camus →
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson →
“Nothing is worth more than this day.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe →