700+ Best Quotes About Life And Struggles (Inspirational)

There are more then 700 Inspirational Quotes About Life And Struggles that will make you think positively, That is going to continue to keep you motivated to overcome the difficulties and move forward in life.

Top 55 Most Famous Quotes About Life

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
— Dr. Seuss

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

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
— D. H. Lawrence

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

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

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

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

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
— Seneca

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.
— John Lennon

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

Keep calm and carry on.
— Winston Churchill

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

Where there is love there is life.
— Mahatma Ghandi

Get busy living or get busy dying.
— Stephen King

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.
— Henry David Thoreau

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

May you live all the days of your life.
— Jonathan Swift

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
— Benjamin Franklin

I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
— Nathan Hale

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

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
— Victor Hugo

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

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

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

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

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

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
— Nelson Mandela

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

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

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

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
— Buddha

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
— Babe Ruth

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

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

Life is a long lesson in humility.
— James M. Barrie

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

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

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

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

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

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

The greatest pleasure of life is love.
— Euripides

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

50 Inspirational Quotes About Life

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
— Rosa Parks

Being happy never goes out of style.
— Lilly Pulitzer

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
— Helen Keller

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
— Maya Angelou

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

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
— Ann Richards

Never lose sight of the face that the most important yard stick to your success is how you treat other people.
— Barbara Bush

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.
— Johnny Cash

I don’t go by the rule book…I lead from the heart, not the head.
— Princess Diana

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
— Eudora Welty

The time is always right to do what is right.
— Martin Luther King Jr.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
— Audrey Hepburn

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.
— Jackie Robinson

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.
— Dolly Parton

Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.
— Lilly Pulitzer

If I’d have done all the things I was supposed to have done, I’d be really tired.
— Willie Nelson

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
— Reba McEntire

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

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

Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
— William Faulkner

Each person must live their life as a model for others.
— Rosa Parks

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
— Dr. Seuss

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
— Jackie Robinson

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that’s good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.
— Julia Roberts

Now it’s the little moments that stop me in my tracks, because that’s what life is all about.
— Joanna Gaines

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
— Helen Keller

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

All serious daring starts from within.
— Eudora Welty

Life just doesn’t hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that’s the exciting part.
— Emeril Lagasse

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.
— Dolly Parton

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
— Ralph Ellison

I’ve been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.
— Loretta Lynn

Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can’t be a sun, be a star. For it isn’t by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
— Martin Luther King Jr.

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in negative events.
— Joel Osteen

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.
— Beyoncé Knowles

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.
— Fannie Flagg

You have two choices in life; you can either like what you do or dislike what you do. I have chosen to like what I do.
— Barbara Bush

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
— Billy Graham

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
— Johnny Cash

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
— Dr. Seuss

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
— Eudora Welty

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
— William Faulkner

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

The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
— Mark Twain

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

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.
— Rosa Parks

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
— Maya Angelou

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
— William Faulkner

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.
— Jimmy Carter

43 Funny Life Quotes That Will Make You LOL

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
— Ron White

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

To be old and wise, you need to first be young and stupid.
— Unknown

Fear is the second toughest bitch in life. Do you know who comes first? You.
— Unknown

I wish I were a little kid so I can just take a nap and everyone will be proud of me.
— Unknown

Life is like experiments. The more you try, the better you become.
— Unknown

When your hands are tight, swearing helps.
— Unknown

Somedays you eat salad and work out. Somedays you have cupcakes and pizza. It’s called balance.
— Unknown

Between ‘go big or go home’, I choose the latter.
— Unknown

The score never interested me, only the game.
— Mae West

One day you’ll be thankful things didn’t work out the way you want them to.
— Unknown

Bad days aren’t always bad. At least you’ll find out who your true friends are.
— Unknown

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

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
— Albert Einstein

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

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

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
— Winston S Churchill

If a book about failures doesn’t sell, is it a success?
— Jerry Seinfeld

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

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

Never miss a good chance to shut up.
— Will Rogers

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

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

You know what I like most about people? Pets.
— Jarod Kintz

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

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

I can resist everything exept temptation.
— Oscar Wilde

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

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
— Winston S Churchill

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

Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans.
— Raheel Farooq

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you’ll be a mile from them, and you’ll have their shoes.
— Jack Handey

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
— Phyllis Diller

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
— Groucho Marx

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

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
— Terry Pratchett

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

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

Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you’ll die of a misprint.
— Markus Herz

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.
— Thomas Stephen Szasz

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

I don’t know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.
— Woody Allen

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

Sad Life Quotes that’ll teach you a lesson

Life may sadden you, but it will make you grow through it.
— Unknown

If your comforts are holding you back. Sadness will release you from it.
— Unknown

The portion of life that makes you sad is supposed to change you.
— Unknown

When life is sad, you blame. When it is happy, you take credit.
— Unknown

Sad life is a hallucination. So is the happy one.
— Unknown

You will find a life full of happiness only in imaginations.
— Unknown

Sad life is not a bane. Rather it is the thrill.
— Unknown

Whenever you are sad, just seek the thing that you are holding back, which you were supposed to give up.
— Unknown

No sadness in life comes without your attention.
— Unknown

If there is anything that is true in your life, it is the present passing moment.
— Unknown

If it is hurting you, you are not managing yourself properly.
— Unknown

When things are not going right, you are not doing them right.
— Unknown

When consequences are making you sad, you must think of working on causes.
— Unknown

More Life Quotes

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

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

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
— Henry David Thoreau

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
— Buddha

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
— Marie Curie

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
— E. M. Forster

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

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
— Winston Churchill

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
— Albert Camus

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?
— Bob Marley

Life is a lively process of becoming.
— Douglas MacArthur

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
— William Osler

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
— Harvey Fierstein

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
— Mark Twain

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
— Mark Twain

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
— Albert Einstein

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

Everything in life is luck.
— Donald Trump

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
— Napoleon Hill

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
— Erma Bombeck

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
— Soren Kierkegaard

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

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
— Albert Schweitzer

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
— Elie Wiesel

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
— George Washington Carver

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

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
— Henri Frederic Amiel

Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
— Mel Brooks

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
— Boris Pasternak

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
— Mark Twain

Life loves the liver of it.
— Maya Angelou

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
— Maya Angelou

I bear a charmed life.
— William Shakespeare

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
— William Shakespeare

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

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

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
— Oscar Wilde

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
— Oscar Wilde

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
— Henry David Thoreau

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. Henry
— David Thoreau

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
— Henry David Thoreau

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
— Marcus Aurelius

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
— Marcus Aurelius

Our life is what our thoughts make it.
— Marcus Aurelius

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
— John F. Kennedy

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
— John F. Kennedy

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
— Eleanor Roosevelt

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the proper task of life.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

Life must be lived as play.
— Plato

My life is my message.
— Mahatma Gandhi

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
— Mahatma Gandhi

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
— Socrates

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
— Socrates

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
— Carl Jung

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
— Will Rogers

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
— George Bernard Shaw

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
— George Bernard Shaw

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
— Wayne Dyer

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
— Wayne Dyer

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.
— Buddha

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
— H. L. Mencken

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.
— Robert Frost

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
— Dalai Lama

Character develops itself in the stream of life.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is wasted on the living.
— Douglas Adams

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
— Saint Augustine

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
— Bruce Lee

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
— John Burroughs

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
— Leonardo da Vinci

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
— Leonardo da Vinci

Life well spent is long.
— Leonardo da Vinci

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.
— Stephen Covey

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

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
— Bertrand Russell

To live is to think.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

While there’s life, there’s hope.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

My trade and art is to live.
— Michel de Montaigne

I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
— Joseph Campbell

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
— Joseph Campbell

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
— Edmund Burke

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
— William James

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
— William James

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
— William James

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
— William James

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

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

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
— Emily Dickinson

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
— Emily Dickinson

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
— Rabindranath Tagore

We live in the world when we love it.
— Rabindranath Tagore

Into each life some rain must fall.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
— Audrey Hepburn

While we are postponing, life speeds by.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
— Frank Lloyd Wright

He not busy being born is busy dying.
— Bob Dylan

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life is too short for long-term grudges.
— Elon Musk

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
— Jimi Hendrix

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
— George Eliot

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
— George Eliot

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
— Robert Louis Stevenson

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
— Robert Louis Stevenson

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
— Robert Louis Stevenson

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
— Rainer Maria Rilke

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.
— Terry Pratchett

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
— John Lennon

I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.
— B. F. Skinner

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.
— Joel Osteen

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
— Jean-Paul Sartre

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
— Leo Tolstoy

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

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
— Isaac Asimov

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.
— Richard Bach

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it – would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
— Ralph Marston

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
— Robert E. Lee

There is no wealth but life.
— John Ruskin

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
— William Hazlitt

It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: ‘God, how I have wasted my life.’
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
— e. e. cummings

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
— Don Miguel Ruiz

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
— Dave Barry

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
— Woody Allen

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
— Vernon Howard

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
— Audre Lorde

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
— E. M. Forster

Life is largely a matter of expectation.
— Horace

Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.
— Horace

I want to live my life, not record it.
— Jackie Kennedy

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

There is just one life for each of us: our own.
— Euripides

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.
— Jerry Seinfeld

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.
— Jerry Seinfeld

I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.
— Charles M. Schulz

Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
— Anton Chekhov

Life is half spent before we know what it is.
— George Herbert

To be free is to have achieved your life.
— Tennessee Williams

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
— Vladimir Nabokov

A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.
— Carl Sandburg

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
— Carl Sandburg

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

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.
— George Lucas

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
— Henri Nouwen

Life is made up of marble and mud.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Life itself is the proper binge.
— Julia Child

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

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
— Erich Fromm

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
— James Allen

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
— William Morris

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
— William Wallace

We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
— Lauryn Hill

People living deeply have no fear of death.
— Anais Nin

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
— Anais Nin

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
— Josh Billings

To know nothing is the happiest life.
— Desiderius Erasmus

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
— Seamus Heaney

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
— Swami Sivananda

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
— Henri Frederic Amiel

The best path through life is the highway.
— Henri Frederic Amiel

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
— Will Smith

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
— Publilius Syrus

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
— O. Henry

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
— John Henry Newman

Growth is the only evidence of life.
— John Henry Newman

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
— Oliver Goldsmith

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
— Arthur Miller

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
— Henry Adams

We live in a rainbow of chaos.
— Paul Cezanne

What we play is life.
— Louis Armstrong

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

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
— Samuel Butler

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

To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
— Samuel Butler

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.
— Sai Baba

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

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
— E. B. White

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
— Seneca

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
— Zhuangzi

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
— Samuel Smiles

Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
— Fran Lebowitz

I love life because what more is there?
— Anthony Hopkins

When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we’ve downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent.
— Buzz Aldrin

We do not remember days, we remember moments.
— Cesare Pavese

There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.
— Buzz Aldrin

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.
— George Whitefield

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Life is a horizontal fall.
— Jean Cocteau

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
— Charlotte Bronte

Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time.
— Jean Paul

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
— Jean Paul

Nothing is more precious than life… especially the life of your child.
— Peter Diamandis

He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
— Tertullian

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.
— Jonathan Sacks

Life is a zoo in a jungle.
— Peter De Vries

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
— Mignon McLaughlin

I am an artist… I am here to live out loud.
— Emile Zola

Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
— William Feather

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
— William Feather

All I really need to know… I learned in kindergarten.
— Robert Fulghum

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
— Charles Lindbergh

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset

I am I plus my circumstances.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset

We cannot put off living until we are ready.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
— Truman Capote

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
— Havelock Ellis

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
— Havelock Ellis

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
— Ben Stein

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
— Theodor W. Adorno

To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
— John Dalberg-Acton

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
— Jorge Luis Borges

Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
— William Cowper

If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
— William J. Clinton

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

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
— Scott Hamilton

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
— Karen Horney

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
— Karen Horney

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

You don’t have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life’s about change.
— John Cleese

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
— Alexis Carrel

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
— Barbara Kingsolver

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
— Max de Pree

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.
— Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.
— Tom Wilson

Life is a work in progress.
— Jeff Rich

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
— Cary Grant

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
— Helen Hayes

Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise.
— George Gershwin

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

The difficulty in life is the choice.
— George A. Moore

Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn

I look back on my life like a good day’s work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
— Grandma Moses

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
— Laurence Sterne

In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell and devils; all ruleth in thee, and over thee.
— Jakob Bohme

We pass through this world but once.
— Stephen Jay Gould

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
— Robert Byrne

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

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
— Horace Walpole

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
— William Lyon Phelps

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 too short to work so hard.
— Vivien Leigh

How sweet it is!
— Jackie Gleason

Don’t go through life, grow through life.
— Eric Butterworth

Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
— Richard L. Evans

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
— Corita Kent

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
— Matthew Arnold

Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway.
— Louise L. Hay

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
— Novalis

The less routine the more life.
— Amos Bronson Alcott

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
— Hugh Leonard

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
— Karl A. Menninger

Our entire life – consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
— Jean Anouilh

With renunciation life begins.
— Amelia Barr

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
— Rebecca West

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
— Gilbert Parker

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
— William Ellery Channing

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

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.
— Ursula Andress

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.
— Judy Collins

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
— Robert Herrick

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.
— Prem Rawat

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life… just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
— Ugo Betti

I had no blood relatives till I made some.
— Andy Dick

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
— Irving Berlin

Life is like a trumpet – if you don’t put anything into it, you don’t get anything out of it.
— William Christopher Handy

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
— Jean Ingelow

Life is never easy for those who dream.
— Robert James Waller

Life’s more amusing than we thought.
— Andrew Lang

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
— Elizabeth Gaskell

Life is a DNA software system. — Craig Venter

It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
— Philip Green

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
— Maude Adams

The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
— Edward Fitzgerald

I am all for the short and merry life.
— Edward Fitzgerald

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
— Robert Hall

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
— Brendan Gill

I do not regret one moment of my life.
— Lillie Langtry

The dearest days in one’s life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
— Abraham Cahan

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
— Abraham Cahan

If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.
— John Clare

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
— Michael Jordan

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

All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
— John Locke

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

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
— Isaac Asimov

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

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
— John F. Kennedy

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
— Steve Jobs

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
— Buddha

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
— Joseph Campbell

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
— Joseph Campbell

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
— Leo Buscaglia

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
— Abraham Maslow

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
— Marcus Aurelius

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
— Zig Ziglar

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’
— Muhammad Ali

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
— Muhammad Ali

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
— Dalai Lama

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

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
— Joan of Arc

If you have faith, then your whole life is put in a new perspective. You get to work but enjoy the work at the same time. If you grow spiritually, you do what’s in front of you and let the results speak for themselves.
— Roy Orbison

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
— Lao Tzu

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
— Henry David Thoreau

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!
— Ronald Reagan

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
— Ronald Reagan

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
— Marcus Aurelius

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
— Marcus Aurelius

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
— Plato

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
— Zig Ziglar

When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you’re making a commitment and difference in that person’s life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
— Zig Ziglar

When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you’re making a commitment and difference in that person’s life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
— Zig Ziglar

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
— Theodore Roosevelt

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
— Khalil Gibran

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
— Khalil Gibran

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
— Ernest Hemingway

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
— Steve Jobs

Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace – the way of non-violence – the way of love – the way of life as the way of living.
— John Lewis

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
— Henry Ford

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
— Frederick Douglass

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

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment.
— Viktor E. Frankl

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
— Viktor E. Frankl

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
— Joseph Campbell

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
— Rabindranath Tagore

I view myself as being the average woman. While I am first lady, I wasn’t first lady my whole life. I’m a product of pop culture. I’m a consumer of pop culture, and I know what resonates with people.
— Michelle Obama

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
— Michelle Obama

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
— Langston Hughes

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
— Niccolo Machiavelli

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
— Booker T. Washington

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.
— Eckhart Tolle

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.
— Jordan Peterson

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

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.
— Jean-Paul Sartre

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
— Christopher McCandless

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
— George Washington Carver

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
— Amelia Earhart

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
— Mary Kay Ash

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
— Thales

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.
— Alexander Haig

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— William Shakespeare

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. Ralph
— Waldo Emerson

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
— Oscar Wilde

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
— Oscar Wilde

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
— Oscar Wilde

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
— Lao Tzu

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
— Abraham Lincoln

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.
— Abraham Lincoln

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
— Aristotle

Security is mostly a superstition. It 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 outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
— Helen Keller

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
— Henry David Thoreau

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
— Henry David Thoreau

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
— Marcus Aurelius

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
— Marcus Aurelius

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
— John F. Kennedy

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
— Plato

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
— Plato

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
— Socrates

Just saying you are better than good won’t make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.
— Zig Ziglar

Now’s the best time you’ll ever have in life to get ahead!
— Zig Ziglar

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
— Carl Jung

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
— Carl Jung

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
— Theodore Roosevelt

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
— Theodore Roosevelt

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
— Theodore Roosevelt

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
— Khalil Gibran

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
— Khalil Gibran

The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
— Sun Tzu

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
— Groucho Marx

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
— James Baldwin

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
— Thomas Jefferson

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
— Henry Ford

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
— Les Brown

I never thought of losing, but now that it’ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
— Muhammad Ali

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‘our own life’ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‘our own life’ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
— C. S. Lewis

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
— Walt Disney

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.
— Walt Disney

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing
— Act. Dr. Seuss

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
— Warren Buffett

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
— Warren Buffett

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
— Bruce Lee

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

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
— Thomas Sowell

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.
— Nelson Mandela

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
— John Burroughs

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
— Stephen Covey

The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.
— Maria Montessori

The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world. We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
— Maria Montessori

To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
— Maria Montessori

Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
— Maria Montessori

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.
— John Wooden

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.
— John Wooden

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
— Paulo Coelho

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
— Paulo Coelho

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.
— Kanye West

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
— Kanye West

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
— Michel de Montaigne

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
— Jim Rohn

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
— Jim Rohn

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
— Pablo Picasso

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
— Joseph Campbell

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
— Joseph Campbell

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
— Samuel Johnson

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
— William James

I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
— Vincent Van Gogh

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’
— Billy Graham

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.
— Billy Graham

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
— John D. Rockefeller

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
— William Blake

In real life, I’m a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.
— Billie Eilish

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
— Lewis Carroll

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
— Eckhart Tolle

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.
— Jeff Bezos

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
— Ayn Rand

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
— Marie Curie

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
— Albert Schweitzer

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
— Charles R. Swindoll

I let people see the cracks in my life. We can’t be phony. We’ve got to keep it real.
— Charles R. Swindoll

Sometimes I wake up before dawn, and I love sitting up in the middle of the bed with all the lights off, pitch-black dark, and talking to the Father, with no interruptions and nothing that reminds me that there’s anything in life but me and Him.
— Charles R. Swindoll

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
— Earl Nightingale

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
— Robert Kennedy

Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
— William Wordsworth

That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
— William Wordsworth

The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
— William Wordsworth

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
— Elie Wiesel

Life begins on the other side of despair.
— Jean-Paul Sartre

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
— Leo Tolstoy

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
— Virginia Woolf

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
— Jim Carrey

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
— Cesar Chavez

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
— Immanuel Kant

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.
— Nipsey Hussle

The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
— Thomas Hobbes

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
— Bette Davis

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.
— Jackie Robinson

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
— Frank Zappa

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
— Swami Vivekananda

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.
— David Ogilvy

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
— Henry Ward Beecher

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
— Stephen King

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
— Don Miguel Ruiz

Don’t Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
— Don Miguel Ruiz

I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!
— Christopher McCandless

Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal… I’ve decided that I’m going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.
— Christopher McCandless

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.
— Christopher McCandless

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.
— Taylor Swift

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
— Taylor Swift

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
— Jane Austen

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
— Robert A. Heinlein

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
— George Washington Carver

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.
— Joyce Meyer

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
— W. E. B. Du Bois

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.
— Charles M. Schulz

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
— Melody Beattie

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
— Jim Carrey

I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!
— Christopher McCandless

Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal… I’ve decided that I’m going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.
— Christopher McCandless

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.
— Christopher McCandless

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.
— Taylor Swift

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
— Taylor Swift

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
— John Burroughs

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.
— Ludwig van Beethoven

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.
— Jocko Willink

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
— Ann Landers

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.
— LeBron James

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
— George Sand

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

We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.
— Anais Nin

When I’m painting, I’m not aware of what I’m doing. It’s only after a get acquainted period that I see what I’ve been about. I’ve no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
— Jackson Pollock

A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.
— Rudolf Steiner

I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: ‘Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.’
— Jose Rizal

Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you’re not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn’t planned or counted on.
— Henri Nouwen

Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.
— Henri Nouwen

All my life, men have told me I wasn’t pretty enough – even the men I was dating. And I’d be like, ‘Well, why are you with me, then?’ It’s always been men putting me down just like my dad. To this day when someone says I’m cute, I can’t see it. I don’t see it no matter what anybody says.
— Lil’ Kim

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
— Eartha Kitt

The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.
— David Ogilvy

Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.
— Glennon Doyle Melton

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

I feel like, when people realize that they are the only person they need to impress, everybody’s life will be a lot smoother.
— Megan Thee Stallion

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
— Arthur Miller

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
— Josephine Baker

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
— William Morris

People only look at me as a Beatle, but my friends look at me as a whole person. That’s how life works, but it’s not bugging me anymore.
— Ringo Starr

I feel the older I get, the more I’m learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it’s all about finding yourself.
— Ringo Starr

You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That’s part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.
— Hillary Clinton

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
— Joseph Addison

Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It’s okay to lose, to die, but don’t die without trying, without giving it your best.
— Walter Payton

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.
— Anthony Hopkins

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you’ve lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren’t too bad, what more do you need?
— Jennifer Garner

There’s nothing more thrilling than watching great actors say things that you wrote and bring them to life.
— Greta Gerwig

Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
— Vaclav Havel

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
— Vaclav Havel

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.
— Edwin Louis Cole

For me, I’ve always been Justin Trudeau, son of. All my life I’ve had to know I was carrying a name, and people were paying more attention to what I had to say, and I had to make a choice early on.
— Justin Trudeau

Ours was not a normal or easy life.
— Justin Trudeau

Living your life in the public eye is a greater burden than most people can imagine.
— Justin Trudeau

The fact is Canadians understand that immigration, that people fleeing for their lives, that people wanting to build a better life for themselves and their kids is what created Canada, it’s what created North America.
— Justin Trudeau

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do. — Clara Barton

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.
— James Earl Jones

Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.
— Gordon B. Hinckley

Money is in some respects life’s fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
— P. T. Barnum

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
— David Attenborough

The best night of my life was watching the Japanese Noh theater. I’ve only seen it once, but even saying it now, I think, ‘How can I ever have this experience again?’ It was so mesmerizing, so complicated and so primordial; I could not believe it.
— Vivienne Westwood

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
— Albert Ellis

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.
— Angelina Jolie

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.
— Angelina Jolie

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.
— Angelina Jolie

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
— Doug Larson

The secret of life is to have no fear; it’s the only way to function.
— Stokely Carmichael

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
— Chief Seattle

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
— Lauren Bacall

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
— Gwendolyn Brooks

I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.
— Natalie Portman

The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
— Irvin D. Yalom

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

Construction is an important front for solidifying the foundations of a thriving country and creating bases for the people’s happy life.
— Kim Jong-un

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
— Red Skelton

When we separate music from life we get art.
— John Cage

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
— John Cage

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

— Edvard Munch

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
— Nathan Hale

Factory Records would not have existed and my life would not have been what it was without Joy Division.
— Tony Wilson

Factory Records would not have existed and my life would not have been what it was without Joy Division.

— Tony Wilson

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
— Dorothea Lange