Top 515 Life Quotes

Here we have the best Life Quotes from famous authors such as Ace Frehley, Sam Kinison, Tecumseh, Avril Lavigne, Wilma Rudolph. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.

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My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I’ve always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.

My view of life is, ‘If you’re going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

Tecumseh
Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

I am all for the short and merry life.

Edward Fitzgerald
Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing – it can’t fly.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

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

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

Attitude determines the altitude of life.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Hypatia
Life must be lived as play.

We pass through this world but once.

I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

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

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

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

Zhuangzi
Variety‘s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

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

Life isn’t always really glamorous and fabulous. It’s about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.

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

Carl Rogers
Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

I believe that without memories there is no life, and that our memories should be of happy times.

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

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Love is energy of life.

Every man‘s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

I am lucky to do what I do and enjoy life.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.

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

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

Eudora Welty
Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to see it with my own eyes – and that is why I am in a hurry.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

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

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and give your best. Whether you want to be a chef, doctor, actor, or a mother, be passionate to get the best result.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

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

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.

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Once your mind and body is healthy, it creates a freedom that helps you enjoy life.

It’s never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make peace with it and move on.

Francois Hougaard
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

It’s not the men in my life that count, it’s the life in my men.

May you live all the days of your life.

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

Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.

You never know where life is going to take you. So everything I do, I just take it one day at a time, and it always leads you to the right place.

Kyle Massey
Our life is made by the death of others.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

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

I have said that propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation have always been part of political warfare. Social media and other new platforms have given it a new life and reach through which the fake news phenomenon can reach everywhere.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.

It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.

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

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

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

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.

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.

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

David Russell
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.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.’

I am blessed with a funny gene that makes me enjoy life.

To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can’t see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.

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

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

Seneca
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

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

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

Life is a painting, and you are the artist. You have on your palette all the colors in the spectrum – the same ones available to Michaelangelo and DaVinci.

Paul J Meyer
Life is hard enough. Life is always going to be hard, so you need to push for what you want.

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.

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

Sarah Louise Delany
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

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

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

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

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

To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

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

A good life depends on the strength of our relationships with family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and strangers.

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

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

Abraham Cahan
The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

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.

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 ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

I just really enjoy life.

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

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.

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

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

Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.

Karolina Kurkova
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Man’s love is of man’s life a part; it is a woman‘s whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

I don’t regret what I’ve been through. I’ve had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I’ve been so blessed that I could never say, ‘I wish this didn’t happen.’ It’s part of who I am. There’s nothing in my life that’s so ugh.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

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
A bachelor‘s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

It’s better to enjoy life – selection is a temporary thing.

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

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.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

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.

Life is wasted on the living.

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!

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Hilaire Belloc
Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.

My life is my message.

Life is tough, and things don’t always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.

Suga
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Where there is love there is life.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

My life needs editing.

Mort Sahl
The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

Alexander Volkov
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

I’ve always been a private person, and I’ve always valued my private life.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

Positivity, confidence, and persistence are key in life, so never give up on yourself.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

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.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Julius Caesar
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

Life goes on, and one should look ahead and not backward.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choicestoday I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

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

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

I work a lot in the slums of Tondo, Manila, and the life there is poor and very sad. And I’ve always taught to myself to look for the beauty of it and look in the beauty of the faces of the children and to be grateful.

Life’s so unpredictable. You never know when the next high or low will strike you. The trick is just to flow with the tide.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

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

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.

You don’t get what you want in life. You get who you are!

Life is tough, but it’s tougher if you’re stupid.

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.

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.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

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

Life is never easy for those who dream.

Robert James Waller
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

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

Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.

Adam Gopnik
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going to fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

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

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.

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

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

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

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Hippocrates
Memories are the best things in life, I think.

Romy Schneider
Nobody’s life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.

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.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

You can’t get anywhere in life without taking risks.

Esme Bianco
Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.

Kallam Anji Reddy
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

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

Omar Khayyam
Life should be great rather than long.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.

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

Truman Capote
Nothing in life is promised except death.

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.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.

Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. ‘Black Rain’ was very much about choices. The message – we are what we chose to be.

Graham Brown
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

Life is really not easy, we all have our personal battles, but it is important that you really treasure yourself, love yourself and have a sense of self-worth.

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

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

I try to work and enjoy life, and that’s about all.

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

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

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 would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

If you aren’t humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.

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

The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.

I don ‘t know what the future holds, but what I know is that as long as I can enjoy life, anywhere is my stage.

You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

Time is long but life is short.

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

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

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

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.

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

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Art is the proper task of life.

How sweet it is!

Jackie Gleason
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Helen Hayes
I’ve only been in one fight in my whole life… in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I’m a maniac.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Life is short, and it is here to be lived.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

Danny Kaye
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Andre Breton
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

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

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

I’m a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone’s life.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Enjoy life… that’s what we’re here for.

I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.

Brian Baumgartner
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
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

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

Edward Fitzgerald
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.

You got one life to live. So I’m living it the way I want to live it.

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

Life’s pretty good, and why wouldn’t it be? I’m a pirate, after all.

Your life is your canvas, and you are the masterpiece. There are a million ways to be kind, amazing, fabulous, creative, bold, and interesting.

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

Life is short, and if we enjoy every moment of every day, then we will be happy no matter what happens or what changes along the way.

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

I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.

Jean-Michel Basquiat
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.

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Karen Horney
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Robert Byrne
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

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

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

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

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

Life is a game and true love is a trophy.

If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Tallulah Bankhead
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

William Lyon Phelps
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Stella Adler
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

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.

I believe it’s so important to love life, enjoy it for its small moments and live without regrets – life is so unpredictable.

I’ve been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

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.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

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.

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

I grind and I graft, but I will make sure that I get that time off here and there to unwind and relax and have a life.

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

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

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.

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

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

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

William Barclay
Life is made up of marble and mud.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

I enjoy life. That doesn’t mean I don’t care.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

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

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms.

I just want to live each moment to the fullest. And enjoy life.

I have, like, a playlist with all my favourite songs on it. Sadie’s Playlist is the soundtrack of my life. ‘Wonderwall’ by Oasis, ‘Under The Bridge’ by Red Hot Chili Peppers, TLC, ‘Waterfalls’ – I love the ’90s.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

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

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

There’s theater in life, obviously, and there’s life in theater.

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

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Life isn’t black and white. It’s a million gray areas, don’t you find?

You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.

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

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

Jerome Lawrence
A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

Clive James
It is not length of life, but depth of life.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

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

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

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.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

I want to live my life, not record it.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

The difficulty in life is the choice.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Life is full of challenges, but I always have the Three Ps: Passion, patience and persistence. And the fourth one is pizza.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

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

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

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

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

What we play is life.

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

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

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

We should learn not to hold grudges and be positive all the time because life is too short and unpredictable.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.

I decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could.

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

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

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

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.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

Shakuntala Devi
You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Madame de Stael
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

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

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.

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

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

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

Ursula Andress
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.

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

Elizabeth Kenny
I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.

Charles M Schulz
The only rule is don’t be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

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

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

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

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

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death – and everything else is open to discussion.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

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

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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 ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

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.

Life is full of ups and downs. One needs to stay positive in life, no matter what.

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There’s a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

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

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

Life loves the liver of it.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas
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.

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

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries
Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you’ll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

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

I am an artist… I am here to live out loud.

Emile Zola
Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

e e cummings
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.

I love life because what more is there?

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Abraham Cahan
Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

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.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Boris Pasternak
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

I am happy every day, because life is moving in a very positive way.

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.

Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

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

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.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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

The best path through life is the highway.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

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

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Samuel Ullman
Life itself is the proper binge.

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.

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

Karen Horney
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Berthold Auerbach
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

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

Money can’t buy life.

I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

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

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven‘t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

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.

Life is anything but predictable.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

The whole point is to live life and be – to use all the colors in the crayon box.

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

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

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

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

Gilbert Parker
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

I like people that enjoy life, ’cause I do the same.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

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.

Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream.

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

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

Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.

Tom Wilson
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Everything in life… has to have balance.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe
Life is like a trumpet – if you don’t put anything into it, you don’t get anything out of it.

William Christopher Handy
Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.

Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.

Life is a journey and it’s about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you are and loving who and what you are.

Kelly McGillis
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

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.

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

Grandma Moses
Into each life some rain must fall.

I think our life is a journey, and we make mistakes, and it’s how we learn from those mistakes and rebound from those mistakes that sets us on the path that we’re meant to be on.

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

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

John Dewey
We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

I need to celebrate life because I’m in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and happy with what I do for a living, and sometimes I just focus and overwhelm myself so much with the fights and getting better, that I just need to slow it down and enjoy life and enjoy training.

Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You’re not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you’re at peace with yourself. Learning life’s lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

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

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

I realize that humor isn’t for everyone. It’s only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.