Life

Wisdom and inspiration about life.

49 CURATED QUOTES

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

Frank Sinatra

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Pablo Picasso

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

Mae West

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

William Hazlitt

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Henry Ford

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

Joseph Campbell

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

Sarah Louise Delany

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.

Lao Tzu

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

Jimi Hendrix

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

Nelson Mandela

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Cesare Pavese

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

Confucius

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

Bob Marley

Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people.

Anonymous

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Oscar Wilde

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Charles Darwin

When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet.

Chinese Proverb

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

Maya Angelou

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

Mark Twain

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

Robert Frost

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

The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.

Tony Robbins

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Charles R. Swindoll

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Bruce Lee

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

Elbert Hubbard

My life is my message.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Abraham Lincoln

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Stephen King

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

Kevin Kruse

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

George Bernard Shaw

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Helen Keller

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

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

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

Gary Keller

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

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Marilyn Monroe

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Dalai Lama

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

Henry Ford

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Soren Kierkegaard

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