Life

Wisdom and inspiration about life.

55 CURATED QUOTES

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

William Hazlitt

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

Henry Ford

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

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

Bruce Lee

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

Mae West

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

Chinese Proverb

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 what happens when you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Oscar Wilde

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Helen Keller

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

Bertrand Russell

My life is my message.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

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

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

Maya Angelou

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

Bob Marley

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

Henry David Thoreau

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

John Lennon

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Alan Watts

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Charles Darwin

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

Henry Ford

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

Marilyn Monroe

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

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

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

Charles R. Swindoll

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

Pablo Picasso

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Sarah Louise Delany

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Lao Tzu

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

Mark Twain

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

Soren Kierkegaard

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Stephen King

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

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

Anais Nin

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

Confucius

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

Seneca

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

Frank Sinatra

Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people.

Anonymous

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Dalai Lama

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Tony Robbins

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