Have you been thinking about your life lately? Everyone does it from time to time, as these amazing life quotes demonstrate.
Life is all around us, and it has always been a major concern for humanity.
We’ve all heard expressions like “life isn’t fair” and “that’s life,” but living and being alive are more unique.
Life is a fascinating thing, from thinkers and poets to artists and religious leaders.
Life’s challenges pose questions, while blessings provide opportunities to contemplate. So, whatever you’re feeling right now, enjoy these life quotes and sayings and make today the best day of your life.
210+ beautiful Quotes about Life
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.___Leo Tolstoy
I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.― Marilyn Monroe
Life is largely a matter of expectation.___Horace
You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.― William W. Purkey
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.― Mae West
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.___Walter Bagehot
Life is a game and true love is a trophy.___Rufus Wainwright
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.___Eleanor Roosevelt
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
While there’s life, there’s hope. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.― Robert Frost
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.___Samuel Butler
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.___Les Brown
Life is a lively process of becoming.___Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Life must be lived as play. – Plato
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.___John Lennon
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.___Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.___John W. Gardner
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. – Neale Donald Walsch
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.― Andre Gide
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.― Albert Einstein
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.― douglas adams
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.― George Bernard Shaw
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.___Joyce Meyer
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. – Hans Christian Andersen
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.___George Bernard Shaw
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.___Charles Dickens
There is just one life for each of us: our own.___Euripides
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 succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.___Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.___Oscar Wilde
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.___Confucius
Life is a long lesson in humility. – James M. Barrie
Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.___John Wooden
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.___D.H. Lawrence
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.___Robert Frost
Love the life you live. Live the life you love.___Bob Marley
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.__Charles Swindoll
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anais Nin
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.___Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.___Neil Armstronng
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.___Mahatma Ganndhi
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.___Morris West
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.___Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep looking up… that’s the secret of life.___Charlie Brown
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.___Jack London
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. – Omar Khayyam
Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love.___Naval Ravikant
Don’t go through life, grow through life. – Eric Butterworth
In every life, we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double.___Bobby McFerrin
Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.___William Goldman
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 lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise.___Geroge Gershwin
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.___Rainer Maria Rilke
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.__Elbert Hubbard
The key to life is accepting challenges. – Bette Davis
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.___Marcus Aurelius
What you put into life is what you get out of it.___Clint Eastwood
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.___David Russell
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.___Willie Nelson
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.___Jackie Robinson
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
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.___William Osler
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.___William James
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.___Horace Walpole
Life is half spent before we know what it is. – George Herbert
The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.__Martin Luther King, Jr.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.___Winston Churchill
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.___Danny Kaye
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.___Oprah Winfrey
There is no wealth but life. – John Ruskin
Begin at once to live and count each day as a separate life.___Seneca
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.___John C. Maxwell
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.___Oprah Winfrey
Life Purpose Quotes
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.__Mark Twain
Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.___H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.____Vivian Greene
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. – Dalai Lama
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.___Abraham Lincoln
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.___William James
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.___Indira Gandhi
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.___Nelson Henderson
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one’s will___Paul Gauguin
The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.___Carl Jung
Life is a question and how we live it is our answer. – Gary Keller
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive.___Joseph Campbell
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.__Rick Riordan
Life does not owe you anything because life has already given you everything.___Ralph Marston
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.___James Allen
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.____Samuel Butler
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.___John Dewey
The meaning of life is to give life meaning.___Ken Hudgins
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.___Albert Schweitzer
Sayings on Life
Life is like riding a bicycle: you don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling.___Claude Pepper
Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.____Forrest Gump
Life is not a dress rehearsal. – Rose Tremain
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.___Tennessee Williams
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.___Groucho Marx
Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.___H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.___Charles Lindbergh
If you don’t run your own life, somebody else will.___John Atkinson
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.___Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is a school of probability. – Walter Bagehot
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.___Lewis Grizzard
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.___Thales
Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward.___Anderson Silva
Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.___Stephen King
Life is a series of commas, not periods.____Matthew McConaughey
Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.___Vannessa Paradis
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.___Paolo Coelho
Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.___Charlie Sheen, Wall Street
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.___Victor Hugo
The greatest pleasure of life is love.___Euripides
Life is about making an impact, not making an income.___Kevin Kruse
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.___Leo Burnett
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.____Henry David Thoreau
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.___Mahatma Gandhi
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.____Elie Wiesel
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.___Joseph Campbell
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.___Samuel Smiles
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.___Socrates
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we’ve all got a limited stock of that.___Robert Harris
It is not length of life, but depth of life. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.___Hugh Prathner
People living deeply have no fear of death. – Anais Nin
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.___Seneca
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.___Steve Jobs
Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.___Benjamin Franklin
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.___Bruce Lee
You only pass through this life once, you don’t come back for an encore.___Elvis Presley
Make each day your masterpiece.___John Wooden
Life’s for the living, so live it, or you’re better off dead.___Passenger, Life’s for the Living
Life is too important to be taken seriously. – Oscar Wilde Quote
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.___Arthur Schopenhauer
I am all for the short and merry life.___Edward Fitzgerald
I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.___Corazon Aquino
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we’ve all got a limited stock of that.___Robert Harris
Life Advice Quotes
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.___Dolly Parton
The healthiest response to life is joy. – Deepak Chopra
Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can.__Hillary Clinton
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.― Dr. Seuss
Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.___Ashton Kutcher
Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this.___Celine Dion
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.___Albert Einstein
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.___Lao Tzu
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.___Marcus Aurelius
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.___Benjamin Franklin
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.― Allen Saunders
Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things.___Kenneth Branagh
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.___Henry David Thoreau
Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.___Sarah Louise Delany
There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.___Stephen Covey
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.___Steve Jobs
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.___Les Brown
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.___Albert Einstein
Life is trying things to see if they work. – Ray Bradbury
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.___George Bernard Shaw
We design our lives through the power of choices.___Richard Bach
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.― Mark Twain
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.___Mae West
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.____Albert Einstein
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.___Soren Kierkegaard
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.___Lillian Dickson
Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny. – Stephen Hawking
Growth is the only evidence of life. – John Henry Newman
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 isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.___Rose Kennedy
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.― J.K. Rowling
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.___George Bernard Shaw
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.___Ernest Holmes
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.___Corita Kent
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.― Narcotics Anonymous
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.___Oscar Wilde
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.___Søren Kierkegaard
Life’s too mysterious to take too serious. – Mary Engelbreit
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.___Irving Berlin
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.___Oliver Goldsmith
Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.___Eckhart Tolle
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.___Havelock Ellis
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.___Samuel Butler
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.___Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.___Alexis Carrel
A life lived in fear is a life half lived. – Baz Luhrmann
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.___Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.___Søren Kierkegaard
The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.___Audrey Hepburn
Living a Good Life
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.___Grandma Moses
Life’s for the living, so live it – or you’re better off dead.___Passenger
A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.___Lilian Gish
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.___Voltaire
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.___William James
In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.___Sid Caesar
May you live all the days of your life.___Jonathan Swift
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
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a Ride!’____Hunter S. Thompson
Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.___Publilius Syrus
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.___Carl Rogers
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.___Les Brown
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.____Frank Lloyd Wright
It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.___Elizabeth Kenny
Live for each second without hesitation. – Elton John
The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.___Helen Mirren
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.___Helen Keller
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.___Eleanor Roosevelt
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.___Alfred Adler
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.___William Wallace
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.___Arthur Rubinstein
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.____Havelock Ellis
Life is never easy for those who dream. – Robert Waller
We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.___Lauryn Hill
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.____Bertrand Russell
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.___Mark Twain