Life Quotes

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

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

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

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

5. We do not remember days, we remember moments – Cesare Pavese

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

– Audrey Hepburn

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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

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

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

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

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

17. My life is my message – Mahatma Gandhi

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

19. Our life is what our thoughts make it – Marcus Aurelius

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

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

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

23. Into each life some rain must fall – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

24. 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

25. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile – Albert Einstein

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

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

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

30. The less routine the more life – Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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

33. No man is a failure who is enjoying life – William Feather

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

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

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

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

38. Every man dies. Not every man really lives – William Wallace

39. The greatest pleasure of life is love – Euripides

40. With renunciation life begins – Amelia Barr

41. We live in a rainbow of chaos – Paul Cezanne

42. 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

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

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

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

46. Life is made up of marble and mud – Nathaniel Hawthorne

47. 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

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

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

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

51. Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life – Novalis

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

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

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

55. Unrest of spirit is a mark of life – Karl A. Menninger

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

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

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

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

60. He not busy being born is busy dying – Bob Dylan

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

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

63. The purpose of life is a life of purpose – Robert Byrne

64. Wrong life cannot be lived rightly – Theodor Adorno

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

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

67. People living deeply have no fear of death – Anais Nin

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

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

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