Life is a beautiful journey filled with ups and downs, and deep truths are hidden within its complexity. Check out our collection of life quotes designed to inspire, enlighten, and guide you through life’s ups and downs. Reflect on the meaning of existence, find solace in moments of adversity, and celebrate the joys life has to offer. Let these quotes remind you that life’s challenges are opportunities for growth, and that embracing its beauty and unpredictability is the key to living a full and purposeful life.
Life Quotes
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
Life is a long lesson in humility.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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’.
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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.
Every man dies. Not every man really lives..
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
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 what happens while you are busy making other plans.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
Into each life some rain must fall.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
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.
You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Don’t go through life, grow through life.
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
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.
Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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.
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
What we play is life.
Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.
Life is a work in progress.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Best Life Quotes
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Life is too short to work so hard.
Life is a lively process of becoming.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
To know nothing is the happiest life.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Life is never easy for those who dream.
The less routine the more life.
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
Beautiful Life Quotes
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.
Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.
Life is like a trumpet – if you don’t put anything into it, you don’t get anything out of it.
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
Life is made up of marble and mud.
We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
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.
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
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.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
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.
Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
Life is wasted on the living.
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
I want to live my life, not record it.
He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
With renunciation life begins.
Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
How sweet it is!
The difficulty in life is the choice.
Life is a horizontal fall.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.
The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
You don’t have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life’s about change.
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
Life is a DNA software system.
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
I do not regret one moment of my life.
Our entire life – consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
We pass through this world but once.
Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
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.
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
I am an artist… I am here to live out loud.
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
All I really need to know… I learned in kindergarten.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
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.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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.
Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.
Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
Life itself is the proper binge.
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
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.
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.
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.
The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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.
Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life… just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
I had no blood relatives till I made some.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
Life’s more amusing than we thought.
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
Life well spent is long.
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
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.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
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.
A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.
Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
Nothing is more precious than life… especially the life of your child.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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.
To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
To live is to think.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.
Growth is the only evidence of life.
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
I love life because what more is there?
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.
There is no wealth but life.
Live, so you do not have to look back and say: ‘God, how I have wasted my life.’
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
My trade and art is to live.
I look back on my life like a good day’s work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we’ve downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent.
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
My life is my message.
The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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.
Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
I am all for the short and merry life.
Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Art is the proper task of life.
I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time.
To be free is to have achieved your life.
I am I plus my circumstances.
Life must be lived as play.
I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
We cannot put off living until we are ready.
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Life is a gift, given in trust – like a child.
All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
The dearest days in one’s life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
While there’s life, there’s hope.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
The best path through life is the highway.
What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it – would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
I bear a charmed life.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
We live in the world when we love it.
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
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.
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’
If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.
Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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 is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
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.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
Everything in life is luck.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
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.
There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
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.
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.
No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
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.
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
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.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Where there is love there is life.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.
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!
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.
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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.
Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
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.
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.
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
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.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.
Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don’t just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It’s a daily struggle.
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.
You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in negative events.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
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.
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
You don’t get what you want in life. You get who you are!
Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.
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 choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
Life is short, and every moment is precious.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don’t use special creams or treatments – I’ll use a little bit of everything. It’s a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.
The only rule is don’t be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
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.
Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live 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.
In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Attitude determines the altitude of life.
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.
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.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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.
Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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 do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: ‘Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.’
Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Life is too short to be scared and not take risks. I’d rather be the person that’s like, ‘I messed up,’ than, ‘I wish I did that.’
Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
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.
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.
There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Life moves so fast. You gotta document the good times, man.
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.
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
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.
What you put into life is what you get out of it.
Life is about perspective and how you look at something… ultimately, you have to zoom out.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery – there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.
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.
I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
Without football, my life is worth nothing.
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He’s sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
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.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Life isn’t black and white. It’s a million gray areas, don’t you find?
There’s so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we’re going to get through it. Just be strong.
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.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Such is life and life is such and after all it isn’t much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.
My life needs editing.
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.
Life has its ups and downs, but you can only look forward.
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.
Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.
A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.
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.
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.
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
Life is hard. Life is difficult. Life is going to punch you in the gut. But when you change your attitude, you change your behavior. When your behavior changes, so do your results.
I don’t care what it is in life: listen to your heart. If you do, no matter what, you win.
The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.
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.
Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing – it can’t fly.
Life is tough, and things don’t always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.
The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
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.
Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
My life motto is ‘Do my best, so that I can’t blame myself for anything.’
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.
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.
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
Positivity, confidence, and persistence are key in life, so never give up on yourself.
Life is a series of commas, not periods.
Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.
The goal of all life is death.
You got one life to live. So I’m living it the way I want to live it.
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
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.
Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things.
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
I’m taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.
The whole point is to live life and be – to use all the colors in the crayon box.
Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns.
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.
Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
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.
Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
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.
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.
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality.
Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.
When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that’s when you can do your best… for yourself and for others.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
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.
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
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.
When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.
Life is not always going to be roses and rainbows. You are going to have uncomfortable moments. It’s what we do with those moments that is going to count and determine our destiny.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.
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.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder.’
Everyone is comparing lives on social media and wants the perfect body, perfect image, perfect outfit, perfect life – we’re striving for this perfection, and it’s so unhealthy because there’s no such thing as perfection.
Life is a chess match. Every decision that you make has a consequence to it.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
Life is short, the art long.
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
Your life is your canvas, and you are the masterpiece. There are a million ways to be kind, amazing, fabulous, creative, bold, and interesting.
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live – moreover, the only one.
Enjoy life… that’s what we’re here for.
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.
Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.
I’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.
Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can’t see how deep it is.
Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.
Nothing in life is free, you always pay in the end.
Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
May you live all the days of your life.
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.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn’t matter how many times you fall – it matters how many times you get back up.
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.
At the end of the day, life is too short to worry.
No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have.
Life goes on, and one should look ahead and not backward.
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.
My whole life, people have doubted me. My mom did. People told me in high school I’m too short and not fast enough to play basketball. They didn’t know my story. Because if they did, they’d know that anything is possible.
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
You only get one shot at life, one life to live, make the most out of it put as many smiles as you can on people’s faces, help as many people as you can, get you some paper. Live life, you and your folks.
I’ve never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.
No one is the same, and we all have different life experiences. It’s not my place to judge them or for them to judge me. We should all be accountable for our own lives.
Don’t Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
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.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.
Life is hard enough. Life is always going to be hard, so you need to push for what you want.
I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life – and I became that woman.
When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Relax! Life is beautiful!
We forge the chains we wear in life.
You get out of life what you put into it. I think you need a bit of luck but you also make a bit of luck. I think that if you’re a pretty decent person you’ll get back what you put in.
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.
Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who’s looking back at you. And you can only do that if you’re being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
Life goes on and life is full of setbacks. You have to fight, that’s all.
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
It’s not the men in my life that count, it’s the life in my men.
I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.
In life, it is important to not be afraid to put yourself out there, win or lose. It is all about the spirit of challenging yourself to be open to realizing your highest potential.
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we’ve all got a limited stock of that.
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.
Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.
Life comes with pain.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
My view of life is, ‘If you’re going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
Timing in life is everything.
It’s really not about what you have. It’s about how you’re able to enjoy life in general.
If it’s going to make you happy, go for it – life is short.
Life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest.
Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don’t, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.
It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.
The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
You can’t get anywhere in life without taking risks.
Music is the soundtrack of your life.
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
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.
Without rain, there is no life.
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn’t matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.
My beliefs are that good people who work hard get their rewards. There will be struggle at times and hurdles along the way – life throws up all sorts – but in the end, you will prevail if you stick to the right path.
We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
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.
Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.
The bottom line is to have fun and enjoy life.
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.
Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
Life, if well lived, is long enough.
So, my happiness doesn’t come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
To be exceptional you have to be alone, that’s the life of a warrior.
Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.
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.
Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.
Everyone has a right to their own opinion about me, and that’s fine. I’m just going to keep being myself and living my life. That’s all I can do.
I’m a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone’s life.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life.
Life is anything but predictable.
Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.
You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win, sometimes you are unlucky, but that’s life.
Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.
Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
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.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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.
Memories are the best things in life, I think.
I cherish my entire life. I’ve been blessed with a life full of good memories.
I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.
Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
Time is long but life is short.
Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.
Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.
