Life Quotes

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
Martin H. Fischer

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
W. H. Davies
Leisure.

The healthiest response to life is joy.
Deepak Chopra


When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...
And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life.
Monty Python's Life of Brian

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
Chinese Proverb

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
Lillian Dickson

There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin

The Best Things in Life are Free.
B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson
Song from the Musical 'Good News'.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde

Here's to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one!
Irish Saying

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Zeno
From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere's Fan, Act I.

Where there is love there is life.
Indira Gandhi

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
Reba McEntire

Life is nothing without friendship.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.
Wilson Mizner

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

The best of times is now.
Oprah Winfrey

Whatever you are be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

Do all things with love.
Og Mandino

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Kahlil Gibran

Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye, spoken by Mr. Spencer.

Life's 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.
William Shakespeare
Macbeth, 5. 5.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
Mother Teresa

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
Buddha

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne
Winnie the Pooh.

Never take life too seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
Author Unknown

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms;
Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
William Shakespeare

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
David Carradine

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
Charlie Brown

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
R. D. Laing

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

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley
Thunder on the Left

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

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
Walden

Life is what happens to you
While you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon
Beautiful Boy

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare
King John, 3. 4

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody Allen

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen

Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter De Vries

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert Heinlein
Job

Life is just a bowl of pits.
Rodney Dangerfield

Life is just one damned thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie

My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates…you never know what you're gonna get.
Forrest Gump
Spoken by Tom Hanks in movie Forrest Gump

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
Henry J. Tillman

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov

Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
Wally 'Famous' Amos

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
William Goldman
The Princess Bride

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 life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
Jack Handey

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp

Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye

Live dangerously and you live right.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson

Life is the sum of all your choices.
Albert Camus

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov

Life is an incurable disease.
Abraham Cowley

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Miller

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
Thich Nhat Hanh

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Thomas Carlyle

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
Henry Ward Beecher

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
Robert Frost

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people, I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if it needs be it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
Nelson Mandela

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
Norman Thomas

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table.

Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles Schulz

While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Seneca

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
Alexander Woollcott

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What good is sitting alone in your room?
Come hear the music play.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum.
Come to the Cabaret.
Fred Ebb and John Kander

There are many things in life that will catch your eye. But only a few will catch your heart.
Ben Crenshaw

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they do their lives.
Jim Rohn

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.
Frederick Buechner

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran

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.
Ashley Smith

Everything happens for a reason, people change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so you can appreciate them when they're right, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can come together.
Marilyn Monroe

Your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence S. Darrow

Life is wasted on the living.
Douglas Adams

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.
Jean de La Bruyère

When life gives you lemons, cut them in half and squirt life in the eye!
Author Unknown

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

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
Sean O'Casey

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
Kathleen Norris

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain.
Author Unknown

We don’t live as we wish, but as we can.
Terence

Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.
Regina Brett

Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.
Suzanne Weyn

How many lives we live in one,
And how much less than one, in all.
Alice Cary

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

Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching. and live like it's heaven on earth.
Mark Twain

Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.
Lao-Tzu

However many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.
Richard Dawkins

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.
Jerry Seinfeld

Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.
Carl Sandburg

Life is too short, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly.
Author Unknown

That it will never come again Is what makes life so sweet.
Emily Dickinson

A beautiful flower begins its life in the dirt.
Author Unknown

About all you can do in life is be who you are.
Rita Mae Brown

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain

A man’s dying is more a survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann

Death is to stop sinning suddenly.
Unknown author

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Albert Einstein

We should always have our boots on, and be ready to leave.
Montaigne

There is no cure for birth and death unless to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
St. Augustine

I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or
catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.
Dawna Markova

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasion, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.
William Ellery Channing

O, with what freshness,
what solemnity and beauty,
is each new day born;
as if to say to insensate man,
'Behold!
thou hast one more chance!
Strive for immortal glory!'
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete.
If you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach

Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others ... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Walt Whitman

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'
The Talmud

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Cherokee Proverb

Never regret what made you smile. Just learn from the tears that followed.
Author Unknown

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.
Herbert Samuel

There must be more to life than having everything.
Maurice Sendak

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Woody Allen

We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse.
Author Unknown

Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke

The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Author Unknown

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
Djuna Barnes

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
Lilly Tomlin

No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.
Sholom Aleichem

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
Benjamin Franklin

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.
Ashleigh Brilliant

It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
Bill Gates

Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?
Bob Monkhouse

I came into this world black, naked and ugly. And no matter how much I accumulate here, it's a short journey. I will go out of this world black, naked and ugly. So I enjoy life.
Screamin' Jay Hawkins (Jalacy Hawkins)

Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.
Lin Yutang

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
Douglas Adams

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

Men deal with life, as children with their play
Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
William Cowper

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.
Jim Carrey

There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.
Anita Shreve

Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.
Judy Blume

Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days you will be right.
Unknown author

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim
Bertrand Russell

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER."
Willliam S. Burroughs

Life is just a phase you're going through...you'll get over it.
Author Unknown