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Famous Life Quotes: Life quote share wisdom about growth, purpose, and everyday experiences. They inspire reflection, resilience, and gratitude. They encourage people to learn from challenges, appreciate simple moments, and live with meaning and balance.

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” — Buddha

“To live is to think.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — E. M. Forster

“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.” — Socrates

“Life is too short for long-term grudges.” — Elon Musk

“Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.” — Irving Berlin

“You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” — Walter Hagen

“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” — Ernest Holmes

“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.” — Marie Curie

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” — Dalai Lama

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.” — Sholom Aleichem

“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.” — Lao Tzu

“Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.” — Sai Baba

“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell

“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.” — Albert Camus

“Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise.” — George Gershwin

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” — Harvey Fierstein

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” — Robert Byrne

“Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.” — Alexis Carrel

“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.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.” — Horace Walpole

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” — Rabindranath Tagore

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.” — Cesare Pavese

“Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” — John Lennon

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” — Charles Darwin

“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.” — Will Smith

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” — Leonardo da Vinci

“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.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn

“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.” — George Washington Carver

“The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.” — Eminem

“The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.” — William Feather

“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.” — William J. Clinton

“Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” — Rose Kennedy

“It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.” — Napoleon Hill

“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.” — William Hazlitt

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.” — Seneca

“Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.” — Boris Pasternak

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernard Shaw

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.” — Erma Bombeck

“Don’t go through life, grow through life.” — Eric Butterworth

“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.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” — William Morris

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

“We live in a rainbow of chaos.” — Paul Cezanne

“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.” — Josh Billings

“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.” — E. B. White

“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'” — Sydney J. Harris

“What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?” — George Eliot

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

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” — Jackie Robinson

“All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” — Edmund Burke

“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” — Scott Hamilton

“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” — Emily Dickinson

“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.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.” — Vernon Howard

“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” — Arthur Rubinstein

“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.” — Max de Pree

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

“The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.” — Jimi Hendrix

“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.” — Alfred Adler

“Our entire life – consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.” — Jean Anouilh

“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.” — Don Miguel Ruiz

“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” — Grandma Moses

“Life itself is the proper binge.” — Julia Child

“Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.” — Jorge Luis Borges

“Life is half spent before we know what it is.” — George Herbert

“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.” — Charles Lindbergh

“How sweet it is!” — Jackie Gleason

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” — Hans Christian Andersen

“Growth is the only evidence of life.” — John Henry Newman

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.” — Charlie Chaplin

“Life is a long lesson in humility.” — James M. Barrie

“The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.” — Helen Hayes

“Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

“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.” — Mel Brooks

“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.” — Buzz Aldrin

“Life is a work in progress.” — Jeff Rich

“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.” — John Burroughs

“With renunciation life begins.” — Amelia Barr

“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.” — Robert E. Lee

“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.” — Theodor W. Adorno

“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.” — Jonathan Sacks

“Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.” — Horace

“Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.” — Zhuangzi

“Each day is the scholar of yesterday.” — Publilius Syrus

“For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.” — Mignon McLaughlin

“A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.” — Jean Ingelow

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

“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.” — Cary Grant

“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” — Havelock Ellis

“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Life is like a trumpet – if you don’t put anything into it, you don’t get anything out of it.” — William Christopher Handy

“Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.” — Woody Allen

“The difficulty in life is the choice.” — George A. Moore

“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.” — H. L. Mencken

“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.” — Richard L. Evans

“Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.” — Corita Kent

“Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.” — Audre Lorde

“I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.” — Seamus Heaney

“Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.” — Prem Rawat

“I am an artist… I am here to live out loud.” — Emile Zola

“Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.” — Vladimir Nabokov

“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.” — Erich Fromm

“The greatest pleasure of life is love.” — Euripides

“Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.” — O. Henry

“Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.” — William Cowper

“To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice.” — John Dalberg-Acton

“Life is a horizontal fall.” — Jean Cocteau

“The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

“Life is a zoo in a jungle.” — Peter De Vries

“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.” — Arthur Miller

“I want to live my life, not record it.” — Jackie Kennedy

“Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.” — Karen Horney

“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.” — B. F. Skinner

“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.” — Brendan Gill

“We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.” — Lauryn Hill

“Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.” — Samuel Butler

“Life is never easy for those who dream.” — Robert James Waller

“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“The less routine the more life.” — Amos Bronson Alcott

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.” — Charlotte Bronte

“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.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.” — Will Rogers

“Life is a lively process of becoming.” — Douglas MacArthur

“Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.” — Karl A. Menninger

“It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.” — Terry Pratchett

“He not busy being born is busy dying.” — Bob Dylan

“Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.” — Novalis

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” — Victor Hugo

“Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.” — Morihei Ueshiba

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.” — Audrey Hepburn

“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.” — Samuel Butler

“I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.” — Ursula Andress

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw

“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain

“Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.” — Samuel Smiles

“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.” — Jakob Bohme

“We pass through this world but once.” — Stephen Jay Gould

“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.” — James Allen

“Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.” — Tom Wilson

“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.” — Maude Adams

“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.” — Henry Adams

“Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.” — Swami Sivananda

“All I really need to know… I learned in kindergarten.” — Robert Fulghum

“Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.” — Dave Barry

“Life is made up of marble and mud.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.” — William Lyon Phelps

“The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.” — William Lyon Phelps

“Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.” — e. e. cummings

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

“That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.” — Emily Dickinson

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.” — Rebecca West

“Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.” — George Whitefield

“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.” — William Osler

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

“I do not regret one moment of my life.” — Lillie Langtry

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” — Albert Einstein

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” — Henry David Thoreau

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.” — Carl Jung

“Life is wasted on the living.” — Douglas Adams

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” — Oscar Wilde

“Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life… just one. Our life. We have nothing else.” — Ugo Betti

“If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.” — Saint Augustine

“If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.” — John Clare

“Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.” — Fran Lebowitz

“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.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” — Soren Kierkegaard

“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.” — Jose Ortega y Gasset

“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.” — Louise L. Hay

“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.” — Steve Jobs

“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?” — Bob Marley

“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.” — William Shakespeare

“The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” — Isaac Asimov

“There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.” — Stephen Covey

“Character develops itself in the stream of life.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.” — E. M. Forster

“Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.” — Elie Wiesel

“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” — Samuel Butler

“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.” — Albert Einstein

“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.” — Ben Stein

“My life is my message.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.” — Marcus Aurelius

“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.” — Jean Paul

“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.” — Barbara Kingsolver

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” — Mark Twain

“Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.” — Richard Bach

“The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.” — Henri Nouwen

“Life is largely a matter of expectation.” — Horace

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.” — William James

“Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.” — Carl Sandburg

“Into each life some rain must fall.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.” — Havelock Ellis

“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.” — William James

“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.” — William James

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

“Life must be lived as play.” — Plato

“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” — Henry David Thoreau

“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.” — Anais Nin

“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.” — Henry David Thoreau

“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama

“Everything in life is luck.” — Donald Trump

“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” — John Henry Newman

“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.” — Ralph Marston

“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.” — John F. Kennedy

“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.” — John F. Kennedy

“I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.” — Judy Collins

“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” — Bruce Lee

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama

“It is not length of life, but depth of life.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What we play is life.” — Louis Armstrong

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

“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

“There is just one life for each of us: our own.” — Euripides

“I had no blood relatives till I made some.” — Andy Dick

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” — Joseph Campbell

“I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.” — Laurence Sterne

“To know nothing is the happiest life.” — Desiderius Erasmus

“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” — William Wallace

“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.” — Oliver Goldsmith

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

“I am I plus my circumstances.” — Jose Ortega y Gasset

“I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.” — Charles M. Schulz

“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.” — Maya Angelou

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.” — George Bernard Shaw

“Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.” — Karen Horney

“All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.” — John Wooden

“The best path through life is the highway.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

“This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.” — William James

“He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.” — Tertullian

“What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Life is too short to work so hard.” — Vivien Leigh

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.” — Elizabeth Gaskell

“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“Nothing is more precious than life… especially the life of your child.” — Peter Diamandis

“I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.” — George Lucas

“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.” — George Eliot

“To be free is to have achieved your life.” — Tennessee Williams

“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.” — Mark Twain

“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.” — Soren Kierkegaard

“Life is a gift, given in trust – like a child.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.” — Oscar Wilde

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

“There is no wealth but life.” — John Ruskin

“I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.” — Isaac Asimov

“I look back on my life like a good day’s work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.” — Grandma Moses

“Live, so you do not have to look back and say: ‘God, how I have wasted my life.'” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” — Stephen Hawking

“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.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“I bear a charmed life.” — William Shakespeare

“While there’s life, there’s hope.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Life loves the liver of it.” — Maya Angelou

“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.” — William James

“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.” — Buddha

“Life well spent is long.” — Leonardo da Vinci

“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” — Wayne Dyer

“I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.” — Joseph Campbell

“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.” — Audrey Hepburn

“Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.” — John F. Kennedy

“Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.” — Albert Schweitzer

“We live in the world when we love it.” — Rabindranath Tagore

“To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.” — Samuel Butler

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

“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“We cannot put off living until we are ready.” — Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.” — Joel Osteen

“I love life because what more is there?” — Anthony Hopkins

“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.” — Leo Tolstoy

“Art is the proper task of life.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“People living deeply have no fear of death.” — Anais Nin

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.” — Oscar Wilde

“The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.” — Edward Fitzgerald

“My trade and art is to live.” — Michel de Montaigne

“Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time.” — Jean Paul

“I am all for the short and merry life.” — Edward Fitzgerald

“A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.” — Carl Sandburg

“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.” — Buzz Aldrin

“I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.” — Emily Dickinson

“My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.” — Hugh Leonard

“Life’s more amusing than we thought.” — Andrew Lang

“The dearest days in one’s life are those that seem very far and very near at once.” — Abraham Cahan

“I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.” — Lou Holtz

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'” — Muhammad Ali

“If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.” — Tara Brach

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” — John F. Kennedy

“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.” — Maya Angelou

“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.” — Henry Ford

“Life has a higher end, than to be amused.” — William Ellery Channing

“Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.” — Abraham Cahan

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” — Charles R. Swindoll

“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.” — Steve Jobs

“Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.” — Alfred Hitchcock

“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.” — Zig Ziglar

“Where there is love there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” — George Sand

“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.” — Bradley Whitford

“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.” — Christopher McCandless

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Each person must live their life as a model for others.” — Rosa Parks

“The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.” — John C. Maxwell

“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.” — William Shakespeare

“We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.” — Robert Hall

“Life is a DNA software system.” — Craig Venter

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill

“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.” — Michael Jordan

“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” — Oscar Wilde

“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.” — Joyce Meyer

“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.” — Robin Williams

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” — Omar Khayyam

“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.” — Plato

“You don’t have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life’s about change.” — John Cleese

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein

“What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.” — Henry David Thoreau

“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.” — Booker T. Washington

“A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.” — Christopher Morley

“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.” — Kanye West

“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” — Stephen Hawking

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” — Stella Adler

“My whole life is about winning. I don’t lose often. I almost never lose.” — Donald Trump

“Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.” — Matthew Arnold

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” — Elbert Hubbard

“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.” — Walt Disney

“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” — Soren Kierkegaard

“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” — Theodore Roosevelt

“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.” — Bill Shankly

“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.” — Amelia Earhart

“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.” — Leo Buscaglia

“No matter what job or industry you’re in, life is hard, but we’re all going through a difficult time and the best thing we can do is pick each other up and move on together.” — Eric Nam

“The person lives twice who lives the first life well.” — Robert Herrick

“The real business of life is trying to understand each other.” — Gilbert Parker

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” — Robert Frost

“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.” — Marcus Aurelius

“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell

“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.” — Bruce Lee

“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” — Carol Burnett

“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.” — Rumi

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” — Meister Eckhart

“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” — Voltaire

“That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.” — William Wordsworth

“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.” — Michelle Obama

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

“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.” — Charles Stanley

“Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.” — Thomas Merton

“Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.” — Cecil Rhodes

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” — Gustave Flaubert

“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” — Peter Marshall

“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!” — Bob Marley

“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.” — Albert Schweitzer

“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life.” — Tyler, The Creator

“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.” — Henri Nouwen

“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.” — Carl Jung

“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.” — Reba McEntire

“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.” — Yoko Ono

“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.” — Marcus Garvey

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” — Unknown

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn

“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.” — Martin Luther

“When you’re scared, when you’re hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you’re going to see what you’re really made of.” — Sylvester Stallone

“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.” — Baltasar Gracian

“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.” — Jean Giraudoux

“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.” — Golda Meir

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” — Thomas A. Edison

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” — Jim Rohn

“Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.” — Dr. Seuss

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” — Thomas Jefferson

“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.” — Georgia O’Keeffe

“Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.” — Jerry Seinfeld

“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?” — Edgar Allan Poe

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” — Pablo Picasso

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” — John Dewey

“No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.” — Taylor Swift

“Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.” — Eliud Kipchoge

“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.” — Isaac Asimov

“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” — Simone de Beauvoir

“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” — Berthold Auerbach

“Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.” — Morgan Freeman

“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.” — Leo Tolstoy

“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.” — Walter Anderson

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” — Langston Hughes

“Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.” — Matt Cameron

“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.” — Stephen Curry

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” — Vincent Van Gogh

“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It’s not negotiable.” — Edgar Ramirez

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” — Virginia Woolf

“There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.” — Lord Byron

“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?” — T. S. Eliot

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” — Richard Bach

“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.” — Catriona Gray

“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” — Khalil Gibran

“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.” — Joan of Arc

“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.” — Emily Atack

“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.” — Blaise Pascal

“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” — Groucho Marx

“There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.” — William Barclay

“The whole point is to live life and be – to use all the colors in the crayon box.” — RuPaul

“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.” — Nelson Mandela

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.” — Sophocles

“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.” — Pierre de Coubertin

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” — William James

“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?” — W. Clement Stone

“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.” — Tecumseh

“Reality continues to ruin my life.” — Bill Watterson

“Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life.” — W. E. B. Du Bois

“My theory on life is that life is beautiful. Life doesn’t change. You have a day, and a night, and a month, and a year. We people change – we can be miserable or we can be happy. It’s what you make of your life.” — Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

“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.” — Joel Osteen

“Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” — Stephen Covey

“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.” — Iris Murdoch

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” — Immanuel Kant

“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.” — Billy Graham

“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

“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.” — Ron White

“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.” — B. R. Ambedkar

“It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.” — Eckhart Tolle

“All space exploration is risky. As an astronaut, I had to decide each and every time I went to space whether or not to risk my life for the mission.” — John M. Grunsfeld

“Grace is what matters in anything – especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That’s a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.” — Jeff Buckley

“I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.” — Jackson Pollock

“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.” — Benjamin E. Mays

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” — Mary Oliver

“I think it’s important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I’m proud to be a role model!” — Sally Ride

“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.” — John Irving

“Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.” — Karolina Kurkova

“Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.” — Louis Armstrong

“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” — John N. Mitchell

“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

“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.” — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“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.” — Gilda Radner

“Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.” — L. Ron Hubbard

“Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.” — John Ruskin

“Whatever life throws at me I’ll take it and be grateful for it as well.” — Tom Felton

“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.” — Kevyn Aucoin

“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.” — William Butler Yeats

“At every phase in our life, we make memories that we cherish all our lives.” — Shweta Basu Prasad

“I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.” — Lady Gaga

“Once you’ve wrestled, everything else in life is easy.” — Dan Gable

“Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.” — Avril Lavigne

“Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.” — John Updike

“Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.” — Ariana Grande

“I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.” — Paulo Coelho

“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” — Willie Nelson

“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

“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.” — Jen Sincero

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” — John W. Gardner

“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” — Diane Ackerman

“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.” — Helen Keller

“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.” — Paul J. Meyer

“Life is supposed to be about love and good times, and so I’ve forgiven myself after paying the consequences of my bad decisions, and I’m ready to move forward and allow my life to be a light to others that it’s never over, even for a person like me, who has lost a tremendous amount of respect among my peers, my fans, my friends and family.” — Jon Jones

“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.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

“I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.” — Billie Eilish

“If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.” — Marc Anthony

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo

“A life lived in fear is a life half lived.” — Baz Luhrmann

“I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.” — LeBron James

“No water, no life. No blue, no green.” — Sylvia Earle

“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.” — Agatha Christie

“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.” — Robert Motherwell

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” — Carl Sandburg

“My life has been about choosing different things from most people think that I should have chosen. It always has been about my happiness and peace of mind therefore I have never strategized or planned my career.” — Ayesha Takia

“The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.” — Josephine Baker

“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.” — John Wooden

“When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.” — Ella Woodward

“You only live once and you need to enjoy life, to go out and achieve whatever you want to.” — Ellie Simmonds

“I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.” — Christina Milian

“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.” — Solomon Ortiz

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.” — Martha Graham

“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

“The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences.” — Louis Pasteur

“Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.” — Wayne Dyer

“Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.” — Oliver Goldsmith

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” — Elie Wiesel

“I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” — Jesus Christ

“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.” — Swami Vivekananda

“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.” — Kurt Vonnegut

“Don’t die old, die empty. That’s the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard.” — Myles Munroe

“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.” — Rick Warren

“I just want to live each moment to the fullest. And enjoy life.” — Kadeena Cox

“It’s the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they’re gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it’s my turn to leave.” — Tupac Shakur

“I like people that enjoy life, ’cause I do the same.” — Lil Wayne

“Don’t walk through life just playing football. Don’t walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone’s life, that’s the ultimate vision, that’s the ultimate goal – bottom line.” — Ray Lewis

“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.” — Anand Mahindra

“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.” — Rudolf Steiner

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” — Norman Cousins

“The number one priority in life is to take care of yourself and make sure you’re happy.” — Sabrina Carpenter

“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” — Joseph Addison

“My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It’s so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.” — Betty Cuthbert

“I’m as heterosexual as any person need be. I’m open about my relationships – or lack thereof – in my own life, because I want to make the case that gay isn’t contagious. It’s not something that you can catch or learn or choose.” — Hal Sparks

“Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.” — Drew Barrymore

“There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.” — Lionel Messi

“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.” — David Gerrold

“All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.” — John Locke

“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.” — Betty White

“It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” — W. Somerset Maugham

“Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.” — Joe Biden

“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.” — John Wayne

“You’re betraying your whole life if you don’t say what you think – and you don’t say it honestly and bluntly.” — Charles Krauthammer

“It’s important to have people in your life who will applaud your ambition.” — Kamala Harris

“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.” — Aristotle

“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.” — Bob Feller

“I think growing up, I always had this idea that more is better, like more friends, more people in your life, going out, more experiences. But I think keeping your circle small is so important, and just talking to people who you really love and trust has so much value. I don’t think there’s any need to spread yourself too thin.” — Olivia Rodrigo

“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.” — Melody Beattie

“Life is a chess match. Every decision that you make has a consequence to it.” — P.K. Subban

“Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life – a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.” — Princess Diana

“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.” — Marc Chagall

“Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.” — Alan Alda

“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.” — Ralph Marston

“My life needs editing.” — Mort Sahl

“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.” — Keanu Reeves

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” — Vince Lombardi

“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.” — Michel de Montaigne

“It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder

“I can have everything I love at the same time. I can have my family, I can have my friends, and I can have my quiet life, which I also like. I can have my football, and I can have everything together, and I don’t need to give up one to be better than what I am.” — Jose Mourinho

“Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.” — Sitting Bull

“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.” — Young Dolph

“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.” — Jawaharlal Nehru

“The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.” — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

“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.” — Pope Paul VI

“Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.” — Walt Whitman

“There are no regrets in life, just lessons.” — Jennifer Aniston

“Life is full of ups and downs. One needs to stay positive in life, no matter what.” — Shilpa Shinde

“All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.” — Clara Zetkin

“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.” — Ayn Rand

“If you don’t live your life, then who will?” — Rihanna

“I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don’t always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude.” — Jennifer Hyman

“In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” — Tom Bodett

“I like fish, and I also like bear’s paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear’s paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness.” — Mencius

“The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.” — Jhumpa Lahiri

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.” — Jim Carrey

“But there comes a moment in everybody’s life when he must decide whether he’ll live among the human beings or not – a fool among fools or a fool alone.” — Thornton Wilder

“From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.” — Arthur Ashe

“Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!” — Jurgen Klopp

“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.” — Barack Obama

“The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.” — Karen Salmansohn

“Life isn’t black and white. It’s a million gray areas, don’t you find?” — Ridley Scott

“I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don’t make it very easy to live your life.” — John Milius

“The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table – it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.” — Clint Smith

“I haven’t lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that’s from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.” — Kevin Costner

“Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on ‘being more’ rather than simply having more.” — Daisaku Ikeda

“Life is too short to be angry or sad for long.” — Alphonso Davies

“You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“A different language is a different vision of life.” — Federico Fellini

“‘Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.” — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“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.” — Og Mandino

“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.” — Tennessee Williams

“I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.” — Queen Elizabeth II

“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

“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.” — Wilma Rudolph

“Time is long but life is short.” — Stevie Wonder

“Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn’t ask to be a role model, because I’m not perfect.” — ASAP Rocky

“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.” — Thales

“Life comes with pain.” — Rod Wave

“Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.” — Gza

“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” — John Milton

“Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It’s important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It’s the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.” — Dorothy Height

“One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.” — Madame de Stael

“You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.” — Shakira

“Life is God’s novel. Let him write it.” — Isaac Bashevis Singer

“I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.” — Adam Sandler

“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.” — Lewis Carroll

“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.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.” — Carl Rogers

“Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things.” — Kenneth Branagh

“I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.” — Bruce Springsteen

“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.” — Jim Morrison

“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” — Anne Roiphe

“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.” — Anton Chekhov

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” — Ernest Hemingway

“When we speak the word ‘life,’ it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.” — Antonin Artaud

“To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never received my homage; and whilst life is in this persecuted body, he shall never receive it.” — William Wallace

“To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never received my homage; and whilst life is in this persecuted body, he shall never receive it.” — William Wallace

“Before puberty, it seems like I was more or less smiling a lot. I was really outgoing and wanted to have a happy life.” — Oneohtrix Point Never

“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” — Earl Nightingale

“An ‘unemployed’ existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.” — Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.” — Frederick Douglass

“Nothing in life is free, you always pay in the end.” — Wayne Static

“Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.” — Jesse Owens

“I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.” — Corazon Aquino

“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.” — Ronald Reagan

“Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!” — Edwin Markham

“Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.” — Menachem Begin

“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.” — Viggo Mortensen

“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.” — Jacques Yves Cousteau

“No matter where you are, what point in your life you’re at, it’s not the end.” — Kali Uchis

“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.” — Alan Cohen

“I think everyone is born with humor, but your life can beat it out of you, sadly, or you can be lucky enough to grow up in it.” — Catherine O’Hara

“When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.” — Dian Fossey

“I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter’s tough, but spring’s coming. I believe that there’s a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.” — Steve Southerland

“I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.” — Dean Koontz

“Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.” — Bill Gates

“What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.” — Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“Life is one long struggle in the dark.” — Lucretius

“It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.” — Mickey Mantle

“I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.” — Kendrick Lamar

“Enjoy life… that’s what we’re here for.” — David Faustino

“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.” — Domhnall Gleeson

“Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.” — Andrew Jackson

“Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.” — Gretchen Rubin

“If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person’s life in a positive light, and that’s what I want to do. That’s what it’s all about.” — Tiger Woods

“I have no fear of losing my life – if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.” — Steve Irwin

“Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.” — Danny Kaye

“May you live all the days of your life.” — Jonathan Swift

“Even in a world with much sadness, at its essence, life is beautiful.” — Dianne Reeves

“Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.” — Petrarch

“The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.” — Deepak Chopra

“Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.” — Pedro Almodovar

“Today’s a beautiful day, and yesterday was a beautiful day, so that means it’s a great life.” — Gnash

“To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.” — Jim Henson

“Music is the soundtrack of your life.” — Dick Clark

“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.” — Barbara Bush

“It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.” — Elizabeth Kenny

“You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.” — Jim Bouton

“Positivity, confidence, and persistence are key in life, so never give up on yourself.” — Khalid

“Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.” — Joni Eareckson Tada

“My life is mine to remember.” — Drake

“The only rule is don’t be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.” — Paris Hilton

“Life is short, and every moment is precious.” — Gad Saad

“Life’s pretty good, and why wouldn’t it be? I’m a pirate, after all.” — Johnny Depp

“The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.” — Michael Jackson

“Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.” — Tom Brady

“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.” — bell hooks

“Relax! Life is beautiful!” — David L. Wolper

“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.” — Hypatia

“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.” — Angelina Jolie

“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

“The influence of social media is unbelievable. It’s sad to see – it’s a fake life that some people live.” — Virgil van Dijk

“Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.” — Pythagoras

“We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone… and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.” — Sandra Day O’Connor

“Life is about perspective and how you look at something… ultimately, you have to zoom out.” — Whitney Wolfe Herd

“I’m taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.” — Pitbull

“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.” — Lucille Ball

“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.” — Nikki Giovanni

“At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.” — Ellen Key

“There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.” — M. Scott Peck

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” — Anais Nin

“All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‘Lord God.'” — Isaac Newton

“Ten percent of life is what happens to you. Ninety percent is how you respond to it.” — Jalen Hurts

“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” — Jean Paul

“People say I’m the Beatle who changed the most, but to me, that’s what life’s about.” — George Harrison

“Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.” — Al Franken

“Slow down and enjoy life.” — Skip Marley

“Life is anything but predictable.” — Dwayne Johnson

“Education is important because it prepares you for life.” — Bad Bunny

“It’s well known I’m a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it’s something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.” — Tom Cruise

“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.'” — Jose Rizal

“Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.” — Mary Kay Ash

“Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.” — Mary Kay Ash

“I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led what was by all appearances a risk-free life. But he was overweight, and heart disease runs in our family.” — Alex Honnold

“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.” — Lilly Singh

“If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.” — Tallulah Bankhead

“I am lucky to do what I do and enjoy life.” — Boban Marjanovic

“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.” — Sophia Loren

“Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.” — Mary McLeod Bethune

“Life is all about having a good time.” — Miley Cyrus

“Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can’t stay down. We can’t allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn’t think we could be that strong.” — Gail Devers

“This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can’t see how deep it is.” — Dennis Rodman

“Life is too short to do the things you don’t love doing.” — Bruce Dickinson

“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.” — Alia Bhatt

“Life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest.” — John Walters

“Life is strong and fragile. It’s a paradox… It’s both things, like quantum physics: It’s a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.” — Joan Jett

“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.” — Jordan Peterson

“Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.” — Charles M. Schulz

“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.” — Viktor E. Frankl

“Everything in life has its perfect moments.” — Charles Oliveira

“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.” — Doug Larson

“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” — Abraham Lincoln

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.” — Marian Wright Edelman

“The true currency of life is time, not money, and we’ve all got a limited stock of that.” — Robert Harris

“You don’t appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.” — Fabrice Muamba

“It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.” — Julius Caesar

“Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.” — Richard M. DeVos

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Neale Donald Walsch

“As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.” — Ben Hogan

“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” — Morris West

“Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.” — Dale Carnegie

“The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word ‘love’. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.” — Lydia M. Child

“Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.” — Florence Nightingale

“If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.” — Sigmund Freud

“The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.” — Andrew Brown

“Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.” — Tony Robbins

“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.” — Joanna Krupa

“I’m pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I’m tougher than I used to be. There’s been a lot of hardship along the way. But that’s what life is. And it’s how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you’re going to be.” — Nathaniel Rateliff

“Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.” — Garrison Keillor

“What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.” — Juliette Binoche

“Life is unpredictable and you never know.” — Breanna Stewart

“Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.” — Tom Petty

“What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it not enough that I here leave it even to unexperience to fancy the hardships, the anxieties, the dangers, even of the best life of a soldier?” — Deborah Sampson

“Life is a series of commas, not periods.” — Matthew McConaughey

“You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” — Roger Caras

“We forge the chains we wear in life.” — Charles Dickens

“The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.” — Thomas Hobbes

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.” — Desmond Tutu

“My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.” — Charles Lamb

“Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.” — Jon Bon Jovi

“The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.” — Lucretia Mott

“Life is really not easy, we all have our personal battles, but it is important that you really treasure yourself, love yourself and have a sense of self-worth.” — Heart Evangelista

“Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.” — Paracelsus

“‘Movement is life;’ and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.” — Jules Verne

“People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.” — Raoul Vaneigem

“If you go around being afraid, you’re never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you’ve got to have fun.” — Lindsey Vonn

“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.” — Anthony Hopkins

“Fatherhood made everything more straightforward. I was relieved that no longer did I have to agonise over what meaning I had in my life.” — Bill Bailey

“If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.” — Alexandre Dumas

“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” — Bernice Johnson Reagon

“I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life – all mystery and magic.” — Harry Houdini

“Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.” — Amy Winehouse

“I think when Jesus felt the pressure of life, of human life, often He would go off on His own to pray and get recharged and just find quiet time. I do this. I find that doing the same thing – going off to pray by myself and just spend time with God in prayer alone – is monumentally impactful to me.” — Jonathan Roumie

“Sonder is the realization that every individual passerby has their own life just as vivid and complex as yours.” — Brent Faiyaz

“Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.” — Stephen Gardiner

“The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

“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.” — Kyle Massey

“No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have.” — Dong Dong

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” — Joseph Chilton Pearce

“No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.” — Robert Baden-Powell

“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.” — Jeremy Clarkson

“Life is tough, and things don’t always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.” — Suga

“To be exceptional you have to be alone, that’s the life of a warrior.” — Chris Eubank Sr.

“Financial independence is paramount. My mom always says that when a woman is financially independent, she has the ability to live life on her own terms. I think that was the soundest advice that I ever got. No matter where you go in life or who you get married to, you have to be financially independent – whether you use it or not.” — Priyanka Chopra

“Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.” — Travis Barker

“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.” — Aaron Rodgers

“Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.” — Stephen King

“Doing anything with dedication impacts life positively.” — Ashish Vidyarthi

“I think retirement’s for old people. I’m still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I’m enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.” — Harrison Ford

“I tell young people – including my granddaughter – there is no shortcut in life. You have to take it one step at a time and work hard. And you have to give back.” — Hank Aaron

“Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that’s what makes it so boring.” — Edward Gorey

“Folk tales and myths, they’ve lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.” — Patrick Ness

“None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man’s life.” — Thomas Cole

“If I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard.” — Madam C. J. Walker

“The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.” — Ziggy Marley

“In life, as in chess, forethought wins.” — Charles Buxton

“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.” — Katharine Hepburn

“Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.” — Norman Vincent Peale

“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” — Samuel Johnson

“Some people come into our life as a blessing, while others come into our life as a lesson, so love them for who they are instead of judging them for who they are not.” — Yolanda Hadid

“The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.” — Alice Waters

“I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.” — George Burns

“Life is full of challenges, but I always have the Three Ps: Passion, patience and persistence. And the fourth one is pizza.” — Butch Hartman

“I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody’s damned business.” — Chester A. Arthur

“The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.” — Bette Davis

“In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.” — Ben Jonson

“I feel the older I get, the more I’m learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it’s all about finding yourself.” — Ringo Starr

“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.” — Henry David Thoreau

“We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.” — Henry Ward Beecher

“We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life and to an equal opportunity to reach their full potential as citizens. Those children who have been denied that right in the past deserve better than to see fences thrown up to deny them that right in the future.” — Thurgood Marshall

“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.” — James Earl Jones

“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.” — Eddie Cantor

“Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.” — Jimmy Buffett

“You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.” — Jane Goodall

“I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings breathe out carbon dioxide into the air, the leaves of plants pick this carbon dioxide up, and the plant gives off oxygen, which we can breathe in and keep our life going.” — Percy Julian

“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.” — Pearl S. Buck

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” — Steve Jobs

“Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.” — Linda Thompson

“The biggest thing for me is the passion that I’ve always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I did in life, my parents always told me to try to do my best at it and be my best. I can say going through different things that that passion is the most important part. It’s not skills or talent or any of that stuff.” — Sidney Crosby

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” — Oscar Wilde

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” — William James

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” — Plato

“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.” — Norman Cousins

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.” — William Wordsworth

“Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.” — Albert Camus

“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” — Michael Jordan

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.” — Stephen Hawking

“March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.” — Khalil Gibran

“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.” — Lord Byron

“If we don’t know life, how can we know death?” — Confucius

“And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.” — Isaac Asimov

“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.” — Albert Schweitzer

“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.” — Aristotle

“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Nothing in life is promised except death.” — Kanye West

“All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” — Walt Disney

“The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.” — Michel de Montaigne

“As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.” — Rosa Parks

“When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.” — George Washington Carver

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” — Buddha

“Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.” — Rabindranath Tagore

“I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.” — Maya Angelou

“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.” — Oscar Wilde

“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” — Helen Keller

“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” — Joseph Campbell

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.” — Winston Churchill

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” — Steve Jobs

“I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.” — Lou Holtz

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.” — Buddha

“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” — Bertrand Russell

“I do realize that God has given me so many blessings in my life. I mean, not only with football, but with the family that He’s blessed me with and the opportunity He’s given me to grow up in a home that embraces God.” — Sam Bradford

“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.” — Bruce Lee

“Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.” — Tennessee Williams

“Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.” — Tennessee Williams

“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.” — Myles Munroe

“Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.” — John Wooden

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” — Mark Twain

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anais Nin

“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” — Khalil Gibran

“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.” — Leo Tolstoy

“For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.” — John F. Kennedy

“If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.” — Lou Holtz

“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

“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.” — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” — George Eliot

“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.” — Lord Byron

“When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you’re making a commitment and difference in that person’s life. Encouragement really does make a difference.” — Zig Ziglar

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

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.” — Thomas Jefferson

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” — Joseph Campbell

“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” — Socrates

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” — Marie Curie

“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.” — Eckhart Tolle

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” — Muhammad Ali

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.” — Khalil Gibran

“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.” — Anthony Hopkins

“For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.” — Lou Holtz

“Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.” — Leo Buscaglia

“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” — Amelia Earhart

“Water is life, and clean water means health.” — Audrey Hepburn

“If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.” — Morgan Freeman

“Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.” — William Wordsworth

“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” — Helen Keller

“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.” — Gustave Flaubert

“The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.” — Bruce Springsteen

“You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.” — Taylor Swift

“Even if you have a terminal disease, you don’t have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.” — Nelson Mandela

“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.” — Buddha

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates

“The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.” — Norman Cousins

“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.” — Charles R. Swindoll

“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” — Albert Schweitzer

“It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

“The way to know life is to love many things.” — Vincent Van Gogh

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” — Rabindranath Tagore

“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.” — Maya Angelou

“Dreams are necessary to life.” — Anais Nin

“Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.” — Groucho Marx

“Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.” — Jackie Robinson

“Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.” — Napoleon Hill

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” — Albert Einstein

“Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.” — Plato

“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.” — Joseph Campbell

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” — Dr. Seuss

“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.” — Thomas Merton

“Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.” — Buddha

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” — Aristotle

“The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.” — Jim Rohn

“Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.” — W. E. B. Du Bois

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.” — Eckhart Tolle

“My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.” — Steve Jobs

“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.” — Lord Byron

“You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.” — Paulo Coelho

“Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.” — Immanuel Kant

“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.” — Robert Frost

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” — Steve Jobs

“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.” — Oscar Wilde

“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.” — Simone de Beauvoir

“Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.” — Lou Holtz

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.” — Elbert Hubbard

“Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.” — Jim Morrison

“Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.” — Bertrand Russell

“Just as Mars – a desert planet – gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.” — Buzz Aldrin

“Just as Mars – a desert planet – gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.” — Buzz Aldrin

“The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.” — Confucius

“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.” — Khalil Gibran

“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.” — Lao Tzu

“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.” — Marie Curie

“Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.” — John Lennon

“There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” — Christopher Morley

“God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.” — Stevie Wonder

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” — Oscar Wilde

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” — William James

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” — Plato

“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.” — Norman Cousins

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.” — William Wordsworth

“Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.” — Albert Camus

“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” — Michael Jordan

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.” — Stephen Hawking

“March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.” — Khalil Gibran

“If we don’t know life, how can we know death?” — Confucius

“And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.” — Isaac Asimov

“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.” — Aristotle

“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.” — Aristotle

“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Nothing in life is promised except death.” — Kanye West

“All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” — Walt Disney

“The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.” — Michel de Montaigne

“As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.” — Rosa Parks

“When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.” — George Washington Carver

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” — Buddha

“Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.” — Rabindranath Tagore

“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.” — Oscar Wilde

“I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.” — Maya Angelou

“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” — Helen Keller

“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” — Joseph Campbell

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.” — Winston Churchill

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” — Steve Jobs

“I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.” — Lou Holtz

“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.” — Buddha

“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” — Bertrand Russell

“I do realize that God has given me so many blessings in my life. I mean, not only with football, but with the family that He’s blessed me with and the opportunity He’s given me to grow up in a home that embraces God.” — Sam Bradford

“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.” — Bruce Lee

“Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.” — Mary Oliver

“Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.” — Tennessee Williams

“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.” — Myles Munroe

“Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.” — John Wooden

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” — Mark Twain

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anais Nin

“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” — Khalil Gibran

“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.” — Leo Tolstoy

“For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.” — John F. Kennedy

“If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.” — Lou Holtz

“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

“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.” — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” — George Eliot

“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.” — Lord Byron

“When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you’re making a commitment and difference in that person’s life. Encouragement really does make a difference.” — Zig Ziglar

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

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.” — Thomas Jefferson

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” — Joseph Campbell

“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” — Socrates

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” — Marie Curie

“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.” — Eckhart Tolle

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” — Muhammad Ali

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.” — Khalil Gibran

“Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.” — Dalai Lama

“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.” — Marcus Aurelius

“You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.” — Zig Ziglar

“Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.” — Lou Holtz

“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.” — Buddha

“My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.” — Winston Churchill

“Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That’s truly about the game, and in some ways that’s about life too.” — Michael Jordan

“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.” — Steve Jobs

“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.” — Bertrand Russell

“The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.” — Lou Holtz

“The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.” — Norman Cousins

“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” — Khalil Gibran

“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.” — Lord Byron

“You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man’s comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human.” — Rosa Parks

“A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.” — Benjamin Franklin

“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.” — Steve Jobs

“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.” — Lord Byron

“I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.” — Steve Jobs

“Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.” — Vincent Van Gogh

“Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.” — Myles Munroe

“With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.” — William Wordsworth

“In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.” — Eckhart Tolle

“Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.” — Nelson Mandela

“Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.” — Oprah Winfrey

“I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.” — Marie Curie

“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?” — Albert Camus

“Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.” — Plato

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.” — Joseph Campbell

“I’m an old man, and all my life I’ve said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it’s a national school.” — Lou Holtz

“Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.” — Albert Einstein

“If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.” — Confucius

“There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.” — George Washington Carver

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.” — Victor Hugo

“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.” — Helen Keller

“The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.” — Aristotle

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.” — Khalil Gibran

“Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.” — Victor Hugo

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