Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- Buddha
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
- Cesare Pavese
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
- Eminem
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
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
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
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
- Audrey Hepburn
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
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
- Henry Miller
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
- Paul Cezanne
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
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
- Erma Bombeck
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 mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- Josh Billings
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
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
- Elon Musk
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
- Vernon Howard
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
- Rose Kennedy
Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie
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
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
- William Wallace
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
- Hans Christian Andersen
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
- Bertrand Russell
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
- Emily Dickinson
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
- Napoleon Hill
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
Don't go through life, grow through life.
- Eric Butterworth
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
- Scott Hamilton
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
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
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
- Irving Berlin
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
- Charlie Chaplin
Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.
- George Gershwin
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
- John Henry Newman
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
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
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
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
- Boris Pasternak
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
- Grandma Moses
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz
The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
- Jimi Hendrix
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
- William Feather
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
- William Hazlitt
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
- Havelock Ellis
Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
- Jack Kerouac
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
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
- Euripides
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
- Sydney J. Harris
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
- Novalis
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
- Truman Capote
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
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
- Philip Green
We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
- Lauryn Hill
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
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
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
- William Osler
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
- Seneca
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
- Saint Augustine
To know nothing is the happiest life.
- Desiderius Erasmus
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
- Alexis Carrel
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
Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.
- William Christopher Handy
Life is never easy for those who dream.
- Robert James Waller
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
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
Life is a horizontal fall.
- Jean Cocteau
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
- Corita Kent
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
- Horace
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
- O. Henry
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
- Rebecca West
Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
- Morihei Ueshiba
I want to live my life, not record it.
- Jackie Kennedy
To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.
- Jerry Seinfeld
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