The real meaning of life happens once we find out how to live it right. So what does it really mean to live? Surely there is more to life than just being able to breathe, eat and sleep. We must be able to live our life to the fullest by continually working on newer, richer, and deeper life-changing experiences. We must get a hold of things that money can’t buy such as personal growth in terms of our mental and spiritual states. We also have to consistently develop our intellect and learn new things about the world. Once we do all these things, life becomes more meaningful.
You don’t have to make drastic changes in order to live a happy life. Often times we already know what to do and have everything we need, we just forget to prioritize and recognize them. Aside from what we mentioned above, life is better if we see beyond all the chaos happening in this world, nurture positive relationships, focus on ourselves, be more appreciative, practice mindfulness, and spread more love instead of hate. You don’t have to do all of these things right away but every little step counts.
We prepared beautifully written quotes about life for you to read and hopefully inspire you to do better in life. Some of them are long, some are short, but they are all meaningful so we hope you’ll love them like we do.
Quotes About Life
1. 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
2. Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet. – Sarah Louise Delany
3. The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. – Anthony Robbins
4. Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one’s will. – Paul Gauguin
5. The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. – William James
6. Life’s too mysterious to take too seriously. – Mary Engelbreit
7. Life is to be enjoyed, not endured. – Gordon Hinckley
8. The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything. – Frank Sinatra
9. Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. – Maya Angelou
10. If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so. – Lev Grossman
11. Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while you could miss it. – Ferris Bueller
12. A fear-oriented man is always calculating, planning, arranging, safeguarding. His whole life is lost in this way. – Osho
13. Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular. – Roy T. Bennett
14. Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
15. Life is short and it’s up to you to make it sweet.
16. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
17. A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
18. Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
19. Easy is to enjoy life every day. Difficult is to give its real value.
20. A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.
21. Life is a game.
22. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein
23. Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. – Margaret Mitchell
24. Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. – Charles Swindoll
25. My life is my message. – Mahatma Gandhi
26. Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. – Seneca
27. Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of. – Bruce Lee
28. Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon
29. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. – Andre Gide
30. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. – Benjamin Franklin
31. Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius
32. Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. – Samuel Butler
33. In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln
34. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – William James
35. Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. -Elbert Hubbard
Get busy living or get busy dying. – Stephen King
36. Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things. – Kenneth Branagh
37. The trick in life is learning how to deal with it. – Helen Mirren
38. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. – Omar Khayyam
39. Life is too important to be taken seriously. – Oscar Wilde
40. What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold. – Bob Marley
42. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. – Oscar Wilde
43. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. – Oscar Wilde
44. It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. – Elizabeth Kenny
45. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. – Soren Kierkegaard
46. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on. – Robert Frost
47. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. – Helen Keller
48. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. – Henry David Thoreau
49. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. – Mae West
50. The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates
51. 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
52. Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. – Henry David Thoreau
53. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw
54. If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. – Albert Einstein
55. Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. – Mark Twain
56. Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. – Babe Ruth
57. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius
58. Keep calm and carry on. – Winston Churchill
59. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. – William Shakespeare
60. Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. – D. H. Lawrence
61. The greatest pleasure of life is love. -Euripides
62. Love the life you live. Live the life you love. – Bob Marley
63. Life is a long lesson in humility. – James M. Barrie
64. Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. – Charles Dickens
65. Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. – Norman Cousins
66. If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. – Rick Riordan
67. Life is a question and how we live it is our answer. – Gary Keller
68. Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of the next one. Don’t hope for a life without problems. There’s no such thing. Instead, hope for a life full of good problems. – Mark Manson
69. There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why. – William Barclay
70. Life does not owe you anything because life has already given you everything. – Ralph Marston
71. Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand. – Jack London
72. The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. – Thomas Szasz
73. Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. – Charles Bukowski
74. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. – Albert Einstein
75. Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer. – Ellen DeGeneres
76. When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye. – Cathy Guisewite
77. Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something. – William Goldman
78. The planet is fine. The people are fucked. – George Carlin
79. Never trust people who smile constantly. They’re either selling something or not very bright. – Laurell K. Hamilton
80. Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius
81. Keep looking up… that’s the secret of life. – Snoopy
82. When you arise in the morning think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. – Marcus Aurelius
83. Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful. – Thich Nhat Hanh
84. There is no education like adversity. – Benjamin Disraeli
85. I will go anywhere as long as it’s forward. – David Livingston
86. Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. – Emily Dickinson
87. Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure. – Napoleon Hill
88. In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein
89. Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
90. May you live all the days of your life. – Jonathan Swift
91. Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. – Zhuangzi
92. It always seems impossible until it’s done. – Nelson Mandela
93. Defeat is simply a signal to press onward. – Helen Keller
94. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan
95. The first step is you have to say that you can. – Will Smith
96. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. – Dale Carnegie
97. The purpose of our lives is to be happy. – Dalai Lama
98. Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. – Christopher Reeve
99. Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about. – Marilyn Monroe
100. There is only one happiness in life – to love and to be loved. – George Sand
101. Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine. – Mario Fernandez
102. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. – Truman Capote
103. The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd.
The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has been before. – Albert Einstein
104. All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low. – John Wooden
105. However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. – Stephen Hawking
106. I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive. – Joan Rivers
107. The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. – Eminem
108. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. – Eleanor Roosevelt
109. Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
110. Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I’ve certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you – and some of those places are kind of wonderful. – Alan Ball
111. Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key. – Alan Bennett
112. Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. – Samuel Butler
113. Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present. – Alan Watts
114. My life is my argument. – Albert Schweitzer
115. The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. – Albert Schweitzer
116. The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. – Albert Schweitzer
117. Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal. – Albert Schweitzer
118. Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together. – Alejandro Jodorowsky
119. Life is to be entered upon with courage. – Alexis de Tocqueville
120. Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. – Anais Nin
121. Life is a gift, given in trust – like a child. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
122. Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. – Anne Wilson Schaef
123. Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art. – Anselm Kiefer
124. Life is a dance floor. So dance, don’t miss the chance. – Bar Refaeli
125. Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor. – Benjamin Disraeli
126. Life is beautiful because it doesn’t last. – Brit Marling
127. To live is to express, and to express, you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation. – Bruce Lee
128. The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems. – Bruce Lee
129. Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up – it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale. Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not. – Bruce Lee
130. The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination. – Carl Rogers
131. Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. – Carl Sandburg
132. Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. – Charlie Chaplin
133. The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. – Citium Zeno
134. Life is a lively process of becoming. – Douglas MacArthur
135. Life is amazing. Life is fucking messy. Life is what you make of it. – Dwayne Johnson
136. The hardest thing about life is that every now and then you have to do things so you have something to tweet about. – Andy Borowitz
137. The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets. – Al McGuire
138. Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies. – Adrienne Gusoff
139. Life is a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest. – Wilson Mizner
140. Life is a roller coaster ride with no lap bar. – Greg Tamblyn
141. Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story. – Ashleigh Brilliant
142. Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is 100 percent. – R.D. Laing
143. If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. – Johnny Carson
144. In the game of life, it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. – Lee Trevino
145. Life is hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid. – Michael Crichton
146. My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. – Woody Allen
147. Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes. – Lewis Grizzard
148. Life is like asking the pilot of an airplane, “Where are we?” By the time he answers, you’re not there anymore. – Phil Proctor
149. Most of life is driving somewhere and then driving back and wondering why the hell you went. – John Updike
150. Life is not too bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. – Christopher Sherwood
151. When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain
152. Life is one duct tape job after another, interrupted by occasional chocolate chip cookies. – Greg Tamblyn
153. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. – William Mather Lewis
154. Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must. – Bob Dylan
155. Everyone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain. – Erica Baican
156. Life is just a bowl of cherries.
157. Life is better when you’re laughing.
158. The less routine the more life.
159. Every moment I spend with you is like a beautiful dream come true.
160. Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
161. The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
162. The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
163. Sometimes my life is like a movie, full of fantasy and dreams, all because of you.
164. Life is so beautiful.
165. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. – Buddha
166. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
167. Life is risky, love is dangerous, both are worth it.
168. My mama always said life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get. – Forrest Gump
169. 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
170. At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are, and I feel like we are so blessed to have the support system and the best family to really just support each other no matter what we’re going through. – Kim Kardashian
171. 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
172. Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky. – Barbara Kingsolver
173. I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. 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. Delicious Ambiguity. – Gilda Radner
174. Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be a reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. – Lao Tzu
175. 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
176. Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don’t and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.
177. Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could. – Louise Erdrich
178. 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
179. Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. -Tony Robbins
Danyal Ahmed says
Excellent Quotes Dude. ” Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” But this quote about life is very rare and Inspirational for me.