Life can be as challenging as it is rewarding, and sometimes, a few words can offer a new perspective or shed light on difficult times. Whether you’re looking for inspiration, comfort, or a moment of contemplation, these deep quotes about life are a source of inspiration and reflection, offering you a chance to connect with thoughts that resonate with your own life’s stories
- “The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.” – J. Robert Oppenheimer
- “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins
- “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
- Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
- “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
- “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 life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
- “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
- “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller
- “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” – Marilyn Monroe
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
- “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein
- “You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” – Brian Tracy
- “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
- “Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise Delany
- “Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” – Grandma Moses
- Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou
- “To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” – Emily Dickinson
- “Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.” – Hippocrates
- “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” – Seneca
- “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Søren Kierkegaard
- “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.” – Lao Tzu
- “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
- “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
- Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” – Mark Twain
- “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 isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” – William Morris
- “Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.” – Vivian Komori
- “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” – Cesare Pavese
- “Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.” – Oliver Goldsmith
- “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” – Kevin Kruse
- “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” – Helen Keller
- “The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.” – Robert F. Kennedy
- “The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” – Bertrand Russell
- “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” – Pablo Picasso
- “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
- “Life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
- “Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.” – Irving Berlin
- “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha
- “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
- “The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.” – Peter Hagerty
- “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.” – Corita Kent
- “Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” – Lillian Dickson
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
- “Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it.” – Sathya Sai Baba
- “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
- “Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.” – Margaret Mitchell
- “Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise Delany
- “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
- “The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” – William James
- “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
- “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 isn’t about finding pieces of a puzzle. It’s about creating and putting those exceptional pieces together.” – Glen Van Dekken
- “Life is a journey that has a lot of different paths, but any path you choose use it as your destiny.” – Ryan Leonard
- “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” – Voltaire
- “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Khalil Gibran
- “Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.” – Corita Kent
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
- “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.” – William James
- “Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” – Charles Dickens
- “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn
- “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Charles Swindoll
- “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” – Forrest Gump (Character from “Forrest Gump”, Movie)
- “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” – John Green
- “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, but learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
- “Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” – Ernest Holmes
- “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
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “Life is short, but it is wide. This too shall pass.” – Rebecca Wells
- “The art of life is to live in the present moment.” – Emmet Fox
- “Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
- “The healthiest response to life is joy.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” – Kate Winslet
- “The greatest pleasure of life is love.” – Euripides
- “Life is too important to be taken seriously.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” – John W. Gardner
- “Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.” – Fran Lebowitz
- “Life is a long lesson in humility.” – James M. Barrie
- “Life is really about moving on.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Life is a series of baby steps.” – Hoda Kotb
- “To live will be an awfully big adventure.” – J.M. Barrie
- “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
- “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Get busy living or get busy dying.” – Stephen King
- “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
- “Life is a game and true love is a trophy.” – Rufus Wainwright
- “The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” – Robert Byrne
- “The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.” – Gustave Flaubert
- “Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
- “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
- “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo
- “For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.'” – John Greenleaf Whittier
- “Tears are words the heart can’t express.” – Gerard Way
- “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” – Jim Rohn
- “Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.” – Christopher Morley
- “Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.” – David Levithan
- “There is a time for departure, even when there’s no certain place to go.” – Tennessee Williams
- “Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine
- “It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” – Henry Rollins
- “It’s amazing how someone can break your heart, and you can still love them with all the little pieces.” – Ella Harper
- “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” – Isaac Asimov
- “The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – M. Kathleen Casey
- “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” – José N. Harris
- “Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” – Jean de La Fontaine
- “The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” – Carl Jung
- “There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.” – Dante Alighieri
- “Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.” – Nicholas Sparks
- “Sometimes it takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to value presence.” – Unknown
- “Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.” – Victor Hugo
- “Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” – Khalil Gibran
- “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” – Khalil Gibran
- “The saddest thing in the world is loving someone who used to love you.” – Anonymous
- “To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.” – Dorothy Thompson
- “A million words would not bring you back, I know because I tried, neither would a million tears, I know because I cried.” – Unknown
- “Sometimes you’ve got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.” – Christopher Barzak
- “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
- “Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches.” – Osho
- “Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- “The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.” – Thomas Carlyle
- “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling
- “You are free to make whatever choice you want, but you are not free from the consequences of the choice.” – Anonymous
- “Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.” – John C. Maxwell
- “The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.” – Joe Andrew
- “Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.” – Carmelo Anthony
- “Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.” – William Jennings Bryan
- “In every single thing you do, you are choosing a direction. Your life is a product of choices.” – Dr. Kathleen Hall
- “And in the end, it is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela
- “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” – Denis Waitley
- “Life is about choices. Some we regret, some we’re proud of. Some will haunt us forever. The message: we are what we chose to be.” – Graham Brown
- “We are our choices.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
- “Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.” – Aristotle
- “Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.” – Tony Robbins
- “It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” – Roy Disney
- “Life is the sum of all your choices.” – Albert Camus
- “Every choice you make has an end result.” – Zig Ziglar
- “The choices we make determine our destiny.” – Brandon October
- “You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.” – Richard Bach
- “You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.” – Sammy Davis, Jr.
- “The 3 C’s of Life: Choices, Chances, Changes. You must make a choice to take a chance or your life will never change.” – Zig Ziglar
- “In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Life is a choice – as is how you handle the pitfalls along its bumpy road.” – Julie Donner Andersen
- “Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.” – Angelina Jolie
- “Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.” – Learned Hand
- “Your life is a result of the choices you make. If you don’t like your life, it is time to start making better choices.” – Anonymous
- “We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.” – Ken Levine
