- Quotes about life
- “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 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
- “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.” —Josh Billings
- “The best gift anyone can give, I believe, is the gift of sharing themselves.” —Oprah
- “The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” —Oprah
- “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 is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” —Albert Einstein
- “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
- “Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” —Mary Oliver
- “You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.” ―Mary Oliver
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” —Nelson Mandela
- “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” —Confucius
- “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
- “You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.” —Vernon Howard
- “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
- “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” —Socrates
- “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
- “Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” —Ernest Holmes
- “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “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
- “If life were predictable, it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” —Emily Dickinson
- “All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” —Havelock Ellis
- “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” —Sydney J. Harris
- “To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.” —Jerry Seinfeld
- “The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” —Henry Miller
- “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” —Bruce Lee
- “People skills are the social lubricant of life.” —Vanessa Van Edwards
- "I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back." — Ann Richards
- "All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love." — Johnny Cash
- "I don't go by the rule book…I lead from the heart, not the head." — Princess Diana
- "The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation." — Eudora Welty
- "The time is always right to do what is right." — Martin Luther King Jr.
- "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." — Audrey Hepburn
- "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
- "If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one." — Dolly Parton
- "Despite the forecast, live like it's spring." — Lilly Pulitzer
- "If I'd have done all the things I was supposed to have done, I'd be really tired." — Willie Nelson
- "If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." — Napoleon Hill
- "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." — Margaret Thatcher
- "Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." — Nido Qubein
- "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." — Zig Ziglar
- "Life has no limitations, except the ones you make." — Les Brown
- "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." — Mark Twain
- "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." — William Faulkner
- "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose." — Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go
- "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." — Jackie Robinson
- "The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day." — Julia Roberts
- "Now it's the little moments that stop me in my tracks, because that's what life is all about." — Joanna Gaines
- “We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.”
- “Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.”
- “Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions.
- “When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return
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