Everyone experiences life differently. No matter the peak or valley you find yourself standing in, there are some wise words of wisdom that capture the emotion and experience. These good quotes about life give perspective and present words of truth to the opportunity we have been given for living today.
Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
– John F. Kennedy
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
– Thomas A. Edison
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
– Abraham Lincoln
The unexamined life is not worth living.
– Socrates
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.
– George Clooney
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
– Oprah Winfrey
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
– Euripides
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
– George Bernard Shaw
Life is about making an impact, not making an income.
– Kevin Kruse
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.
– Robert Frost
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
– John Green
In order to write about life first you must live it.
– Ernest Hemingway
I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning.
– John McLeod
Happiness is a state of activity.
– Aristotle
As you know, life is an echo; we get what we give.
– David DeNotaris
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
– Oscar Wilde
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.
– Henry Ford
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
– Oscar Wilde
May you live every day of your life.
– Jonathan Swift
The healthiest response to life is joy.
– Deepak Chopra
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.
– Stephen Chbosky
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
– Confucius
This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.
– George V. Higgins
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
– Mae West
There are no regrets in life, just lessons.
– Jennifer Aniston
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
– Seneca
Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.
– Stephen Hawking
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
– Aristotle
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
– Albert Camus
Every moment is a fresh beginning.
– T.S. Eliot
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
– Emily Dickinson
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
– Albert Einstein
Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
– E. E. Cummings
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
– Helen Keller
Reality continues to ruin my life.
– Bill Watterson
Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.
– John Lennon
Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t get any better, it can.
– Nicholas Sparks
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
– Gail Sheehy
Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
– Dr. Seuss
Make each day your masterpiece.
– John Wooden
Everything you can imagine is real.
– Pablo Picasso
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
– Leo Burnett
As my knowledge of things grew I felt more and more the delight of the world I was in.
– Helen Keller
The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
– Epictetus
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another.
– Helen Keller
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
– Nelson Mandela
I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.
– Neil Armstrong
Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
– Roy T. Bennett
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
– George Bernard Shaw
Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Where there is love there is life.
– Mahatma Gandhi
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
– Abraham Lincoln
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
– Babe Ruth
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.
– Kahlil Gibran
Life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us then speak the truth.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Your image isn’t your character. Character is what you are as a person.
– Derek Jeter
Live for each second without hesitation.
– Elton John
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.
– Vivian Greene
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
– Soren Kierkegaard
Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.
– Roy T. Bennett
Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.
– Ashton Kutcher
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
– Kurt Vonnegut
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
– Elbert Hubbard
All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
– J.M. Barrie
I like criticism. It makes you strong.
– LeBron James
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
– Lillian Dickson
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
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
– Winnie the Pooh
Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
– Benjamin Franklin
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
– Stephanie Klein
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
– Mark Twain
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
There are no mistakes, only opportunities.
– Tina Fey
Keep calm and carry on.
– Winston Churchill
The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.
– Audrey Hepburn
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
– Oprah Winfrey
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
– Marcus Aurelius
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
– Paulo Coelho
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
– Marthe Troly-Curtin
It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.
– Roy T. Bennett
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
– George Halas
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
– Babe Ruth
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
– William Goldman
Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully.
– Albert Camus
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
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
– Jack London
Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
– Kate Winslet
Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.
– Jack Kerouac
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
– John Lennon
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
– Dolly Parton
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
– Buddha
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
– Victor Hugo
Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.
– Marilyn Monroe
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
– Oscar Wilde
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
– Isaac Asimov
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.
– Michael Jordan
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
– Seneca
Get busy living or get busy dying.
– Stephen King
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
– Albert Schweitzer
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
– Khaled Hosseini
Life is a question and how we live it is our answer.
Gary Keller
It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
– Lucille Ball
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.
– Confucius
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
– Charles Swindoll
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
– Anais Nin
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
– Dr. Seuss
Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.
– Kobe Bryant
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
– John Green
The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.
– Frank Sinatra
Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.
– Margaret Mitchell
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
– Albert Einstein
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
– Allen Saunders
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
– D.H. Lawrence
Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.
– Rose Kennedy
Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
– Will Smith
Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this.
– Celine Dion
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
– Seneca
If you don’t know where you’re going, any road’ll take you there
– George Harrison
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
– Dennis Waitley
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
– Mark Twain
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
– Dalai Lama
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
– Grandma Moses
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
– Heraclitus
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
– Nicolas Chamfort
The only joy in the world is to begin.
– Cesare Pavese
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
– Dalai Lama
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
– Aesop
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
– Albert Einstein
Today, you have 100% of your life left.
– Tom Landry
You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
– Michael Phelps
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
– Seneca
The best portion of a good man’s life is his little nameless, unencumbered acts of kindness and of love.
– Wordsworth
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
– Omar Khayyam
I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
– Woody Allen
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
– Soren Kierkegaard
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
– Mark Twain
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
– Les Brown
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
– Michael Cunningham
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
– Dr. Seuss
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.
– Steve Jobs
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
– Epictetus
The secret of happiness, you see is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
