Life is what one makes out of it. This might sound classical, philosophical and even absurd to a number of individuals but this is one way of looking at the most beautiful mystery of this world – Life.
The various philosophers and academic personalities preach and teach one important thing about life – that we are each responsible for creating and ruining our lives in the most absurd situations that life throws at us.
There are a number of times when we feel like we are standing at the edge of a cliff, major flows of emotions cloud our thoughts and it is then that one needs to be absolutely composed and look for the right path.
The right path is not always easy but it certainly takes you to the right destination and creates a strong personality with the right wisdom.
Well, to understand the beauty of the biggest mystery of this universe, we bring to you a compiled list of Top 100 Life Quotes and Sayings, which will help you look at life with a different approach.
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Top 100 Life Quotes | Short Quotes about Life with Deep Meaning
(100)
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
— Lou Holtz
(99)
“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
— Margaret Mitchell
(98)
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
— Albert Einstein
(97)
“My life is my message.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
(96)
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.”
— Mark Twain
(95)
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(94)
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
— Charles Darwin
(93)
“Life is trying things to see if they work.”
— Ray Bradbury
(92)
“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.”
— Eva Burrows
(91)
“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”
— Les Brown
(90)
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
— Albert Einstein
(89)
“Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.”
— Paulo Coelho
(88)
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
— Oscar Wilde
(87)
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
— Morrie Schwartz
(86)
“I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.”
— Doug Hutchison
(85)
“Where there is love there is life.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
(84)
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”
— Oprah Winfrey
(83)
“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”
— Leo Tolstoy
(82)
“A fear-oriented man is always calculating, planning, arranging, safeguarding. His whole life is lost in this way.”
— Osho
(81)
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
— John Hughes
(80)
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
— Helen Keller
(79)
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
— Socrates
(78)
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
— Henry David Thoreau
(77)
“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”
— Carol Burnett
(76)
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
— Mark Twain
(75)
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
— Confucius
(74)
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
— Albert Einstein
(73)
“Life isn’t about getting and having; it’s about giving and being.”
— Kevin Kruse
(72)
“Love the life you live. Live the life you love.”
— Bob Marley
(71)
“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.”
— D.H. Lawrence
(70)
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
— Steve Jobs
(69)
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
— Mark Twain
(68)
“It’s better to dance than to march through life.”
— Yoko Ono
(67)
“The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.”
— Indira Gandhi
(66)
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
— Anais Nin
(65)
“Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.”
— Sarah Louise Delany
(64)
“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
(63)
“Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one’s will.”
— Paul Gauguin
(62)
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.”
— William James
(61)
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.”
— Henry David Thoreau
(60)
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
— Plato
(59)
“Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!”
— Epictetus
(58)
“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
(57)
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”
— Paulo Coelho
(56)
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
— Henry Miller
(55)
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
— Emily Dickinson
(54)
“You have just one life to live. It is yours. Own it, claim it, live it, do the best you can with it.”
— Hillary Clinton
(53)
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
— Joshua J. Marine
(52)
“Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.”
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
(51)
“You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.”
— Erica Jong
(50)
“Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.”
— Jonathan Swift
(49)
“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
— Michael Jordan
(48)
“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
— Oprah Winfrey
(47)
“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.”
— Marilyn Monroe
(46)
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
— George Sand
(45)
“It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.”
— Mae Jemison
(44)
“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”
— Grandma Moses
(43)
“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
— Cathy Guisewite
(42)
“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
— William Goldman
(41)
“Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.”
— Jack London
(40)
“Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
— Thomas Edison
(39)
“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”
— Sydney J. Harris
(38)
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
— Bruce Lee
(37)
“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
(36)
“Life is made of ever so many partings welding together.”
— Charles Dickens
(35)
“The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
(34)
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
— Norma Cousins
(33)
“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
— Rick Riordan
(32)
“Life is a question and how we live it is our answer.”
— Gary Keller
(31)
“There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.”
— William Barclay
(30)
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
— Howard Thurman
(29)
“Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything.”
— Ralph Marston
(28)
“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.”
— Jack Kerouac
(27)
“What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.”
— Charlie Chaplin
(26)
“Life’s too mysterious to take too serious.”
— Mary Engelbreit
(25)
“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”
— Frank Sinatra
(24)
“A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do.”
— Osho
(23)
“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”
— Alfred Adler
(22)
“If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so.”
— lev Grossman
(21)
“In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.”
— Gordon B. Hinckley
(20)
“In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life. It goes on.”
— Robert Frost
(19)
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
— Soren Kiekegaard
(18)
“It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.”
— Elizabeth Kenny
(17)
“When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”
— Yann Martel
(16)
“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
— Jimi Hendrix
(15)
“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”
— Oscar Wilde
(14)
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
— Omar Khayyam
(13)
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
— Paulo Coelho
(12)
“The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.”
— Helen Mirren
(11)
“Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, don’t get so worked up about things.”
— Kenneth Branagh
(10)
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
— Elbert Hubbard
(9)
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
— William James
(8)
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime…”
— Khaled Hosseini
(7)
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”
— John Lennon
(6)
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
(5)
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw
(4)
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
(3)
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
— Abraham Lincoln
(2)
“Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
— Samuel Butler
(1)
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
— Marcus Aurelius
More Inspirational Quotes about Life
(101)
“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
— David Russell
(102)
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
(103)
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
(104)
“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
(105)
“Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.”
— Denis Waitley
(106)
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
(107)
“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.”
— Kevin Kruse
(108)
“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
(109)
“Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.”
— Tennessee Williams
(110)
“A life without a cause is a life without effect.”
— Paulo Coelho
We hope these enlightening Life Quotes and Sayings, showcasing the beauty of various emotions along with the right amalgamation of nature playing a crucial role in life, with the nature photographs has inspired you to not waste the beautiful gift called Life and work harder to achieve all the dreams that you have always dreamt of. Keep yourself inspired, help inspire others.
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