50 Compelling Life Quotes
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away.” – Maya Angelou
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” – J.K. Rowling
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” – Allen Saunders
“Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” – Ashton Kutcher
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road’ll take you there.” – George Harrison
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” – Michael Cunningham
“Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“May you live every day of your life.”- Jonathan Swift
“Get busy living or get busy dying.” – Stephen King
“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” – Rick Riordan
“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.” – Cassandra Clare
“Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.” – 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
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’” – John Greenleaf Whittier
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.
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Søren Kierkegaard
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.” – D.H. Lawrence
“Life is to be enjoyed, not endured” – Gordon B. Hinckley
“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.” – Chuck Palahniuk
“Don’t take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.” – Colleen Hoover
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.” – Natalie Babbitt
“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another.” – Helen Keller
“Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” – Kate Winslet
Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” – Emily Dickinson
“The past has no power over the present moment.” – Eckhart Tolle
“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
“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
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.” – Peter Shaffer
“It is not the length of life, but the depth.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee
“Life has no remote, get up and change it yourself!” – Mark A. Cooper
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” – Randy Pausch
“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.” – Paulo Coelho
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” – Les Brown
“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