Here are 50 quotes about life from some of the great authors, leaders, and thinkers. Their opinions, thoughts and sayings might help answer your questions such as:
1. What is life?
2. What is the purpose of life?
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3. Life is a river, a
wise friend told
me. It's flowing.
You're never at the
same place twice.
Kamal Ravikant
4. Life is like
a game of chess. To win you
have to make a move. Knowing
which move to make comes
with insight and knowledge,
and by learning the lessons
that are acculated along the
way. We become each and
every piece within the game
called life.
Allan Rufus
5. Life is like a novel. It's
filled with suspense.
You have no idea what
is going to happen
until you turn the
page.
Sidney Sheldon
6. Life is an
experiment in
which you may
fail or succeed.
Explore more,
expect least.
Santosh Kalwar
7. Life is an arrow -
therefore you must
know
What mark to aim at,
how to use the bow -
Then draw it to the
head and let it go.
Henry Van Dyke
8. Life is a matter of
learning one thing
after another and
the only way to do
that is by doing it
yourself.
Jay Conrad Levinson
9. Life is what we
make it, always has
been, always will
be.
Grandma Moses
10. Life is simply a
collection of little
lives, each lived
one day at a time.
Nicholas Sparks
11. Life is a book, and
there are a
thousand pages
I have not read.
Cassandra Clare
12. Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge -
meet it. Life is a dream
- realize it. Life is a
sacrifice - offer it. Life
is love - enjoy it.
Sai Baba
13. Life is all about
chances. You might
be safer not taking
any. But playing it
totally safe means
you're only existing.
Not living.
Ellen Hopkins
14. Life isn't about
waiting for the
storm to pass...It's
about learning to
dance in the rain.
Vivian Greene
15. Life does not consist
mainly - or even largely
- of facts and
happenings. It consists
mainly of the storm of
thoughts that is forever
blowing through one's
head.
Mark Twain
17. 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
18.
19. 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
20. The purpose of life is to be
useful, to be responsible,
to be honorable, to be
compassionate. It is,
above all, to matter: to
count, to stand for
something, to have made
some difference that you
lived at all.
Leo C. Rosten
22. Be glad of life
because it gives
you the chance to
love and to work
and to play and to
look up at the
stars.
Henry Van Dyke
23. The life of man is a
journey; a journey that
must be traveled,
however bad the roads
or the accommodation.
Oliver Goldsmith
24. 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
25. Every life has a
measure of sorrow,
and sometimes this
is what awakens us.
Steven Tyler
26. It's impossible to go
through life unscathed.
Nor should you want to.
By the hurts we
accumulate, we
measure both our
follies and our
accomplishments.
Christopher Paolini
27. One of the hardest
lessons in life is
letting go. Whether
it's guilt, anger,
love, loss or
betrayal.
Source Unknown
28. You can’t always have
the best of everything.
Because for a life to be
real, you need it all:
good and bad, beach
and concrete, the
familiar and the
unknown, big talkers
and small towns.
Sarah Dessen
29. A life spent making
mistakes is not only
more honorable, but
more useful than a life
spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
30. When it rains it pours.
Maybe the art of life is
to convert tough
times to great
experiences: we can
choose to hate the
rain or dance in it.
Joan Marques
31. Life has no remote...
Get up and
change it yourself.
Mark A. Cooper
32. A great pleasure
in life is doing
what people say
you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
34. Life begins at the
end of your comfort
zone.
Neale Donald Walsch
35. Life is short, and
it is up to you to
make it sweet.
Sarah Louise Delany
36. A man who dares
to waste one hour
of time has not
discovered the
value of life.
Charles Darwin
37. Yes, you can lose
somebody overnight,
yes, your whole life
can be turned upside
down. Life is short. It
can come and go like
a feather in the wind.
Shania Twain
38. The good life is one
inspired by love
and guided by
knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
40. Don’t let life
discourage you;
everyone who got
where he is had to
begin where he was.
Richard L. Evans
41. However difficult life
may seem, there is
always something
you can do, and
succeed at. It
matters that you
don’t just give up.
Stephen Hawking
42. Life at any time can
become difficult: life
at any time can
become easy. It all
depends upon how
one adjusts oneself
to life.
Morarji Desai
43. Do not be too timid
and squeamish
about your actions.
All life is an
experiment. The
more experiments
you make the
better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
44. Take a chance. All life
is a chance. The man
who goes farthest is
generally the one
who is willing to do
and dare.
Dale Carnegie
45. The truth is you don’t
know what is going to
happen tomorrow.
Life is a crazy ride,
and nothing is
guaranteed.
Eminem
46. Life moves pretty
fast. If you don't
stop and look
around once in a
while, you could
miss it.
Ferris Bueller
47. Slow down and enjoy
life. It's not only the
scenery you miss by
going too fast - you
also miss the sense
of where you are
going and why.
Eddie Cantor
48. Dwell on the beauty
of life. Watch the
stars, and see
yourself running
with them.
Marcus Aurelius
49. Life should be
touched, not
strangled. You’ve
got to relax, let it
happen at times,
and at others move
forward with it.
Ray Bradbury