Quotes about Life

"Life is simple, it's just not easy." Author Unknown

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose." Robert Byrne

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Quotes About Life

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it." Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"There must be more to life than having everything." Maurice Sendak

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." Henry David Thoreau

Quotes About Life, Love and Death

“Life is but a brief moment. The years go by quickly and old age arrives suddenly before we have an inkling. People desire so many things and waste their days in vain. Some yearn for gold, others for power, yet others for glory and a higher station. But when death’s moment nears and they look back at their lives they’ve lived, they realize they’ve been happy only during those moments when they’ve loved.”Borje Vahamaki

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." Theodore Roosevelt

Quotes About Life by Deepak Chopra

"Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution." Deepak Chopra

"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible." Deepak Chopra

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future" Deepak Chopra

"The healthiest response to life is joy." Deepak Chopra

Quotes About Life by Oscar Wilde

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring." Oscar Wilde

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about." Oscar Wilde

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."Oscar Wilde

"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."Martin Luther King Jr.

Quotes About Life by Oprah Winfrey

“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”Oprah Winfrey

"Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional."Roger Crawford

Quotes About Life from Mother Teresa

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is bliss, taste it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it.Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it.Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it.Life is life, fight for it."Mother Teresa

"Never take life too seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway." Author Unknown

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."Cherokee Proverb

"I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer."Jim Carrey

"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

"I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they do their lives."Jim Rohn

"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."Dorothy Thompson

More Quotes about Life

"Life is the acceptance of responsibilities, or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations, or avoiding them."Ben Ames Williams

"Play with life, laugh with life, dance lightly with life, and smile at the riddles of life, knowing that life’s only true lessons are writ small in the margin."Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.Live the life you have imagined."Henry David Thoreau

"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."Abraham Lincoln

"Life only demands from you the strength you possess."Dag Hammarskjold

"Life is a battle in which we fall from wounds we receive in running away."William L. Sullivan

Quotes About Life by Women

"Where there is love there is life." Indira Gandhi

"Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life." Judy Blume

"Life's not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow." Terri Guillemets

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." Erma Bombeck

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone." Reba McEntire

“For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.”Bette Howland

“Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion.”Mary Manin Morrissey

"It takes courage to lead a life. Any life."Erica Jong

"If you play to win, as I do, the game never ends."Stan Mikita

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