Life Quotes
Life can be so hard to comprehend. For years, many have tried to figure out its meaning, and the following quotes are among those which have come close to unlocking its mystery.
Live every act fully, as if it were your last.
- Buddha
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
- Agatha Christie
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver
Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
- James Dean
Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no one can live.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?
- Sigmund Freud
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
- Robert Frost
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
- Vincent van Gogh
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?
- Charles Schulz
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
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
Sometimes it is pleasant, other times tragic, and occasionally, even strangely amusing. Life’s exact nature is difficult to define, but the way that we live ours is what defines us as a person.
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