Life Quotes

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

~ John Lennon

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.

~ John Greenleaf Whittier

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

~ Ayn Rand

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

~ Walt Disney Company

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

~ Cassandra Clare

If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.

~ Chad Sugg

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

~ Abigail Van Buren

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.

~ Audrey Hepburn

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

~ Lemony Snicket

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.

~ Woody Allen

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

~ Maya Angelou

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

~ Douglas Coupland

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

~ William Goldman

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!

~ George Carlin

People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.

~ Jim Morrison

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

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

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

~ Albert Camus

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.

~ Terry Pratchett

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

~ Dale Carnegie

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

~ Margaret Mitchell

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

~ Albert Schweitzer

Some people have lives, some people have music.

~ John Green

Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.

~ Stephanie Klein

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

~ E.e. Cummings

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

~ Cassandra Clare

Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

~ Langston Hughes

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

~ Haruki Murakami

Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are.Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world.

~ Lao Tzu

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.

~ Steve Maraboli

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

~ D.h. Lawrence

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

~ Terry Pratchett

The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.

~ Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming Wow! What a Ride!

~ Hunter S. Thompson

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

~ John Lennon

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

~ Nicolas Chamfort

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

~ Abraham Lincoln