Inspirational Life Quotes With Images
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
– CONFUCIUS
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
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
– LEONARDO DA VINCI
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
–MARK TWAIN
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
–BUDDHA
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?
–BOB MARLEY
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
-EMILY DICKINSON
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
–JACKIE ROBINSON
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
–WINSTON CHURCHILL
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
–FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.
– BUDDHA
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
– SOCRATES
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
– STEVE JOBS
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
–SOCRATES
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
– JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
– CARL JUNG
All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
–JOHN WOODEN
Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
– FRAN LEBOWITZ
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
–JOHN LENNON
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
–ALFRED ADLER
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
– WILLIAM MORRIS
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
–TRUMAN CAPOTE
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
–JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.
– GEORGE WHITEFIELD
Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
– KAREN HORNEY
Life is too short to work so hard.
–VIVIEN LEIGH
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
–MARK TWAIN
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
-HELEN HAYES
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
– MARK TWAIN
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
–MARK TWAIN
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
–HENRY DAVID THOREAU
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
– ALBERT EINSTEIN
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that is not.
-OSCAR WILDE
It is not length of life, but depth of life,
– RALPH WALDO EMERSON
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
– RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
– RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
–RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Life loves the liver of it.
–MAYA ANGELOU
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
-MAYA ANGELOU
Art is the proper task of life.
–FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
–MARCUS AURELIUS
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
– ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
– MAHATMA GANDHI
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
– JOHN F. KENNEDY
Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
-JOHN F. KENNEDY
We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
–WILL ROGERS
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
–GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
– SOREN KIERKEGAARD
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
– JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
–JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
–SOREN KIERKEGAARD
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
–WAYNE DYER
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
–H. L. MENCKEN
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
–LEONARDO DA VINCI
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.
–ROBERT FROST
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
– NAPOLEON HILL
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
– EMILY DICKINSON
Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.
–JOEL OSTEEN
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet. Is what makes life sweet.
-HEMILY DICKINSON
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
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
– LOU HOLTZ
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
–HORACE WALPOLE
He not busy being born is busy dying
-BOB DYLAM
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
– JOSEPH CAMPBELL
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
-GEORGE ELIOT
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
–GEORGE ELIOT
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
– EDMUND BURKE
Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
–LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
– RABINDRANATH TAGORE
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
–WILLIAM JAMES
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
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
– ALBERT SCHWEITZER
The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
–JIMI HENDRIX
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
–RAINER MARIA RILKE
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
–ELIE WIESEL
The greatest trap in our life is not success. Popularity or power, but self-rejection.
-HENRI NOUWEN
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
–WOODY ALLEN
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
– ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
–ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.
– RICHARD BACH
I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
– ISAAC ASIMOV
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
–ROBERT E. LEE
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. – Charlie ChaplinIt is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.
– TERRY PRATCHETT
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
–GILBERT K. CHESTERTON
The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
–EMINEM
I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.
–B. F. SKINNER
Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
–DON MIGUEL RUIZ
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
– CARL SANDBURG
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
–JAMES ALLEN
I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.
–CHARLES M. SCHULZ
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
– JOHN BURROUGHS
I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.
– GEORGE LUCA
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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
–HENRY MILLER
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
–WILL SMITH
To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
–SAMUEL BUTLER
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
–HENRY ADAMS
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
–CHARLES LINDBERGH
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
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
–JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
–SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
–CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
–SENECA
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
– SHOLOM ALEICHEM
If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
–WILLIAM J. CLINTON
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
–SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
–O. HENRY
He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
–TERTULLIAN
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
– E. B. WHITE
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
–HARVEY FIERSTEIN
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
–ALEXIS CARREL
When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we’ve downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent.
– BUZZ ALDRIN
