Life Quotes

Life is the subject that contains all other subjects. These quotes take on existence itself — its brevity, its beauty, its unfairness, and the stubborn human insistence on finding meaning in it anyway. Big questions, no easy answers.

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“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”

— Abraham Maslow

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“All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”

— Charlotte Bronte

“I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.”

— Igor Stravinsky

“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.”

— Confucius

“There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.”

— Marcus Garvey

“The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“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

“We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.”

— Lauryn Hill

“When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.”

— George Carlin

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