A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones. – Roald Dahl
A life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time. – Charlie Munger
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. – Muhammad Ali
A samurai lives in death. – Yamamoto Tsunetomo
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. – Emily Dickinson
As soon as you trust yourself, then will you know how to live. – Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Be absolute for death. Either death or life shall thereby be the sweeter. – William Shakespeare
Be careful how you interprete life, it is that way. – Erich Heller
Choosing an easy life rarely ends up with much of either. – Hugh Macleod
Death is not an event in life. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words? – Marcel Marceau
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. – Mark Twain
Dreams are necessary to life. – Anaïs Nin
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars and see yourself running with them. – Marcus Aurelius
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life. – Tennessee Williams
Every man lives only this present time, which is an indivisible point, and all the rest of his life is either past or uncertain. Every man’s life lies within the present, for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. – Marcus Aurelius
Everyday life is bearable only through miracles. – Max Frisch
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. – Theodore Roosevelt
Fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand. – Paulo Coelho
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be. – Joseph Campbell
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. – Rumi
Friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life’s greatest gifts. – Napoleon Hill
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. – Aristotle
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. – Langston Hughes
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 the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. – George Washington Carver
I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. – Steve Jobs
I have only made but one prayer in my life: “O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it. – Voltaire
I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun. – Thomas Edison
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. – Winston Churchill
I wonder if, before we were born, we were as afraid of life as we are now of death. – Jay Williams
If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
If I have learned one thing in this life, it is that God will not tie my shoes without me. – Doug Boyd
If life is viewed as a teacher, then it becomes just that. – David Hawkins
If my doctor told me I only had six months to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster. – Isaac Asimov
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau
If we could see the miracle of a single flower, clearly, our whole life would change. – Buddha
If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place. – Lao Tzu
If you don’t have a plan for your life, somebody else has a plan for you. If you don’t make a decision about how you are going to live, then you have already made a decision, haven’t you? – Tony Robbins
If you end up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some talking head on television to do your shit, then you deserve it. – Frank Zappa
If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. – Joseph Campbell
If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person. – T Harv Eker
If you knew the secrets of life you too would choose no other companion but love. – Rumi
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects. – Albert Einstein
Imagination is the preview of life’s coming attractions. – Albert Einstein
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you need to set up a life that you don’t have to escape from. – Seth Godin
It is good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were just starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all. – Cormac McCarthy
It’s not the circumstances and events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to our circumstances and to events. How we interpret them is what shapes who we are today and who we’ll become tomorrow. – Tony Robbins
I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do. – Georgia O’Keeffe
I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life. – Maya Angelou
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. – Neale Donald Walsh
Life has two rules. Number 1: Never quit. Number 2: Always remember rule number 1. – Duke Ellington
Life is a banquet. The tragedy is that most people are starving to death. – Anthony de Mello
Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern. – Albert Einstein
Life is a shipwreck. Let us not forget to sing in the lifeboats. – Voltaire
Life is as kind as you let it be. – Charles Bukowski
Life is brief and have to spend every day having to do something that someone else wants you to do is not the way to live it. – Cormack McCarthy
Life is darkness, save when there is urge. – Kahlil Gibram
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters. – M. Scott Peck
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller
Life is hard. It’s harder if you’re stupid. – John Wayne
Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get. – Winston Groom
Life is not lost by dying. Life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. – Stephen Vincent Benet
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. – George Carlin
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do. – Byron Katie
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. – John Lennon
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw
Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be. – Eckhart Tolle
Life must be understood backwards and lived forwards. – Soren Kierkegaard
Life‘s blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm. – Norman Vincent Peale
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. – William Shakespeare
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others? – Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn’t necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet, but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else’s affairs. – Marshall McLuhan
Live and let live is not enough. Live and help live is not too much. – Orison Swett Marden
Live as you were to die tomorrow. Learn as you were to live forever. – Gandhi
Man cannot stand a meaningless life. – Carl Jung
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live. – Boris Pasternak
Mine is not the kind of job I worked all my life to do so I wouldn’t have to do it. – Charles Schulz
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. – Plato
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. – Richard P. Feynman
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. – Marie Curie
Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you. – Richard Feynman
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away. – Stephen Hawking
Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That’s why it’s good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower. – Joseph Campbell
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King Jr
Simply by changing your habitual vocabulary, you can instantaneously change how you think, how you feel, and how you live. – Tony Robbins
Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well. – Peter Ustinov
The atoms and molecules within you dream they are people. How real their dream is to you! How deep a trance is your life. – Seth Godin
The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen, not touched, but are felt in the heart. – Helen Keller
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy. – Malcolm Forbes
The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation. When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life. – Joseph Campbell
The difference between a lie and a cat is that the cat has only nine lives. – Mark Twain
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. – Theo Huxley
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. – William James
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. – William James
The meaning of life is to go back to sleep and hope that tomorrow will be a better day. – Charles Schulz
The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth. – Maxwell Maltz
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. – Joseph Campbell
The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. – Vincent Lombardi
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. – Buddha
The secret of life is enjoying the passage time. – James Taylor
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain
The unexamined life is not worth living. – Plato
The words you speak become the house you live in. – Hafiz
There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. – Bob Dylan
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
There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. – Nelson Mandela
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. – Rumi
To have a meaningful life, you have to do something meaningful. Meaning it doesn’t happen on autopilot. – Hugh Macleod
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist. – Oscar Wilde
To live several lives, you have to die several deaths. – Francoise Giroud
Until death, it is all life. – Cervantes
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato
We can live out of our imagination instead of our memory. – Stephen Covey
We die. That may be the meaning of life. – Toni Morrison
We don’t control events in our life. However, we control what events mean to us. And therein lies the secret to life. – Tony Robbins
We dull our lives by the way we conceive them. – James Hillman
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. – Joseph Campbell
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope. – Epictetus
What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act – and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that’s a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of. – Joseph Campbell
When it comes down to it, life is about showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore. – Rebecca Walker
When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances. – Stephen Covey
While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. – Leonardo Da Vinci
You are the master of the moments of your life. – Paramahansa Yogananda
You become mature when you become the authority for your own life. – Joseph Campbell
You can have everything you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want. – Zig Ziglar
You have got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. – Arthur Ashe
You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. – Steve Jobs
Your body is the only instrument through which you operate in life. – Stephen Covey
Your life doesn’t get better by chance, it gets better by change. – Jim Rohn
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs
