What is life all about? The best quotes we could find
by TeachThought Staff
What is life all about? The best quotes we could find
“People take drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or boring. They hate their jobs and find no relief in their free time. They are estranged from their families and neighbors. This should tell us something: In healthy societies, drug use is festive, enjoyable, and occasional, while among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.” — Wendell Berry
40 quotes about life
“The purpose of life is not to be happy, but to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have some difference in having lived and lived well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon
“I can sum up everything I have learned about life in three words: keep going.” — Robert Frost
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist, that’s all.” — Oscar Wilde
“Life is not about finding yourself, it is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
“The great lesson of life, baby, is to be afraid of nothing and nobody.” — Frank Sinatra
“Go confidently toward your dreams! Live the life you have imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau
“As a culture and a society, we thrive and suffer through our language and our definitions.” —Terrell Heick
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Charles R. Swindoll
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” —Maya Angelou
“Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.” — Elbert Hubbard
“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there are many reasons to smile.” — Marilyn Monroe
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Nelson Mandela
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller
“The important thing is not how long you have lived, but how well you have lived.” — Seneca
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help to create that fact.” — William James
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama
“A man who dares to waste one hour of his time has not discovered the value of life.” — Charles Darwin
“Life is short and it is up to you to make it sweet.” — Sarah Louise Delany
“Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.” — Albert Einstein
“Life is made up of many parts welded together.” — Charles Dickens
“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali
“Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the pure air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is not worth dwelling on dreams and forgetting to live.” — JK Rowling
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” — Tony Robbins
“Every moment is a new beginning.” — TS Eliot
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. Make the difference.” — William James
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” — Hans Christian Andersen
“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
“The tragedy of life is that we grow old too soon and wise too late.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived in order to be understood.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There are no mistakes, only opportunities.” — Tina Fey
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss
“Life is short and the truth acts far and lasts long: let us therefore speak the truth.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
“Let us live in such a way that when the time comes for us to die, even the undertaker will regret it.” — Mark Twain
“The best thing we can have in life is to hold on to each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
What is life all about? The best answers we could find
