Best Quotes on Life

Life is a journey, not a destination. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Just to be here…to be able to see the beauty and the wisdom in one blade of grass–is life. Happy Life Quotes

 

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard

 

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Life is a cement trampoline. Howard Nordberg

 

Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel. Anonymous

 

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. Tennessee Williams

 

Life is a long lesson in humility. Sir James M. Barrie

 

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. Martin H. Fischer

 

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. Jean de la Bruyere

 

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. Unknown

 

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it. Thomas Walker

 

Life is but a day at most. James Drummond Burns

 

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. Lillian Dickson

 

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Samuel Butler

 

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. D. H. Lawrence

 

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Cesare Pavese

 

Life is simple, it’s just not easy. Unknown

 

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. Thomas la Mance

 

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. Grandma Moses

 

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit. Kahlil Gibran

 

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. Mark Twain

 

Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive. Mel Brooks

 

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. Brendan Gill

 

Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts. John Keats

 

One life – a little gleam of Time between two Eternities. Thomas Carlyle

 

Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button. Dan Chopin

 

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. Clarence Darrow

 

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. Joseph Campbell

 

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy – I mean that if you are happy you will be good. Bertrand Russell

 

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot

 

The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings. Henri Frederic Amiel

 

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. Henry David Thoreau

 

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. Robert Byrne

 

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over. Ernest Hemingway

 

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life. William Lyon Phelps

 

There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana

 

There is no wealth but life. John Ruskin

 

There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved. George Sand

 

There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. Coco Chanel

 

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. Nelson Henderson

 

We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it. Thornton Wilder

 

We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning. Stacy

 

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. Crowfoot

 

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. Erich Fromm