Top 1081 Life Quotes

Life rarely goes according to plan, and that is exactly what makes it worth examining. These reflections on life touch on time, change, regret, and gratitude: perspective from people who paid attention to how their own stories unfolded.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Herodotus
Herodotus
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Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
Hugh Heiner
Hugh Heiner
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I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
Unknown
Unknown
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
Sylvia A. Earle
Sylvia A. Earle
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Emotionally immature people don't step back and think about how their behavior impacts others. There's no cringe factor for them, so they seldom apologize or experience regret.
Lindsay C. Gibson
Lindsay C. Gibson
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If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.
Emil Zatopek
Emil Zatopek
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch
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You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
Aaron Eckhart
Aaron Eckhart
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Life is always at some turning point.
Irwin Edman
Irwin Edman
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Hope is lived when it comes alive, when we go outside of ourselves and, in joy and pain take part in the lives of others.
Jürgen Moltmann
Jürgen Moltmann
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Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.
Norman Maclean
Norman Maclean
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Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover
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You can't control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen.
Kody Keplinger
Kody Keplinger
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Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson
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People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.
Michael Parenti
Michael Parenti
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Gratitude is the attitude that sets the altitude for living.
James MacDonald
James MacDonald
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Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.
Cat Stevens
Cat Stevens
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When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.
Shauna Niequist
Shauna Niequist
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The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and painful experiences. The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity.
Len Baskin
Len Baskin
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Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
Alice Munro
Alice Munro
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Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you're ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee
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Whatever life throws at me I'll take it and be grateful for it as well.
Tom Felton
Tom Felton
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The world is run by those who show up.
Robert Johnson
Robert Johnson
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I learned all about life with a ball at my feet.
Ronaldinho
Ronaldinho
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Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.
James Franco
James Franco
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I live before the audience of One- before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.
Oh Garrison
Oh Garrison
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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Emile Zola
Emile Zola
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You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
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Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
Roger Crawford
Roger Crawford
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Wisdom is looking back at your life and realising that every single event, person, place and idea was part of the perfected experience you needed to build your dream. Not one was a mistake.
John Frederick Demartini
John Frederick Demartini
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Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today.
Jonathan Larson
Jonathan Larson
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The way in which I create myself is by means of a quest. I go out into the world in order to come back with a self.
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera
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Single life is so overrated. It sucks.
Rihanna
Rihanna
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Everybody has a capacity for a happy life. All these talks about how difficult times we live in, that's just a clever way to justify fear and laziness.
Leo Landau
Leo Landau
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Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life.
Steven C. Hayes
Steven C. Hayes
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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben
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Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
Tony Buzan
Tony Buzan
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Color is life; for a world without color appears to us as dead. Colors are primordial ideas, the children of light.
Johannes Itten
Johannes Itten
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The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
Thales
Thales
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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler
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Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.
Jasmina Catovic
Jasmina Catovic
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In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.
Bobby McFerrin
Bobby McFerrin
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Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by world-famous scientists.
John Lennox
John Lennox
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A house is a machine for living in.
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
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To follow Jesus is to be a wholemaker, essentially to love the world into new being and life.
Ilia Delio
Ilia Delio
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