Life Quotes

Life Quotes

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”

“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.”


“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.”

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”

“This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, somg go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And babve, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up becuase if you give up, you'll never find your soul mate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”

“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”

“Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!”

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.”

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”

“Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.”

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

“But better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”

“Where there is love there is life.”

“We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”

“May you live every day of your life.”

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”

“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”

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

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”

“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”

“Life is to be enjoyed, not endured”

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.”

"Life is not divided into genres. This is a horror, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky. " 

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”

“Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”

“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.”

"Life will break. Nobody can protect you against this, and live alone will not either, for solitude will also break you with his desire. You have love. You must feel. This is why you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, lose their sweetness. Say you tried as much as you could. "

“Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.”

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!"
"You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”

“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.”


“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”


“If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”

“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.”

“Albus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.”

“It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.”

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”

“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”

“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”