Beautiful and famous quotes about life

A collection of quotes and famous phrases about life, which will help you grow and overcome difficult times.

The intuition and experience of others is a valuable source of inspiration and motivation. And learning from writers, philosophers and thinkers from all over the world and from all times is a fantastic way to grow.

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Famous phrases about life

Beautiful and famous quotes about life

Everyone needs a little inspiration from time to time.

If you're going through a crisis, if you just lost your job or just woke up a little insecure this morning -we've all had these days- these three sentences are for you.

NB: the aphorisms are in increasing order of length, so at the end of the article you will find the longest phrases, while at the beginning there are the famous phrases about life that are short but full of meaning.

Phrases For A Better Life

"No one can make you feel inferior without your permission." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"You can never plan for the future based on the past." ~ Edmund Burke

"Anyone who has a reason to live can endure almost any form." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"Keep in mind that great loves and great conquests involve great risks." ~ Dalai Lama

"Lost time is not recoverable." ~ Benjamin Franklin

"Those who respect themselves are safe from others." ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Common sense is a genius dressed in his work clothes." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: keep going." ~ Robert Frost

“Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive." ~ Elbert Hubbard

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, you get to his mind. If you speak to him in his language, you touch his heart." ~ Nelson Mandela

"Nothing you have not given will be truly yours." ~ C.S. Lewis

"The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why." ~ Mark Twain

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." ~ Aristotle

"There are many ways to move forward, but only one way to stand still." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

“When a thing is done, it is done. Do not look back. Wait for your next goal." ~ George C Marshall

“Use the talents you have; the forest would be very quiet if there were no birds singing, apart from those that sang best.” ~ Henry van dyke

“In the end, it's not the years of your life that matter. It's life in your years." ~ Abraham Lincoln

Short Life Quotes: 1 to 20

All life is sacred. ~ Buddha

Life is in motion. ~ Aristotle

Living means choosing. ~ fabio will

Where there is love there is life. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

To create is to live twice. ~ Albert Camus

Live is think. ~ Marco Tullio Cicero

Life is learning to love. ~ Abbot Pierre, French priest, resistant at World War II, and founder of the Emmaus movement, with the goal of helping poor, homeless people and refugees

Life is a Dream. ~ Pedro Calderon De La Barca

The only masterpiece is to live. ~ Gilbert Cesbro

Live every day of your life. ~ Jonathan Swift

Who saves a life saves the whole world. ~ Talmud

Life, the emptier it is, the heavier it is. ~ Alphonse Allais

Life is not explained, it is lived. ~ Luigi Pirandello

There is no happy life at all. ~ Fifth Orazio Flacco

History is a teacher of life. ~ Marco Tullio Cicero

Life is a moment taken from eternity. ~ eliza cook

Life is what we make of it. ~ Fernando Pessoa,

Life is one long lesson in humility. ~ James M Barrie

Love the life you live, live the life you love. ~ Bob Marley

Who does not value life does not deserve it. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Short aphorisms about life: 21 to 40

Dreaming is happiness; waiting is life. ~ Victor Hugo

Life is the sum of all your choices. ~ Albert Camus

Dying is nothing; not living is scary. ~ Victor Hugo

With a smile, you make life more beautiful. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

To exist is to dare to throw oneself into the world. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

You cannot find peace by avoiding living. ~ Virginia Woolf

Life is an evil worth living. ~ Fernando Pessoa,

Life without a goal is wandering. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, without a goal, is wandering. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Be the change you want to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. ~ Helen Keller

My life was beautiful because I paid dearly for it. ~ Alda Merini

You live only as long as you love. ~ Claude~ Adrian Helvetius

In life there is nothing to fear, only understand. ~ Marie Curie

Superfluous goods make life superfluous. ~ Pier Paolo Pasolini

If you love life, life loves you back. ~ Arthur Rubinstein

Life is measured by works and not by days. ~ Pietro Metastasio

Living is still the best thing to do down here. ~ Jules Laforgue

Those who think they live forever, live badly. ~ Publilius Syrus

Life is a dream from which you wake up dying. ~ Virginia Woolf

Short phrases of life: 41 to 60

What matters is life, not having lived. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. ~ Del Dr. Seuss

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

Life is too important to be taken seriously. ~ Oscar Wilde

Life is a risk that you cannot avoid taking. ~ Enzo Biagi

Man was born to live, not to prepare to live. ~ Boris pasternak

Life without love is like a tree without flowers or fruit. ~ Khalil Gibran

Life is ours to live, not to save. ~ David Herbert Lawrence

Don't stop thinking of life as an adventure. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

None of us wants to be in calm waters all their lives. ~ Jane Austen

Life imitates art more than art imitates life. ~ Oscar Wilde

It is not the length of life that matters, but its depth. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most wasted of all days is the one that has no laughter. ~ Nicolas Chamfort

Life is too short to drink mediocre wines. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only I can change my life. Nobody will do it for me. ~ Carol Burnett

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough. ~ Mae West

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. ~ Mae West

Life is full of joy and tears; be strong and have faith. ~ Kareena Kapoor

Life is like a mirror: it smiles at you if you look at it smiling. ~ Jim Morrison

At the most important crossroads of our life there is no signage. ~ Ernest Hemingway

Short phrases of life: 61 to 80

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough. ~ joe e lewis

We need to give meaning to life, precisely because it does not have it. ~ Henry Miller

Life always gives you a second chance. It's called tomorrow. ~ Dylan Thomas

Life is really simple, but we insist on complicating it. ~ Confucius

Life is ours to live, not to forgive. ~ D.H. Lawrence

It is better to add life to days than days to life. ~ Rita Levi Montalcini

Who has a why to live, can bear almost any how. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality. ~ Saint Anthony~ Exupery

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~ George Bernard Shaw

You have to make your own life, like you make a work of art. ~ Gabriele D'Annunzio

I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees. ~ Ernesto Che Guevara

Life is a huge canvas: pour as many colors as you can onto it. ~ D

It is so good to live, and life is so sweet that it cannot be bad! ~ Émile Zola

Loving yourself is the beginning of a lifelong love story. ~ Oscar Wilde

Our life is not behind, nor ahead, nor now, it is inside. ~ Jacques Prévert

Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans. ~ John Lennon

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you do, the better. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Find the ecstasy in life; the true meaning of living is to be happy. ~ Emily Dickinson

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react. ~ Charles R. Swindoll

Life is too short to spend it living someone else's dream. ~ Hugh Hefner

Short aphorisms about life: 81 to 100

Give each day the opportunity to be the most beautiful of your life. ~ Mark Twain

There is no cure for birth and death other than enjoying the in-between. ~ George Santayana

Those who live without madness are not as wise as they think. ~ François de La Rochefoucauld

Love life more than its logic, only then will you understand its meaning. ~ Fëdor Dostoevskij

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. ~ Oscar Wilde

We have two lives: the second begins when we realize that we only have one. ~ Confucius

Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you were to die today. ~ James Dean

The only true failure in life is not acting according to your values. ~ Buddha

Everything that exalts life at the same time increases its absurdity. ~ Albert Camus

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience - this is the ideal life. ~ Mark Twain

Choose a job you love and you won't have to work a day in your life. ~ Confucius

In life there are things that look for you and others that come looking for you. ~ Giorgio Faletti

Life is but a bad quarter of an hour, made up of exquisite moments. ~ Oscar Wilde

It is better to be hated for what one is than to be loved for what one is not. ~ André Gide

It is not what we say or think that defines us, but what we do. ~ Jane Austen

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. ~ Steve Jobs

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

What will never come back is what makes life so sweet. ~ Emily Dickinson

Dare to live the life you dreamed of. Cheer up and make your dreams come true. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

What would life be like if we didn't have the courage to take risks? ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Famous Phrases about Life: 101 to 120

If I am able to prevent a heart from breaking, I will not have lived in vain. ~ Emily Dickinson

Live as if you will die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

If I am able to prevent a heart from breaking, I will not have lived in vain. ~ Emily Dickinson

In life you do not do what you want, but you are responsible for what you are. ~ Jean~ Paul Sartre

Isn't life a series of images that change only in the way they are repeated? ~ Andy Warhol

If we could see the miracle of a single flower, our whole life would change. ~ Buddha

A life is a work of art. There is no poem more beautiful than living fully. ~ Georges Clemenceau

You have to live as you think, otherwise you will end up thinking as you have lived. ~ Pablo Bourget

Life is basically tragic, but sometimes it manages to be wonderful. ~ Woody Allen

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, but about learning to dance in the rain. ~ Authorless

Life is just a continuous succession of opportunities to survive. ~ Gabriel García Márquez

Life is like a comedy: it doesn't matter how long it lasts, but how it is performed. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Giving is living. If you stop wanting to give, there is no longer a reason to live. ~ Audrey Hepburn

Those who do not expect another life have died even in this one. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am always amazed. It's the only thing that makes life worth living. ~ Oscar Wilde

Better to be protagonists of your own tragedy than spectators of your own life. ~ Oscar Wilde

Life is not what we live, but what we remember and how we remember it. ~ Gabriel García Márquez

The best things in life are spent saying “it's too soon”, then “it's too late”. ~ Gustave Flaubert

It is a real shame that we only learn the lessons of life when they no longer serve us. ~ Oscar Wilde

Life is more like a novel than a novel is like life. ~ George Sand

Famous phrases of life: 121 to 140

He who is not brave enough to take risks will not achieve anything in life. ~ Muhammad Ali

The great lesson in life, baby, is to never be afraid of anyone or anything. ~ Frank Sinatra

Life is a game, play. Life is too precious, don't destroy it. ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta

If life is just a passage, in this passage at least we sow some flowers. ~ Michel de Montaigne

In two words I can summarize everything I have learned about life: continue. ~ robert lee frost

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you can't do. ~ Walter Bagehot

Live as you wish you had lived when you are on your deathbed. ~ Christian Fürchtegott Gellert

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not people or things. ~ Albert Einstein

This life is a hospital where each patient has the desire to change beds. ~ Charles Baudelaire

Change your life today. Don't bet on the future, act now, without delay. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

If life is just a passage, in this passage at least we sow some flowers. ~ Michel de Montaigne

Living is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all. ~ Oscar Wilde

Be careful with people who stink of perfection, that life is made of mistakes and wounds. ~ Anna Magnani

Living for others is not only the law of duty, it is also the law of happiness. ~ Auguste Comte

There is only one kind of success: making your life what you want. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Only the restless know how difficult it is to survive the storm and not be able to live without it. ~ Emily Brontë

Do you love life? So don't waste time, because that's what life is made of. ~ Benjamin Franklin

The surest way to make life enjoyable for ourselves is to make it enjoyable for others. ~ arthur graph

The higher we rise, the smaller we seem to those who cannot fly. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Life and dreams are pages of the same book: reading them in order is living, leafing through them at random is dreaming.

Famous Phrases about Life: 141 to 160

Meditate on the beauty of life. Look at the stars and see yourself in the sky running with them. ~ Marco Aurelio

May life be as beautiful as summer flowers and death as autumn leaves. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

The good things in life are immoral or illegal, or they make you fat. ~ George Bernard Shaw

If you love life, don't waste time, because that's what all our lives are made of. ~ Benjamin Franklin

The biggest mistake you can make in life is to always be afraid of making one. ~ Elbert Hubbard

The only important thing in life are the traces of love that we leave behind when we leave. ~ Albert Schweitzer

What scares me the most is not death, but the feeling of not having lived life to the fullest. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Life seems too short to me to spend it hating and taking note of the wrongs suffered. ~ Charlotte Brontë

Life is not a silent or black and white show. It is an inexhaustible rainbow of colors. ~ Oriana Fallaci

The art of living is to make the best of the good from the worst. ~ Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

If a man has not discovered something for which he is willing to die, life is not worth living. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

A man who dares to waste even an hour of his time has not discovered the value of life. ~ Charles Darwin

There are two great tragedies in life: one is not getting what you want, the other is getting it. ~ Oscar Wilde

The most persistent and urgent question of your life is "What are you doing for others?" ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

We always act as if something exceeds the value of human life... but what? ~ Antoine DeSaint~ Exupery

The first and last thing you have to do in this world is move forward without getting crushed. ~ Ernest Hemingway

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face. ~ Ian Fleming

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you have to keep moving. ~ Albert Einstein

If you have never eaten with tears in your eyes, you do not know the taste of life. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No living being should be killed, not even the smallest animal or insect, because all life is sacred. ~ Buddha

Long Life Sentences: 161 to 180

Life is like an echo: if you don't like what it sends back, you have to change the message you send. ~ James Joyce

In the end, what matters is not the years of your life, but the life you put into those years. ~ Abraham Lincoln

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. ~ Pablo Picasso

Life is a wonderful fleeting opportunity to catch on the go by immersing yourself in it with joyful freedom. ~ Darius Fo

You will learn the hard way that on the long road of life you will find many masks and few faces. ~ Luigi Pirandello

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, live the life you have always imagined. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The last years of life are like the end of a costume party, when the masks are removed. ~ Cesare Pavese

The best way to live a good and honest life is to not do what you blame others for. ~ Such

The two most important days in life are the day you were born and the day you find out why. ~ Mark Twain

The only joy in the world is to start. It is beautiful to live because to live is to start, always, at every moment. ~ Cesare Pavese

The true meaning of life is planting trees, under the shade of which you do not plan to sit. ~ nelson henderson

I want to continue being crazy, living life as I dream it and not as others want. ~ Paulo Coelho

Life is like an echo: if you don't like what it sends back, you have to change the message you send. ~ James Joyce

The secret of human existence lies not only in living, but also in knowing what one lives for. ~ Fëdor Dostoevskij

A wall is meant to be drawn, a Saturday night party and life is meant to be celebrated. ~ Keith Haring

It is absolutely clear that the art of cinema is inspired by life, while life is inspired by television. ~ Woody Allen

We would need three lives: one to make mistakes, one to correct mistakes, and one to taste it all again. ~ Alberto Jesus

In life you have to choose between making money and spending it: you don't have time to do both. ~ Eduardo Bourdet

A life that is directed primarily to the satisfaction of personal desires sooner or later leads to bitter disappointment. ~ Albert Einstein

If you are lucky enough to find the kind of life you enjoy, you must also find the courage to live it. ~ John Irving

Long Life Sentences: 181 to 200

Let your dreams devour your life so that life does not devour your dreams. ~ Saint Anthony,Exupery

Do not separate yourself from your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you will have ceased to live. ~ Mark Twain

Life and dreams are pages of the same book: reading them in order is living, leafing through them at random is dreaming. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Don't go where the path leads you. Instead, go where there is no path and leave a trail behind you. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is wonderful if you are not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination and a little money. ~ Charlie Chaplin

Life is yourself, and if life is difficult to bear, it is because it is very difficult to bear yourself. ~ Carl Gustav Jung

When you wake up in the morning, think of the precious privilege of being alive: to breathe, to think, to feel joy and to love. ~ Marco Aurelio

The shoe that fits one person fits another. There is no one recipe for life that is right for everyone. ~ Carl Gustav Jung

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something outweighs human life. ~ Saint Anthony,Exupery

I love life fiercely, desperately. And I believe that this ferocity, this desperation will finish me. ~ Pier Paolo Pasolini

You're only here for a short visit. Don't rush, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. ~ Walter Hagen

People cling to habit like a rock, when instead it should break off and plunge into the sea. And live. ~ Charles Bukowski

Life is a challenge, face it! Life is a dream, make it happen! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it! ~ Sathya Sai Baba

There are two ways to live life. One is to think that nothing is a miracle. The other is to think that everything is a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein

Life is a procession. Those who are slow find it too fast and step aside; he who is fast finds him slow and steps aside. ~ Kahlil Gibran

Anyone who considers their own life and the lives of other people to be meaningless is not only unhappy, but hardly worth living. ~ Albert Einstein

If life inevitably comes to an end, we must, during ours, color it with the colors of love and hope. ~ Marc Chagall

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but much more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ~ George Bernard Shaw

The evil that men do extends beyond their lives, while the good is often buried with their bones. ~ William Shakespeare

We pretend that life must have a meaning, but life has precisely the meaning that we ourselves are willing to attribute to it. ~ Hermann Hesse

Long aphorisms about life: 201 to 220

Take life lightly. What lightness is not superficiality, but to slide on things from above, not to have boulders in the heart. ~ Italo Calvino

Dream what you like; go where you want; be what you want to be, because you only get one life and one chance to do the things you want to do. ~ Paulo Coelho

If life has given us nothing but a prison cell, let's make sure to decorate it, at least, with the shades of our dreams. ~ Fernando Pessoa,

You have to live life and keep curiosity alive. Never, for whatever reason, turn your back on life. ~ Leonor Ana Roosevelt

It takes a lifetime to learn how to live, and, strangely enough, it takes a lifetime to learn how to die. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life is so short that there is no time for fights, resentments and wars. There is only time to love and it only lasts a moment. ~ Mark Twain

If there is a sin against life, perhaps it is not so much despairing of it as hoping for another life and escaping its relentless grandeur. ~ Albert Camus

A life without adventure is probably boring, but a life where adventure is allowed to take any form is sure to be short. ~ Bertrand Russell

Anything you can do, any dream you can dream, start. Boldness carries with it genius, magic and strength. Start now. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We too are made of the same stuff that dreams are made of; and our short life is enclosed in the space and time of a dream. ~ William Shakespeare

Each player must accept the cards that life offers him: but once he has them in his hand, he must decide for himself how to play them to win the game. ~ Voltaire

No one ever promised that life would be kind. You only feel cheated when you expect something. If you have no expectations you will not be disappointed. ~ Dalai Lama

Every man's life ends the same way. It is the details of how he lived and how he died that differentiate one man from another. ~ Ernest Hemingway

Life itself is an empty canvas; it becomes what you paint on it. You can paint unhappiness, you can paint ecstasy. This is your glory. ~ Osho Rajneesh

Live with those who can improve you and whom you can improve. There is a mutual benefit, because men, while teaching, learn. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life is like coffee: you can add all the sugar you want, but if you want to sweeten it, you have to turn the spoon. Nothing happens when it's stopped. ~ Alex Zanardi

At school they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I answered "happy". They told me that I did not understand the exercise and I told them that they did not understand life. ~ John Lennon

Life is short. Break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love deeply, laugh uncontrollably and never regret what made you smile. ~ Mark Twain

Life is a matter of balance. Be nice, but don't let yourself be exploited. Trust me, but don't be fooled. Be content, but never stop improving yourself. ~ Buddha

Giving meaning to life can be crazy, but life without meaning is the torture of restlessness and vague desire, it is a ship that longs for the sea and yet fears it. ~ Edgar Lee Masters

Long quotes on existence: 221 to 236

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether they are twenty or eighty years old. Anyone who continues to learn stays young. The most important thing in life is to keep your mind young. ~ Henry Ford

In life, there are two things to aim for: first, get what you want; and then enjoy it. Only the wisest of humans get the ultimate. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith

We continually work to shape our lives, but copying in spite of ourselves, like a drawing, the features of what we are and not of what we would like to be. ~ Marcel Proust

There are only two days a year when nothing can be done: one is called yesterday, the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and, above all, live. ~ Dalai Lama

Life must be lived, not thought, because thought life denies itself and shows itself as an empty shell. You have to put something in this shell, no matter what. ~ Eugenio Montale

If you have a boring and miserable life because you heard your mom, dad, teacher, priest, or some guy on TV tell you how to mind your own business, then you deserve it. ~ Frank Zappa

Life is made up of extremely rare moments of great intensity and innumerable intervals. Most men, however, not knowing the magic moments, end up living only the intervals. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Have you ever thought about leaving and never coming back? Escape and lose all your traces, to go to a far away place and start living again, live a new life, only yours, truly live. Have you ever thought about it? ~ Luigi Pirandello

Life is like an embroidered cloth of which each one in his own half of existence can observe the right side, while in the second the reverse side: the latter is not so beautiful, but it is more instructive, because it shows us the intertwining of the threads. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Life? A path full of stones, stones where you stumble, fall, hurt, against which you have to protect yourself with fero shoes. But this is not enough because while you protect your feet there is always a quarche from someone who throws a stone at your head. ~ Anna Magnani

Life is a mission. Any other definition of life is false and misleads all who accept it. Religion, science, philosophy, although they still disagree on many points, they all agree on this, that all existence has a purpose. ~ Giuseppe Mazzini

Before you judge my life or my character, put on my shoes, walk the path I've walked. Live my pains, my doubts, my laughter. Live the years that I lived and fall where I fell and rise as I fell. Each one has their own story. And only then can you judge me. ~ Luigi Pirandello

The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to win. The essence of life is to heal. The great opportunity in life is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is making friends. The beauty of life is giving. The joy of living is loving. ~ William Ward

Every day when he wakes up he thinks: today I am lucky because I woke up, I am alive, I have a precious human life, I will not waste it. I will use all my energy to improve myself, to open my heart to others, I will have kind words for others and not bad thoughts and I will not get angry, but I will try to do my best. ~ Dalai Lama

They will always criticize you, speak ill of you and it will be difficult for you to find someone who loves you as you are! So live, do what your heart tells you, life is like a play, but it has no initial rehearsal: sing, dance, laugh and live intensely every day of your life before the opera ends without applause. ~ Charlie Chaplin

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