Quotes about life
Welcome to our Life collection, a contemplation of the extraordinary journey we all embark upon from the moment we take our first breath. In this curated compilation of quotes, we navigate the intricate pathways of life, celebrating its moments of joy, challenges, and the profound connections that define our shared human experience.
Life is more than a sequence of days; it's a canvas for experiences, a crucible of emotions, and a journey that weaves together a tapestry of stories. Our Life quotes honor the beauty of birth, the resilience in times of adversity, and the perpetual dance of growth and change that accompanies each passing moment.
Whether you're seeking insights into the meaning of life, captivated by the experiences that shape our identities, or simply intrigued by the complexity of existence, these quotes offer glimpses into the diverse and multifaceted nature of life itself.
Embark on a journey that explores the seasons of life, the chapters that unfold through time, and the milestones that mark our progress. Discover the wisdom drawn from shared experiences, the poignant reminders of impermanence, and the celebration of life's small and significant moments that collectively create the mosaic of our existence.
Alfred P. Sloan
— American BusinessmanThe greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.
Abby Johnson
— American ActivistIf Disney wants ideas for a princess, make her an independent woman, one who is not afraid to face the daily struggles of life, and refuses to wear expensive dresses. Because we all know life is messy, and those dresses are too pretty to get dirty.
A. S. Byatt
— English NovelistWhen I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
— American actor, producer, retired professional wrestler and former American football and Canadian football playerMy work, my goal, my life, it’s like a treadmill. And there’s no stop-button on my treadmill. Once I get on, I just keep going.
David Crosby
— American singer-songwriter and musicianGenerally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life.
Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky
— Chilean-French filmmaker and artistFive cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.
Alexander Payne
— American DirectorI get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
Hypatia
— Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematicianLife is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorThe great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterIt means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
Antonio Machado
— PoetAnd to walk through life in dreams out of love for the hand that guides us.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsYou have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
Russell Hoban
— Versatile Author & Creative StorytellerLife is a process of one goneness after another.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestIn the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense. The past and the future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerIt doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.
M. F. K. Fisher
— Pioneering Food Writer...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.
Ricky Martin
— MusicianLife is like a great teacher..... she will repeat the lesson until you learn.
Timothy Leary
— American psychologist and authorThe most important thing you do in your life is to die.
Chadwick Boseman
— American actorYou have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.
Blake Lively
— American actress, model, director, and advocateIf you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.
Pope John XXIII
— Head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in 1963Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.
Reba McEntire
— American country music singer, actress and businesswomanLife's supposed to be about making the path a little gentler for those traveling behind you.
Craig Stone
— English footballerAll the best bits of a film happen when I'm looking down at my phone. Life, is similar.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorI think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.
Oprah Winfrey
— American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropistEvery day, passion speaks to us through our feelings. That's why when you allow yourself to become anesthetized by what others think, you literally block yourself from living the life you were called to live. I promise you that if you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart. The people who truly love you want you to love yourself.
Ludwig von Mises
— Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and sociologistWhoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
Eknath Easwaran
— Indian-born spiritual teacher, author and translator and interpreter of Indian religious textsAn unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where we place our resources and our love. I am not just talking about avoiding the rat race, but about a life full of an artistic beauty - a life that has almost vanished from modern civilization, but is quite within the reach of everyone.
Demi Lovato
— American singer, songwriter, and actorIf you're living your life in fear, then you're just not living.
Jon Foreman
— American musician, the lead singer, guitarist, main songwriter and co-founderI used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe that’s not the case. Maybe the things that are most important in this life, you have to fight for.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
— American supermodel and actressYou know, Italian-Hungarian - no matter how linear and cool I look on the outside, I have all that energy trying to find its way through life.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
— English poet, playwright, novelist, and criticBefore the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure with pain for leaven, Summer with flowers that fell, Remembrance fallen from heaven, And Madness risen from hell, Strength without hands to smite, Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death.
Gianni Versace
— Italian fashion designer, socialite and businessmanI try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
— American actor, producer, retired professional wrestler and former American football and Canadian football playerMy work, my goal, my life, it’s like a treadmill. And there’s no stop-button on my treadmill. Once I get on, I just keep going.
Yves Saint Laurent
— French fashion designerFashionClothesEleganceLifeFashion PhilosophyFashion as LifestyleJoy in DressingSelf-Expression and LiberationElegance and Freedom
Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorThe denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterIf I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsEverything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestThe truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerLife doesn't come with an instruction manual for success, so Darren Hardy has written one for you. The Compound Effect shows you how small, smart choices add up to transform your life.
Ricky Martin
— MusicianI don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!
Timothy Leary
— American psychologist and authorWe live our lives from A-Z, but forget the other 24 letters in between.
Blake Lively
— American actress, model, director, and advocateScents evoke very, very powerful memories, whether it's the scent of someone that you know and someone that you love, or if it's a meal that your mother made.
Reba McEntire
— American country music singer, actress and businesswomanIf you want to succeed in life...you must pick 3 bones to carry with you at all times: a wish bone, a backbone, and a funny bone.
Craig Stone
— English footballerAnything you want to do is possible; fear is not meant to prevent but to motivate your heart into the life you naturally think is improbable.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorThe film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens.
Oprah Winfrey
— American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropistLive life and take chances. Believe that everything happens for a reason and don't regret. Love to the fullest and you will find true happiness in life. Realize that things go wrong and people change, but things do go on. Sometimes things weren't meant to be. What is supposed to happen will work its way out.
Jon Foreman
— American musician, the lead singer, guitarist, main songwriter and co-founderI'm continually wrestling with the idea that there are certain things in this world that simply don't fit. The idea that I have this longing for beauty and truth, and yet I'm also attracted to things that are very dark the lies that exist within me and outside of me.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
— American supermodel and actressI'm doing the best I can with the ravages of time on my body and I'm a work in progress. I can't write a memoir because I can't do it this week or next week... I try to be an inspiration to the young to respect their older people; we can't stay the same, but we do the best we can with what's left. You can't whine about stuff, you have to learn to eat humble pie along the way and keep going, because the alternative is going to happen.
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
— American actor, producer, retired professional wrestler and former American football and Canadian football playerTraining for me is a metaphor for life, period. The dedication, the determination, the desire, the work ethic, the great successes and the great failures – I take that into life.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorThat's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsAn unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestNot to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerLike it or not, life is a series of competitions.
M. F. K. Fisher
— Pioneering Food WriterThe oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive the arrows of his own outrageous fortune and in the two weeks of his carefree youth find a clean smooth place to fix on, the years afterwards are full of stress, passion, and danger.
Timothy Leary
— American psychologist and authorMy advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Blake Lively
— American actress, model, director, and advocateMy greatest passion is my personal life.
Reba McEntire
— American country music singer, actress and businesswomanGet as much out of life as you possibly can with all the passion that goes with it. Then give it back with all the love and respect it deserves.
Oprah Winfrey
— American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropistI believe everyday your life speaks to you - through every experience, through the people you meet, and even through pain, fear and self-doubt.
Jon Foreman
— American musician, the lead singer, guitarist, main songwriter and co-founderThe life, when we're aware of beauty, is kind of a bittersweet thing, it's a transient reminder of eternal beauty, which someday we will be face to face with.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
— American supermodel and actressThe money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
— American actor, producer, retired professional wrestler and former American football and Canadian football playerWhen life puts you in tough situations, don’t say ‘Why me?’ just say ‘Try me’
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorFor what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterTo die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsLife is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestZen abhors repetition or imitation of any kind, for it kills. For the same reason Zen never explains, but only affirms. Life is fact and no explanation is necessary or pertinent. To explain is to apologize, and why should we apologize for living? To live—is that not enough? Let us then live, let us affirm! Herein lies Zen in all its purity and in all its nudity as well.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerA student of life considers the world a classroom.
M. F. K. Fisher
— Pioneering Food Writer... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.
Reba McEntire
— American country music singer, actress and businesswomanYou don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.
Oprah Winfrey
— American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropistWhatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot touch you. But if you allow your fear to seep into your mind and overtake your thoughts, it will rob you of your life.
Jon Foreman
— American musician, the lead singer, guitarist, main songwriter and co-founderYou wake up, you wake up, another day, you wake up, you wake up, traffic still moving at the same speed, our eyes looking at the same speed, our minds thinking at the same speed, I wanna see movement, I wanna see change. I wanna wake up for real. I wanna wake up. I wanna wake up. We were meant to live.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
— American supermodel and actressMy life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson?