Life Quotes

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
~Hans Christian Anderson

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
~Abraham Lincoln

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

A useless life is an early death.
~Goethe

Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
~Alan Bennett

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
~Chinese Proverb

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
~Albert Einstein

A life without cause is a life without effect.
~Barbarella

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
~Alice Walker

Life’s not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.
~Cherralea Morgen

The most decisive actions of our life … are most often unconsidered actions.
~André Gide

I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.
~Jack Handey

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
~Emily Dickinson

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~Howard Thurman

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.
~Dalai Lama

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
~Corita Kent

You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
~Quentin Crisp

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
~George Sand

As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose.
~Author Unknown

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death
~Albert Einstein

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
~ Maria Robinson

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
~Edith Wharton