Life Quotes

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

"Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued on page whatever. No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We're just warming up." ~ Chuck Palahniuk

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." ~ Kahlil Gibran

"My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get." ~ Forrest Gump

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

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

"When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...
And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life."
~From the movie Monty Python's Life of Brian

"Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears that we never use." ~ Charles Schulz

"Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back." ~ Arthur Rubinstein

"Dost thou love life? Then waste not time for time is the stuff that life is made of." ~ Benjamin Franklin

"Money cannot buy you happiness. But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery." ~ Spike Milligan

"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

"The main purpose for holding children’s parties is to remind yourself that there are children worse than your own." ~ Author Unknown

"Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?" ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

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

"Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching." ~ Satchel Paige

"In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back." ~ Charlie Brown

"Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived." ~ Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." ~ Oscar Wilde

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus a day so I never have to live without you." ~ A.A. Milne

"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one and a lily with the other." ~ Chinese Proverb

"Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." ~ Franklin P. Jones

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring." ~ Oscar Wilde

"I got something to say. It’s better to burn out than fade away." ~ Def Leppard quoting Neil Young

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

"You 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." ~ Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it is right, you will probably never do much of anything." ~ Win Borden

"This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life." ~ Author Unknown

"Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back." ~ Anon

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

"One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching." ~ Author Unknown

"If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin"
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
~ Emily Dickinson

"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can." ~ George Bernard Shaw

"It’s not that I am afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens." ~ Woody Allen

"Here's to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one!"
~ Old Irish Saying

"How far you go n life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." ~ George Washington Carver

"I don’t want to live. I want to love first and live incidentally." ~ Zelda Fitzgerald

"Life is a fatal complaint and an eminently contagious one." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive." ~ Robert Heinlein

"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." ~ Winston Churchill

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." ~ Helen Keller

"If my doctor told me I only had six months to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster" ~ Isaac Asimov

"You don’t get to choose how you are going to die. Or When. You can only decide how you are going to live. Now." ~ Joan Baez

"Life is just one damn thing after another." ~ Elbert Hubbard

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act." ~ Truman Capote

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~ Anne Frank

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

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish as fools." ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

"I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all."
~ Joni Mitchell