Life Quotes, Sayings, and Thoughts
Find the greatest life quotes and thoughts on life - from Gandhi, Mother Theresa, Winston Churchill, the Buddha, and others. We've distilled these from literally hundreds of quotes we've found.
Cherokee Saying about Life:
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."
~ Cherokee Expression
George Eliot Life Quote:
"It is never too late to become what you might have been."
~ George Eliot
Albert Einstein Life Quotation:
"There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as if everything is.
"
~ Albert Einstein
Alexander Woollcott Life Quotation:
"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day."
~ Alexander Woollcott
Helen Keller Thoughts on Life:
"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
Harold Whitman Thought on Life:
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
~ Harold Whitman
William James Life Quote:
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
~ William James
Montaigne Life Saying:
"My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened."
~ Montaigne
Annie Dillard Life Quotation:
"The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives."
~ Annie Dillard
Winston Churchill Life Quotation:
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
~ Winston Churchill
Mohandas Gandhi Life Quote:
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
~ Mohandas Gandhi
Ursula K. Le Guin Life Quotation:
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Kevin Welch Saying About Life:
"There'll be two dates on your tombstone
And all your friends will read 'em
But all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em.
"
~ Kevin Welch
Thoughts on Life from the Buddha:
"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. "
~ The Buddha
Dawna Markova Saying on Life:
"I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit."
~ Dawna Markova
Josh Billings Life Quote:
"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
~ Josh Billings
Jonathan Swift Saying about Life:
"May you live all the days of your life."
~ Jonathan Swift
Abraham Lincoln Life Quote:
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
~ Abraham Lincoln
"It's not the years in the life. It's the life in the years."
~ Abraham Lincoln
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Mother Teresa's Thoughts on Life:
"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste 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."
~ Mother Teresa
Stephen Covey Life Quote:
"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey."
~ Stephen Covey
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