Life Quotes

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

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

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.

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

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

We pass through this world but once.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.