Great Quotes About Life To Learn From

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of insightful quotes about life from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com to invigorate and lift you every day.

“The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.”
– Abigail Van Buren

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
– Abraham Lincoln

“You live it forward, but understand it backward.”
– Abraham Verghese

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky.”
– Alan Moore

“Live to the point of tears.”
– Albert Camus

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
– Albert Einstein

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
– Albert Einstein

“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
– Albert Einstein

“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
– Andre Gide

“It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
– Antonio Porchia

“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”
– Arthur Golden

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
– Arundhati Roy

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.”
– Audrey Hepburn

“Don’t you think it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
– Audrey Niffenegger

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.”
– Ayn Rand

“Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.”
– Bertrand Russell

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
– Bill Watterson

“I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”
– Bill Watterson

“It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.”
– Brian Tracy

“The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.”
– Brian Tracy

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”
– C.G. Jung

“People aren’t born good or bad. Maybe they’re born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”
– Cassandra Clare

“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”
– Charlotte Bronte

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
– Chuck Palahniuk

“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
– Chuck Palahniuk

“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
– Chuck Palahniuk

“It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.”
– Chuck Palahniuk

“Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.”
– Chuck Palahniuk

“My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.”
– Coco Chanel

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius

“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.”
– Confucius

“You can live your whole life not realizing that what you’re looking for is right in front of you.”
– David Nicholls

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