Top 200 Short Quotes About Life (2024 Update)

1. “A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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2. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.”

— Andy Rooney

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3. “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”

— Arthur Rubinstein

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Life Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Optimistic Quotes

4. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

— Douglas Adams

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes

5. “I am still learning.”

— Michelangelo

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Study Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes

6. “Get busy living or get busy dying.”

— Stephen King

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Action Quotes, Fiction Quotes

7. “Wake up and live.”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Feel Good Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Positivity Quotes

8. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”

— Chinese proverb

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9. “While we wait for life, life passes.”

— Seneca

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

10. “Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Enlightenment Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life

11. “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Encouraging Quotes

12. “Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you’re going to be right.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Personality Quotes, Athlete Quotes

13. “One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Happy Quotes

14. “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Life Philosophy Quotes, Universe Quotes

15. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Interesting Quotes

16. “Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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17. “The greatest things in life all require commitment, sacrifice, some struggle and hardship. It’s not easy. But absolutely worth it.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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18. “If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be. ”

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Change Quotes, Transformation Quotes

19. “Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Identity Quotes

20. “Don’t be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don’t forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes

21. “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.”

— Harvey MacKay

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

22. “You change your life by changing your heart.”

— Max Lucado

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

23. “Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Positive Life Quotes

24. “Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.”

— William Arthur Ward

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

25. “Doing as others told me, I was Blind. Coming when others called me, I was Lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found Everyone, Myself as well.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Spirituality Quotes

26. “Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.”

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

27. “Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life – all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Integrity Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

28. “After all, tomorrow is another day.”

— Margaret Mitchell

Also featured in: Short Positive Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Moving Forward Quotes

29. “To hold, you must first open your hand. Let go.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Life Lessons Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

30. “You change the world by being yourself.”

— Yoko Ono

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes

31. “No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”

— Taylor Swift

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Cute Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Positive Life Quotes

32. “You can’t live at all unless you can live fully now.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Awakening Quotes

33. “I live my life based on 2 principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Live Life Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes

34. “For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Live Life Quotes

35. “The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

36. “Making a living is not the same thing as making a life.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Positive Life Quotes

37. “Life is available only in the present moment.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Time Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Wellness Quotes

38. “Only the present moment contains life.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Wellness Quotes

39. “You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes

40. “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

— Haruki Murakami

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Running Quotes

41. “Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”

— Gayle Forman

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Choices Quotes

42. “Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Life Quotes

43. “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.”

— Jean-Luc Picard

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Quality Quotes

44. “To travel is to live.”

— Hans Christian Andersen

Also featured in: Live Life Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Travel Quotes, Adventure Quotes

45. “No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.”

— Seneca the Younger

Also featured in: Goal Quotes

46. “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

47. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Famous Quotes, Smart Quotes

48. “By letting go it all gets done.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Short Positive Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

49. “The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Spirituality Quotes

50. “The more you know, the less you need to say.”

— Jim Rohn

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