Top 200 Short Quotes About Life (2025 Update)
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151. “In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.”

— William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

152. “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

153. “While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

— Seneca the Younger

154. “Life happens. Adapt. Embrace change, and make the most of everything that comes your way.”

— Nick Jonas

155. “To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.”

— Bruce Lee

156. “Life should be lived to the point of tears.”

— Albert Camus

157. “We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.”

— Alan Watts

158. “Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet.”

— Simon Sinek

159. “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.”

— Jim Rohn

160. “Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”

— Maya Angelou

161. “There are no ordinary moments.”

— Dan Millman

162. “The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.”

— Lao Tzu

163. “To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.”

— Lao Tzu

164. “Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up the world.”

— Buddha

165. “I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.”

— Mark Twain

166. “In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.”

— Henry David Thoreau

167. “To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”

— Victor Hugo

168. “A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”

— Muhammad Ali

169. “If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.”

— Thomas Merton

170. “The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

171. “You never know how much you can do in your life.”

— Jack Ma

172. “Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.”

— E. M. Forster

173. “I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”

— Joseph Campbell

174. “In youth we learn; in age we understand.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

175. “We are the mirror – As well as the face in it.”

— Rumi

176. “I’m always a work in progress.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

177. “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.”

— Rumi

178. “Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose – and commit myself to – what is best for me.”

— Paulo Coelho

179. “Take what’s useful, discard what is not.”

— Bruce Lee

180. “Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”

— Mark Twain

181. “We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.”

— Helen Keller

182. “The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

183. “Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.”

— Rick Warren

184. “Life’s biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”

— Benjamin Franklin

185. “Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”

— Bruce Lee

186. “Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.”

— Jim Rohn

187. “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

188. “Do not take life’s experiences too seriously. For in reality they are nothing but dream experiences. Play your part in life, but never forget that it is only a role.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

189. “You can’t have a plan for your day, ’til you have a plan for your life.”

— Tony Robbins

190. “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

191. “Take a deep breath. Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is important this very second.”

— Greg McKeown

192. “Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.”

— Ray Bradbury

193. “Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.”

— Ram Dass

194. “Life comes at us in waves. We can’t predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf.”

— Dan Millman

195. “As you are, so is the world.”

— Ramana Maharshi

196. “Living well is the best revenge.”

— George Herbert

197. “We are the stories we tell ourselves.”

— Joan Didion

198. “Aspire not to have more, but to be more.”

— Oscar Romero

199. “Your Philosophy of life shapes you more than anything else.”

— Tony Robbins

200. “What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.”

— Gretchen Rubin