Life is an adventurous journey. It is filled with surprises and unexpected adventures. And while most surprises are of a pleasant nature, living life still feels like you’re a wild roller coaster without knowing what comes next. Throughout childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, you’ll experience a wide spectrum of feelings and experiences. From excitement and euphoria to sadness and pain – it’s very likely that you’ve already gone through all these different emotions by the time of your school enrollment. But no matter how excited you were or how difficult the going got, there have always been supportive individuals at your side. Some of them were your friends and family while others were insightful writers, teachers, and guides. Let’s celebrate those wonderful mentors and their miraculous impact upon your life with a collection of exceptionally good quotes about life.
The wonderful thing about quotes is that they can have a powerful and profound impact on your life. They can give you guidance throughout times of uncertainty. They can cheer you up when you’re in need for something that lifts you up. And they can keep you grounded when you’re running danger of getting out of touch with reality. At the same time, the right motivational quote at the right time, can give you a powerful boost to go the extra mile.
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
Mae West
What makes the following good quotes about life so exceptional is that they stem from some of the most inspiring and knowledgeable individuals that ever lived.
Enjoy the following collection of exceptionally good quotes about life.
Many of these exceptional people found themselves in situations you may be able to relate to. And, they’ve managed to come up with helpful solutions to the issues they were confronted with. As such, reading their thoughts will offer you sound advice for a wide variety of life’s problems.
150 Good Quotes about Life
Life definitely comes with its ups and downs – and periods of hardship are almost always guaranteed. Therefore, it’s all the better to have a carefully picked selection of inspiring quotes about life at your hand that helps you to live a better life.
Here are the quotes about living a good life
1.
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.“
Andre Gide
2.
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.“
Mark Twain
3.
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… It’s about learning to dance in the rain.“
Vivian Greene
4.
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.“
Steve Maraboli
5.
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.“
John Lennon
6.
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …“
Marcus Aurelius
7.
“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
8.
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.“
George Bernard Shaw
9.
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.“
Ralph Waldo Emerson
10.
“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.“
Steve Maraboli
11.
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.“
Steve Jobs
12.
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.“
George Bernard Shaw
13.
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.“
Ralph Waldo Emerson
14.
“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece“
Vladimir Nabokov
15.
“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.“
Susan Polis Schutz
16.
“This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.“
Alan Watts
17.
Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.“
George Lucas
18.
“In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.“
Gordon B. Hinckley
19.
“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.“
Cassandra Clare
20.
“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them“
Mark Haddon
21.
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.“
Albert Einstein
22.
“Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.“
Eleanor Roosevelt
23.
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.“
Ralph Ellison
24.
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.“
Allen Saunders
25.
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.“
Will Durant
26.
“The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.“
Lauren Kate
27.
“You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.“
Elizabeth Gilbert
28.
“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it“
Gustave Flaubert
29.
“Why are trying so hard to fit in, when you’re born to stand out.“
Oliver James
30.
“It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.“
Steve Maraboli
31.
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.“
Søren Kierkegaard
32.
“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.“
Will Smith
33.
“I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there’s a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it gets, stick your chest out, keep ya head up…. and handle it.“
Tupac Shakur
34.
“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest.“
Henry David Thoreau
35.
“The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.“
Terry Pratchett
36.
“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unraveled, and if you spend your whole life unraveling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.“
Fyodor Dostoevsky
37.
“Life is like a novel. It’s filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.“
Sidney Sheldon
38.
“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.“
Fernando Pessoa
39.
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.“
C.S. Lewis
40.
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.“
Audrey Hepburn
41.
“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them… to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.“
Horton Foote
42.
“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.“
Charlotte Brontë
43.
“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to having it done to them — such is my idea of happiness.“
Leo Tolstoy
44.
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.“
Mark Twain
45.
“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.“
Matthew Quick
46.
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.“
Soren Kierkegaard
47.
“All hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.“
John Lennon
48.
“Life has no remote… get up and change it yourself!“
Mark A. Cooper
49.
“If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you’re going to fly.“
Steve Maraboli
50.
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.“
Marcus Aurelius
51.
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.“
Michael Cunningham
52.
“Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.“
Zayn Malik
53.
“Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.“
Suzanne Weyn
54.
“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.“
Hunter S. Thompson
55.
“Where there is love there is life.“
Mahatma Gandhi
56.
“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.“
Elizabeth Gilbert
57.
“It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!“
Robert T. Kiyosaki
58.
“How would your life be different if… You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.“
Steve Maraboli
59.
“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.“
Rick Riordan
60.
“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.“
Thomas Keneally
61.
“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.“
Gilda Radner
62.
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.“
Terry Pratchett
63.
“Don’t cry, I’m sorry to have deceived you so much, but that’s how life is.“
Vladimir Nabokov
64.
“May you live every day of your life.“
Jonathan Swift
65.
“Hardships make or break people.“
Margaret Mitchell
66.
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.“
Leonard Cohen
67.
“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.“
Harvey Pekar
68.
“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.“
James Hilton
69.
“Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.“
Sherrilyn Kenyon
70.
“Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to.“
Mitch Albom
71.
“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.“
Eleanor Roosevelt
72.
“Who says life is fair, where is that written?“
William Goldman
73.
“Some things cannot be taught; they must be experienced. You never learn the most valuable lessons in life until you go through your own journey.“
Roy T. Bennett
74.
“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.“
Gustave Flaubert
75.
“Life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time.“
Nicholas Sparks
76.
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.“
Louise Erdrich
77.
“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.“
Saul Bellow
78.
“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.“
Oscar Wilde
79.
“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.“
Alexandre Dumas
80.
“I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.“
Daphne Du Maurier
81.
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.“
Thomas Merton
82.
“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”
Eric Roth
83.
“Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.“
Lucy Maud Montgomery
84.
“Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.“
Elizabeth Gilbert
85.
“Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.“
William Steig
86.
“Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.“
Roy T. Bennett
87.
“I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.“
Neil Gaiman
88.
“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.“
George Bernard Shaw
89.
“Life is a series of pulls back and forth… A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match…Which side wins? Love wins. Love always wins“
Mitch Albom
90.
“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go.“
Mary Manin Morrissey
91.
“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.“
Oprah Winfrey
92.
“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.“
Stephen King
93.
“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.“
John Lennon
94.
“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.“
Haruki Murakami
95.
“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.“
Jo Nesbo
96.
“If you’ve never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.“
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
97.
“I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.“
Charles Schultz
98.
“In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.“
Haruki Murakami
99.
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.“
Oscar Wilde
100.
“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.“
Rainer Maria Rilke
101.
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give a meaning.“
Jean-Paul Sartre
102.
“Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.“
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
103.
“If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.“
Dr Roopleen
104.
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.“
Henry Miller
105.
“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.“
Roy T. Bennett
106.
“Life is a gift. Don’t forget to live it.“
Nicola Yoon
107.
“The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.“
Lisa Wingate
108.
“Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the results of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.“
Jason Mraz
109.
“The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.“
Lord Byron
110.
“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for.“
Oscar Wilde
111.
“Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life.“
J.D. Stroube
112.
“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.“
Sophie Kinsella
113.
“Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.“
Ray Bradbury
114.
“Art is to console those who are broken by life.“
Vincent van Gogh
115.
“Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.“
Madeleine L’Engle
116.
“When things go wrong, don’t go with them.“
Elvis Presley
117.
“Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.“
Ernest Hemingway
118.
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.“
Marcus Aurelius
119.
“The longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.“
Julian Barnes
120.
“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.“
Paulo Coelho
121.
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.“
Oprah Winfrey
122.
“Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar“
Jim Butcher
123.
“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.“
Jean Racine
124.
“Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.“
Christine Feehan
125.
“But I don’t believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.“
Gloria Naylor
126.
“You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do every day.“
Jason Mraz
127.
“Art is the proper task of life. „
Friedrich Nietzsche
128.
“sometimes you don’t need a goal in life, you don’t need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you’re going to do next!“
Sophie Kinsella
129.
“Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.“
Haruki Murakami
130.
“Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.“
Khaled Hosseini
131.
“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.“
Daniel Keyes
132.
“To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?“
Ayn Rand
134.
“Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.“
William Faulkner
135.
“You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn’t make a mockery of your values.“
Bill Ayers
136.
“Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.“
Hans Christian Anderson
137.
“There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.“
Tom Robbins
138.
“My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.“
Coco Chanel
139.
“The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.“
Roy T. Bennett
140.
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.“
Mary Shelley
141.
“It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so.“
Philip K. Dick
142.
“Life’s as kind as you let it be.“
Charles Bukowski
145.
“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.“
Mahatma Gandhi
146.
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.“
Elbert Hubbard
147.
“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.“
Steve Maraboli
148.
“I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart“
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
149.
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.“
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
150.
“Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.“
Leo Tolstoy
I hope you enjoyed this collection of truly exceptional and good quotes about life. Let us know in the comment section what your favorite quotes are from this article. We’re excited to hear from you.
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