A compilation of my favorite quotes about life:
“You can’t do anything about the length of your life but you can do something about its width and depth.” ~ Shira Tehrani
“Life is much like a joke, doesn’t make much sense, until it ends.” ~ Unknown
“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” ~ Jean Paul
“If ‘plan A’ doesn’t work out, don’t worry, you still have 25 letters left.” ~ Unknown
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ~ Anaïs Nin
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ~ Albert Einstein
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” ~ Jimmy Dean
“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life with a clearer view again.” ~ Alex Tan
“Have courage to live. Anyone can die.” ~ Robert Cody
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.” ~ Mark Twain
“Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have.” ~ Unknown
“Expecting life to treat you well just because you’re a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge you because you’re a vegetarian.” ~ Unknown
“You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain – because most of life’s lessons are learned in pain.” ~ Unknown
“When you say ‘yes’ to others, make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself.” ~ Paulo Coehlo
“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” ~ Albert Pike
“Just because it’s not what you were expecting, doesn’t mean it’s not everything you’ve been waiting for.” ~ Unknown
“Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of.” ~ Robert Brault
“Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.” ~ Dr. Phil
“The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.” ~ Alfred Adler
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” ~ Author unknown
“There’s always some truth behind ‘just kidding’. Knowledge behind ‘I don’t know’. Emotion behind ‘I don’t care’. Pain behind: ‘It’s okay’.” ~ Unknown
“People never change. They just become more of who they really are.” ~ Unknown
”Life is not merely a series of meaningless accidents, or coincidences. No, but rather it’s a tapestry of events that culminate in an exquisite sublime plan.” ~ Serendipity
“When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.” ~ Unknown
“More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them.” ~ Unknown
“Life is a drawing without an eraser.” ~ unknown
“Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak, sometimes it means you are strong enough to let go.” ~ Unknown
“The most important of life’s battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.” ~ David O. McKay
“At one point in your life you either have the thing you want or the reasons why you don’t.” ~ Andy Roddick
“Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.” ~ Sharon Salzberg
“Life is just a chance to grow a soul.” ~ Powell Davies
“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
“The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.” ~ Henry Boye
“Life’s not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.” ~
Cherralea Morgen
“View a negative experience in your life like how you look at a photo negative. A single negative can create an unlimited number of positive prints.” ~ Unknown
“The most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or touched, they can only be felt with the heart.” ~ Helen Keller
“A person often meets their destiny on the road they took to avoid it.” ~ Jean de La Fontaine
“Just because something good ends doesn’t mean something better won’t begin.” ~ Sanj
“Don’t ask for an easier life; ask to be a stronger person.” ~ Unknown
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” ~ M. Scott Peck
“God doesn’t give you the people you want, he gives you the people you need. To help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you and to make you into the person you were meant to be.” ~ Unknown
“There are two great days in a person’s life: the day we are born and the day we discover why.” ~ Unknown
“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.” ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” ~ Frank A. Clark
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
