TOPICS
SPEAKERS
HOME
BROWSE TOPICS
BROWSE SPEAKERS

QUOTES ABOUT LIFE

Life is a journey filled with moments of joy, struggle, growth, and reflection. The quotes that follow capture different perspectives on what it means to live, love, and learn. Together, they offer insight, inspiration, and reminders that life’s lessons often come from our shared experiences.   ◀ Back
...
6
7
8
9
10
 		...
Don't Worry Be Happy
- Meher Baba
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was a comet. The boy saw the comet and he felt as though his life had meaning. And when it went away, he waited his entire life for it to come back to him. It was more than just a comet because of what it brought to his life: direction, beauty, meaning. There are many who couldn't understand, and sometimes he walked among them. But even in his darkest hours, he knew in his heart that someday it would return to him, and his world would be whole again... And his belief in God and love and art would be re-awakened in his heart. The boy saw the comet and suddenly his life had meaning.
- Lucas Scott
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.
- Annie Dillard
The Writing Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living. What did other people's deaths or a mother's love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or the fate they think they elect matter to me when we're all elected by the same fate, me and billions of privileged people like him who also called themselves my brothers? Couldn't he see, couldn't he see that? Everybody was privileged. There were only privileged people. The others would all be condemned one day. And he would be condemned, too.
- Albert Camus
The Stranger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
- Irvin D. Yalom
When Nietzsche Wept
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When terrible things have happened to you, sometimes the promise of something good can be just as frightening.
- Margaret Rogerson
Sorcery of Thorns
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To live is to war with trolls.
- Henrik Ibsen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you want to be great, you have to be a leader. You’ve got to listen to me, son. That’s what we brought you here to do, to be a leader. And you can do it.
- Vernon Davis
Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is a winking light in the darkness.
- Hayao Miyazaki
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.
- Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.
- Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is full of luck, like getting dealt a good hand, or simply by being in the right place at the right time. Some people get luck handed to them, a second chance, a save. It can happen heroically, or by a simple coincidence , but there are those who don’t get luck on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who don’t get saved.
- Jessica Sorensen
The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.
- Aravind Adiga
The White Tiger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Over the years I'd lodged him in the permanent past, my pluperfect lover, put him on ice, stuffed him with memories and mothballs like a hunted ornament confabulating with the ghost of all my evenings. I'd dust him off from time to time and then put him back on the mantelpiece. He no longer belonged to earth or to life. All I was likely to discover at this point wasn't just how distant were the paths we'd taken, it was the measure of loss that was going to strike me--a loss I didn't mind thinking about in abstract terms but which would hurt when stared at in the face, the way nostalgia hurts long after we've stopped thinking of things we lost and may never have cared for.
- André Aciman
Call Me by Your Name
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I made up my mind not to care so much about the destination, and simply enjoy the journey.
- David Archuleta
Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
The Importance of Living
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.
- Deb Caletti
The Queen of Everything
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life--or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else's life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window--is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
- Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.
- Gregory David Roberts
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Shadow of the Wind
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don't Worry Be Happy
- Meher Baba
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was a comet. The boy saw the comet and he felt as though his life had meaning. And when it went away, he waited his entire life for it to come back to him. It was more than just a comet because of what it brought to his life: direction, beauty, meaning. There are many who couldn't understand, and sometimes he walked among them. But even in his darkest hours, he knew in his heart that someday it would return to him, and his world would be whole again... And his belief in God and love and art would be re-awakened in his heart. The boy saw the comet and suddenly his life had meaning.
- Lucas Scott
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.
- Annie Dillard
The Writing Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living. What did other people's deaths or a mother's love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or the fate they think they elect matter to me when we're all elected by the same fate, me and billions of privileged people like him who also called themselves my brothers? Couldn't he see, couldn't he see that? Everybody was privileged. There were only privileged people. The others would all be condemned one day. And he would be condemned, too.
- Albert Camus
The Stranger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
- Irvin D. Yalom
When Nietzsche Wept
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When terrible things have happened to you, sometimes the promise of something good can be just as frightening.
- Margaret Rogerson
Sorcery of Thorns
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To live is to war with trolls.
- Henrik Ibsen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you want to be great, you have to be a leader. You’ve got to listen to me, son. That’s what we brought you here to do, to be a leader. And you can do it.
- Vernon Davis
Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is a winking light in the darkness.
- Hayao Miyazaki
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.
- Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.
- Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is full of luck, like getting dealt a good hand, or simply by being in the right place at the right time. Some people get luck handed to them, a second chance, a save. It can happen heroically, or by a simple coincidence , but there are those who don’t get luck on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who don’t get saved.
- Jessica Sorensen
The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.
- Aravind Adiga
The White Tiger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Over the years I'd lodged him in the permanent past, my pluperfect lover, put him on ice, stuffed him with memories and mothballs like a hunted ornament confabulating with the ghost of all my evenings. I'd dust him off from time to time and then put him back on the mantelpiece. He no longer belonged to earth or to life. All I was likely to discover at this point wasn't just how distant were the paths we'd taken, it was the measure of loss that was going to strike me--a loss I didn't mind thinking about in abstract terms but which would hurt when stared at in the face, the way nostalgia hurts long after we've stopped thinking of things we lost and may never have cared for.
- André Aciman
Call Me by Your Name
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I made up my mind not to care so much about the destination, and simply enjoy the journey.
- David Archuleta
Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
The Importance of Living
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.
- Deb Caletti
The Queen of Everything
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life--or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else's life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window--is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
- Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.
- Gregory David Roberts
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Shadow of the Wind
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don't Worry Be Happy
- Meher Baba
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was a comet. The boy saw the comet and he felt as though his life had meaning. And when it went away, he waited his entire life for it to come back to him. It was more than just a comet because of what it brought to his life: direction, beauty, meaning. There are many who couldn't understand, and sometimes he walked among them. But even in his darkest hours, he knew in his heart that someday it would return to him, and his world would be whole again... And his belief in God and love and art would be re-awakened in his heart. The boy saw the comet and suddenly his life had meaning.
- Lucas Scott
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.
- Annie Dillard
The Writing Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living. What did other people's deaths or a mother's love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or the fate they think they elect matter to me when we're all elected by the same fate, me and billions of privileged people like him who also called themselves my brothers? Couldn't he see, couldn't he see that? Everybody was privileged. There were only privileged people. The others would all be condemned one day. And he would be condemned, too.
- Albert Camus
The Stranger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
- Irvin D. Yalom
When Nietzsche Wept
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When terrible things have happened to you, sometimes the promise of something good can be just as frightening.
- Margaret Rogerson
Sorcery of Thorns
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To live is to war with trolls.
- Henrik Ibsen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you want to be great, you have to be a leader. You’ve got to listen to me, son. That’s what we brought you here to do, to be a leader. And you can do it.
- Vernon Davis
Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is a winking light in the darkness.
- Hayao Miyazaki
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.
- Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.
- Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is full of luck, like getting dealt a good hand, or simply by being in the right place at the right time. Some people get luck handed to them, a second chance, a save. It can happen heroically, or by a simple coincidence , but there are those who don’t get luck on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who don’t get saved.
- Jessica Sorensen
The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.
- Aravind Adiga
The White Tiger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Over the years I'd lodged him in the permanent past, my pluperfect lover, put him on ice, stuffed him with memories and mothballs like a hunted ornament confabulating with the ghost of all my evenings. I'd dust him off from time to time and then put him back on the mantelpiece. He no longer belonged to earth or to life. All I was likely to discover at this point wasn't just how distant were the paths we'd taken, it was the measure of loss that was going to strike me--a loss I didn't mind thinking about in abstract terms but which would hurt when stared at in the face, the way nostalgia hurts long after we've stopped thinking of things we lost and may never have cared for.
- André Aciman
Call Me by Your Name
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I made up my mind not to care so much about the destination, and simply enjoy the journey.
- David Archuleta
Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
The Importance of Living
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.
- Deb Caletti
The Queen of Everything
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life--or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else's life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window--is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
- Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.
- Gregory David Roberts
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Shadow of the Wind
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...
6
7
8
9
10
 		...