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Whether you’re planning your wedding vows, writing a toast, or just daydreaming about someone special, these 100 quotes on love and marriage from poets, artists, and philosophers are sure to inspire.
1. “Where there is love there is life.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
2. “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow–this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
3. “If I get married, I want to be very married.”
– Audrey Hepburn
4. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate then when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
– Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
5. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
– Dr. Seuss
6. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
– Maya Angelou
7. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
8. “I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”
– Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
9. “If I had a flower for every time thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”
– Alfred Tennyson
10. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu
11. “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness–and call it love–true love.”
– Robert Fulghum, True Love
12. “Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”
– Helen Keller
13. “What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strength each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”
– George Eliot
14. “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
15. “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
– Plato
16. “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
– When Harry Met Sally
17. “I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”
– Marilyn Monroe
18. “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
19. “Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it be rather a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
– Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
20. “What is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.”
– Victor Hugo
21. “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – Arrigo Boito
22. “Who, being loved, is poor?”
– Oscar Wilde
23. “A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
– Dave Meurer
24. “There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”
– Martin Luther
25. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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26. “Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.”
– Sam Levenson
27. “When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
28. “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
– Andre Marois
29. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
– Sophocles
30. “The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
– Blaise Pascal
31. “Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
– Charles M. Schulz
32. “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
– E.E. Cummings
33. “This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there’s no need at all to understand what’s happening, because everything happens within you.”
– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
34. “People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.”
– Dr. Seuss
35. “The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.”
– Julia Child
36. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
37. “When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
– Albert Einstein
38. “Romance is the glamor which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”
– Elinor Glyn
39. “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
40. “Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get–only with what you are expecting to give–which is everything.”
– Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life
41. “When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.”
– John Lennon
42. “I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want… a steady hand. A kind soul.”
– Shana Abe
43. “Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”
– Oscar Wilde
44. “Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.”
– William Shakespeare
45. “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
– Tom Bodett
46. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”
– Rumi
47. “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Airman’s Odyssey
48. “The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make–not just on your wedding day, but over and over again–and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.”
– Barbara de Angelis
49. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
– David Viscott
50. “We can do no great things; only small things with great love.”
– Mother Teresa
51. “Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
– Elizabeth Browning
52. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
– Robert Heinlein
53. “Love those who love you.”
– Voltaire
54. “In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
– Janos Arnay
55. “The bride and groom–May their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.”
– Minna Thomas Antrim, A Book of Toasts
56. “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”
– Elizabeth Browning
57. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”
– William Shakespeare
58. “The highest happiness on earth is marriage.”
– William Lyon Phelps
59. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
– Emily Bronte
60. “Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.”
– Charles Dickens
61. “We need a witness to our lives. There’s a billion people on the planet… I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you’re promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things… all of it, all of the time, every day. You’re saying, ‘Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go unwitnessed because I will be your witness.'”
– Shall We Dance?
62. “Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
– Robert Browning
63. “Think not because you are now wed, that all your courtship’s at an end.”
– Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza
64. “Happiness is anyone and anything at all, that’s loved by you.”
– You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
65. “I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
– Rita Rudner
66. “The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
– Rumi
67. “All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” – Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
68. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
– Helen Keller
69. “And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”
– Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
70. “Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”
– Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
71. “Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.”
– Henry David Thoreau
72. “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
– Arwen, The Fellowship of the Ring
73. “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
– Maya Angelou
74. “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.”
– Roy Croft
75. “Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
– Bruce Lee
76. “You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
77. “To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
– Mark Twain
78. “Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”
– Ann Landers
79. “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
– Oscar Wilde
80. “In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
– Fitzwilliam Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
81. “Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.”
– Swedish proverb
82. “Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have a to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.”
– Louis de Bernieres, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
83. “Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
– Albert Einstein
84. “My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”
– Winston Churchill
85. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
– Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
86. “If all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
– Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
87. “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
– William Shakespeare
88. “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect; you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”
– Jodi Picoult
89. “Love insists the loved loves back.”
– Dante Alighieri
90. “Love is a joint experience between two persons–but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.”
– Carson McCullers, Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories
91. “If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up, it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. It is about appreciation.”
– Osho
92. “Ah me! love cannot be cured by herbs.”
– Ovid
93. “One is very crazy when in love.”
– Sigmund Freud
94. “Love is a friendship set to music.”
– Joseph Campbell
95. “You know you are in love when the two of you can go grocery shopping together.”
– Woody Harrelson
96. “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
– Lao Tzu
97. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
– Oprah Winfrey
98. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
– Khalil Gibran
99. “Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
100. “A marriage doesn’t have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.”
– Jessica Simpson
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Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale Click to tweet
Those who realize their folly are not true fools. Zhuangzi Click to tweet
Life is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde Click to tweet
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard Click to tweet
It always seems impossible until it’s done. Nelson Mandela Click to tweet
Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. Theodore Roosevelt Click to tweet
It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. Elizabeth Kenny Click to tweet
Life is a question and how we live it is our answer. Gary Keller Click to tweet
Difficult and meaningful will always bring more satisfaction than easy and meaningless. Maxime Lagacé Click to tweet
Keep looking up… that’s the secret of life. Snoopy Click to tweet
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My life is my message. Mahatma Gandhi Click to tweet
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. Seneca
I love those who can smile in trouble. Leonardo da Vinci
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam
Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. John Lennon
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. Andre Gide
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Samuel Butler
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln Click to tweet
You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching. William W. Purkey Click to tweet
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard
Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager. Susan Sontag
Don’t search for the meaning of life. Simply be present for the people you love. Maxime Lagacé
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. Gustave Flaubert
Life is from the inside out. When you shift on the inside, life shifts on the outside. Kamal Ravikant
Your goal in life is to find out the people who need you the most, to find out the business that needs you the most, to find the project and the art that needs you the most. There is something out there just for you. Naval Ravikant
Sing the song that only you can sing, write the book that only you can write, build the product that only you can build… live the life that only you can live. Naval Ravikant
I tell you, in this world being a little crazy helps to keep you sane. Zsa Zsa Gabor
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. William Shakespeare
Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things. Kenneth Branagh
The trick in life is learning how to deal with it. Helen Mirren
Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of. Bruce Lee
Get busy living or get busy dying. Stephen King Click to tweet
Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold. Bob Marley
I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to. Jimi Hendrix
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Oscar Wilde
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. Oscar Wilde
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. Ludwig Jacobowski (This is one of my favorite life quote. Leave a reply here and let me know what’s yours!)
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Helen Keller Click to tweet
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. Henry David Thoreau
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. St. Augustine
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Mae West
The mind is everything. What you think you become. Buddha
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao Tzu
The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Steve Jobs
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
The best way out is always through. Robert Frost
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. George S. Patton
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau Click to tweet
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Eleanor Roosevelt
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. Albert Einstein
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. Babe Ruth
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Love the life you live. Live the life you love. Bob Marley Click to tweet
Keep calm and carry on. Winston Churchill
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. William Shakespeare
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. D. H. Lawrence
Life is short, death is forever. Chuck Palahniuk
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on. Robert Frost Click to tweet
Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass. Rebecca Wells
The greatest pleasure of life is love. Euripides
Fortune and love favor the brave. Ovid
Life can be simple and beautiful. Focus on the good things. Maxime Lagacé
Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie
It’s better to dance than to march through life. Yoko Ono
We are who we choose to be. Green Goblin
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I’m always doing things I can’t do. That’s how I get to do them. Pablo Picasso Click to tweet
Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet. Sarah Louise Delany
Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short. Paul Graham
No one can compete with you on being you. Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most. Naval Ravikant
Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest. Naval Ravikant
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has been before. Albert Einstein
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life. T.S. Eliot
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive. Indira Gandhi
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. Mother Teresa
Be willing to sacrifice what you think you have today for the life that you want tomorrow. Neil Strauss
The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. Tony Robbins
Your best life will not be found in comfort. It will be found in fighting for what you believe in. Maxime Lagacé
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. Neil Gaiman
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. Maya Angelou
Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Barbara Sher
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one’s will. Paul Gauguin
Be so good they can’t ignore you. Steve Martin Click to tweet
If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Mary Engelbreit
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. William James
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
If you say you can or you can’t you are right either way. Henry Ford
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. Colin Powell
I am thankful to all who said no to me. It is because of them that I’m doing it myself. Albert Einstein
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The dreamers are the saviors of the world. James Allen Click to tweet
Everything has its beauty, but not everyone see its. Confucius
Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men! Epictetus
Remember: the more you expect things to be a certain way, the more disappointed you’ll be. Accept life as it is. You’ll be free. Maxime Lagacé
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer. Albert Camus
When you arise in the morning think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. Marcus Aurelius
Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful. Thich Nhat Hanh
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant. Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes)
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. Henry Miller
Every second you have on this planet is very precious and it’s your responsibility that you’re happy. Naval Ravikant
Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it. Naval Ravikant
There is no education like adversity. Benjamin Disraeli
I will go anywhere as long as it’s forward. David Livingston
You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. Walter Hagen
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson
You have just one life to live. It is yours. Own it, claim it, live it, do the best you can with it. Hillary Clinton
Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure. Napoleon Hill
In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein
Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best. H. Jackson Brown Jr.
May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. Zhuangzi
Defeat is simply a signal to press onward. Helen Keller
I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan
The first step is you have to say that you can. Will Smith
Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. Dale Carnegie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. Dalai Lama
Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. Christopher Reeve
Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about. Marilyn Monroe
There is only one happiness in life – to love and to be loved. George Sand
Kid, you’ll move mountains! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way! Dr. Seuss
Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine. Mario Fernandez
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. Charles Bukowski Click to tweet
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. Kurt Vonnegut
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. Albert Einstein
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt. Charles Schulz
Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer. Ellen DeGeneres
All generalizations are false, including this one. Mark Twain
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear. Mark Twain
When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye. Cathy Guisewite
Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something. William Goldman
A woman’s mind is cleaner than a man’s: She changes it more often. Oliver Herford
I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde
The planet is fine. The people are fucked. George Carlin Click to tweet
The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept. George Carlin
I love deadlines, I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Adams
Never trust people who smile constantly. They’re either selling something or not very bright. Laurell K. Hamilton
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. Robert A Heinlein
If you’re too open-minded; your brains will fall out. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. Jim Carrey
What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife. Rodney Dangerfield
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand. Jack London Click to tweet
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. Charles Dickens
The flavor of life is on the edge. Naval Ravikant
We are evolved to search for meaning but ultimately life has none. Naval Ravikant
This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time. Tyler Durden (Fight Club)
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. Arthur Schopenhauer
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it. Arthur Schopenhauer
In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back. Charlie Brown
What gives meaning are challenges. A beautiful life is a meaningful. Say yes to challenges. Maxime Lagacé
Real education starts when you realize that life is wild and you know nothing about it. Maxime Lagacé
Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present. Peter F. Drucker
The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it. Carl Jung
We’re not meant to consume infinite news, porn and food. We live in an era of too much abundance. This is the modern struggle. There is so much of an abundance of cheap, fake, instant dopamine and meaning. How do you motivate yourself to do the real thing any more? Naval Ravikant
We no longer live life. We consume it. Vicki Robin (Your Money Or Your Life)
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell
Happiness is not the surplus of pleasant over unpleasant moments. Rather happiness consists in seeing one’s life in its entirety as meaningful and worthwhile. Yuval Noah Harari
As Nietzsche put it, if you have a WHY to live, you can bear almost any “HOW”. A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is. Yuval Noah Harari
The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest. Unknown
Life is a storm that will test you unceasingly. Don’t wait for calm waters that may not arrive. Derive purpose from resilience. Learn to sail the raging sea. Unknown
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. Norman Cousins
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. Dr. Seuss
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. Rick Riordan
Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of the next one. Don’t hope for a life without problems. There’s no such thing. Instead, hope for a life full of good problems. Mark Manson
There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why. William Barclay
Life does not owe you anything because life has already given you everything. Ralph Marston
The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race. Bob Marley Click to tweet
Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars. Jack Kerouac
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. Thomas Szasz
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. Charlie Chaplin
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Life’s too mysterious to take too serious. Mary Engelbreit Click to tweet
Nothing you do is going to matter that much in the long run. Don’t take yourself so seriously. Naval Ravikant
Most of life is about searching, it’s not about doing. People spend too much time doing and not thinking about what they should be doing. Naval Ravikant
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. Maya Angelou
A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do. Osho
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. Alfred Adler
When it hurts – observe. Life is trying to teach you something. Anita Krizzan
Too many people think life will be easy. Keep it mind that it will not and you’ll find peace of mind. Maxime Lagacé
You’re never wrong if you love and help people. Maxime Lagacé
The only beautiful path is the one you create. Maxime Lagacé
If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so. Lev Grossman
We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking. Santosh Kalwar
In every success story, you will find someone who has made a courageous decision. Peter F. Drucker
Life is to enjoyed, not endured. Gordon Hinckley
Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular. Roy T. Bennett
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while you could miss it. Ferris Bueller
A fear-oriented man is always calculating, planning, arranging, safeguarding. His whole life is lost in this way. Osho
See: it’s a never-ending upward spiral. And if you think at any point you’re allowed to stop climbing, I’m afraid you’re missing the point. Because the joy is in the climb itself. Mark Manson
Our crisis is no longer material; it’s existential, it’s spiritual. We have so much fucking stuff and so many opportunities that we don’t even know what to give a fuck about anymore. Mark Manson
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed. Christopher McCandless (Into The Wild movie)
When you want something in life, you just gotta reach out and grab it. Christopher McCandless (Into The Wild movie)
Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create. Roy T. Bennett
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Alexander Pope
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren’t already complicated enough. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. Rita Mae Brown
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities. Dr. Seuss
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. Lao Tzu
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn. David Russell
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. Oprah Winfrey Click to tweet
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu
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Love is the goal, life is the journey. Osho Click to tweet
I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth. Doug Hutchison
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. Lucille Ball
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Morrie Schwartz
Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi
If I know what love is, it is because of you. Herman Hesse
You either live a life of love, or a life of fear. The life of fear is the easiest one because you don’t risk anything. You simply protect. The toughest one is the life of love because you risk more. You give all you’ve got. The choice is yours. Maxime Lagacé
There is love and respect for others. There is love and respect for yourself. Start with the latter. Maxime Lagacé
In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love. Mother Teresa
It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live. Soren Kierkegaard
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you. Roy Croft
A drop of love can bring an ocean of tears. Jewish Proverb
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. Blaise Pascal
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever. Leo Buscaglia
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do. David Wilkerson
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. Benjamin Franklin
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. Lao Tzu
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
Love is a better teacher than duty. Albert Einstein
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Oscar Wilde
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. Henry Miller
Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world. Wayne Dyer
You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. Dr. Seuss
The art of love is largely the art of persistence. Albert Ellis
Love does not dominate; it cultivates. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are most alive when we’re in love. John Updike
The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Roosevelt
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The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. Hubert H. Humphrey Click to tweet
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. Elbert Hubbard
You’t don’t need twenty friends to say you have friends. Like most things in life, it’s quality over quantity. The less you have, the more you can take care of them. Maxime Lagacé
The best friend you’ll find in your life is the friend that always come back to you, no matter what happened or how long it has been. Maxime Lagacé
A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother. Benjamin Franklin
Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself…”. C.S. Lewis
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. C.S. Lewis
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?”. A.A. Milne
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Albert Einstein
The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families. Jay McInerney
Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts. Margaret Lee Runbeck
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. Jane Austen
Happiness is only real when shared. Jon Krakauer
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. Linda Grayson
Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead. Walk beside me… just be my friend. Albert Camus
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It is a wise father that knows his own child. William Shakespeare Click to tweet
Family is not an important thing. It’s everything. Michael J. Fox
A happy family is but an earlier heaven. George Bernard Shaw
If you’re lucky, family members are friends, and friends are family members. Maxime Lagacé
Make sure they know you love them. Maxime Lagacé
The family is one of nature’s masterpieces. George Santayana
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. Napoleon Bonaparte
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. George Herbert
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. Confucius
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Charles R. Swindoll
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony. Friedrich Nietzsche
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. Lee Iacocca
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Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. Brad Henry
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. Johann Schiller
When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family. Jim Butcher
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Theodore Hesburgh
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. David Ogden Stiers
Children are a poor man’s riches. English Proverb
Children have more need of models than critics. Joseph Joubert
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. Anthony Brandt
In family relationships, love is really spelled T.I.M.E. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. George Bernard Shaw
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. Walt Whitman
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Life is trying things to see if they work. Ray Bradbury Click to tweet
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin
A simple definition of success is this: your life could serve as an example for society. Maxime Lagacé
The easiest definition of success is material or financial. The most beautiful definition of success is inner peace. Maxime Lagacé
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. Leonardo da Vinci
Success is about creating value. Candice Carpenter
The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you. Bette Midler
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. Herbert Bayard Swope
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. W.C. Fields
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. Albert Einstein
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. Mark Twain
Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great. Simon Cowell
Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. W.P. Kinsella
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it. Salvador Dali
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Confucius
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. Winston S. Churchill
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Without the rain there would be no rainbow. Gilbert Chesterton Click to tweet
Challenges, failures, defeats and ultimately, progress, are what make your life worthwhile. Maxime Lagacé
Scared people want comfort and certainty so they avoid failure. People living fully seek challenges because this is where they feel alive. Maxime Lagacé
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. Steve Jobs
Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. Steve Maraboli
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot find peace avoiding life. Virginia Woolf
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Albert Einstein
Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live! Alfred Adler
Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. Margaret Mitchell
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. Charles Swindoll
All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low. John Wooden
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Stephen Hawking
I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive. Joan Rivers
The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. Eminem
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life is to entered upon with courage. Alexis de Tocqueville Click to tweet
It can be the scariest and most beautiful thing simultaneously. Maxime Lagacé
Life is a single player game. Naval Ravikant
Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Henry David Thoreau
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler
Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. Anne Wilson Schaef
Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present. Alan Watts
My life is my argument. Albert Schweitzer Click to tweet
Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. Anais Nin
Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up – it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale. Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not. Bruce Lee
Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I’ve certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you – and some of those places are kind of wonderful. Alan Ball
Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key. Alan Bennett
Life is a gift, given in trust – like a child. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art. Anselm Kiefer
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor. Benjamin Disraeli
Life is beautiful because it doesn’t last. Brit Marling
The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Albert Schweitzer
Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal. Albert Schweitzer
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. Albert Schweitzer
Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier. Bruce Lee Click to tweet
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Life is a lively process of becoming. Douglas MacArthur Click to tweet
Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. Carl Sandburg
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. Citium Zeno
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. Carl Rogers
Life is just one damned thing after another. Elbert Hubbard
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations. George Bernard Shaw
My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses. Isabel Allende
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. Jack London
Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie
Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on. Jeff Ross
Life is empty, and realizing that, we want to fill it, we are seeking – seeking ways and means, not only to fill this emptiness but also to find something that is not to be measured by man. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Our whole life is solving puzzles. Erno Rubik
Life is largely a matter of expectation. Homer
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Life is tragic but it’s equally comic. John Banville Click to tweet
Life is hard. After all, it kills you. Katharine Hepburn
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. Marcus Aurelius
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. Leo Tolstoy
Life is a series of commas, not periods. Unknown
Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. Morihei Ueshiba
Life is really a dance if you are original, and you are meant to be original. Osho
Life is not a problem. To look at it as a problem is to take a wrong step. It is a mystery to be lived, loved, experienced. Osho
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. Marge Piercy Click to tweet
Life is a zoo in a jungle. Peter De Vries
Life is a continuous process of adjustment. Indira Gandhi
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Ralph Ellison
Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. Rose Kennedy
The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values. Wassily Kandinsky
Life is a game and true love is a trophy. Rufus Wainwright
Life is available only in the present moment. Thich Nhat Hanh
Life is not an exact science, it is an art. Samuel Butler
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. Sholom Aleichem
Life is fragile. We’re not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you’ve got. Tim Cook (Apple CEO)
Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die. Tom Clancy
Life is lived on the edge. Will Smith
Take care, the next 2 quotes are hard ones (but true!)
Most of life is tragic. You’re born, you don’t know why. You’re here, you don’t know why. You go, you die. Your family dies. Your friends die. People suffer. People live in constant terror. The world is full of poverty and corruption and war and Nazis and tsunamis. The net result, the final count is, you lose – you don’t beat the house. Woody Allen
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon. Woody Allen
But it’s better to finish on a good note, right?
Only one life, that soon is past, only what’s done with love will last. Click to tweet
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Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. Forrest Gump Click to tweet
What is your favorite life quote? Would you like to add another one here? Please let me know in the comment section below!
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Maxime Lagacé started collecting quotes in 2004 after he lost his girlfriend in a car accident.
In search of meaning, he dived in the self-improvement world, psychology and trail running. His goal was to understand his pain, his depression, his fears, his lack of motivation and inspiration.
Books, blogs, quotes and nature became his guide.
He finished his software engineering degree in 2007 at the École de Technologie Supérieure de Montréal. He also studied at the The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. A few years later, he started his first website to share his passion for quotes.
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October 2, 2019
Put life in perspective with some short yet sage pieces of advice. These wise and beautiful words from your favorite positive thinkers will get you in the right mindset to tackle whatever obstacles lie ahead. Inspirational quotes from successful people like Oprah, Helen Keller, and Maya Angelou can help you reframe negative thoughts during tough times and change your attitude so you feel refreshed and motivated. Whether you're hoping to achieve success at work, home, or life in general, establishing the right intentions can help you stay positive and optimistic during the challenges fate can throw your way.
If you're short on time, there's no need to dig through your favorite books for a little pick-me-up. These inspirational quotes for life and success will resonate (and fit on your Pinterest board). Authors, scientists, philosophers, and other famous celebrities have revealed the inner mantras that helped them achieve their goals, and these sayings could help you as well. Many focus on embracing what they can control and letting go of what they can't — a helpful approach when you're feeling anxious or overwhelmed. Others frame everything in terms of what they can give to others, which can put obstacles in perspective. Some people just try to celebrate the joys of life whenever they can — a reminder many of us could stand to hear more. No matter what you're feeling or experiencing, here's hoping these short inspirational quotes can help you get where you want to go.
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Life is a gift.
When we embrace all that life has to offer, we can achieve success both personally and professionally. One way to do this is to surround ourselves with love. Love with a romantic partner, love for family and friends, and love for living life to the fullest. When we set our goals to focus on what's truly important, it's easy to find meaning with our daily actions.
That's why in this post, you will discover 140 great quotes that focus on all aspects of love (i.e. romantic love, great friendships, and love for experiencing all that life has to offer.) And wise quotes about everything in between.
To help you out, we have separated this post into five sections, with a few large picture quotes to share with your loved ones.
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What You Will Learn
If you have chosen to be your best even when the other person you are with isn't at their best, then you have chosen to love this person, and this person is likely your best friend. Love is more than a feeling; it should also be considered an enacted emotion.
And if you'd like to take your romance to the next level, then we recommend two things:
Remember: Love is kindness, and love is an adventure. So let's learn more about this by checking out the following short inspirational quotes:
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”– Lao Tzu
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”– Friedrich Nietzsche
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”– Victor Hugo
“Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”– Lucille Ball
“The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It is focused attention.”– Richard Warren
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart.”– Helen Keller
“Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life.”– Thomas Merton
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Love is a friendship set to music.”– Joseph Campbell
“In order to be happy oneself, it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.”– Theodor Reik
“We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.”– George W. Melville
“Everyone in life is gonna hurt you; you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.” – Erica Baican
“Age does not protect you from love, but love, to some extent, love protects you from age.”– Jeanne Moreau
“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”– Sam Keen
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”– Albert Ellis
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” – Erich Segal
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.” – Neil Gaiman
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” – Sarah Dessen
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”– William Shakespeare
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” – Robert Fulghum
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” – Robert Fulghum
“Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato
“The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. Sometimes love blinds us, other times it lets us see.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert Heinlein
“If you have it, Love, you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have.” – James M. Barrie
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau
“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” – Thomas Carlyle
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” – H. L. Menken
“Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.” – Oscar Wilde
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.” – Thomas Mann
“If you would be loved, love and be lovable.” – Benjamin Franklin
“The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.” – Francois de la Rochefoucauld
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” – Peter Ustinov
“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
“Forgiveness is the final form of love.” – Reinhold Niebuhr
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4
“Whoso loves believes the impossible.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.” – Rumi
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
“What will survive of us is love.” – Philip Larkin
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.' … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” – Maya Angelou
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Baldwin
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.” – Lord Byron
“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.” – Dorothy Parker
“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” – Seneca
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” – Lao Tzu
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” – Henry Miller
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Khalil Gibran
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We are most alive when we're in love.” – John Updike
“If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.” – Barbara De Angelis
“You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” – Carl Sagan
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens
“Love alone can rekindle life.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
Love doesn’t make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” – Madame de Stael
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
“Nobody has ever measured — not even poets — how much love the human heart can hold.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
“Never love anybody that treats you like you’re ordinary.” – Oscar Wilde
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” – Joan Crawford
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.” – Kahlil Gibran
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” – James Baldwin
There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.” – Dodie Smith
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” – Bertrand Russell
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.” – Sophocles
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.” – E. M. Forster
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” – Maya Angelou
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” – Kurt Vonnegut
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” – C. S. Lewis
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” – Oscar Wilde
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.” – Mitch Albom
“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.” – e. e. cummings
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” – Oscar Wilde
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What is the meaning of life? That is a question we aren't sure can really be answered fully. But a good way to describe life is to find meaning in everything you do and learn to love every aspect of your daily routine. Put simply: You to understand “your why” behind everything that you do.
Aristotle said, “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim, and end of human existence.” The following inspirational quotes about life may be just what you need today:
“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”– Franklin D. Roosevelt
“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”– Voltaire
“There is no life as complete as the life that is lived by choice.” – Shad Helmstetter
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”– George Bernard Shaw
“No one ever finds life worth living – one has to make it worth living.” – Winston Churchill
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”– Abraham Lincoln
“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”– Les Brown
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
“Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.”– Dale Carnegie
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.”– Alexander Graham Bell
“An unexamined life is not worth living.”– Socrates
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
“You can never plan the future by the past.”– Edmund Burke
“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”– Dennis P. Kimbro
“At the end of their lives, people assess how they've done not in terms of their income but in terms of their spirit, and I beg you to do the same, even if those who came before sometimes failed to do so.”– Anna Quindlen
“Life is much more fun if you live it in the spirit of play and collaboration, working with instead of against others.” – Wally Amos
“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”– Vivian Komori
“In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”– Robert Frost
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”– W. M. Lewis
“Almost all of the research strongly supports the benefits of using humor to maximize living.” – Mary Kay Morrison
“Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.”– Denis Waitley
“The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”– Vince Lombardi
One of the sad things in life is that we don’t live our life backward, Benjamin Button style. How great would it be to couple the wisdom of age with the energy of youth by living backward?
Unfortunately, that is not the way things work.
In life, we gain important pieces of wisdom through experience and practicing a few of the 23 strategies for daily self-improvement.
All that said, there is a lot of wisdom that can be found by looking at quotes from people who have learned to love life. Here are a few of our favorites:
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?” – Robert Frost
“Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.” – Brian Rathbone
“The problem is that when you get it, you're too damned old to do anything about it.”– Jimmy Connors
“All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.”– Ming-Dao Deng
“You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.” – Mary Tyler Moore
“…talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”– Patrick Süskind
“…talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”– Patrick Süskind
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.” – John Keats
“He who has a way to live can bear almost anyhow.”– Friedrich Nietzsche
“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”– Thomas Carlyle
“I am not what happened to me; I am what I choose to become.”– C.G. Jung
“Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience, and being persistent.” – Billy Graham
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” – Auguste Rodin
“People never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.”– Paulo Coelho
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”– John Gardner
“Life isn't sure; life is scary. It doesn't mean you stop living it.”– Susan May Warren
“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.” – Bob Goff
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.”– Stephen Chbosky
“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.”– Pete Seeger
“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.”– Harold Kushner
“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.”– Harold Kushner
“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”– William Faulkner
One thing that life experiences teach us is that you never get “something for nothing”.
Even when you are only dealing with yourself, having some sort of a reason for doing an action is integral to the success of that action. Perhaps you can think of it as “bribing yourself”.
To see what I’m talking about, check out these 155 Methods of Rewarding Yourself.
Love is another area where time and experience bring wisdom. Love is something most people are looking for, either directly or indirectly.
The following wise quotes talk about the importance of forming lifelong friendships that enrich and enhance your daily routine. In essence, when you have great friends, you’ll surround yourself with great conversations where you can know one another on a deep level.
When discovering the real meaning of friendship, you need to realize that the friendship goes beyond simply sharing your time together; it is sharing long-lasting time together while developing a meaningful connection.
However, it is also important to remember that friendship can mean different things to different people, but it is all around inspiring as you will see by all of the inspiring quotes we have included below:
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time, we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.” – Ally Condie
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” – Amy Poehler
“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.” – Oscar Wilde
“Make a friend when you don't need one.” – Jamaican Proverb
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” – Jim Morrison
“No friendship is an accident.” – O. Henry
“Friends are God's way of taking care of us.” – Author unknown
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasgow
“The best mirror is an old friend.” – George Herbert
“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.” – Miles Franklin
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” – Euripides
“Friendship is the most constant, the most enduring the most basic part of love.” – Ed Cunningham
Some of these quotes on friendship are wonderful. In some ways, I feel good friendship can be as important as love. Actually, friendship can be a form of love itself.
When it comes to habits, one of the most important aspects of friendship is the “mirror” a good friend can provide, like in the George Herbert wise friendship quote above.
This “mirror” is essentially accountability and is one of the single most powerful tools for achieving success with your habits. Find out more about accountability and what it can do for you here.
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Love is all around us! Whether it’s your partner, family, friends, or even the activities you enjoy on a deep level, you can find plenty of examples of this powerful emotion. Hopefully, these love quotes inspired you and gave you something to think about.
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True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
