Here are the 300 greatest short and cute quotes about life.
“To live will be an awfully big adventure.”
Peter Pan
“And still, I rise.”
Maya Angelou
“Live life to the fullest.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
Maya Angelou
“Keep calm and carry on.”
Winston Churchill
“We were together. I forget the rest.”
Walt Whitman
“Today, you have 100% of your life left.”
Tom Landry
“It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.”
W.C. Fields
“Life is the game that must be played.”
Edwin Arlington Robinson
“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”
Winnie the Pooh
“Live for each second without hesitation.”
Elton John
“Do, or do not…There is no try.”
Yoda
“The greatest pleasure of life is love.”
Euripides
“May you live all the days of your life.”
Jonathan Swift
“If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?”
Erma Bomback
“There are no regrets in life, just lessons.”
Jennifer Aniston
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
Dr. Seuss
“Embrace the glorious mess that you are.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde
“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”
Oscar Wilde
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
John W. Gardner
“My life is my message.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Make each day your masterpiece.”
John Wooden
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
Winston Churchill
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Victor Hugo
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
Dalai Lama
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
Stephen King
“Life is just a bowl of cherries.”
Lew Brown
“The healthiest response to life is joy.”
Deepak Chopra
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life’s tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.”
John Wayne
“Never regret anything that made you smile.”
Mark Twain
“Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.”
Katrina Mayer
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
Mark Twain
“When words fail, music speaks.”
William Shakespeare
“What we think, we become.”
Buddha
“Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.”
Dave Barry
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
Marthe Troly-Curtin
“Avoid fruits and nuts; after all you are what you eat.”
Garfield
“I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
“Life must be lived as play.”
Plato
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
T.S. Eliot
“It hurt because it mattered.”
John Green
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.”
George Halas
“Change the world by being yourself.”
Amy Poehler
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates
“Being happy never goes out of style.”
Lily Pulitzer
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Friends are relatives you make for yourself.”
Eustache Deschamps
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
Hermann Hesse
“I have nothing to lose but something to gain.”
Eminem
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.”
Christopher Morley
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
A. A. Milne
“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples’ vacations was considered a punishment.”
Betty White
“By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he’s wrong.”
Charles Wadsworth
“Strive for greatness.”
Lebron James
“Life is a ride. Strap in, hang on, and keep your eyes open.”
Michael J. Fox
“Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“I decided as long as I was going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.”
Edward Cullen
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”
Jim Henson
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Walter Winchell
“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”
Milton Berle
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
Albert Einstein
“Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.”
Ernest Hemingway
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
Mae West
“I could agree with you but then we’d both be wrong.”
Harvey Specter
“Tough times never last but tough people do.”
Robert H. Schuller
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
Charles Schulz
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
Benjamin Spock
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
John Lennon
“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
G. Elliot
“Beauty begins the moment you decided to be yourself.”
Coco Chanel
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
Confucius
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
Linda Grayson
“Oh, the things you can find, if you don’t stay behind.”
Dr. Seuss
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
Arnold H. Glasgow
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
Bruce Lee
“I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.”
Rita Mae Brown
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
John R. Wooden
“True friendship resists time, distance, and silence.”
Isabel Allende
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
John Lennon
“If real life were a book, it would never find a publisher.”
Jasper Fforde
“It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.”
Bertrand Russell
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”
Robert H. Schiuller
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
Dr. Seuss
“A single rose can be my garden…a single friend, my world.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“Cute is when a person’s personality shines through their looks.”
Natalie Portman
“A real girl isn’t perfect and a perfect girl isn’t real.”
Harry Styles
“Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it.”
Reinhold Niebuhr
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
Honore de Balzac
“When you cease to dream you cease to live.”
Malcolm Forbes
“If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.”
Aristotle Onassis
“It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.”
Lucille Ball
“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.”
Jules Renard
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”
Kurt Cobain
“Time is an illusion, lunchtime, doubly so.”
Douglas Adams
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
Helen Keller
“Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.”
John Evelyn
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
Babe Ruth
“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”
James Dean
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark Twain
“Everything looks cute when it’s small.”
Cynthia Rawley
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
Lord Byron
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
Markus Zusak
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Reality is wrong, dreams are for real.”
Tupac
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
Babe Ruth
“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”
Robert Morley
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
Albert Camus
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
Napoleon Hill
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
Abraham Lincoln
“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”
Albert Einstein
“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
Oscar Wilde
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
Mark Twain
“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.”
David Ogden Stiers
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Oscar Wilde
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
Dolly Parton
“Love builds bridges where there are none.”
R.H. Delaney
“It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
Robert Kiyosaki
“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
Steve Martin
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”
Oscar Wilde
“Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.”
Buddha
“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”
Frank Sinatra
“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
Timothy Leary
“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”
Candace Bushnell
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Hate comes from intimidation, love comes from appreciation.”
Tyga
“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.”
William Osler
“Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully.”
Albert Camus
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
“It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.”
Marilyn Monroe
“In every living thing there is the desire for love.”
D.H. Lawrence
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain
“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.”
Kevin Kruse
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
Florence Nightingale
“Your image isn’t your character. Character is what you are as a person.”
Derek Jeter
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“In order to write about life first you must live it.”
Ernest Hemingway
“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.”
Michael Jordan
“Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.”
Confucius
“Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”
Grandma Moses
“Never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.”
Drake
“Life is short, and it is here to be lived.”
Kate Winslet
“I don’t need it to be easy, I need it to be worth it.”
Lil Wayne
“Nothing lasts forever but at least we got these memories.”
J. Cole
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Samuel Beckett
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.”
Bill Wilson
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
Andre Breton
“People that keep stiff upper lips find that it’s hard to smile.”
Judith Guest
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
Confucius
“Change the game, don’t let the game change you.”
Macklemore
“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
André Gide
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
Elbert Hubbard
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
Ray Croft
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
Bruce Lee
“I like criticism. It makes you strong.”
LeBron James
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
Woodrow Wilson
“A hug is like a boomerang: you get it back right away.”
Bil Keane
“I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.”
Doug Hutchison
“Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.”
Ashton Kutcher
“Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.”
Carroll Bryant
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
Anne Frank
“We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
Pablo Picasso
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make It.”
Marcus Aurelius
“We say we understand life is fleeting, but we act as though it is endless.”
Marty Cauley
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
Mark Twain
“Love For All, Hatred For None.”
Khalifatul Masih III
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”
Seneca
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.”
Robert Collier
“The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.”
Kahlil Gibran
“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”
Alfred Adler
“I’ve developed a new philosophy…I only dread one day at a time.”
Charlie Brown
“Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.”
Seneca
“Be nice to people on the way up, because you may meet them on the way down.”
Jimmy Durante
“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
George Santayana
“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”
Anne Frank
“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
Jeffrey Eugenides
“Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Life is like butter – when things cool down it can be reshaped.”
Alan Sheinwald
“There is no substitute for hard work.”
Thomas Edison
“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
Robert Hand
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
Khalil Gibran
“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.”
Michael Phelps
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.”
R. Brault
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
Nelson Mandela
“Determine your priorities and focus on them.”
Eileen McDargh
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
Joseph Campbell
“Everything is hard before it is easy.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You only pass through this life once, you don’t come back for an encore.”
Elvis Presley
“Always go to other peoples’ funerals, otherwise they won’t go to yours.”
Yogi Berra
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
Gabriel García Márquez
“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”
Dalai Lama
“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.”
Seneca
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
Arthur Ashe
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
Coco Chanel
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
J.K. Rowling
“Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?”
Hans Selye
“Don’t you know your imperfections is a blessing?”
Kendrick Lamar
“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”
Erich Fromm
“As you know, life is an echo; we get what we give.”
David DeNotaris
“Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.”
Oscar Wilde
“The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
Honore de Balzac
“Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason.”
Maggie Gallagher
“Have enough courage to start and enough heart to finish.”
Jessica N.S. Yourko
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
Helen Keller
“The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.”
Jack Nicholson
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
Harry F. Banks
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
Oscar Wilde
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.”
Pablo Picasso
“Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!”
Louisa May Alcott
“A happy soul is the best shield for a cruel world.”
Atticus
“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”
Ken Hudgins
“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.”
Jean Vanier
“In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back.”
Charlie Brown
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
Euripides
“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.”
Michael J. Fox
“Your life is your time. If you want to plan your life, then plan your time.”
Andrian Teodoro
“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
Charles Bukowski
“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Whatever you do, do it well.”
Walt Disney
“That’s the secret to life…replace one worry with another.”
Charlie Brown
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
Emily Dickinson
“All limitations are self-imposed.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”
Maya Angelou
“If life doesn’t offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.”
Anthony J. D’angelo
“Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.”
L.M. Montgomery
“Yesterday you said tomorrow. Just do it.”
Nike
“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.”
Dennis Waitley
“Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk but no flowers grow.”
Vincent van Gogh
“Love is like Pi: natural, irrational, and very important.”
Lisa Hoffman
“You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.”
George Clooney
“There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.”
Melanie Griffith
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
Stephen Chbosky
“A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.”
Sir John Lubbock
“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”
Wolfgang Von Johann Goethe
“Very early, I knew that the only objective in life was to grow.”
Margaret Fuller
“Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.”
Sarah Louise Delany
“Where there is love there is life.”
Indira Gandhi
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill
“If the world was blind how many people would you impress?”
Boonaa Mohammed
“‘I love you’ begins by I, but it ends up by you.”
Charles de Leusse
“True love stories never have endings.”
Richard Bach
“There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
Christopher Morley
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
Heraclitus
“The only joy in the world is to begin.”
Cesare Pavese
“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
Mark Twain
“Happiness is a state of activity.”
Aristotle
“Maybe that’s what life is…a wink of the eye and winking stars.”
Jack Kerouac
“The best proof of love is trust.”
Joyce Brothers
“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
Cesare Pavese
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.”
Rose Kennedy
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
Anais Sin
“One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.”
William Feather
“Love is a better teacher than duty.”
Albert Einstein
“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?”
Bob Marley
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
Les Brown
“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.”
Brendan Gill
“Find people who will make you better.”
Michelle Obama
“The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.”
Epictetus
“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”
Stephen Hawking
“The road to success is always under construction.”
Lily Tomlin
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
Pablo Picasso
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy — it’s all that matters.”
Audrey Hepburn
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
Rumi
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Pablo Picasso
“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.”
Deborah Day
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
Bertrand Russell
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
“So many books, so little time.”
Frank Zappa
“Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.”
Christian Dior
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
Joseph Campbell
“There are no mistakes, only opportunities.”
Tina Fey
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
Richard Branson
“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
Mencius
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
Albert Einstein
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
Aristotle
“Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins.”
Paris Hilton
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
Dalai Lama
“Families are the compass that guides us.”
Brad Henry
“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.”
Maxwell Maltz
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
David Tyson
“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”
Lucille Ball
“The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.”
Aesop
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
Omar Khayyam
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