We’ve collected the absolute best life quotes ever written to help inspire and empower you. We hope you enjoy these quotes about life and happiness.
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
– Søren Kierkegaard
“Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It’s when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life’s not worth having.”
– D. H. Lawrence
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
– Albert Einstein
“Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.”
– Emily Dickinson
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Live today, for tomorrow it will all be history.”
– Anonymous
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
– Vivian Greene
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
– Jack London
“Variety’s the very spice of life that gives it all its flavour.”
– William Cowper
“Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.”
– John Lennon
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
– Socrates
