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10 Wisdom Quotes about Life

“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now.” – Joan Baez

“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.” – Henry Van Dyke

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

“Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.” – George Sand

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” – Henry James

“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.” – Margaret Fuller

“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” – Will Rogers

“Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” – Tom Lehrer

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard

Sad Quotes about Life

Let me share with you some wonderful Sad Quotes about Life for more inspiration.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. – Henry David Thoreau

The world is perfect. It’s a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives. – Joseph Campbell

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight. – Rabindranath Tagore

Sad Quotes about LifeAny fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. – Benjamin Franklin

The word “happy” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Gustav Jung

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. – Publilius Syrus

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history. – Carl Jung

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. – William Shakespeare

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. – Leo Buscaglia

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, “It might have been”. – John Greenleaf Whittier

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein

Wise Quotes about Life

It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. – Albert Einstein

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. – John W. Gardner

A hopeless person feels difficulty in every chance but, a hopeful person feels a chance in every difficulty. – Unknown

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. – Pope John XXIII

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Now that it’s all over, what did you really do yesterday that’s worth mentioning? – Coleman Cox

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. – Unknown

A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books. – Chinese proverb

Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. – Unknown

Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window – or break down a door. – Unknown

Powerful Quotes about Life

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. – Marie Curie

Life is a song – sing it.
Life is a game – play it.
Life is a challenge – meet it.
Life is a dream – realize it.
Life is a sacrifice – offer it.
Life is love – enjoy it. – Sai Baba

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. – Anonymous

Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. – Helen Keller

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. – Helen Keller

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. – Helen Keller

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. – John Lennon

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. – Joseph Campbell

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. – Joseph Campbell

Life is a long lesson in humility. – James M. Barrie

Deep Life Quotes

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – William James

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. – Theodore H. White

It is our choices … that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. – J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, “We did it ourselves.” – Lao Tzu

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. – Anonymous

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices – just recognize them. – Edward R. Murrow

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anais Nin

There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. – John F. Kennedy

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. – Meister Eckhart

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. – Martin Luther King, Jr.