Thought-provoking quotes about life, spanning themes of resilience, purpose, love, and self-discovery:

 Here are 50 thought-provoking quotes about life, spanning themes of resilience, purpose, love, and self-discovery:

Let these quotes inspire reflection, gratitude, and action as you navigate life’s journey!

1. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon  

2. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama  

3. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller  

4. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln  

5. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

  

6. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” — Charles R. Swindoll  

7. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates  

8. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein  

9. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Nelson Mandela  

10. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi  

11. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius 

 

12. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs 

 

13. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” — Mark Twain

  

14. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson  

15. “ Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey  

16. “Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.”— Sarah Louise Delany  

17. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill  

18. **“The art of life is to live in the present moment.”** — Amit Ray  

19. **“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”** — George Bernard Shaw  

20. **“Life is a flower of which love is the honey.”** — Victor Hugo  

21. **“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”** — Peter Drucker  

22. “Life is tough, but so are you.”

— Unknown  

23. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali  

24. “Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” — Ernest Holmes  

25. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” — Søren Kierkegaard  

26. “The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”— Bertrand Russell  

27. “Life is too important to be taken seriously.” — Oscar Wilde  

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

29. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”— Oprah Winfrey  

30. “Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”— Helen Keller  

31. “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” — Pablo Picasso  

32. “Life is like a camera. Focus on what’s important, capture the good times, and if things don’t work out, take another shot.” — Unknown  

33. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”— Anaïs Nin  

34. “You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”— Brian Tracy  

35. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them—that only creates sorrow.”— Lao Tzu  

36. “The trouble is, you think you have time.” — Buddha  

37. “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain.”— Vivian Greene  

38. “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” — Paulo Coelho  

39. “Life is a journey, not a destination.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson  

40. “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”— Oscar Wilde  

41. “Life is a one-time offer. Use it well.” — Unknown  

42. “The best is yet to be.”— Robert Browning  

43. “Life is a question and how we live it is our answer.” — Gary Keller  

44. “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” — Joseph Campbell  

45. “Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.” — Rumi  

46. “Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.” — Danny Kaye 

 

47. “Life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.” — Arthur Schopenhauer  

48. “Life is a song—sing it. Life is a game—play it. Life is a challenge—meet it.” — Sai Baba  

49. “Life is a beautiful struggle.” — Unknown  

50. “Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” — Maya Angelou