100+ Inspirational Life Quotes

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We have compiled Famous Quotes on Life, truth quotes about life, and beautiful quotes & sayings from famous people around the world to get inspired.

If you want to read some life advice. These life quotes will inspire you to the core and help you live a quality and content life.

Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.

Margaret Mitchell

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

Mary E. Pearson

Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

Milan Kundera

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

Oscar Wilde

You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?

Paulo Coelho

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.

Søren Kierkegaard

One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.

A.A. Milne

Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.

Alexandra Adornetto

So, what is my story? I don't know. It's long and twisted and not quite finished yet.

Caitlyn Paige

Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.

Cecelia Ahern

My only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy.

Dan Howell

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

Harper Lee

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

Lois Lowry

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Ralph Ellison

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

Sarah Kay

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Søren Kierkegaard

For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

T.S. Eliot

We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.

Vladimir Nabokov

You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within.

Dan Howell

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

Dodie Smith

You will be fine,' the fortune teller says. 'There may be decisions to make and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

Erin Morgenstern

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.

Hubert Selby Jr.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

Lois Lowry

It's worth making time to find the things that really stir your soul. That’s what makes you really feel alive. You have to say ‘no’ to other things you’re used to, and do it with all your heart.

Roy T. Bennett

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

T.S. Eliot

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Vladimir Nabokov

Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Cesare Pavese

Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.

Hubert Selby Jr.

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

Khaled Hosseini

Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.

Robin S. Sharma

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

Thornton Wilder

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

Vladimir Nabokov

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Bob Dylan

After all, tomorrow is another day!

Margaret Mitchell

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Søren Kierkegaard

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

Audrey Niffenegger

At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

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