Quotes & Sayings

Quotes about life is one of our most popular categories for obvious reasons. The collection of quotes and sayings to follow are a diverse range from people all over the world on how they see life themselves, which makes for a very interesting and compelling read.

“True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness”
Albert Einstein

“Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself”
Zen saying

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”
John Lennon

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of”
Benjamin Franklin

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter”
Martin Luther King

“Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy — because we will always want to have something else or something more”
Brother David Steindl-Rast

“What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn’t have done it. Who was it who said, “Blessed is the man who has found his work”? Whoever it was he had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work–not somebody else’s work. The work that is really a man’s own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man’s work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. The fellows who groan and sweat under the weary load of toil that they bear never can hope to do anything great. How can they when their souls are in a ferment of revolt against the employment of their hands and brains? The product of slavery, intellectual or physical, can never be great”
Mark Twain

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits”
Thomas Jefferson

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
Annie Dillard

“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can”
George Bernard Shaw

“The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it”
Pearl S. Buck

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile”
Albert Einstein

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.”
Isaac Asimov

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

“Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough”
Seneca

“The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life”
Robert Louis Stevenson

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