Inspirational Quotes

 On Life

The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and share. When you look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times
that you outdid and defeated them.
-Rabbi Harold Kushner-

Let this moment be there, and you in it, and suddenly you have everything - because life is there. Suddenly everything starts showering on you, and then this moment becomes eternal and then there is no time. It is always the now. It never ends, never
begins. Then you are in it, not an outsider. You have entered the whole, you have recognized who you are.
-Osho-

There are 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-

Stop going with the flow in your life. Start your own river instead.
-Phillip C. McGraw-

It is not the worship of a person that is crucial, but the steadiness and depth of your devotion to the task. Life itself is the Supreme Guru; be attentive to its lessons and obedient to its commands. When you personalize their source, you have an outer Guru; when you take them from life directly, the Guru is within.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj-

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete.
If you're alive, it isn't.
-Richard Bach-

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced; live your life so that
when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
-Cherokee Saying-

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable,
racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be
alive is a grand thing.
-Agatha Christie-

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
-Danny Kaye-

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as if everything is.
-Albert Einstein-

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
-David Starr Jordan-

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as if everything is.
-Albert Einstein-

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but
by the moments that take our breath away.
-Unknown-

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-WM Lewis-

What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.
-Hugh Mulligan-

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-Gandhi-

Life: we laugh and laugh, then cry and cry, then feebler laugh, then die.
-Mark Twain-

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
-Elbert Hubbard-

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
-George Bernard Shaw-

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
-Danny Kaye-

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
-Ronald Reagan-

There was never yet an uninteresting life.
Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is
a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
-Mark Twain-

Everything alive is sacred; life delights in life.
-William Blake-

Life is a play! 'Tis not its length but its performance that counts.
-Seneca-

Life is a journey, and love is what makes that journey worthwhile.
-Unknown-

Life is a promise; fulfill it.
-Mother Theresa-

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-Victor Hugo-

On the last analysis, then, love is life.
Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
-Henry Drummond-

Life is about not knowing, having to change,
taking the moment and making the best of it,
without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious ambiguity.
-Gilda Radner-

It is the epitome of life. The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy
without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
-Mark Twain-

There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.
-George Santayana-