100 best short quotes about life with meaning

Wise quotes about life

1. The purpose of our life is to be happy. | Dalai Lama

2. Get busy living or get busy dying.
| Stephen King
3. The whole secret to a successful life is to find what you are meant to do and do it. | Henry Ford

4. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. | Mae West

5. Many failures in life have happened to people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. | Thomas A. Edison

6. If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. | Albert Einstein

7. Money and success don't change people, they just exaggerate what already happened. | Will Smith

8. Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't fall into the trap of dogma - where we live by the results of other people's thinking. | Steve Jobs

9. The main thing is not how long, but how well we lived. | Seneca

10. Do all the good you can, for everyone you can, in every way you can, while you can. | Hillary Clinton

11. If life were predictable, it would cease to be life and would have no taste. | Eleanor Roosevelt

12. To write about life, you first need to live it. | Ernest Hemingway

13. The biggest lesson in life, baby, is to never be afraid of anyone or anything. | Frank Sinatra

14. Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans. | John Lennon

15. I think that curiosity about life in all its aspects is still the secret of great creative people. | Leo Burnett

16. Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. | Soren Kierkegaard

17. An unexamined life is not worth living. | Socrates

18. Turn your wounds into wisdom. | Oprah Winfrey

19. The way I see it, if you want a rainbow, you need to make peace with the rain. | Dolly Parton

20. To experience everything that is destined by fate means to fully accept it. | Albert Camus

21. Don’t settle for what life gives you, make life better and build something. | Ashton Kutcher

22. You will never learn much by listening to yourself speak. | George Clooney

23. Life throws things at you that you cannot control, but you still have a choice in how you handle it. | Celine Dion

24. Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be fulfilled, obligations to truth, justice and freedom. | John F. Kennedy

25. Life is actually simple, but people persistently complicate it. | Confucius

26. Life is like driving a bicycle. To maintain balance, you need to keep moving. | Albert Einstein

27. My mother always said: life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you'll get. | Forset Gump

28. Life is a series of lessons that must be lived to be understood. | Hellen Keller

29. Your work will fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you consider great work. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't put up with it. As with matters of love, you will know when you have found it. | Steve Jobs

30. Live every second without hesitation. | Elton John

31. Watch your thoughts - they become words. Watch your words - they become actions. Watch your actions - they become habits. Watch your habits - they become character. Watch your character - it becomes your destiny. | Lao Tzu

32. The healthiest response to life is joy. | Deepak Chopra

33. Life is like a coin. You can do it however you want, but only once. | Lillian Dickinson

34. The best part of a good person’s life is his small, nameless, unencumbered good deeds and manifestations of love. | Wordsworth

35. I can sum up everything I have learned about life in three words. It continues. | Robert Frost

40. Life is 10 percent of what happens to you and 90 percent of how you react to it. | Charles Swindoll

41. Keep calm and keep up the good work. | Winston Churchill

42. Life is a flower whose honey is love. | Victor Hugo

43. Keep smiling because life is beautiful and there is so much to smile about. | Marilyn Monroe

44. Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, fidelity is the best relationship. | Buddha

45. You have brains in your head. You have your feet in shoes. You can take yourself in any direction you choose. | Dr. Seuss

46. Good friends, good books and a lulled conscience. This is an ideal life. | Mark Twain

47. Life would be tragic if it were not funny. | Stephen Hawking

48. The greatest pleasure in life is love. | Euripides

49. The tragedy of life is that we grow old too early and grow wise too late. | Benjamin Franklin

Everything that is inside really exists and is waiting to come out.

Much can be written down in a draft, and then rewritten into a clean copy. And if you lack valuable advice, look for it in quotes about the lives of famous writers.

Accept yourself and you will see that life is beautiful. A. de Saint-Exupéry
Find out the principles of a person, and in the process you will realize that you know everything about him. Apuleius
An empty life is the worst thing that can happen. Bertolt Brecht
Daily life is the best indicator of a person's morals. Blaise Pascal
If you turn life into suffering, then it is your own fault. V. Veresaev
To become yourself means to find your own personal path in life. V. Belinsky
On this earth it is still better to climb than to roll. V. Soloukhin
In life, as in a mountain, one goes down very quickly, but it takes a very long time to go up. G. de Maupassant
In life you need to have one thing, but one around which all the others revolve. Delacroix
There is light in the soul of every person if that person agrees with his life. D. Gibran
It is unlikely that you will remain sad when you illuminate the lives of others. D. Barry
If there are no sorrows and worries in your life, then maybe you are not living at all? Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Your life is not in the hands of another person. It's in your own hands. Jean Jacques Rousseau
There are two meanings in life - internal and external. External is everyday life. So the internal one is different for everyone. I. Guberman

Quotes from great people about living a meaningful life

50. The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you realized why. | Mark Twain

51. Life narrows or expands in proportion to courage. | Anais Nin

52. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness is the key to life. When I went to school they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote "Happy." They said that I did not understand the task, I replied that they did not understand life. | John Lennon

53. Too many of us don't live our dreams because we live our fears. | Les Brown

54. I believe that every person has a limited number of heartbeats. I'm not going to waste mine. | Neil Armstrong

55. Live as if you will die tomorrow. Study as if you were living forever. | Mahatma Gandhi

56. If you live long enough, you will make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you will become a better person. | Bill Clinton

57. Life is short, and it must be lived here. | Kate Winslet

58. Every moment is a new beginning. | T.S. Eliot

59. When you stop dreaming, you stop living. | Malcolm Forbes

60. The best way to predict the future is to create it. | Abraham Lincoln

61. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. | Dr. Seuss

62. If you can do what you do best and be happy while doing it, you will get further in life than most people. | Leonardo DiCaprio

63. Our choices reveal who we really are, much more than our abilities. | J.K. Rowling

64. If you are not stubborn, you will give up on experiments too quickly. And if you are not flexible, you will bang your head against the wall and will not see any other way to solve the problem. | Jeff Bezos

65. If you love life, don't waste time because time is what life is made of. | Bruce Lee

66. As you get older, you discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself and the other for helping others. | Audrey Hepburn

67. You should not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops in the ocean are dirty, the ocean will not become dirty. | Mahatma Gandhi

68. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you do, the better. | Ralph Waldo Emerson

69. It takes 20 years to earn a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about it, you will do everything differently. | Warren Buffett

70. I have long noticed that successful people rarely sit back and let things happen to them. They go out and something happened. | Leonardo da Vinci

71.
Don't dwell on the past, don't dream about the future, focus on the present moment. | Buddha
72. Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the foolish, a comedy for the rich and a tragedy for the poor. | Sholom Aleichem

73. If you wait for a storm all your life, you will never enjoy the sunshine. | Morris West

74. When one door closes, another opens, but we often look at the closed door for so long and with such regret that we do not see the one that opened for us. | Alexander Graham Bell

Short, concise phrases

The most beautiful quotes with meaning don't have to be long; Many phrases are short, which does not in any way affect their value.

Life transforms because we create these metamorphoses.
I am like an open book, but not everyone can read it.
A happy person does not notice whether it is spring or autumn outside the window.
Don't trust the shell - after all, salt is often similar to sugar.
The morning should start with optimism and a smile.
Life is a holiday.
There is no better beauty than kindness.
While others are lazy and struggling with depression, develop yourself!
You should never be afraid to forget the past and start from scratch.
Purity and beauty - simplicity contains all this.
You need to be able to play a major role in your own life.

Eastern wisdom about life

Sometimes one can only envy the philosophical attitude towards life in the East.

Lessons from the Chinese Sages

One of the most famous and authoritative Chinese philosophers, Lao Tzu, left his lessons of wisdom for the edification of his descendants:

be attentive to your thoughts: they are the beginning of actions;
if you measure your success by the measure of others' praise and blame, your anxiety will be endless;
the one who knows does not prove, the one who proves does not know;
don't search, otherwise you will lose. Seek not and you will find;
only he who has power can give it to others;
never judge a person until you have walked a long way in his shoes;
Be attentive to your thoughts: they are the beginning of actions.

It’s worth listening to Mo Tzu’s thoughts:

large and medium-sized rivers do not disdain to accept streams and mountain streams in order to fill themselves and thereby be great;
the one who has universal love for people, who does good for them, Heaven will certainly make him happy. And the one who does evil to people, deceives people, Heaven will certainly punish;
he who blasphemes others must offer something in return. Criticism without such suggestions is like trying to stop a flood with water or put out a fire with fire. There will be absolutely no use from it;
You can’t ask for happiness, you can’t avoid unhappiness if you yourself have acted badly or worked carelessly.

Sun Yat-sen, a Chinese figure, also left a “legacy” to his descendants:

only strong people have freedom;
knowing is difficult, acting is easy;
Trust is earned by many things and lost by only one.

Japanese proverbs

Japanese wisdom is worth listening to and choosing for yourself what your heart is drawn to.

Having gone through disasters and misfortune, you will meet a happy fate.
Sorrows have passed and God has been forgotten.
Just because winter has arrived does not mean that spring is far behind.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Strangers come to feast, but our own people come to mourn.
It happens that a leaf sinks, but a stone floats.
Do everything you can, and leave the rest to fate.

It is interesting that most proverbs have analogues in Russian.

Wise thoughts for every day

For life to bring joy, you need to look for positive moments in every day. Wise thoughts will help you find peace, confidence and good mood.

Happiness is not having what you want, but desiring what you have.
Success is the movement from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. (W. Churchill)
Instead of “I don’t have a job,” you need to think: “great, tomorrow I’m completely free,” instead of “I have no money,” “I even wonder how my guardian angels will get out this time,” instead of “oh, what’s wrong now?” will be me” - “it looks like I have secured an interesting life for myself in the coming years” (Max Frei)
What you can perceive calmly no longer controls you. (Confucius)

The more a person experiences everything unpleasant, the more difficult it is for him to experience it in the future.

Quotes from great poets about life will especially appeal to people who value big ideas. Of course, many of them are about love.

Planting a tree is always wonderful, even if you don’t get the seeds.
Don't believe it. A book is nothing if a person does not know how to use it. A. Blok
There is only one revolution needed. And this is spring. F. Tyutchev
Willpower and work are what transform a person beyond recognition. N. Nekrasov
Sometimes you need to give yourself free rein. If only because life is short... O. Khayyam
No matter what anyone says, very soon everything will be completely new. A. Blok
No appearance, even the best, can compare with a beautiful soul. O. Khayam
You can grow old in doubt and inaction. M. Lermontov
We can dream as much as we want, but we are created only from flesh. M. Tsvetaeva
We live in a world where a woman can thank simply for tenderness. E. Yevtushenko
The warmer the house, the more useless the blizzard. A. Blok
When the paths to the heart become beaten, love slowly disappears. I. Bunin
And if you knock on my door, it seems to me that I won’t even hear. A. Akhmatova
Sometimes there is no return to what you loved for so long. K. Belmont
Sadness disappears when I die at your feet.
I drink you, captivating life, with my eyes, heart, sighs and skin. M. Tsvetaeva
Two lunges don't mean a fight, two kisses don't even mean romance. A. Akhmatova

Life is an interesting thing

You want to put beautiful life quotes after some significant event for you or simply because everything in your life is great, choose your phrase:

I’m overwhelmed with feelings, positive emotions, I can’t remain silent - so go all out, and I wish the same for you.
I'm in love, but I don't care about the rest.
As long as I love, I live fully.
My life is filled with colors and events - and it’s just a thrill.
With love in your soul, everything seems blue and green, even in snowstorms and bad weather.
And life has become more fun.
I want to give you pleasure so much that I enjoy myself.
Either the approach of spring has this effect, but I want to live.
When I fell in love, I realized that trouble was nonsense.
As if I were drunk, now the sea is knee-deep, and trouble is not a problem.
Beautiful words cannot replace my beautiful inner feelings.
When a sea of desires appears, all possibilities open up.
Don’t be afraid to enjoy every little thing, joy attracts other great emotions - love, friendship, loyalty, brightness and colorfulness of life.
Did the nightingale trill appear in your head? You've either fallen in love, or spring is coming.
This is a state when I am capable of feats and extraordinary actions.
If life seems wonderful, it doesn't.
Strong friendship also strengthens the joy of everything that happens.
Life gives only those who are true and devoted friends.
When you have great friends, you are not just lucky, but very lucky.
It is extremely rare to see only positive aspects in everything, take advantage of this.
I don't need psychologists or medications - I have great people around me.
When I’m sad, I tell myself that this is light sadness, when I’m happy, there’s no time to talk, life is in full swing.
Optimism and the ability to be happy are a reliable foundation for your life.
Don’t trust those passing by, trust yourself and your loved ones.
There is nothing more valuable than children and parents.
Take care of your parents while they are alive, and then take care of their memory.
Parents are sacred, instill this idea in your children too.
All relationships are built on love, otherwise they will simply collapse.
Do not betray yourself and do not refuse help, then they will do the same to you.
Thanks to my parents, I knew that I was the most talented, unique and the best, but I was not arrogant and did not star. We also need to raise our children now.
If you want to be successful, start loving this world.
Understanding people means finding the way to yourself.
Don’t you dare forget your children and parents – then success is inevitable.
What is meaning in life? Everyone has their own, but all of them are based on love, kindness and attention.
It is precisely said: “When you are happy yourself, share your happiness with others.” I'm sharing!
Do you want a more interesting and exciting life? Just go outside your apartment.
Don't be afraid of mistakes - these are the free exercise machines that lead to success.
If you have a bad streak, take it as a takeoff.
Always be yourself, because this is the path to inner harmony and happiness.
If you see negativity in your life, reboot and take it with humor.
Life is short and you shouldn’t rush, it’s better to accelerate.