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Short quotes about life: 50 powerful life quotes

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Short quotes about life / Life quotes

These inspiring short quotes about life will definitely inspire and motivate you to deal successfully with the ups and downs of life.  

Most of these short quotes about life are by famous and successful people.

  1. “Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.”  Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
  2. “Television is NOT real life. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.” Bill Gates
  3. “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.” Charlie Chaplin
  4. “Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.” Bill Gates
  5. “I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.” Bill Gates
  6. “What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.” Charlie Chaplin
  7. “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” Ralph Ellison
  8. “It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.”  George Bernard Shaw
  9. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” George Bernard Shaw
  10. “You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.” Charlie Chaplin
  11. “If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play, and z is keeping your mouth shut.” Albert Einstein
  12. “It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.” Bhagavad Gita
  13. “Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.” Buddha
  14. “Life’s Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” Benjamin Franklin. Best quotes about life
  15. “Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death.” Swami Vivekananda
  16. “The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.” Terry Pratchett
  17. “A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.” Benjamin Franklin
  18. “The worst thing to do is to die while reading life magazine.” Bill Cosby
  19. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” Mark Twain
  20. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” Confucius
  21. “The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.” Swami Vivekanada
  22. “Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” Langston Hughes
  23. “Dreams are necessary to life.” Anaïs Nin
  24. “There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.”  George Bernard Shaw
  25. “Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.” Hans Christian Andersen
  26. “In order to write about life first, you must live it.”  Ernest Hemingway
  27. “Life begins where fear ends.” Osho
  28. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates 
  29. “It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.” Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
  30. “Life’s not fair, get over it!” Bill Gates
  31. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”  George Bernard Shaw
  32. “What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.”  George Bernard Shaw 
  33. “The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” Groucho Marx
  34. “Life is a balance between rest and movement.”  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
  35. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” Mark Twain (best quotes about life)
  36. “Life is a pilgrimage to nowhere, from nowhere to nowhere. And between these two nowheres is the Now-Here.”  Osho
  37. “Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.” Woody Allen
  38. “Don’t choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.”  Osho
  39. “I slept and dreamt that life was a joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was a joy.”  Rabindranath Tagore
  40. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” Robert Frost
  41. “Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.” Socrates 
  42. “The object of Art is to give life a shape.” William Shakespeare
  43. “Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.”  William Shakespeare
  44. “The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.” Winston Churchill
  45. “There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?” Woody Allen
  46. “Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.” Albert Einstein
  47. “Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering – an image of death.” Buddha
  48.  “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” Mark Twain
  49. “In every life, we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double.” Bobby McFerrin
  50. “Life is a question and how we live it is our answer.” Gary Keller

These short quotes about life are good quotes (inspirational words) to remember by anyone dreaming to live the life they are longing for without any complication.

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