Life Quotes to Live By

In this article of famous life quotes to live your life by, we will come across words which, when knitted with deep feelings and thoughtful genius of the mind, create the frame of expression and a fathomless unseen desire. Happiness, agony, inspiration, realization, anticipation, love and everything that relates to our life, can be filtered through the moment of blankness into a clear ocean of expression. Some people live their lives, walking along with their near and dear ones, in all ups and downs that they face. While, there are some, who share their life with loneliness and a longing desire to have someone to turn to.

Thoughtful Quotes on Life

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky." - Rabindranath Tagore

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come." - Rabindranath Tagore

"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." - Hans Christian Anderson

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." - Erma Bombeck

"Life's not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow." - Terri Guillemets

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me"
- Robert Frost

"Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit." - Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

"As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose." - Unknown

"You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages." - Mignon McLaughlin

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man." - Rabindranath Tagore

"Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night." - Marion Howard

Inspirational Quotes

"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on." - Rabindranath Tagore

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." - Thomas Jefferson

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." - Robert Collier

"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present." - Rabindranath Tagore

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win." - Jonathan Kozel

"The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be." - Horace Bushnell

"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true." - Leon J. Suenes

"It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks." - Johann Gottfried Von Herder

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." - William B. Sprague

Funny Quotes on Life

"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was." - Irish Proverb

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat." - Lilly Tomlin

"Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination." - Christopher Isherwood

"My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn." - Louis Adamic

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain

"I came into this world black, naked and ugly. And no matter how much I accumulate here, it's a short journey. I will go out of this world black, naked and ugly. So I enjoy life." - Screamin' Jay Hawkins

"Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?" - Bob Monkhouse

"Life is a zoo in a jungle." - Peter De Vries

"Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool." - Gioacchino Rossini

"The world is a grindstone and life is your nose." - Fred Allen

"I'm having the best day of my life, and I owe it all to not going to Church!" - Homer Simpson

"If you really want something in life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers." - Homer Simpson

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein

Some More Quotes

"Time is an illusion, lunchtime, doubly so." - Douglas Adams

"After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her." - Mark Twain

"I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear." - Woody Allen

"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot." - Charlie Chaplin

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain

So, this is it for some great life quotes to live by, by some great and a few unknown authors. I will leave you here with a quote on life, which was written by one of my dearest friends...

"Life is a journey from darkness to darkness and your family and friends are your source of light. So, keep this light to your closest and live your life well!"