Find here the best inspirational unique quotes on life to know the meaning of life.
What is Life?
If you figure out its meaning, you will get many answers. A lot of people interpret life in different ways. As Allen Saunders (an American writer, journalist, and cartoonist) said, what happens to us while doing something else is life.
Albert Einstein said that life is like riding a bicycle, you have to keep moving to keep balance in your life. Then Gandhiji told that where there is love, that is life. So what is the meaning of life from your point of view?
We are sharing here some best unique quotes on life that will give the proper meaning to life.
Inspiring Unique Quotes on Life
Read here some best inspirational unique life quotes that will help you to know the real meaning of life.
1. “Defining Life is like Blind people identifying the elephant. Everybody has his own way to define life.” ― Sudha Krishnamurthy
2. “Everybody’s life is a journey and it is the marathon that person has to run.” ― Sudha Krishnamurthy
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3. “The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.” ― C. JoyBell C.
4. “In order to write about life first you must live it.” ― Ernest Hemingway
5. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ― Mae West
6. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” ― Andre Gide
7. “Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso
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8. “Some of the most beautiful things we have in life come from our mistakes.” ― Surgeo Bell
9. “If you want something, you don’t wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.” ― Poppy Z. Brite
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10. “Never judge someone’s character based on the words of another.” ― Suzy Kassem
11. “If you take a risk, you just might find what you’re looking for.” ― Susane Colasanti
12. “If you have nothing in life but a good friend, you’re rich.” ― Michelle Kwan
13. “You can’t control what others think. The only thing you can control is yourself.” ― Marie Sexton
14. “Truth is always strange.” ― George Gordon Byron
The word itself may refer to a living being or to the processes of which living things are a part. Know your life meaning with the below deep unique life quotes.
15. “Every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.” —Neil Armstrong
16. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss
17. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Marie Sexton
18. “There are no mistakes, only opportunities.” —Tina Fey
19. “Nothing can be more hurtful to your heart than betraying yourself.” ― Roy T. Bennett
20. “Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.” ― Bohdi Sanders
Wisdom Quotes For Life
21. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ― Confucius
22. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” ― Buddha
23. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” ― Cesare Pavese
24. “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” ― Dalai Lama
25. “Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.” ― Josh Billings
26. “Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.” ― Sai Baba
27. “Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.” ― Sholom Aleichem
28. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ― Lao Tzu
29. “Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.” ― Rebecca West
30. “Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.” ― Henri Frederic Amiel
31. “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.” ― Charlie Chaplin
32. “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” ― Lou Holtz
33. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
34. “Don’t go through life, grow through life.” ― Eric Butterworth
35. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” ― Harvey Fierstein
36. “Life is a long lesson in humility.” ― James M. Barrie
37. “It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.” ― Napoleon Hill
38. “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.” ― Charlie Chaplin
39. “Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.” ― Jose Ortega y Gasset
40. “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” ― Grandma Moses
41. “Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.” ― Morihei Ueshiba
42. “Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.” ― Audre Lorde
43. “Life is a lively process of becoming.” ― Douglas MacArthur
44. “Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.” ― Richard L. Evans
45. “The true object of all human life is played. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.” ― Gilbert K. Chesterton
46. “Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.” ― Rebecca West
47. “Life is a DNA software system.” ― Craig Venter
48. “To know nothing is the happiest life.” ― Desiderius Erasmus
49. “Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.” ― Jorge Luis Borges
50. “Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is a failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.” ― Maude Adams
51. “Life is like a trumpet – if you don’t put anything into it, you don’t get anything out of it.” ― William Christopher Handy
52. “The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.” ― William Lyon Phelps
53. “Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.” ― Samuel Smiles
54. “Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.” ― Robert E. Lee
55. “Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupery
56. “Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.” ― Theodor W. Adorno
Deep Quotes About Life
57. “The real business of life is trying to understand each other.” ― Gilbert Parker
58. “Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.” ― Dave Barry
59. “This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honor, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” ― William Shakespeare
60. “Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” ― Samuel Butler
61. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” ― Bruce Lee
62. “Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” ― Henry David Thoreau
63. “Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.” ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
64. “Life has a higher end than to be amused.” ― William Ellery Channing
65. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
66. “Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
67. “To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.” ― Buddha
68. “The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.” ― George Eliot
69. “Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.” ― Don Miguel Ruiz
70. “Life is largely a matter of expectation.” ― Horace
71. “The greatest trap in our life is not a success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.” ― Henri Nouwen
72. “Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.” ― Elie Wiesel
73. “You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.” ― Oliver Goldsmith
74. “Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.” ― Mark Twain
75. “While there’s life, there’s hope.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
76. “Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.” ― Joel Osteen
77. “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” ― Oscar Wilde
78. “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” ― Stephen Hawking
79. “When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
Unique Positive Quotes About Life
80. “When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.” ― Mark Twain
81. “Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.” ― Albert Schweitzer
82. “The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.” ― Anais Nin
83. “The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they’d lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.” ― Jodi Picoult
84. “Nobody’s going to win all the time. On the highway of life, you can’t always be in the fast lane.” ― Haruki Murakami
85. “Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.” ― Amit Ray
86. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” ― Robert Brault
87. “The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” ― Henry Miller
88. “Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece” ― Vladimir Nabokov
89. “Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud…” ― Yann Martel
90. “Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
91. “It doesn’t matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you’ve got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.” ― Lady Gaga
92. “I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.” ― Harold Kushner
93. “Our life is what our thoughts make it.” ― Marcus Aurelius
94. “Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.” ― Jean Racine
95. “The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.” ― J.M. Barrie
96. “Art and life are subjective. Not everybody’s gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.” ― Whoopi Goldberg
97. “Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.” ― Elbert Hubbard
98. “Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.” ― Solomon Northup
99. “Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.” ― Michael Jackson
100. “Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
101. “When was the last time you woke up and realized that today could be the best day of your life?” ― Steve Maraboli
102. “Regret is counterproductive. It’s looking back on a past that you can’t change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future.” ― Colleen Hoover
Unique Life Lessons Quotes
103. “Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.” ― Anais Nin
104. “Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
105. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ― Steve Jobs
106. “Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to.” ― Mitch Albom
107. “The more you believed in yourself, the more you could trust yourself. The more you trust yourself, the less you compare yourself to others.” ― Roy T. Bennett
108. “I am so grateful for my troubles. As I reflect back on my life, I have come to realize that my greatest triumphs have been born of my greatest troubles.” ― Steve Maraboli
109. “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” ― Marcus Aurelius
110. “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.” ― Thomas Merton
111. “Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
112. “Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.” ― Fran Lebowitz
113. “Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there. ” ― Sloane Crosley
114. “Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let’s all get wasted and have the time of our lives.” ― Kurt Cobain
115. “Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness–how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I’ve got!” ― Yann Martel
116. “It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.” ― Amit Ray
117. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” ― Robert Frost
118. “There are only 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
119. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” ― Mark Twain
120. “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” ― Allen Saunders
121. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw
122. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ― Albert Einstein
123. “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
124. “Where there is love there is life.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
125. “Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.” ― Steve Maraboli
126. “Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.” ― Cassandra Clare
127. “Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
128. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ― George Bernard Shaw
129. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” ― Audrey Hepburn
130. “You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.” ― Vernon Howard
131. “If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.” ― Gloria Steinem
132. “Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.” ― Deepak Chopra
133. “Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things…as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.” ― Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
134. “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” ― Marcus Aurelius
135. “Life must go on; I forget just why.” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
136. “Do not live in the shadow of the masters forever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression.” ― Amit Ray
137. “Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.” ― Roy T. Bennett
138. “Don’t take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.” ― Colleen Hoover
139. “Sometimes it’s the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life.” ― Steve Maraboli
140. “Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by “opinions” when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.” ― Napoleon Hill
141. “Life should be a risk. It’s more than a straight line that you can see clearly from one point to the other. It dips and curves and you never know what’s around the bend sometimes until you get there. That scares a lot of people. But that’s the beauty of it.” ― Katie Kacvinsky
142. “Living might mean taking chances, but they’re worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but it’s worth making” ― Reba McEntire
143. “Life in us is like the water in a river.” ― Henry David Thoreau
144. “Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.” ― Roy T. Bennett
145. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ― Anais Nin
146. “Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” ― Paulo Coelho
Unique Quotes To Fight With Life Struggle
147. “Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.” ― Jeffrey Eugenides
148. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ― Lao Tzu
149. “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
150. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
151. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” ― Elie Wiesel
152. “The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.” ― Peter Shaffer
153. “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
154. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.” ― Harvey Fierstein
155. “Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.” ― Roy T. Bennett
156. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” ― Marie Curie
157. “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.” ― Steve Maraboli
158. “The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” ― Groucho Marx
159. “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.” ― Hunter S. Thompson
160. “No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.” ― Veronica Roth
161. “If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.” ― John Irving
162. “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” ― Isaac Asimov
163. “Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.” ― Dale Carnegie
164. “A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.” ― Lao Tzu
165. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” ― Mark Twain
166. “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” ― Ernest Hemingway
167. “There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.” ― George Bernard Shaw
168. “Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.” ― Brian Tracy
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