79 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change You (Forever) Words have power — and these inspiring quotes are guaranteed to challenge the way you think and perhaps even change the way you live.
1. Life is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde
2. Not how long, but how well you have lived in the main thing. Annaeus Seneca
3. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James
4. Time means a lot to me because you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of. Bruce Lee
5. Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things. Kenneth Branagh
6. Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius
7. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Oscar Wilde
8. love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin
9. Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Samuel Butler
10. In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
11. You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching. William W. Purkey
12. I love those who can smile in trouble… Leonardo da Vinci
13. Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard
14. Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager. Susan Sontag
15. The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. Gustave Flaubert
16. I tell you, in this world being a little crazy helps to keep you sane. Zsa Zsa Gabor
17. It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. Elizabeth Kenny
18. Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. John Lennon
19. The trick in life is learning how to deal with it. Helen Mirren
20. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam
21. My life is my message. Mahatma Gandhi
22. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life it goes on. Robert Frost
23. The secret of a happy life is respect for yourself and the respect for others.
24. I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to. Jimi Hendrix
25. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. Andre Gide
26. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. Oscar Wilde
27. Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. Ludwig Jacobowski
28. Get busy living or get busy dying. Stephen King
29. Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold. Bob Marley
30. Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard
31. We know what we are, but know not what we may be. William Shakespeare
32. Sending love to everyone who’s trying their best to heal from things that they don’t discuss.
