26 Best Life and Living Quotes

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Best Quotes About Life and Living

1. “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

2. “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” ― J.K. Rowling

3. “You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.” ― Nicholas Sparks

4. “May you live every day of your life.” ― Jonathan Swift

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5. “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” ― Rick Riordan

6. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” ― Stephen King

7. “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

8. “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” ― Albert Camus

9. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ― Mae West

10. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ― Oscar Wilde

11. “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” ― Oscar Wilde

12. “Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.” ― Roy T. Bennett

13. “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” ― Roy T. Bennett

14. “People aren’t born good or bad. Maybe they’re born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.” ― Cassandra Clare

15. “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.” ― Emily Dickinson

16. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard

17. “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” ― Stephen King

18. “Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.” ― Dr. Seuss

19. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” ― Socrates

20. “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” ― Roy T. Bennett

21. “If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.” ― C. JoyBell C.

22. “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.” ― Nelson Mandela

23. “Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.” ― Natalie Babbitt

24. “Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.” ― Mark Twain

25. “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

26. “You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.” ― Jojo Moyes