Life Quotes — Themes

Every path has its puddle.

English proverb

Painterly worn leather suitcase with a map tucked beside its latch and green travel items nearby. — Original artwork

All of life is a foreign country.

Jack Kerouac

A white bowl of water reflects golden light beside a folded linen cloth against pale blue-grey. — Original artwork

Believe in the holy contour of life

Jack Kerouac

A small green seedling pushes through cracked orange earth. — Original artwork

Every day above ground is a good day.

Bernstein

A small aged brass hourglass with almost no sand left in the top, casting a long soft shadow on a dark blue background. — Original artwork

65 years. Don't they go by in a blink?

William Parrish

A single upright match burns against a dark background, its flame reflected on a glossy surface. — Original artwork

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

You can't write something better than this.

Kobe Bryant

A small wooden cradle holding a green seedling on a cobalt-blue cloth. — Original artwork

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Carl Sandburg

An amber glass vase holding a flowering branch with larger, deeper pink blooms towards the top on a pale green background. — Original artwork

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

A blue knitted baby bootie rests beside a muddy paw print on a small red rug. — Original artwork

Life would be perfect, if it was just kids and dogs.

Det. Frank Pembleton

A coral mitten and a blue patterned mitten lie together on a patch of snow. — Original artwork

Life is an ugly, awful place to not have a best friend.

Sarah Dessen

A glass jar with its lid ajar holds a white cotton cloud beside a green sprout under a blue sky. — Original artwork

It's not good to dwell on dreams and forget how to live.

Dumbledore

A short lit wax candle with a small pool of wax on cool grey concrete, casting a sharp shadow to one side. — Original artwork

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

A black camera lens contains a sunlit miniature landscape and rests beside small stones against blue-grey and ochre. — Original artwork

A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

A row of glass beads threaded on a cord, with one glowing orange bead among cooler colors against a dark background. — Original artwork

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

Bud Fox

A brown quill lies across a torn handwritten paper scrap beside a dark ink spiral on warm cream ground. — Original artwork

All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it.

William Hazlitt

A small grey cloud rains on one of two potted succulents while the other remains dry. — Original artwork

Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. Sometimes, it rains.

Ebby Calvin LaLoosh

Freestanding teal open door on a mossy, flowered base with a lavender-and-peach landscape visible through it — Original artwork

I do not regret the things I have done, but those I did not do.

Lucas

Painterly car side mirror showing swirling stars and a glowing clock face. — Original artwork

Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Jack Kerouac

A nearly empty glass hourglass stands upright on pale grey ground with a tiny golden grain at its narrow centre. — Original artwork

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

Painterly coin suspended between two cupped hands above scattered autumn leaves. — Original artwork

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Albert Camus

An open matchbox contains a tiny glowing golden lantern on a dark-blue surface. — Original artwork

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

William Hazlitt

A brass telescope on a tripod points towards a shimmering bubble beneath a star-filled blue sky. — Original artwork

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Ray Bradbury

A delicate lavender butterfly wing rises from a broken eggshell, casting a long shadow across a lavender surface at sunrise. — Original artwork

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

Carl Sagan

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Seneca

An open heart-shaped tin holds chocolates, with a cut piece showing a green centre on burgundy cloth. — Original artwork

Life is a box of chocolates, Forrest, you never know what you're gonna get.

Mrs. Gump

Painterly green sapling growing through the centre of a weathered tree stump. — Original artwork

Things happen in life you can't stop. But it wasn't a reason to shut out the world.

Crazy Pete

A halved purple onion on a white enamel plate with a single water droplet and a small knife blade. — Original artwork

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Carl Sandburg

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aurelius

Painterly cream paper with parallel lines folded into an airplane against navy. — Original artwork

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

Mignon McLaughlin

A folded quilt bed with a small paper ship floating above the pillow, in indigo and apricot colours. — Original artwork

We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

A copper tuning fork suspended above a copper bowl of turquoise water with circular ripples against a pale background. — Original artwork

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A row of gray masks hanging from pegs, with an orange glove reaching toward a bright open doorway. — Original artwork

You cannot be afraid to disappoint people. You have to live the life you want to live.

David Goggins

A pair of worn brown boots on gravel with a small yellow wildflower growing between them. — Original artwork

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.

Henry David Thoreau

Magenta and turquoise ribbons curl from a clear glass jar beside a cork on grey. — Original artwork

Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it’s the moments that take your breath away.

Alex Hitch Hitchens

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

A colourful knitted patchwork square has a round hole through its centre against pale blue. — Original artwork

One man's life touches so many others, when he's not there it leaves an awfully big hole.

Clarence

"What day is it?" asked Pooh. "It's today," squeaked Piglet. "My favorite day," said Pooh.

Winnie the Pooh

A small round lens reflects golden autumn leaves beside a rippling puddle on gray ground. — Original artwork

Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Ferris

A wide wreath of dried purple thistles surrounds a small ring of golden glass marbles on a sage-green background. — Original artwork

As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.

Anne Swetchine

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

Worn leather work gloves lie on a coiled rope against a warmly lit brown background. — Original artwork

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

A golden flame rises from cupped stone hands against an orange sunset and dark clouds. — Original artwork

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.

Mary Lou Retton

A small glowing amber paper house sitting on a folded teal and mustard patchwork quilt. — Original artwork

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Maya Angelou

Painterly brush dripping rainbow paint beside a small jar and a winding colorful path on cream. — Original artwork

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Maya Angelou

A paintbrush and a wooden spool wound with red thread on a green enamel tray. — Original artwork

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Mark Twain

A miniature theatre with red curtains and one empty seat stands beside a tall ladder reaching a pale oval opening. — Original artwork

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Francis Bacon

A partly burned match lies alight on a white plate, with a thin wisp of smoke above it. — Original artwork

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

Sophocles

Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly.

Marcus Aurelius

A pink pillow beneath a small floating staircase leading into a dark plum cloud and a glowing doorway. — Original artwork

You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft, that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.

David Goggins

A ceramic honey pot tipped on its side with honey flowing into a small hexagonal dish on a sky-blue background. — Original artwork

The only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey. And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.

Winnie the Pooh

A brass balance scale holds a gold coin in one pan and a curved metal claw in the other. — Original artwork

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau

Three open wooden tool trays form steps, each displaying small brass tools against coral and purple. — Original artwork

Focus, discipline, hard work, goal setting and, of course, the thrill of finally achieving your goals. These are all lessons in life.

Kristi Yamaguchi

Every man lives only this present time, which is an indivisible point, and all the rest of his life is either past or it is uncertain.

Marcus Aurelius

A glowing paper lantern hangs above a small green sprout growing in a thimble of soil against violet. — Original artwork

Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.

Marcus Aurelius

In this life, family is the most precious gift we are given, the most sacred. Turn your back on them and that is when you truly have nothing.

A round glass flask on a brass tripod with a small yellow flower growing inside it. — Original artwork

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

A straw hat rests in a striped hammock between two small potted trees, with a peach beside one pot. — Original artwork

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own; He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day.

John Dryden

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

The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's, in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.

Marcus Aurelius

Rolled honey-and-navy striped sock inside a low bent-wire hoop — Original artwork

From the moment I started rolling my dad's tube socks and shooting imaginary game-winning shots in the Great Western Forum, I knew one thing was real: I fell in love with you.

Kobe Bryant

A small red sailboat riding a wave of blue fabric beneath a pale sky and a curling trail of golden dots. — Original artwork

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy.

Leo Tolstoy

We both know, no matter what I do next, I'll always be that kid with the rolled up socks, garbage can in the corner, :05 seconds on the clock, ball in my hands. 5... 4... 3... 2... 1

Kobe Bryant

Painterly yellow sunflower growing through broken grey pavement beneath soft golden light. — Original artwork

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

In early life, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theater before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly wating for the play to begin.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A small wooden figure casts two shadows in opposite directions across cracked orange ground. — Original artwork

You see life is like that...we change, that's all. You see, the guy I am now, is not the guy I was then. If the guy I was then met the guy I am now, he'd beat the shit out of me. Those are the facts.

Stevo

An iridescent bubble rests in the bowl of a dark metal spoon against a pale-grey background. — Original artwork

You know, but that's valid because if we are all gonna die anyway shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now? You know, I'd like to quit thinking of the present, like right now, as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.

Cynthia

Ida Scott Taylor once wrote: Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.

Lucas

Two small wooden chairs side by side and one separate empty chair on a gray-blue floor against a mustard wall. — Original artwork

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon-but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx-the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

Bob Dylan

Five small coloured glass beads on a silver thread, one glowing. — Original artwork

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory.

Susan B. Anthony

Every path has its puddle. English proverb