Quotes about life

Every life is its own excuse for being.

Elbert Hubbard

It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

It is easy to forgive children who are afraid of the dark but the real tragedy of life is men who are afraid of the light.

Plato

Fortune knocks at every man’s door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Mark Twain

It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

Viktor Frankl

The human mind is something very unique and precious. Possessing an unusual elasticity and capacity for wisdom, it can evolve at a rate found in no other life-form.

14th Dalai Lama

I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that’s in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.

Maya Angelou

Those who do not love life do not deserve it.

Giacomo Casanova

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don’t spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Denis Waitley

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I’ve got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

Yoko Ono