50 Random Quotes About Life

Life. Life is strange, it’s fun, it’s love, it’s a roller coaster ride, no matter how you slice it or who you are. You can either love it or leave it some days. Sometimes with work and family, the days blur together amidst that pile of client work you are attempting to finish. Life as a work from home professional certainly has its ups and downs. Sometimes all it takes is a little quote to get you swinging back at work and finish that work load to be ready for a weekend away from it all.

Here are 50 random quotes about life to inspire, motivate and maybe even make you laugh a little bit:

1. I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. – Lily Tomlin
2. I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book. – Groucho Marx
3. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. – Mark Twain
4. But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. ― Khaled Hosseini
5. The one you love and the one who loves you are never ever the same person. ― Chuck Palahniuk Invisible Monsters
6. I speak to everyone in the same way whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. ― Albert Einstein
7. If you don’t know where you’re going any road’ll take you there ― George Harrison
8. All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never ever be boring. ― Chuck Palahniuk Invisible Monsters
9. Get busy living or get busy dying. ― Stephen King Different Seasons
10. All the world is made of faith and trust and pixie dust. ― J.M. Barrie Peter Pan
11. May you live every day of your life. ― Jonathan Swift
12. We have to dare to be ourselves however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. ― May Sarton
13. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. ― Oscar Wilde
14. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ― Anne Frank Anne Frank’s Tales from the Secret Annex
15. This life’s hard but it’s harder if you’re stupid. ― George V. Higgins The Friends of Eddie Coyle
16. We’re all human aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same and worth saving. ― J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
17. The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ― Isaac Asimov
18. Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living. ― Jonathan Safran Foer Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
19. Death ends a life not a relationship. ― Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
20. Do not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction. No read in order to live. ― Gustave Flaubert
21. 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
22. You cannot find peace by avoiding life. ― Virginia Woolf
23. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. ― Margaret Mead
24. Where there is love there is life. ― Mahatma Gandhi
25. Some people have lives; some people have music. ― John Green Will Grayson Will Grayson
26. I go to seek a Great Perhaps. ― François Rabelais
27. That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. ― Emily Dickinson
28. You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. ― Chuck Palahniuk Survivor
29. Life is to be enjoyed not endured ― Gordon B. Hinckley
31. 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 City of Glass
32. Unbeing dead isn’t being alive. ― E.E. Cummings
33. The more I see the less I know for sure. ― John Lennon
34. Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. ― Langston Hughes The Collected Poems
35. If you love somebody let them go for if they return they were always yours. If they don’t they never were. ― Kahlil Gibran
36. The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. ― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
37. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ― Nicolas Chamfort
38. Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind. ― Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
39. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of. ― Markus Zusak I Am the Messenger
40. Life is not a matter of holding good cards but of playing a poor hand well. ― Robert Louis Stevenson
41. A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. ― Lao Tzu
42. I find out a lot about myself by sleeping. Dreams they are who I am when I’m too tired to be me. ― Jarod Kintz This Book is Not FOR SALE
43. Was it hard? I ask. Letting go? Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn’t real. ― Lisa Schroeder
44. To say goodbye is to die a little. ― Raymond Chandler The Long Goodbye
45. The past has no power over the present moment. ― Eckhart Tolle
46. I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here. ― Arthur C. Clarke
47. One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries. ― A.A. Milne
48. No matter how much suffering you went through you never wanted to let go of those memories. ― Haruki Murakami
49. I like flaws. I think they make things interesting. ― Sarah Dessen The Truth About Forever
50. The more you know who you are and what you want the less you let things upset you. ― Stephanie Perkins Anna and the French Kiss