Quotes, although, a cluster of a few words or phrases, when seen deeply, reflect the subtle realms of life. Here are some thoughtful quotes to live by.
Some people live their lives and walk every path with their near and dear ones by their side. While there are some who share their life with loneliness and a longing desire to have someone to turn to. Happiness, agony, inspiration, realization, anticipation, love, separation, success, birth, death and everything that relates to our life, can be transformed from blankness into a clear ocean of expression with the mere use of words. Let us know from the following quotes what some people had to say about life and the journey it offers.
Thoughtful Quotes About Life
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. - Rabindranath Tagore
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. - Rabindranath Tagore
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. - Hans Christian Anderson
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." - Erma Bombeck
Life's not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow. - Terri Guillemets
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me - Robert Frost
Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit. - Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose. - Unknown
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. - Mignon McLaughlin
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. - Rabindranath Tagore
Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night. - Marion Howard
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. - Rabindranath Tagore
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. - Thomas Jefferson
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. - Robert Collier
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. - Rabindranath Tagore
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. - Jonathan Kozol
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. - Horace Bushnell
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. - Leon J. Suenes
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. - Johann Gottfried Von Herder
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William B. Sprague
Funny Quotes About Life
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. - Irish Proverb
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat. - Lilly Tomlin
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination. - Christopher Isherwood
My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. - Louis Adamic
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain
I came into this world black, naked and ugly. And no matter how much I accumulate here, it's a short journey. I will go out of this world black, naked and ugly. So I enjoy life. - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one? - Bob Monkhouse
Life is a zoo in a jungle. - Peter De Vries
Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool. - Gioachino Rossini
The world is a grindstone and life is your nose. - Fred Allen
I'm having the best day of my life, and I owe it all to not going to Church! - Homer Simpson
If you really want something in life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers. - Homer Simpson
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut. - Albert Einstein
Some More Quotes
Time is an illusion, lunchtime, doubly so. - Douglas Adams
After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her. - Mark Twain
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. - Woody Allen
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. - Charlie Chaplin
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain
Everyone of us views life with a different perspective. Some of us view it as a journey to achieve great milestones, while some just live life as it comes. There are also some people for whom their life means living for others, and then there are some who regard life as a medium to meet the eternal beauty, death...