Life is full of challenges and opportunities that shape who we are. Sometimes, all it takes is a few carefully chosen words to lift our spirits and spark motivation. In this collection of the top 36 inspirational life quotes, you’ll find wisdom and encouragement to help you navigate your journey with strength and positivity. Whether you’re seeking motivation, comfort, or a fresh perspective, these quotes are here to inspire and empower you every step of the way.
1. “A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.” - Yevgeny Zamyatin
2. “There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.” - Khaled Hosseini
3. “At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly.” - Mark Haddon
4. “Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.” - Nicholas Sparks
5. “Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death is time because time allows us to move toward death which we fear at all times when alive. We move around and that is fear. Movement through space requires time. Without death there is no movement through space and no life and no fear. To be aware of death is to be alive is to fear is to move around in space and time toward death.” - Tao Lin
6. “Man's life is knowledge and that's all. If the Man didn't knew life he didn't exist.” - Sorin Cerin
7. “But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else. Slowly, she learned that each of us grown-ups has as much and as little power as the other, and that we had best learn to take care of ourselves.(83)” - Sheldon B. Kopp
8. “Focus on the journey, not the destination.” - Greg Anderson
9. “Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one’s own life.” - D.H. Lawrence
10. “Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.” - Nora Roberts
11. “Life seemed to him a gift; the statement ‘I am alive’ seemed to him to contain a satisfactory certainty and many other things, held up as indubitable, seemed to him uncertain.” - James Joyce
12. “The NOW is such a magical moment that you have the time to live a magical life and have no time to have guilt of the past, worry of the future but to live now fully and unfold our magnificence with the help of Allah” - Muhaya Haji Mohamad
13. “Raising teenage sons and daughters is a long and tiresome journey. With God's help the final outcome will be worthwhile.” - Ana Monnar
14. “Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.” - Bertrand Russell
15. “The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket.” - Deb Caletti
16. “Before you came into my life, I believed that God had abandoned me. Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure. ~Sir Bannor” - Teresa Medeiros
17. “So such is life that it writes itself, trying to right itself, but there's nothing wrong with it.” - Robert Pollard
18. “Give in to love or live in fear.” - Jonathan Larson
19. “Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.” - Lorii Myers
20. “Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades- except love. Love is forever and there after, even when we've fallen to our graves.” - Lee Argus
21. “Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act as a fixative, rather as a solvent. But it's not convenient--it's not useful--to believe this; it doesn't help us get on with our lives; so we ignore it. [p. 69]” - Julian Barnes
22. “Hidup masih seperti angin tidak tampak namun bergerak dan menghilang” - Ikbal Maulana
23. “You like? she asked Slade. He gave her a head nod and she vanished behind the curtain.That's my sister, he said, pointing at the closed curtain.I shrugged. "I'm glad you guys are so close.” - Holly Hood
24. “Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring accurate knowledge of the natural and social world. This methodology is characterized, above all else, by the critical spirit: namely, the commitment to the incessant testing of assertions through observations and/or experiments — the more stringent the tests, the better — and to revising or discarding those theories that fail the test. One corollary of the critical spirit is fallibilism: namely, the understanding that all our empirical knowledge is tentative, incomplete and open to revision in the light of new evidence or cogent new arguments (though, of course, the most well-established aspects of scientific knowledge are unlikely to be discarded entirely).. . . I stress that my use of the term 'science' is not limited to the natural sciences, but includes investigations aimed at acquiring accurate knowledge of factual matters relating to any aspect of the world by using rational empirical methods analogous to those employed in the natural sciences. (Please note the limitation to questions of fact. I intentionally exclude from my purview questions of ethics, aesthetics, ultimate purpose, and so forth.) Thus, 'science' (as I use the term) is routinely practiced not only by physicists, chemists and biologists, but also by historians, detectives, plumbers and indeed all human beings in (some aspects of) our daily lives. (Of course, the fact that we all practice science from time to time does not mean that we all practice it equally well, or that we practice it equally well in all areas of our lives.)” - Alan Sokal
25. “Life can’t be divided into chapters...only minutes. The events of your life are all crammed together one minute right after the other without any time lapses or blank pages or chapter breaks because no matter what happens life just keeps going and moving forward and words keep flowing and truths keep spewing whether you like it or not and life never lets you pause and just catch your fucking breath.I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how.” - Colleen Hoover
26. “Growing old is to be set free, Brother. It is aslow and long-simmering process that extracts from you what you are really made of. But it requires acceptance. You cannot put a flailing chicken in a boiling pot. You must accept the heat and the pain with serenity so that the full flavors of your life may be released.You may see this as decay, and it is. But it is also much more than that. As the body rots, so does the cage that traps us in our worldly concerns. When my legs became too weak to carry my body, I stopped pacing with worry. When my fingers became twisted, I stopped pointing blame. When I lost my sight, I stopped seeing illusions. It may be dark in the pot that I am simmering in, but I can see more clearly than I have ever seen in my life. I can see you, Brother, and I know who you are.” - Samantha Sotto
27. “Life is a game of common sense. You can know all the data that the encyclopedia holds, but if you can't apply it to social situations and day to day events, you're on the same rank as someone with no data at all.” - Zack W. Van
28. “Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!” - Terry Pratchett
29. “How could music cause so many lives to veer off course?” - Rick Riordan
30. “What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman
31. “Do not mistake me. I am not yet weak enough to yield to fearful imaginings, which are almost as absurd as illusions of hope, and are certainly harder to bear. If I must deceive myself, I should prefer to stay on the side of confidence, for I shall lose no more there and shall suffer less.” - Marguerite Yourcenar
32. “If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.” - Napoleon Hill
33. “The way I see it people don't do what they want to do often enough. They just do some alternative which they'd kind of like to do, which isn't the same thing at all, and as a result that thing isn't enough and they end up depressed and annoyed with everyone else around them.” - Will Davis
34. “Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.” - Thanhha Lai
35. “Pray that you are in the right place, at the right time, to meet the right person, that together you may help one another.” - Don Polson
36. “You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.” - Richelle E. Goodrich
