Quotes About Life
To Inspire Your World

Life can be a puzzling affair. Quotes about life can help you along your journey by providing insightful thoughts and inspirational wisdom.

Take the time to read and absorb the message in these wonderful life quotations and use them wisely to dream and build the best life you can possibly imagine!

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

~Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
Campbell was an American mythology professor, writer, and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion.

"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive..."

~Eleonora Duse (1859 - 1924)
Eleonora Giulia Amalia Duse was an Italian actress and came to fame in Italian versions of roles made famous by Sarah Bernhardt. Duse was introverted and private, rarely giving interviews - preferring instead to let her artistic performances speak for her.

"Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by."

~Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
Carl Sandburg was an American poet, historian, novelist, balladeer, and folklorist. Over the course of his career he won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln: The War Years) and one for his collection The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg.

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what you bring to life."

~Undetermined
This quote as been attached to several people: John Homer Miller, Kahlil Gibran, Princess Diana, etc.

"Your life is much more important that you can imagine... it is your first treasure."

Maya Angelou (1928 - )
Born Marguerite Ann Johnson, Maya Angelou is an African-American woman who was an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. A poet, memoirist, dancer, producer, playwright, director, author, and actress, Angelou was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America by Ladies Home Journal in 2001.

"There is a place that YOU are to fill that no one else can fill -- something YOU are to do that no one else can do."

~Plato (428/427 BC – 348/347 BC)
Plato was a classical Greek philosopher, who together with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, helped to lay the philosophical foundations of Western culture. He was also a mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world.

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Goethe was a German writer, poet, novelist, playwright, natural philosopher, and diplomat whose works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, humanism, and science. Goethe was one of the key figures of German literature in the late 18th century. He was the author of the scientific text "Theory of Colours", which focused on plant morphology and so influenced Darwin in his evolution theory.

"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it."

~Buddha
A Buddha is any being who has become fully awakened (enlightened), and has experienced Nirvana.

"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."

~Dr. Wayne Dyer (1940 - )
Dyer is a popular American self-help advocate, author and lecturer. His 1976 book Your Erroneous Zones has sold over 30 million copies and is one of the best-selling books of all time.

"Of all the creatures on earth, only human beings can change their patterns. Man alone is the architect of his destiny... Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

~William James (1842 - 1910)
James was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher trained as a medical doctor. He wrote many influential books on the topics of psychology and mysticism. He was a founder of the American Society for Psychical Research, as well as a champion of alternative approaches to healing. He challenged his professional colleagues not to let a narrow mindset prevent an honest appraisal of those phenomena.

"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."

~Richard David Bach (1936 - )
Bach is an American writer who is widely known as the author of the hugely popular 1970s best-sellers "Jonathan Livingston Seagull," "Illusions," "The Adventures Of A Reluctant Messiah" and others.

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

~Albert Einstien (1879 - 1955)
A German-born theoretical physicist and one of the most famous scientists of the twentieth century. Find more Einstein Quotes here

"The biggest mistake that people make is life is not making a living at doing what they most enjoy."

~Malcom S. Forbes (1919 - 1990)
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes was the publisher of "Forbes magazine," which was founded by his father B.C. Forbes. Today, it is run by his son Steve Forbes.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

~Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
Born Angela Anais Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, Anais Nin was a Cuban-French author who became famous for her published journals, which span several decades. They include profound insights into her personal life and relationships where she was often involved, quite intimately, with a number of prominent authors, artists, psychoanalysts, and other figures.

"Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can."

~Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
Lombardi was the head coach of the Green Bay Packers of the NFL from 1959-67, winning five league championships during his 9 years.

The Change-Your-Life Quote Book
Inspire and motivate yourself and others with the over 600 wise, witty, and practical quotations aimed at revealing life's infinite possibilities! In addition to being an inspiration for yourself, the quotations in this book can also help motivate others. Use them in your newsletter, on your web site, or in your email. Take these quotes about life to heart and they can change your life.

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