50 powerful quotes about life

I enjoy reading quotes…

Specifically, I love reading and “collecting” quotes in my daily life for they always manifest my life and always encourage me to be more positive…and you know the power, the power to inspire up myself, to encourage myself, to power up myself and to cheer up myself. Well, maybe someone out there can hardly believe that quotes that carry inspiration and motivation can always be one’s life’s greatest sources of inspiration, it really can and in fact, I am one of those who benefits, thus, I do have a habit to note down the motivational and inspirational quotes in my “life’s quotes” handbook and enjoy reading it whenever I need to be “charged”.

Though it sometimes can be as short in just a sentence or two, yet, it contains deep wisdom of life…frankly, I just couldn’t help but eager to share some of my favorite quotes here with you…yes, the quotes that helped me to stay the course no matter what challenges or setbacks came my way during those years…

1. Its not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up. - Vince Lombardi

2. Positive thoughts bring positive energy, and positive energy brings positive results.- Jordan Hemmann

3. Happiness is a habit, cultivate it. - Elbert Hubbard

4. Never lose your happiness. Problems will come and go, problems are external situations which have come from others, and they will come and go. Happiness is your own property and you always keep something that belongs to you. - Om Shanti

5. What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. - Leo Buscaglia

6. The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances. - Martha Washington

7. Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

8. Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things; first, in being where you belong, and second, and best, in comfortably going through everyday life, that is, having had a good night’s sleep and not being hurt by new shoes. - Theodor Fontane

9. Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. - Thich Nhat Hanh

10. Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.-Jim Rohn

11. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein

12. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

13. Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. - Buddha

14. “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” - Carlos Castaneda

15. God writes a lot of comedy…the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny. - Garrison Keillor

16. In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life…it goes on. - Robert Frost

17. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well - Josh Billings

18. Life is but thought. - Sara Teasdale

19. Life is half spent before we know what it is. - George Herbert

20 You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize.- Sam Nunn

21. “Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”― Jodi Picoult

22. “No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice.”- Chuck Palahniuk

23. “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.” - Tom Clancy

24. “Sometimes you don't need a goal in life; you don't need to know the big picture. You just need to know what you're going to do next!” - Sophie Kinsella

25. “Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.” - Terry Pratchett

26. “Why trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out” - Oliver James

27. “Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

28. “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” - G.K. Chesterton

29. “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” - - Stephanie Perkins

30. “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” - Randy Pausch

31. My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, occupy myself as best I can. - Cary Grant

32. Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. - Harvey Fierstein

33. The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing - Marcus Aurelius

34. We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it. - Lauryn Hill

35. While there’s life, there’s hope - Marcus Tullius Cicero

36. When I hear somebody sigh “life is hard”, I am always tempted to ask…”compared to what”? - Sydney J. Harris

37. “The art of living contained only in one phrase: make use of suffering...' - Henri-Frederic Amiel

38. “Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?” – Mary Oliver

39. Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. – Anthony J. D’Angelo

40. Life has got be lived, that’s all there is to it. – Eleanor Roosevelt

41. Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. – Dr. Seuss

42. You've got to dance like there's no body watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like there's nobody listening, and live like it's heaven on earth. – William W. Purkey

43. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. – Mae West

44. It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. – Andre Gide

45. “Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it, Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.” ― Mother Teresa

46. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” ―Dr. Seuss

47. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ― Albert Einstein

48. “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” ― Virginia Woolf

49. “Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.” ― John Wayne

50. “Life is to be enjoyed, not endured” ― Gordon B. Hinckley

To those who struggle in life, hope the above quotes do help...never overlook the quotes that only with that few little words, it's priceless when it touches you...