60+ Unique Quotes On Life That Inspire
Life is a journey, filled with extreme highs, extreme lows, and everything in between. It is a daring adventure, with exciting challenges and big emotions.
The following collection of unique quotes all show different perspectives about life and living a life of purpose. They are meaningful, deep and inspirational and will have you thinking and seeing life with new eyes.
Unique Quotes On Life
“The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.” Albert Einstein
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” Friedrich Nietzsche
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” Henry David Thoreau
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” George Bernard Shaw
“All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.” John Wooden
“Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.”Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.” Soren Kierkegaard
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” Vivian Greene
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” Albert Einstein
“Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.” Samuel Butler
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Henry David Thoreau
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” Bertrand Russell
“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.” William James
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” Lou Holtz
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” Soren Kierkegaard
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” Marie Curie
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” Steve Jobs
“One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” William Feather
“Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.” Morihei Ueshiba
“Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.” Buddha
“Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.” Sai Baba
“Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.” Drew Barrymore
“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.” Vernon Howard
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” Lao Tzu
“If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.” William J. Clinton
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Short Unique Quotes on Life
“Into each life some rain must fall.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” Dalai Lama
“The greatest pleasure of life is love.” Euripides
“Find people who will make you better.” Michelle Obama
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” Buddha
“While there’s life, there’s hope.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The healthiest response to life is joy.” Deepak Chopra
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.” Marcus Aurelius
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” Robert Byrne
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” Mahatma Gandhi
“We do not remember days, we remember moments.” Cesare Pavese
“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” William Wallace
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates
“My life is my message.” Mahatma Gandhi
“Make each day your masterpiece.” John Wooden
“Growth is the only evidence of life.” John Henry Newman
“Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” Confucius
“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” Jackie Robinson
Funny Unique Quotes On Life
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” Robert Frost
“Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise.” George Gershwin
“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” Scott Hamilton
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.” Carl Jung
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.” Mark Twain
“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” Stephen Hawking
“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.” Charlie Chaplin
“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Quotes on Being Unique in Life
“Being different gives the world color.” Nelsan Ellis
“I realized that my strength was being different.” Betsey Johnson
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” Margaret Mead
“So you’re a little weird? Work it! A little different? Own it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!” Mandy Hale
“I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.” Tila Tequila
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” Joseph Campbell
“Our entire life – consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.” Jean Anouilh
