Freedom is the right to live as we wish.Epictetus
Life Lessons
If the whole QuotePlace collection had to be reduced to one shelf, it would look like this: forty quotes on how to live, drawn from the Life category's most-quoted voices. Birth, work, love, loss and the art of paying attention — the curriculum nobody schedules and everybody takes.
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.Richard Bach
Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.Wayne Dyer
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.Confucius
It is better to travel well than to arrive.Gautama Buddha
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.Rumi
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.William Shakespeare
You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment.Napoleon Hill
Fate is in your hands and no one elsesByron Pulsifer
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.Albert Einstein
Each day provides its own gifts.Marcus Aurelius
Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.Lao Tzu
Character develops itself in the stream of life.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.Thich Nhat Hanh
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.Kahlil Gibran
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.Abraham Lincoln
Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.Bruce Lee
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.Rabindranath Tagore
The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.Seneca
Change in all things is sweet.Aristotle
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.Mark Twain
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.Tony Robbins
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.Carl Jung
I believe that every person is born with talent.Maya Angelou
My life is my message.Mahatma Gandhi
The aim of life is self-development. To realize ones nature perfectly — that is what each of us is here for.Oscar Wilde
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.Helen Keller
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.Eleanor Roosevelt
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.Oprah Winfrey
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.Leonardo da Vinci
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart.Blaise Pascal
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.Benjamin Disraeli
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.Nelson Mandela
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.George Bernard Shaw
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.Albert Camus
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.John Lennon
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.Victor Hugo
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no success without hardship.Sophocles