Purpose of Life

Purpose of Life

Because life is a lesson, you learn it when you’re through.

This collection of inspirational life quotes can help you gain perspective on various questions, from “what is the good life?” to “what is the meaning of life?”

You can also use life quotes to help you find your purpose.

Here are life quotes from a variety of sources:

They are all here in your corner to shine a spotlight on life and share their lessons learned on how to live life, love life, find happiness, and live your version of the good life.

What Do You Want Your Life to Be About?

Is life but a dream? … Is life a bowl of cherries? …

Or, is life ultimately what you make of it?

I’m a believer that life is what you make of it. I think one of the best questions you can ask yourself is, “What do you want your life to be about?”

Just by asking that questions sets the stage for learning.

What Inspirational Life Quotes Teach Us

What can we learn from this collection of the best inspirational life quotes?

Here’s my take … Life quotes teach you to have a metaphor for life. Whether you see life as a comedy, a drama, a dream, or an an adventure, use whatever works for you.

Life quotes also teach you to grow your happiness right under your feet, live your life, not somebody else’s, drive from your life style, don’t regret the path not taken, and don’t wait until your life is on the line to squeeze all the juice you can out of it.

If you want to make the most of this life quotes collection, I recommend reading the top 10 list, then scanning the categories that are most interesting or meaningful for you, and choose three quotes to add to your toolkit for life.

Top 10 Inspirational Life Quotes 

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by every moment that takes your breath away.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

Why are you trying so hard to fit in, when you’re born to stand out.

You live but once; you might as well be amusing.

Challenges (Inspirational Life Quotes)

Here are some of the best inspirational life quotes on how to think about challenges in life:

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it’s already happened.

He who has a *why* to live can bear almost any *how*.

Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t get any better, it can.

I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.

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.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but I hope into a better shape.

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Choices and Plans (Inspirational Life Quotes)

Here are some of the best inspirational life quotes on how to think about choices and plans for life:

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
At one point in your life you either have the thing you want or the reasons why you don’t.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.

Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to.

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!

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

You can’t just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can’t plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

Day to Day (Inspirational Life Quotes)

Here are some of the best inspirational life quotes on day to day living:

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.