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I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.Delicious Ambiguity.

— Gilda Radner
Life Books & Writing

Where there is love there is life.

— Mahatma Gandhi
Life Love

May you live every day of your life.

— Jonathan Swift
Inspirational Life Philosophy Wisdom

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

— Marilyn Monroe
Life

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

— John Lennon
Life Love Fear

Get busy living or get busy dying.

— Stephen King
Life

This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

— Marilyn Monroe
Inspirational Life Love Friendship Relationships

Everything you can imagine is real.

— Pablo Picasso
Inspirational Life Art & Beauty

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

— Dr. Seuss
Life

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

— George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational Life

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

— Dr. Seuss
Life

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

— Woody Allen
Life Humor Death & Loss Fear

Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.Not in what they say.Just in what they are.

— Markus Zusak
Life Art & Beauty

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

— Albert Einstein
Life

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

— John Green
Life

World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.