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Your life is a rich, complex, and precious thing. Share your zest for life with inspiring life quotes that capture the beauty and mystery of your journey. Life quotes can reaffirm long-held beliefs or inspire you to adjust your thinking. Let quotes about life prompt you to reflect on your values and priorities, and rededicate yourself to your most cherished beliefs every day.

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Latest Life Quotes

Mile by mile, life's a trial. Yard by yard, life is hard. Inch by inch, life's a cinch. 

submitted by Harriet Zernickow, Guideposts reader

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Michael J. Fox, actor

If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far.

John C. Maxwell, author

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Rabbi Harold Kushner

You are here to make the world a better place because you’ve lived.

actress Sissy Spacek, quoting her mother

Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

Irena Sendler, 97-year-old Polish woman who helped save 2,500 ch

Live all you can—it’s a mistake not to.

Author Henry James

You’ve never stood as tall as when you stoop to pick up someone who is down.

Anonymous

Peace is seeing a sunset and knowing whom to thank.

Amish proverb

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting, but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything.

Allyson Jones, English physician

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

Actress Sigourney Weaver

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