Top 20 “Life is Good” Quotes

Life is meant to be lived. We all make plans, pursue our dreams, and look towards the future. Unfortunately, sometimes this means we forget to enjoy the present. We forget that life is happening right now, all around us – and it’s amazing.

To help us remember how great life already is. We put together our favorite quotes that reinforce the message: “Life is good”

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1. When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. – Alexander Graham Bell

2. Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. – Dr. Seuss

3. Never tell your problems to anyone. 20% don’t care and the other 80% are glad you have them. – Lou Holtz

4. In between goals is a thing called life that has to be lived and enjoyed. – Sid Caesar

5. On life’s journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him. – Buddha

6. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. – Karl Wallenda

7. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein

8. Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. – Isak Dinesen

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

10. A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. – Albert Schweitzer

11. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. – Josh Billings

12. All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. – Samuel Butler

13. It is not length of life, but depth of life. – Ralph Emerson

14. Life is like riding a bicycle. You don’t fall off unless you plan to stop peddling. – Claude Pepper

15. Attack life, it’s going to kill you anyway. – Steven Coallier

16. Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. – Ann Landers

17. We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

18. Three things are needed for a good life, good friends, good food, and good song. – Jason Zebehazy

19. The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. – Bertrand Russell

20. Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. – Samuel Johnson

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