Hello dear blog readers! Each saying of great people about life, from my list, is fraught with a deep meaning that can inspire and give strength, as well as wisdom to those who can notice and understand it. Therefore, if you feel tired from the constant struggle with various troubles, have lost the meaning of life or are depressed, I recommend taking the time to comprehend each aphorism, and perhaps one of them will hit the nail on the head and turn out to be useful.
Top 50
- Life is like a play in the theatre: what matters is not how long it lasts, but how well it is played. Seneca (Junior)
- Life is not the days that have passed, but those that are remembered. Petr Pavlenko
- Whether any given day will bring you more happiness or more sorrow depends largely on the strength of your resolve. Whether every day of your life will be happy or unhappy is the work of your hands. George Merriam
- In the end, a person is given only one life — why not live it properly? Jack London
- One of the laws of life says that as soon as one door closes, another opens. But the whole trouble is that we look at the locked door and do not pay attention to the opened one. André Gide
- People are so afraid to take a step towards a new life that they are ready to close their eyes to everything that does not suit them. But it’s even scarier: to wake up one day and realize that everything is not right, not right, not right… Bernard Shaw
- Life is a wonderful adventure, worthy of enduring failures for the sake of success. Richard Aldington
- Life without trials is not life. Socrates
- We are all a little bit away from life. Life is just a habit. Anna Akhmatova
- Many people live without living, but only intending to live. Belinsky
- If you want to understand life, then stop believing what they say and write, but observe and feel. Anton Chekhov
- It is not true that life is gloomy, it is not true that there are only sores and groans, grief and tears in it! It has everything that a person wants to find, and it has the strength to create what is not in it. Maksim Gorky
- The task of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to live in accordance with the inner law that you are aware of. Marcus Aurelius
- The greatest flaw in life is its eternal incompleteness due to our habit of procrastinating from day to day. Whoever finishes the work of his life every evening does not need time. Seneca (Junior)
- A life that does not leave lasting traces is erased with every step forward. A. Herzen
- Life teaches only those who study it. V. Klyuchevsky
- Life is a moment. It cannot be lived first on a draft, and then rewritten on a white copy. Anton Chekhov
- Life — is a risk. Only by getting into risky situations, we continue to grow. And one of the most risky situations we can risk is the risk of falling in love, the risk of being vulnerable, the risk of allowing ourselves to open up to another person without fear of pain or resentment. Arianna Huffington
- Idleness and idleness entail depravity and ill health; on the contrary, the aspiration of the mind to something brings with it cheerfulness, always directed towards the strengthening of life. Hippocrates
- Life is not a burden, and if someone turns it into a burden, then he himself is to blame. V. Veresaev
- Life is endless improvement. To consider yourself perfect is to kill yourself. X. Goebbel
- To live means not only to satisfy the material needs of the organism, but, mainly, to be aware of one’s human dignity. J. Bern
- Broken can only be considered a life that has stopped in its development. O. Wilde
- Life is a tragedy when you see it up close, and a comedy when you look at it from a distance. Ch. Chaplin
- The meaning of life is self-expression. To manifest our essence in all its fullness — that’s what we live for. Oscar Wilde
- Human happiness does not consist at all in dying well, but in living well. M. Montaigne
- Those who illuminate the lives of others will not be left without light themselves. James Barry
- A meaningless life is not worth living. Socrates
- Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away. Maya Angelou
- If you value what you have in life, you will always get more. If you only think about what you don’t have, you will never have enough. Oprah Winfrey
- Usually those who complain about life expected from it what is impossible. J. Renan
- The greatest pleasure, the highest joy in life is to feel needed by people and close to them. Maksim Gorky
- The only happiness in life is the constant striving forward. Emile Zola
- Human life is like a box of matches. Taking her seriously is ridiculous. Being careless is dangerous. Akutagawa Ryunosuke
- Life is what people strive to preserve most of all and cherish least of all. J. La Bruyère
- The cup of life is beautiful! What foolishness to resent her just because you see her bottom. Jules Renan
- Whoever can fill every moment with deep content, infinitely prolongs his life. Isolde Kurtz
- It is worth living your life in such a way that later in old age it would not be a shame for the uselessly lived years. Maksim Gorky.
- Most people have nothing to fill even the fleeting human life, and they would have nothing to do with eternity. A. France
- Sometimes you don’t want to live, but that doesn’t mean you don’t want to live. S. Lets
- Everything that happens to us leaves a trace in our life. Everything is involved in making us who we are. Johann Goethe
- The good thing is not that life is long, but how to dispose of it: it can happen, and it often happens, that a person who lives long does not live long. Seneca (Junior)
- A person’s real life begins at the age of fifty. During these years, a person masters what true achievements are based on, acquires what can be given to others, learns what can be taught, clears what can be built on. E. Bock
- Do not be afraid that your life must end, be afraid that it will never begin. John Newman
- Whoever knows the fullness of life knows no fear of death. Fear of death is only the result of an unfulfilled life. This is an expression of betrayal to her. Franz Kafka
- To live is to make things, not to acquire them. Aristotle
- It is foolish to make plans for a lifetime without being master even of tomorrow. Seneca
- In life, a pessimist, at every opportunity, sees difficulties in everything, and an optimist, on the contrary, looks for a new opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill
- If a person has the opportunity to lead an unusual life, he has no right to refuse it. Jacques Yves Cousteau
- Life in itself is neither good nor evil: it is a container for both good and evil, depending on what you yourself have turned it into. M. Montaigne
All these smart people have shared their understanding, their vision, and it’s up to you to accept it or challenge it. Finally, I would like to recommend that you look at another article of mine, in it, I also set forth the wise sayings of the great ones, only about the very meaning of life. And that’s all for today, take care of yourself and do not stop on the path of self-development, and I will help you with this material with my material. See you soon.