80 phrases of life: short and beautiful reflections to think about

Life is one of the topics that most thinkers have pondered, because even the purpose of existence itself is a mystery. What can we say about her then?

We selected 80 phrases of life, short and beautiful, which will invite you to reflect on life and inspire you to take advantage of every minute.

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80 life phrases to reflect on

Below you have a list with phrases and reflections on life, of all kinds of authors, thinkers and celebrities, who will make you think.

1. Everyone tries to do something big, not realizing that life is made up of small things.

We start with a quote from Frank Clark, who reminds us that the best things in life are the little things that we enjoy from day to day.

2. Isn't life a hundred times too short to bore us?

Friedrich Nietzsche leaves us this phrase of the short and beautiful life, in which he tells us that life is too short to be bored.

3. Life is fascinating: you just have to look at it through the right glasses.

Life sometimes depends on how we face it, according to this reflection of the life of the French writer Alexander Dumas.

4. There are two ways of seeing life: one to believe that there are no miracles, the other is to believe that everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein leaves us this deep reflection on life and the way in which we understand and interpret the phenomena that occur in it.

5. Do you love life? Well, don't waste your time, because it is the substance of which it is made. Benjamin Franklin

Life is after all the time that passes, so Benjamin Franklin invites us with this phrase to take advantage of the time to live it.

6. Life is not measured by the times you breathe, but by the moments that take your breath away.

And they are the moments that are worth living for. This phrase of life so beautiful appears in the movie "Hitch."

7. Don't take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard leaves us this funny but accurate reflection on life, which invites us to take things differently.

8. We spend a lot of time making a living, but not enough time living it.

Do we work to live or do we live to work? Teresa of Calcutta reflects with this phrase about life and what we spend it on.

9. Do not count the days make the days count.

One of the most inspiring short phrases in life is this quote from the legendary boxer Muhammad Ali.

10. Remember that you are only as good as the best thing you have ever done.

This phrase belongs to the great director and screenwriter Billy Wilder, who was certainly very good at his thing.

11. If you want to move on, stop reading the last chapter of your life and start writing the next one.

An anonymous phrase that invites us to move on with our life and not get stuck in the past.

12. Life is very simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

A short and simple, but powerful, reflection of the thinker Confucius.

13. Five minutes is enough to dream a lifetime, that's how relative time is.

This other beautiful phrase from life belongs to the Uruguayan writer and poet, Mario Benedetti.

14. Life is no laughing matter, but can you imagine having to live without laughing?

A curious and accurate reflection on life, which corresponds to the Ukrainian writer Leonid S. Sukhorukov.

15. Let us fulfill the task of living in such a way that when we die, even the funeral home will feel it.

Mark Twain phrase that invites you to live as fully as generously.

16. We must live and work, in each moment, as if we had eternity before us.

Unlike the phrases that invite us to live each day as the last, it encourages us to take life as if we had all the time in the world ahead of us. It belongs to the playwright and philosopher Gabriel Marcel.

17. Life is a play that doesn't matter how long it lasted, but how well it was performed.

The Greeks used to compare life to a play, and proof of this is this phrase by Seneca about life.

18. Not being dead is not being alive.

Being alive is much more than existing, because it also implies taking advantage of life and what it offers us, according to E. AND. Cummings in this sentence.

19. In the end, it is not the years in our life that count, but the life in our years.

No matter how many years you live, the important thing is to have lived them well, as Abraham Lincoln reminds us in this sentence.

20. Life is a tragedy when seen in the foreground, but in general it becomes a comedy.

This phrase belongs to Charles Chaplin, with a reflection that he also knew how to capture very well in his films.

21. Every man can improve his life by improving his attitude.

Héctor Tassinari reminds us in this sentence that it is not so much what happens to you in life, but the way you deal with it.

22. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Quote by the computer guru Steve Jobs, who invites you to be yourself and live your own life.

23. Living is not just existing and creating, it is knowing how to enjoy and suffer and not sleep without dreaming. To rest is to begin to die.

Phrase by Gregorio Marañón, which encourages enjoy life to really live it.

24. The law, democracy, love... Nothing has more weight over our lives than time.

Winston Churchill reflects with this phrase that time is the most important value in our lives.

25. The best things in life are the past, the present and the future.

Reflection on the somewhat cryptic life, by the filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.

26. What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion; a shadow, a fiction and the greatest good is small. That all life is a dream and dreams are dreams!

One of the most famous phrases about life, the work of the writer Calderón de la Barca.

27. Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

A phrase from life to think and reflect, by the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.

28. The good that we did the day before is what brings us happiness in the morning.

And this Hindu proverb is closely related to the philosophy of karma that governs our life.

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29. The same is our life as a comedy; It is not considered whether it is long, but whether it has been well represented. Finish where you want, as long as you put a good ending.

Again Seneca reflects on life and how important the way we live is.

30. We must let go of the life we ​​had planned to have the life that awaits us.

We have to accept and take advantage of life as it comes to us, according to this phrase by Joseph Campbell.

31. Life is a game of terrible odds; If it were a bet, you would not intervene in it.

Playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard jokes about life and chance.

32. Life is a badly edited movie.

The filmmaker Fernando Trueba leaves us another of the most humorous short phrases of life.

33. We are all amateurs. Life is so short that it does not give for more.

Charles Chaplin also left us many humorous phrases about life.

34. Clocks kill time. Time is dead as long as it is being marked by the little wheels; only when the clock is ticking does time come to life.

Somewhat deeper and more solemn is this phrase by William Faulkner about life and the passage of time.

35. Life is the constant surprise of knowing that I exist.

Another of the aphorisms of the thinker Rabindranath Tagore, who reflects on life and existence.

36. Only a life dedicated to others is worth living.

Albert Einstein speaks in this sentence of living a generous life.

37. Do what you love, love everything you do.

An anonymous reflection that leaves a good life advice.

38. Sometimes we can go years without living at all, and suddenly our whole life is concentrated in a single instant.

As they said in another sentence, life is measured by these small moments. This phrase is from the writer Oscar Wilde.

39. For most of us, true life is the life we ​​don't lead.

Something that characterized Oscar Wilde was his scathing criticism of his society. We have one of those examples in this sentence, in which he talks about envy.

40. The least common in this world is living. Most people exist, that's all.

Again Oscar Wilde reflects on the true difference between existing and living.

41. There is no way to the truth, the truth is the way.

Phrase by Mahatma Gandhi that reminds us that the important thing is not the destination, but the path itself, since the same happens with life.

42. Life is not about gathering the fruits that you reap every day, but about the seeds that you sow.

A beautiful phrase of life to reflect and think about our actions, and what we achieve with them.

43. In life there are no classes for beginners; immediately they demand of one the most difficult.

The German poet Rainer María Rilke leaves us this phrase about life a little bleaker.

44. Life is a movie that starts over every morning when we wake up. Forget about your mistakes, every day you have a new opportunity to succeed and achieve happiness.

More positive is this phrase by Norkin Gilbert, about new opportunities to move on in life.

45. The most wasted day of all days is the one in which we have not laughed.

Again, humor and laughter appear as a basic element in life, also according to this phrase by Nicolas-Sébastien Roch.

46. One today is worth two mornings.

Benjamin Franklin who reminds us that we must take advantage and live in the present moment.

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47. We cannot tear a page out of the book of our life, but we can throw the whole book into the fire.

We cannot change the past, because each of its events is part of who we are. This phrase belongs to George Sand.

48. Life without parties is like a long road without inns.

For ancient Greeks like Democritus of Abdera, celebration and joy were an important part of life.

49. To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already half dead.

To live fully one has to overcome fear and venture, even in love, as expressed in this phrase by Bertrand Russell.

50. The greatest adventure you can have is living the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey, one of the most influential celebrities in the United States, knows this very well.

51. What can be a life that begins between the cries of the mother who gives it and the cries of the son who receives it?

A phrase from life to reflect on, this one that Baltasar Gracián leaves us.

52. The man who has not passionately loved ignores the most beautiful half of life.

The philosopher Stendhal leaves us a nice reflection on life and love.

53. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it.

As we said before, a large part of life depends on how you face it and live it. This is how Lou Holtz reaffirms it in this sentence.

54. A person who sees life at 50 the same as at 20 has wasted 30 years of life.

Another of the most inspiring life phrases of Muhammad Ali.

55. We are in such a hurry to do, write and make our voices heard in the silence of eternity, that we forget the only thing that is really important: living.

The writer Robert Louis Stevenson reflects on this sentence about life and living it.

56. Deep down, it is relationships with people that give meaning to life.

For Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt the important thing is the relationships we form during life.

57. Life is but a continuous succession of opportunities to survive.

Life is giving us blows, each one of them an opportunity to move on. This is how the Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez expresses it.

58. Being prepared is important, knowing how to wait is even more important, but seizing the right moment is the key to life.

Sometimes it all depends on being at the right time and place, to take advantage of the opportunities that life offers us, according to this phrase by Arthur Schnitzler.

59. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow, learn as if you were going to live forever.

This phrase by Mahatma Gandhi sums up very well some of the thoughts on life that we have seen.

60. He who does not value life does not deserve it.

A reflection on the life of the Renaissance genius, Leonardo Da Vinci.

61. Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Many wonder about The meaning of life, when the important thing is really to live it. This is how one of the phrases of Soren Kierkegaard's life expresses it.

62. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

The important thing is how we live and take advantage of the only life we ​​have, according to this phrase by Mae West.

63. I have discovered that if you love life, life will love you back.

A quote about the life of Arthur Rubinstein, where he expresses that if you keep a positive attitude towards life, good things will happen to you.

64. Life is not about finding yourself, but about creating yourself.

While some waste time trying to find themselves, others make themselves, according to this reflection by George Bernard Shaw.

65. Carpe Diem (take advantage of the present day). Words that remind us that life is short and we must hurry to enjoy it.

Carpe diem is one of the most emblematic short phrases in life, inviting you to take advantage of every minute. This is how the thinker Horacio explains it.

66. If life were predictable, it would cease to be life and would be tasteless.

Life is unpredictable and therein lies its magic, according to this witty and apt phrase by Eleanor Roosevelt.

67. Only lives whom knows.

Baltasar Gracián leaves us one of the short life phrases that invite reflection and delve into what it is to live.

68. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

And so it was for Helen Keller, a woman who became blind and deaf within 19 months of her life, which did not prevent her from leading an active life as a writer and activist.

69. Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

A mythical phrase by John Lennon about life and how we decided to take advantage of it.

70. Life is a game that no one can withdraw from with the winnings.

Well, we all go to another life with nothing, according to this phrase by André Maurois.

71. Life is a dream, love is your dream. And you will have lived if you have loved.

A phrase by Alfred de Musset about life and love, and how important the latter is.

72. Live only for you if you can, because only for you if you die, you die.

Is rhyming phrase that reflects on life It belongs to Francisco de Quevedo.

73. Every man must wish to live in order to know, and to know in order to live well.

A curious aphorism by Mateo Alemán about life, which will make you reflect.

74. Life was not made to understand it, but to live it.

A phrase similar to that of Kierkegaard is the one that Jorge Santayana leaves us, with this reflection on experiencing life instead of wasting time trying to understand it.

75. In two words I can summarize how much I have learned about life: keep going.

A positive message from Robert Frost, who invites you not to give up and look ahead.

76. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep going.

The same message is what Albert Einstein expresses in another of his life phrases to think about.

77. Even a happy life is not possible without a measure of darkness.

Everyone goes through bad times at some point in their life, as expressed in this other phrase by Carl Gustav Jung.

78. Life is to be enjoyed, not endured.

Gordon B. Hinckley reminds us that it is not enough to live as you can, but to live to enjoy.

79. Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived.

This anonymous phrase encourages us again not to think about the meaning of life, but to live.

80. The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Because if there is any sure purpose in this life, it is to enjoy it and live it happily, as expressed in this phrase by the Dalai Lama.

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