Sayings about Life and Living
Consider each day of your life to be the best. ~ Czech Proverb
Live to live and you will learn to live. ~ Portuguese Proverb
After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it. ~ Sayings
He who marries on a rainy day will be happy for the rest of his life. ~ French Proverb
May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live! ~ Scottish Proverb
Life is short but a smile takes barely a second. ~ Cuban Proverb
The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do. ~ American Proverb
Life is just like a dream — but don’t wake me. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Man fools himself. He prays for a long life, and he fears an old age. ~ Chinese Proverb
He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
In the morning of life, work; in the midday give council; in the evening, pray. ~ German Proverb
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day. ~ Indian Proverb
The happiest life ends before death. ~ Chinese Proverb
A good life is the best sermon. ~ Spanish Proverb
Life is half spent before one knows what it is. ~ French Proverb
The life of an old man can be compared with the flame of a candle in a drought. ~ Chinese Proverb
More Proverbs and Sayings about Life:
Where there is life, there is also hope. ~ Salvadoran Proverb
The most important thing in life is to be buried well. ~ Chinese Proverb
A man should go on living — if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good. ~Sayings
A life is like a tree — if you don’t make it straight when its young and green, you’ll never do it when it’s old and dry. ~ Sayings
Life itself cannot give you joy, unless you really will it. Life just gives you time and space; It’s up to you to fill it. ~ Chinese Proverb
A good well-lived today makes every yesterday a dream of a good future, and every morning is a vision of hope. ~ Sanskrit Proverb
Living in the past has one thing going for it; it’s cheaper! ~ Traditional Proverb
The earth is God’s bride — she feeds the living and cherishes the dead. ~ Malagasy Proverb
Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead. ~ Scottish Proverb
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. ~ Sayings
Most men employ the earlier part of their life to make the other miserable. ~ French Proverb
Plan your life at New Year’s eve, your day at dawn. ~ Japanese Proverb
Live today, forget the past. ~ Greek Proverb
Life is a dung pie from which you take a bite every day. ~ French Proverb
Life is like this: sometimes sun, sometimes rain. ~ Fijian Proverb
Every day of your life is a page of your history. ~ Arabian Proverb
In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes
It is easy to die — the difficulty lies in living. ~ Japanese Proverb
He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life’s pleasures is like a blacksmith’s bellows. He breathes, but does not live. ~ Sanskrit Proverb
There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes. ~ Persian Proverb
Life is like a candle in the wind; like frost on the roof; like the wriggling of the fish in the pan. ~ Chinese Proverb
To be drunk every day is also a regular life. ~ Austrian Proverb
Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves. ~ Sayings
Life is a ladder — some will climb up it, others down. ~ Bulgarian Proverb
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance. ~Sayings
The earth is a beehive; we all enter by the same door but live in different cells. ~ Bantu Proverb
Live and let live. ~ English Proverb
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
Life is short; but it barely takes a second to smile. ~ Cuban Proverb
One short step lengthens life. ~ Romanian Proverb
Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. ~ Sayings
A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps as we walk the tightrope of life. ~ Traditional Proverb
Who can say for sure that one will live to see tomorrow? ~ Tibetan Proverb
To enjoy life is worth so much more than it costs. ~ French Proverb
Live and learn. ~ Traditional Proverb
Life is like the flame of a lamp; it needs a little oil now and then. ~ Indian Proverbs
It is precisely the uncertainty of this world that makes life worth living. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Better than thanksgiving is thanksliving. ~ Sayings
Freedom does not lengthen life. ~ Finnish Proverb
The fear of death takes away the joy of living. ~ Ukrainian Proverbs
While there’s life there’s hope. ~ Traditional Proverb
Life is the biggest bargain — we get it for nothing. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ~Sayings
The place of your birth is less important than how you live. ~ Turkish Proverbs
We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse. ~Sayings
Life, like a fire, begins in smoke and ends in ashes. ~ Arabian Proverb
Life is a gift for which we pay dearly. ~ Spanish Proverb
If life is fulfilled we go away with empty hands. ~ Chinese Proverb
A good life, they say, keeps wrinkles at bay. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Live near water, and ask not about sustenance. ~ Omani Proverb
Living is not a reward and dying is no crime. ~ Malagasy Proverb
Words die and men keep on living. ~ Jamaican Proverb
If you want to live long, be healthy and fat, drink like a dog and eat like a cat. ~ German Proverbs
Life is simple, it’s just not easy. ~Sayings
Life is just a bowl of cherries. ~ Traditional Proverb
Don’t ask in this life for the three most difficult things: good sons, long life and a long beard. ~ Chinese Proverb
The worst things in life are: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not. ~ Arabian Proverb
If you want your children to enjoy a quiet life let them suffer a little hunger and a little cold. ~ Chinese Proverb
If you would live long, open your heart. ~ Bulgarian Proverbs
When life throws you lemons, make orange juice. It will leave them wondering how the hell you did that. ~ Sayings
Children are the reward of life. ~ Congolese Proverb