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100 Short Life and Love Quotes: Positive and Heartwarming Thoughts

There’s nothing better than being inspired by a quote. When you come across one that resonates with you, it can help you in many ways. If you’re looking for the best short life and love quotes, you’ve come to the right place! Whether it helps you get through a bad day or just makes you smile and feel good about yourself, these quotes about can improve your mood and make you think about life in a new way.

Short Life & Love Quotes

“Love who you want to love. Life is short. Nobody’s going to hate you for it.” — Shane Dawson

“I love to laugh. It’s the only way to live. Enjoy each day–it’s not coming back again!” — Doris Day

“They lived and laughed and loved and left.” — James Joyce

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.” — Johnny Depp

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“That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“You gotta live and learn so you can learn to live.” — Darius Rucker

“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.” — Sophocles

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo

“Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.” — Marge Piercy

“The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell

“Where there is love there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“As her father had so often said… Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.” — Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Enjoy the little things in life.” — Robert Breault

“Every moment of life is precious and can never happen again.” — Zelig Pliskin

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.” — Mother Teresa

“Life is short. Stop worrying so much. Have fun. Be grateful. Be yourself.” — Karen Salmansohn

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.” — Lauryn Hill

“Love is a friendship set to music.” — Joseph Campbell

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle

“Don’t look for big things, just do small things with great love.” — Mother Teresa

Short Funny Love & Life Quotes

“One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.” — Gustave Flauber

“I love to read about what my love life is really like.” — Jennifer Aniston

“When I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, I think about my love life.” — Glenda Jackson

“If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?” — Lily Tomlin

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“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” — Plato

“What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.” — Pearl Bailey

“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” — H. L. Mencken

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ― Albert Einstein

“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” — Forrest Gump

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“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.” — Katharine Hepburn

“Life is too short to be reading quotes about life being too short. Stop reading and go live your life!” —Kevin Ngo

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” ― Robert Frost

“The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.” ― Marjorie Pay Hinckley

If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Short Love Your Life Quotes, Funny Life Quotes, Life Changing Quotes and Life is Good Quotes.

Inspirational Quotes About Life and Love

“Without imagination and without love, life can be pretty bleak. I think having both will get you through the most dire of situations.” — Tiya Sircar

“I know it’s cliche to say, ‘When you do something you love you never work a day in your life.’ But it is true.” — Tika Sumpter

“Live. Love. Smile. Hug. Laugh. Dream. Do. Create. Have fun. Be intense. Be audacious. Be unreasonable. Act impeccably. Breathe. Be you. Be different.” — Brian Johnson

“There’s no easy way to do this. So do it right: weep, laugh, watch, pray, love, live, give thanks and praise; comfort, mend, honor, and remember.” — Thomas Lynch

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” — Mary Anne Radmacher

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” – Paulo Coelho

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“You have to laugh, love & live every day as if it’s your last.” — Mary—Kate Olsen

“True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.” — Petrach

“We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.” — Sheena Easton

“Every one has her own love life. Every one has a dream to get a perfect life partner. But this is not so easy in real life. In fact, one doesn’t love; it happens.” — Katrina Kaif

“I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It’s just great. It’s the most enduring element we have is love.” — Gary Busey

“I think I’ve got a real love thing going. I love people, I love life, and I love nature, and I can’t see why other people can’t be like that.” — Marvin Gaye

“As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people’s situations.” — Ed Sheeran

“A life lived in love will never be dull.” — Leo Buscaglia

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“Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love.” — Bob Fosse

“I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter.” — Theodore Hesburgh

“I believe there are some things in life you can’t deny or rationalize, and [love] is one of them.” — Cate Blanchett

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” — Kurt Vonnegut

“No regrets, just lessons. No worries, just acceptance. No expectations, just gratitude. Life is too short.” — Jesse Joseph

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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu

“Cause all of me loves all of you. Love your curves and all your edges. All your perfect imperfections. Give your all to me. I’ll give my all to you. You’re my end and my beginning.” — John Legend

“I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life.” — George Clooney

“When life itself has become a prayer, we are connected to that source of love and life.” — Brian Hardin

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” — Mark Twain

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” — Maya Angelou

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“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” — Lucille Ball

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” — Marcel Pagnol

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” — Bruce Lee

“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” — Arthur Rubinstein

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“A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful” — Theodore Zeldin

“I tend to say faith is believing in life, and as I love life, I try to do the best with it, make it as serene and joyous as possible.” — Sandrine Bonnaire

“If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.” — Angelina Jolie

“I believe it’s so important to love life, enjoy it for its small moments and live without regrets — life is so unpredictable.” — Mahesh Manjrekar

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Success is loving life and daring to live it.” – Maya Angelou

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“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“I love life because what more is there?” — Anthony Hopkins

“I love life. I love my friends. I love to eat. Too many things, I love. I am very much an anti—historical character. I am attracted to happy people. Happy people with very grave problems.” — Lina Wertmuller

“I love life. I think it’s fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.” — Sam Taylor-Johnson

“I want to love life.” — Zoe Saldana

“I love life. There’s so much to learn and see all the time, and nothing nicer for me than to wake up, and the sky is blue.” — Pattie Boyd

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“Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.” — Matt Cameron

“Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.” — Sarah Louise Delany

“I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.” — Tahar Ben Jelloun

“I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.” — Olivia Newton-John

Live Laugh Love Quotes

“Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.” — Stephen Covey

“Live, laugh, love, every day to its fullest, for who knows, tomorrow, may not be.” — Shahrukh Khan

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“To live, laugh, love one’s friends, and be loved by them is to bask in the sunshine of life.” — David O. McKay

“A good laugh is sunshine in the house.” — William Makepeace Thackeray

“Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It’s the best part of the day.” — George Allen, Sr

“The most wasted of days is one without laughter.” — E. E. Cummings

“The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.” — Bennett Cerf

“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.” — Tibetan Proverbs

 “You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.” — Andrew Carnegie

Love of My Life Quotes

“From the day you walked into my life, you’re all I think about. You’re the reason I breathe. You are the stars in my sky. I wouldn’t want this any other way. You’re the love of my life.” — Kemis Khan

“I love you every minute of my life; you`re my love and my life. Not all people are lucky to find the sense of their life. I am happy, cause I had found it when I met you – the love of my life.” — Rabindranath Tagore

“You look like the rest of my life.” — Beau Taplin

“Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.” — Nicholas Sparks

“You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I’ve never been so strong. Now I’m where I belong.” — Maya Angelou

“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” — Roy Croft

“Love to me is someone telling me, ‘I want to be with you for the rest of my life, and if you needed me to I’d jump out of a plane for you’.” — Jennifer Lopez

“You are the love of my life. Everything I have and everything I am is yours.” — Barney Stinson

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“You’re the love of my life. I don’t care how corny that sounds. You’re the start of it, and the end of it. And you’re the best of it.” — Nora Roberts

“You are the love of my life, I can’t live without you.” — Rahul Singh

“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” — Arthur Conan Doyle

“I love you the way a drowning man loves air.” — Rae Carson

“You are my life now.” ― Stephenie Meyer

“They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that’s true.” — Daniel Wallace

“True love stories never have endings.” — Richard Bach

Quotes About Love and Life

“If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself.” — Rumi

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” — Buddha

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” ― Charles Bukowski

“We can only learn to love by loving.” — Iris Murdoch

“Love me like water, deep as sea, pure as water, wild as ocean.” – Kirpa Kaur

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“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” — Barbara De Angelis

“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.” — Andre Breton

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” — Robert A. Heinlein

“In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.” — Margaret Anderson

“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” — The Fault in Our Stars

“Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.” — Truman Capote

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” — Maya Angelou

“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.” — Angelita Lim

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones

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“Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.” — The Princess Bride

“We loved with a love that was more than love.” — Edgar Allen Poe

“I love you. You… you complete me.” — Jerry Maguire

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.” — Pablo Neruda

“I think true love — love, wine and beauty, they better with age.” — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” ― Vladimir Nabokov

“Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” — Ashton Kutcher

“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Charles Swindoll

“You only pass through this life once, you don’t come back for an encore.” — Elvis Presley

“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell

“Live for each second without hesitation.” – Elton John

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“Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius

“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” — Jack Kerouac

“Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” — Rose Kennedy

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” — William James

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” — Helen Keller

“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” — Morris West

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” — Oprah Winfrey

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

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“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.” — Carl Jung

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates

“I believe you make your day. You make your life.” — Brad Pitt

“I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Shawshank Redemption

“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”— Lao-Tze

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”— Buddha

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” — Thomas Edison

So there you have it! Hopefully, we’ve helped you find the quote you were looking for.

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Laynni Locke

I am Laynni Locke, a Canadian writer, reader and traveller with a passion for sharing life’s moments on social media. Keeping friends and family in the loop of our lives though photos and videos has become an essential activity for most.

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