By Maxime Lagacé
Maxime is the founder of WisdomQuotes. He has been collecting quotes since 2004. His goal? To help you develop a calm and peaceful mind. Learn more about him on his about page.
Here are 200 of the best life changing quotes. The goal? To improve your reality, your life and give you the inspiration you need today. Enjoy!
You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live. Natalie Babbitt (Tuck Everlasting)
It’s never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Henri Bergson
I’ve never seen any life transformation that did not begin with the person finally getting tired of their own bullshit. Elizabeth Gilbert
When things change inside you, things change around you. Unknown
A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living. Virginia Woolf
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us. Mike Wickett
We need, above all things, to slow down and get ourselves to amble through life instead of to rush through it. Alan Watts
You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. C.S. Lewis
Living has yet to be generally recognized as one of the arts. Karl De Schweinitz
Live simply so that others may simply live. bell hooks
We live without knowing what life is. We love without knowing what love is. We die without knowing what death is. Thibaut
Stop being busy, and you’ll get to know yourself. Stop caring what they think, and you’ll feel calmer. Stop going fast, and you’ll find the right direction. Maxime Lagacé
Don’t ask for a beautiful life if you’re not ready to suffer. Maxime Lagacé
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The Best Life Changing Quotes
The wound is the place where the light enters you. Rumi
I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it. Maya Angelou
No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives! We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers. Seneca
What matters? How you treat people, how you love, whether you live true to yourself, a calm mind. The rest is noise. Shane Parrish
Reminding yourself that you will die one day is useless if it doesn’t change how you live. Shane Parrish
Instead of seeing how everything is against you, you can choose to see how everything is for you. How everything is exactly as it should have been to facilitate your growth. A shift in perspective changes everything. @TheAncientSage
It’s all dust — you’re but a blip in the history of the universe. In all honesty, nothing you do matters, and nothing you do will be remembered. Everything you’re worried about will, one day, be completely irrelevant. Naval Ravikant
The fundamental delusion – there is something out there that will make me happy and fulfilled forever. Naval Ravikant
The capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest meaning and significance. Pablo Casals
Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours. Jane Kenyon
Things do not change; we change. Henry David Thoreau
You change your life by changing your heart. Max Lucado
One of the greatest forms of freedom comes from knowing what is important to you. It grants you the freedom to ignore everything else. James Clear
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this. Henry David Thoreau
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety. Abraham Maslow
All you really need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself. Eckhart Tolle
Instead of asking, ‘What do I want from life?’ a more powerful question is, ‘What does life want from me?’ Eckhart Tolle
A man may conquer a million men in battle, but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors. The Dhammapada
The environment you operate in – its pressures, rewards, risks, and costs – is your true teacher. Angela Jiang
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. Don Miguel Ruiz
If you don’t give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will. James Altucher
Start by removing. Go to the core of life. Finish by expanding. Life is limitless. Maxime Lagacé
Life is a lot more fun when you don’t take it personally. Matthew Kobach
Part 2. Life Changing Quotes That Are…
The Most Famous Life Changing Quotes (Obama, Mark Twain, Dalai Lama, etc.)
Change is never easy, but also possible. Barack Obama
Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you. Mahatma Gandhi
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. Barack Obama
The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around? Oprah Winfrey
If you want to change your life, begin by changing your words. Start speaking the words of your dreams, of who you want to become, not the words of fear or failure. Robert Kiyosaki
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing — refusing to participate in activities that make life bad. Leo Tolstoy
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. Viktor Frankl
One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world. (Fake) Buddha
You have to stop crying and you have to go kick some ass. Lady Gaga
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. Jim Rohn
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. Jim Rohn
There is no traced-out path to lead man to his salvation; he must constantly invent his own path. But, to invent it, he is free, responsible, without excuse, and every hope lies within him. Jean-Paul Sartre
Even small acts of compassion bring meaning and purpose to our lives. 14th Dalai Lama
I wish with all my heart that every child could be so imbued with a sense of the adventure of life that each change, each readjustment, each surprise – good or bad – that came along would be welcomed as part of the whole enthralling experience. Eleanor Roosevelt
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. Arthur Schopenhauer
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from. Seth Godin
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin
Related: How to take your first step to change your life – Dr Joe Dispenza (6 minutes YouTube video)
Short Life Changing Quotes
One-liners, short life changing quotes, sayings, thoughts and captions for your bio, social status, self-talk, motto, mantra, signs, posters, wallpapers, backgrounds.
Your life is now. Eckhart Tolle
If there is no wind, row. Latin proverb
Change before you have to. Jack Welch
Life changes, so you must hope. Katherine Applegate
Those who complain are not wise. Maxime Lagacé
Humility is the path to improvement. Ed Latimore
Your entire life consists of the present moment. Eckhart Tolle
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. Sophia Loren
Go beyond love and grief, exist for the good of mankind. Miyamoto Musashi
When things change inside you, things change around you. Judy Garland
The past is done. The future has plenty of room for change. Unknown
Change how you feel by changing the way you think of yourself. Rhonda Byrne
The story you tell yourself is largely the story you’re living. Terence McKenna
He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a living man. Seneca
There is no destination. This is life, this moment. Savor and appreciate it. @dailyzen
If you missed a life-changing opportunity, just get prepared for the next one. @orangebook_
Inspirational And Motivational Life Changing Quotes
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. Napoleon Hill
We can have more than we’ve got because we can become more than we are. Jim Rohn
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. Jim Rohn
Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece after all. Nathan W. Morris
The first step to changing yourself is to become conscious of who you are and what you do. Joe Dispenza
Simply existing for many years is not all that impressive. What matters is what you do with that time. What matters is how you live. Ryan Holiday
We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. C. Joybell C.
The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think. Mark Andreessen
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. Robin Sharma
It’s the small habits, how you spend your morning, how you talk to yourself, what you read, what you watch, who you share your energy with, that will change your life. Thibaut
Think good thoughts. Speak good words. Take good actions. Three steps that will bring more to you than you can ever imagine. Rhonda Byrne
Your days are numbered. Will you pass them half awake and halfhearted or will you live with a sense of urgency? Robert Greene
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about. Rollo May
Fake freedom requires the world to conform to your will. Real freedom requires nothing of the world. It is only your will. Mark Manson
Life is all about ‘not knowing’ and then doing something anyway. All of life is like this. All of it. Mark Manson
Most people don’t think because most people don’t write. If you learn to write, you learn to think, you change your life. Maxime Lagacé
The best way to regain a measure of control; accept things are entirely beyond one’s control – and understanding. Alain de Botton
Related: 10 Things You Can Do Now to Change Your Life Forever (lifehack.org)
Funny Life Changing Quotes
Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it. George Bernard Shaw
A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough. Alain de Botton
We keep imagining calm over the horizon once certain challenges are vanquished. But life is more like a long game of ‘Anxiety Whack-a-mole.’ Alain de Botton
Choose the fucks you give wisely. Because like a fine wine, our fucks must age into a fine vintage, only uncorked and given on the most special fucking occasions. Mark Manson
I refuse to walk carefully through life only to arrive safely at death. Paulo Coelho
I’ve never heard of anybody who awakens in their comfort zone. Eckhart Tolle
Deep Life Changing Quotes
Sometimes the winds of change are a hurricane. Derek Sivers
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. Kurt Lewin
Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge. Don Henley
But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all. Hugh Mackay
My biggest fear is that I’m going to die without having really lived. I think everybody has that fear at some core level. Naval Ravikant
Avoid unnecessary debt. Avoid unnecessary food. Avoid unnecessary drugs. Avoid unnecessary people. Avoid unnecessary thoughts. Avoid unnecessary reactions. Avoid unnecessary emotions. Avoid unnecessary conversations. You are smart when you understand what is truly necessary. @orangebook_
The key to a good life is not giving a fuck about more; it’s giving a fuck about less, giving a fuck about only what is true and immediate and important. Mark Manson
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching. Gerard Way
You have limited fucks to give. Very few, in fact. And if you go around giving a fuck about everything and everyone without conscious thought or choice — well, then you’re going to get fucked. Mark Manson
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” – and find that there is no death. Eckhart Tolle
Let each thing you would do, say or intend be like that of a dying person. Marcus Aurelius
Alternate between total presence, total acceptance and total focus. Maxime Lagacé
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living. Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now, Amazon book)
We spend a lot of our lives over-planning and over-analyzing options, instead of doing them. Mark Manson
Death will take everything away. Think about that. Everything you’ve accumulated, fought for, worried over, everything will go. Why not let it all go now when you’re still living. Renounce it mentally. Then you can live freely and fearlessly because you’ve nothing to lose. @TheAncientSage
Don’t expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: this is poison, nothing else. Paulo Coelho
You are the river. You have already run down to the sea, and you know its wisdom. Then the sun transformed you into a cloud. You have died and been reborn many times. All you have to do is remember. Paulo Coelho
You are scared of dying – and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different than being dead? Seneca
You are a story that you tell yourself. Naval Ravikant
What you can’t communicate runs your life. Dr. Robert Anthony
Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you. Paulo Coelho
Related: Meditation Changes Your Brain In These 7 Ways, According To Science (bustle.com)
Wise Life Changing Quotes
There are three constants in life: change, choice and principles. Stephen Covey
The average man wants fixes. The wise man wants understanding. Maxime Lagacé
The secret to change your life is to become a master at ignoring what will not improve your life and to focus on what could. Maxime Lagacé
Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. Eddie Cantor
If you look at the long-term, the 30-year consequence of the big decisions — like what I do, who I spend time with, and where I am — then all the little details after that barely matter. Naval Ravikant
It’s a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up the space. Pema Chödrön
Life is all about unlearning in the second half what you learned in the first part. Thibaut
The irony of life is realizing that a lifetime is barely long enough to figure out how it should have been lived. Thibaut
Whenever you say “yes” to something unimportant, you’re saying “no” to something important. Joshua Fields Millburn
The more we detach from things that don’t add value to our lives, the calmer, the freer, and the lighter we feel. Joshua Fields Millburn
Start with who you wish to become. Shift to how that person would act. Shrink to what you can control. James Clear
In a world where information is abundant and easy to access, the real advantage is knowing where to focus. James Clear
Ultimately, the only way to truly be in control of your life is to be in control of your thoughts. James Clear
Die in your thoughts every morning and you will no longer fear death. Yamamoto Tsunetomo (Hagakure, Book of the Samurai, Amazon book)
A man is born gentle and weak; at his death he is hard and stiff. Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching, Amazon book)
Part 3. Life Changing Quotes About…
Life Changing Quotes About Life, Death
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. Jon Kabat-Zinn
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different. C.S. Lewis
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That my be the measure of our lives. Toni Morrison
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. Edwin Way Teale
You are a product of how you spend your time. Sunday Adelaja
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. David Viscott
Once you realize feelings can’t be controlled, life makes more sense. Once you realize you can control your reactions, life becomes easier. Thibaut
Only by learning how to die do we finally learn how to live. Thibaut
Those who remember their death everyday and those who never think about it – how can the two be same in their approach to life? Death gradually cuts all the crap from your life if you ponder it everyday. It eliminates the superficial from your life, leaving only the essential. @TheAncientSage
Finding the passion and purpose in your life is a trial-by-fire process. You don’t simply wake up one day and become happy doing one thing forever and ever. It’s a constant work-in-progress. Mark Manson
We ought to try, by the example of our own lives, to prove that life is love and wonder and that that nation is doomed which penalizes those of its citizens who recognize and rejoice in this fact. James Baldwin
I don’t want normal and easy and simple. I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love. Olivia
Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live. Uyesug Kenshin
By becoming deeply aware of our mortality, we intensify our experience of every aspect of life. Robert Greene
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us. Charles Bukowski
Life Changing Quotes About Hard Times
A man who does not understand the benefit of suffering does not live a clever and true life. Leo Tolstoy
When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. Eckhart Tolle
Mankind has never achieved greatness but through suffering. Robert de Lamennais
The goal is not a life without problems. That’s an illusion. The goal is a life with problems you like working on. That’s reality. Maxime Lagacé
Don’t hope for a life without problems. There’s no such thing. Instead, hope for a life full of good problems. Mark Manson
Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right. Being offended is a choice and should be chosen wisely. Mark Manson
No one actually knows what the hell they’re doing. Everyone is just working off their current best guess. Mark Manson
Our most radical changes in perspective often happen at the tail end of our worst moments. It’s only when we feel intense pain that we’re willing to look at our values and question why they seem to be failing us. Mark Manson
People can surmount what seems to be total defeat, difficulties too great to be borne, but it requires a capacity to adjust endlessly to the changing conditions of life. Eleanor Roosevelt
A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose. Jorge Luis Borges
Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments — an inability to accept life as ongoing. Sarah Manguso
Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times and many disappointments — but all of this leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken. Paulo Coelho
The risks you keep taking, the challenges you keep overcoming, are like symbolic deaths that sharpen your appreciation for life. Robert Greene
Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes, as well. Seneca
Life is like poker — you can get a good hand, play it perfectly, and still end up with a bad outcome. Shane Parrish
Related: Hard Times Quotes That Will Make You Stronger
Life Changing Quotes About Happiness, Unhappiness
Bring presence into whatever you do. Eckhart Tolle
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. Eckhart Tolle
You attract and manifest whatever corresponds to your inner state. Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now)
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. Ram Dass
Often, a busy life is merely one full of unexamined desires. James Pierce
If you approach life as though you have something to gain from it, you will never stop searching for things you do not have. James Pierce
We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive. Thich Nhat Hanh
Be engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives. Sharon Salzberg
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. Glenn Clark
It’s often the desire for certainty that causes us to suffer more than the uncertainty itself. Mark Manson
Make up your minds that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. Pericles
The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live. Seneca
To appreciate life’s small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect. Alain de Botton
Fools make harvesting their only source of happiness. The wise simply plant seeds. Maxime Lagacé
Related: 12 Life Changing Tips for Happiness and Productivity
Life Changing Quotes About Success, Motivation
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too. Paulo Coelho
Our lives change when our habits change. Matthew Kelly
Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals. Swami Vivekananda
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life. Alain de Botton
One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. Henry Miller
Sometimes you need to stop doing things you love in order to nurture the one thing that matters most. Scott Belsky
You will change your life massively when you truly realize that it is all you have and it’s burning away fast. @LifeMathMoney
We tend to see the glorious end result in accomplished people, but forget that the path to get there is often messy, ugly and full of failures. Preethi Kasireddy
You can complain about life being unfair or you can do what every successful person does: Work extra hard to compensate for what you weren’t gifted with naturally. Preethi Kasireddy
Life isn’t always about doing the things we like to do. It’s about doing things we have to do. Success starts with that mindset. David Goggins
Wild success requires aggressive elimination. You can’t be great at everything. James Clear
A man who is going to live forever, has risks and consequences. A man who is going to die, has none. Kapil Gupta
The best decisions of your life always feel a bit scary. @orangebook_
Remember that you cannot do anything wonderful driven by competition; you cannot do anything noble from pride. John Ruskin
I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. Lou Holtz
The best world we can build is with givers, not takers. Maxime Lagacé
Related: Motivational Quotes That Will Make You Thrive (Fast)
How to Get Motivated: 10 Tips to Improve Your Self-Motivation (13 minutes YouTube video)
Life Changing Quotes About Friendship
People don’t change. Only their costumes do. Gene Moore
You cannot be a powerful and life-changing presence to some people without being a joke or an embarrassment to others. Mark Manson
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch
Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be. Jimmy Johnson
To make a difference in someone’s life, you don’t have to be brilliant, rich, beautiful or perfect. You just have to care. Mandy Hale
You stop revisiting memories when you outgrow the people you made them with. Nikki Rowe
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. Tennessee Williams
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. Maxwell Maltz
Quotes About Change, Growth, Changing Yourself
Our only security is our ability to change. John Lilly
Growth is the only evidence of life. John Henry Newman
Sometimes the one thing you need for growth is the one thing you are afraid to do. Shannon L. Alder
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. Carl R. Rogers
Change begins when the fear of not acting at all at last outstrips the paralysing fear of making a mistake. Alain de Botton
Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. Ben Okri
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler
Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can grow only as long as we are interested. Eleanor Roosevelt
It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis. Henry Miller
There is no such thing as change without pain, no growth without discomfort. That’s why it is impossible to become someone new without first grieving the loss of who you used to be. Mark Manson
We start trying to be wise when we realize that we are not born knowing how to live, but that life is a skill that has to be acquired. Alain de Botton
If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation. Hua Hu Ching
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. George Arliss
Instead of saving humanity, every person should save himself. Alexander Herzen
Related: How Meditation Can Change Your Life Forever (12 minutes YouTube video)
Part 4. Conclusion
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. Terry Pratchett
Call to action: Read How to Change Your Life | Mark Manson or watch 5 Steps to Change Your Life (3 minutes YouTube video)
Table Of Contents
Part 1
Top 15 Images
Best Quotes
Part 2
Life Changing Quotes That ARE
Famous
Short
Inspirational
Funny
Deep
Wise
Part 3
Life Changing Quotes ABOUT
Life, Death
Hard Times
Happiness
Success
Friendship
Change
Part 4
Conclusion
