Cute Short Sayings About Life, Love

In our quest to curate the best cute short sayings and quotes, we offer this list of phrases you can use for punching up your social media postings. Check out this list—you are sure to find a saying to use with your Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook or Snapchat posts!

Cute short sayings to liven up social media posts

These sayings may be short in length, but don’t be fooled—they pack a big punch. You’ll recognize some of these expressions from everyday language, others may be new to you. Whether from anonymous or famous sources, you are sure to find one of these cute short sayings captures the perfect sentiment for your next social media post.

Let life surprise you. (One of those cute short quotes that are really short and to the point)

May you live every day of your life.

Every day may not be good but there is something good in every day.

Collect moments—not things.

Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the ocean.

No rain. No flowers.

Smile, it confuses people.

Hard times come easy.

One bad chapter doesn’t mean your story is over.

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There’s no place like home.

Be someone who makes everyone feel like someone.

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Forgiveness is giving up hope for a better past.

A character like a photograph, it develops in darkness.

Be a pineapple. Stand tall, wear a crown and be sweet on the inside.

This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.

Funny short sayings

We are all either fools or undiscovered geniuses.
Bonnie Lin

If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.
Tom Peters

Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine.
Robert C. Gallagher

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
Steven Wright

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
Steve Martin

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.
Groucho Marx

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.
Marilyn Monroe

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.
Oscar Wilde

The key to eating healthy is not eating any food that has a TV commercial.
Mike Birbiglia

I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.
Steve Martin

I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
Steven Wright

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Humorous takes on a life

Why is there an expiration date on sour cream?
George Carlin

I bet giraffes don’t even know what farts smell like.
Bill Murray

I never feel more alone than when I’m trying to put sunscreen on my back.
Jimmy Kimmel

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.
Groucho Marx

Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.
George Carlin

Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.

The first five days after the weekend are always the hardest.

Why is the slowest traffic of the day called ‘rush hour’?

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

Cute short sayings about love

Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
Amy Bushell

Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire

Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.
Malagasy proverb

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Pablo Picasso

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
George Sand

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

Ah me! love cannot be cured by herbs.
Ovid

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings

We accept the love we think we deserve.
Stephen Chbosky

Short relationship quotes

You are not my love…You are my life.

Dream without fear, love without limits.

Love should be mad and unforgettable to be real.

My paradise is you…

Anyone can catch your eye but it takes someone special to catch your heart.

Life is only in the place, where real love is.

Hearts are wild creatures, that’s why our ribs are cages.

Nothing compares to you.
Sinead O’Connor

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
Mignon McLaughlin

Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
Samuel Lover

A baby is born with a need to be loved—and never outgrows it.
Frank A. Clark

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

Cute short sayings about life

Sometimes I wish I was a little kid again… skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.

Celebrate every tiny victory.

Life is better when you’re smiling.

My life feels like a test I didn’t study for.

Being happy never goes out of style.

Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue.

You are somebody’s reason to smile.

Be kind to unkind people, they need it the most.

Silence is an answer too.

God couldn’t be everywhere, so he created mothers.

I want to be your favorite hello and your hardest goodbye.

If I had a star for every time you brightened my day…I’d be holding the galaxy in my hands.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
Laurence J. Peter

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
Steve Jobs

Innocence is courage and clarity both.
Osho

The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Nadine Gordimer

Cute short quotes on life

If youth knew; if age could.
Sigmund Freud

Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis

To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.
Bill Wilson

Don’t go through life, grow through life.
Eric Butterworth

Life is trying things to see if they work.
Ray Bradbury

There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
Frank A. Clark

Good humor isn’t a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
David Seabur

Heels and red lipstick will put the fear of God into people.
Dita Von Teese

Philosophies of life

It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as a lamb.
Roman proverb

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I am with you kid. Let’s go.
Maya Angelou

Life is fragile. We’re not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you’ve got.
Tim Cook

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa

Be who you needed when you were young.

Live don’t just exist.

Be a voice. Not an echo.

Every novel is a mystery novel if you never finish it.

Cute short friends sayings and family quotes

The most important thing in the world is family and love.
John Wooden

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
G.K. Chesterton

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake

A good family is priceless.

Love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.

Friends are born, not made.

Motivational thoughts and sayings

Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett

Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.
Augustine of Hippo

Forget about style; worry about results.
Bobby Orr

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius

Every wall is a door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever you do, do with all your might.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

A jug fills drop by drop.
Buddha

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Short sayings about success

The best revenge is massive success.
Frank Sinatra

I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.
Buddha

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Napoleon Hill

Dream big and dare to fail.
Norman Vaughan

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington

Short inspirational phrases

The smallest change can make the biggest difference.

If you want it, work for it.

Success is your only choice.

If you dream it, you can do it.

You are capable of amazing things.

When you can’t find the sunshine, be the sunshine.

Worrying is literally betting against yourself.

Be the best version of yourself.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

We were born to be real, not to be perfect.

Don’t tell people about your plans. Show them your results.

Start somewhere.

You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.

It’s okay to not be okay as long as you are not giving up.

Be yourself, there’s no one better.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace.

Encouraging words and phrases

If you’re going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington

If it matters to you, you’ll find a way.
Charlie Gilkey

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
Suzanne Collins

Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln

Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

To be the best, you must be able to handle the worst.
Wilson Kanadi

You are amazing. As you are. Stronger than you know. More beautiful than you think.
Tia Sparkles

Cute short quotes and sayings about happiness

Be so happy that when others look at you, they become happy too.

The most simple things can bring the most happiness.
Izabella Scorupco

A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose.
Tom Wilson

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire

Next steps

Hopefully you have found a saying that will be useful in spicing up your next social media post. Adding captions to your social media posts makes your photo messaging more impactful. Next time, instead of just posting your photos to Facebook or Instagram, why not add a caption from this list? Make a bold statement and go beyond just the image.

— Greg Johnson

Greg is a writer and co-founder of ListCaboodle.

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