Live, Laugh, Love

For other uses, see Live, Laugh, Love (disambiguation).

"Live, Laugh, Love" is an alliterative, motivational three-word phrase that became a popular slogan on motivational posters and home decor in the late 2000s and early 2010s. By extension, the saying has also become pejoratively associated with a style of "basic" Generation X decor and with what Vice described as "speaking-to-the-manager shallowness".

The phrase is an abridged form of the 1904 poem "Success" by Bessie Anderson Stanley which begins:

He achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much

This phrase was subsequently popularized by Ann Landers and a 1990 Dear Abby column, where it was misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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