Quotes about living-life

Nalini Singh - Archangel's Kiss

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.

Cory Groshek - Breaking Away

Life isn't about living the longest it's about living the most.

C. JoyBell C. -

Heaven is always there for us but this life... this life is a gift to us.

Johnnie Dent Jr. -

There are three perquisites for living:1. Be yourself.2. Get over yourself (Things people have done to you things you have done to others)3. Have a strong commitment to something greater than yourself.

Kevin Focke -

Fear not death fear not having lived.

صديق الحكيم - الموت شعرا

I want to love my living to live great life

Salley Farquharson -

Integrity - one word that means so much costs so little yet makes a real difference in this world.

Dan Pearce - Single Dad Laughing

I made a big mistake, and I didn’t use it to make my life better. I used it to be okay with a life less lived. I used it to be okay with mediocrity and the mundane. And I didn’t make myself any better because of it.And that’s not okay with me.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah - Philosophy and life

The cost of ignorance is high and it can erode life, vision and wealth to the barren grounds of poverty and perplexity.

Natalie Lloyd -

Every day you live is a day for dreaming.Every day is a day for adventuring.And every day is for sharing with people you love,because love's all that lasts.It's the only thing we carry out of this world.It connects us all, in the end.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

May you find the grace of triumph in any situation.

Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana - MBA

Setting our living standards and expectations based on the status of others is like wishing that apples were onions.

Yovanny Alfonso -

You and I have been created with a DNA that drives us to want to live a life with good experiences, forces us to human growth and leads us to the contribution of something beyond our understanding.

Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Living with life is very hard. Mostly we do our best to stifle life - to be tame or to be wanton. to be tranquillised or raging. Extremes have the same effect; they insulate us from the intensity of life.And extremes - whether of dullness or fury - successfully prevent feeling. I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies - unconscious strategies- to keep those feelings away. We do a feelings-swap, where we avoid feeling sad or lonely or afraid or inadequate, and

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

How can a man know how to live rightly on the face of earth? By daily reading and meditation on the Holy Scriptures and obedience to what is written.

T.D. Jakes - Reposition Yourself: Living Life Without Limits

Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.

Richard Puz - The Carolinian

We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.

Colum McCann - Fishing the Sloe-Black River

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Richie Norton - and Live without Regret

Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that authentic center.

Lailah GiftyAkita -

You only live once in your life.Decide the the path to be travel by you in this life.

Sanchita Pandey - Cancer to Cure

Even if you are sick or unhappy today, look for the beautiful things life has to offer: the fact that you are living, breathing and capable of loving others is reason enough to celebrate. Life is beautiful anyway.

Talia G. Cano -

A simple token carries the significance of a diamond

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Do not wait to know you are dying before you start living.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

Real vision dies only when life dies. Once we live, we hope, we yearn for and we aspire to have something!

Edward Abbey - Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen

Mehmet Murat ildan -

It is obvious that most people are not living the life they want to live! The easiest solution for this problem is to give up the life you want to live. And the hardest solution is this: Give up everything which prevents you to live the life you want to live!

Lailah Gifty Akita -

When I can’t fall sleep, I pray.

Adam Silvera - They Both Die at the End

Entire lives aren’t lessons, but there are lessons in lives.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

… What about the main thing in life, all its riddles? If you want, I'll spell it out for you right now. Do not pursue what is illusionary -property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade, and is confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life -don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn for happiness; it is, after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. It is enou

Voltaire - Optimism

And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

Judy Garland -

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Tom Robbins - Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Beer does not satisfy magic, however. So the magic ordered a round of Harvey Wallbangers. But it takes more than vodka to fuel magic. It takes risks. It takes EXTREMES.

Voltaire - Candide

What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us and hug him close to our bosoms tillhe has gnawed into our hearts?

Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

Oscar Wilde -

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood

Andrew Ashling -

Let the Gods create the days, and just live through them.

Chris Cleave - Little Bee

Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dess? I though that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. "We must see all scars as beauty. OKay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on dying. A scar means, I survivied.

Deborah Davis - Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X

If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it.

Gwen Calvo - Cocaine Masks: Cocaine Masks

he hates skiing but he loves the mountains and like that with everything.

Joey Comeau -

We are terrible for each other, and, yes, we are a disaster. But tell me your heart doesn't race for a hurricane or a burning building. I'd rather die terrified than live forever.

Malebo Sephodi -

It is the very thing I thought I could never be that the real me has settled into like a puzzle. Who would have thought I could be me?

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

He who fails to know his real and true competitor shall never be able to give a good account of his stewardship in life! Your true and real competitor is your real and true solemn duty to your Maker!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

to avoid being blamed after here, do what you must do as a must do whilst you are here!

Mencius -

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

Neo Shamon -

I live larger than life.

Amie Kaufman -

When faced with the choice of living one breath longer or cashing in right now, most folks will take the extra moment. That single extra breath. Even when your world stops spinning and gravity dies and the blood glitters in the air like a galaxy of warm red suns all around you. A lot can happen between breaths, after all.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

Simplicity shall make you simple and keep you away from so many woes of life! It is simple! Just go for simplicity and be simple, Period!

Friedrich Nietzsche - On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo

Every kind of contempt for sex, every impurification of it by means of the concept "impure", is the crime par excellence against life--is the real sin against the holy spirit of life

Jojo Ghostrider -

A human. A bystander. A person who is not you, him or her, just me. Living under this timeless sky; never changing sky. Waiting unknowing for the day I die.

Kate Chopin - The Awakening

She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day.

Stephen Richards -

If you cannot get a job then make a living for yourself.

Shashi - Songs of the Mist

Most of the things that remain tied to earth do not know that they have hidden wings under the hard shell of life” - The Monk in the book "Songs of the Mist

Denise Hildreth Jones - Secrets Over Sweet Tea

Yep, that girl was as dead as you could get inside. But Scarlett Jo wasn't worried. Not really. Because sometimes a person has to die in order to really live.

Steven Chopade -

This thing in your chest, slightly tilted towards the left, could be fidgety at times. Make sure you set it right.

Simone de Beauvoir - The Ethics of Ambiguity

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself & in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying, & human existence is indistinguishable from an absurd vegetation; a life justifies itself only if its effort to perpetuate itself is integrated into its surpassing & if this surpassing has no other limits than those which the subject assigns himself.

Aireen Pontillo -

You think your smarter and braver than anyone?, well,, think again, you don't always win from the battle you're in.

Robin Hobb - Assassin's Quest

I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.

Aireen Pontillo -

I may not have the standard physical beauty of a human being, but I am more human than any other human could be, I have a human heart that's why I understand human need.

Fakeer Ishavardas -

Success makes tyrants of most of the humankind; making us forget basic courtesy, and being kind.

Ean Rodriguez -

Life is the gift of being able to do something, so use it

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

when true purpose calls, double mindedness, confusion and frustration come along.

Zach Sobiech -

You don't have to find out you're dying to start living.

Charles Frazier - Nightwoods

You try your best to love the world despite obvious flaws in design and execution and you take care of whatever needy things present themselves to you during your passage through it. Otherwise you're worthless.

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

Elizabeth Goudge - A City of Bells

In the old days he had clutched life with such violence that the juice of it ran out between his fingers and was lost, but now he would touch it delicately, thankful for the good and accepting the ills with patience.

Charmaine Smith Ladd - Shake Hands with Yourself: A Peacemaker's Guide to Happiness & Inner Peace

We choose to live life to the fullest because it is in our best interest to do so. - Charmainism

Lailah Gifty Akita -

There is always a hope for the living.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Do not wait to know you are drying before you start living.

Prabhukrishna M -

It tough to live a whole life with an act

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Live one day at a time.Do not worry about tomorrow.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Life must be lived to the fullness.

David Foster Wallace - Oblivion

The fraudulence paradox was that the more time and effort you put into trying to appear impressive or attractive to other people, the less impressive or attractive you felt inside -- you were a fraud. And the more of a fraud you felt like, the harder you tried to convey an impressive or likable image of yourself so that other people wouldn't find out what a hollow, fraudulent person you really were.

Orhan Pamuk - The Museum of Innocence

This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.

Dan Pearce - Single Dad Laughing

Nobody on Earth can tell you how you should live your life. Nobody with any real authority anyway.

Robyn Carr - Temptation Ridge

You've been treading water," she said. "You're marking the years, not living them.

Heraline -

Living in a world that full of busy people is like living in a world ALONE.

Cyc Jouzy -

Don't Copy What Someone Is Doing, Copy What God Wants You To Do.

Pontius Joseph -

Living life with a plan can be harder without a plan.

Vincent van Gogh -

Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

S.M. Reine - Six Moon Summer

The question isn't "Why do we die?" The question is "Why do we live?

Nicole Reed - Ruining You

Live every day like it's your last. Treasure the moments you have, and make sure you make them count.

Alan Cohen -

Quit planning your dream and start living it.

Émile Zola - The Joy of Life

She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself?

Chandan Sharma -

Don't do the things just for the sake of it. Do something extra. It makes ordinary things, extraordinary.

Peter Shaffer - Equus

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer -

Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of the living.

Ranu Das -

TO be practical not merely means to steal when everybody steals but to act with wits and wisdom...

Thornton Wilder -

So - people a thousand years from now...This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

Jesus came to give us life without leaving out any of life in the giving.

Virchand Gandhi -

The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

If God is your coach, you score the most amazing and unbelievable goals

Lori Earl - This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

Isn't it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?

Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings

Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana -

Everyone is beautiful and talented in their own special way. Some people can sing, dance, play instruments, teach, and more. You may not be in the hall of fame, but you possess the ability to inspire others. Recognize your talents and continue to be creative. Share your beautiful gifts with the world

Jami Attenberg - All Grown Up

I can tell you something remarkable about that time, although it has only just occurred to me now. I never thought about death, like I do now. I never worried about dying. I only ever thought about being alive.

Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl

The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?

Prabhukrishna M -

I look up to as God every person, thing or thought that makes life worth living one day longer

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

The greatest excuse you must have is the excuse to do your best to the very best and in a distinctive manner

Martha Hall Kelly - Lilac Girls

After that, we were like flies stuck in honey, alive but not really living.

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