165 quotes
“My religion is to live and die without regret”
— Milarepa
“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of it”
— Seneca
“In the end, just three things matter: how well we have lived, how well we have loved, how well we have learned to let go.”
— Jack Kornfield
“Life is a journey, not a destination.”
— Emerson
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow and learn as if you were to live forever and faith bridges both”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived.”
— Gabriel Marcel
“To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die but he can never know that he is dead.”
— Samuel Butler
“Live your life so that the fear of death can never enter your heart.”
— Tecumseh
“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.”
— William Wallace
“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a good deal of it.”
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.”
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
— Les Brown
“To live is the rarest thing in the world in a family. Most people in families exist and that is all.”
— Oscar Wilde
“All real living is meeting and every meeting deserves kindness”
— Martin Buber
“Think of the life you have lived until now as over and as a dead man see what is left as a bonus and live it properly.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“In the end these things matter most: how well did you love how fully did you live how deeply did you let go.”
“You must understand the whole of life not just one little part of it that is why you must read that is why you must look at the skies that is why you must sing and dance”
— J. Krishnamurti
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Love as if peace depends on it because it does.”
“I would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot”
— Jack London
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist that is all.”
“All real living is meeting and all true meeting happens through the openness of faith”
“The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other.”
— Alan Watts
“In the end just three things matter how well we have lived how well we have loved how well we have let go”
“This is the real secret of life: to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
“The proper function of man is to live not to exist”
“Living is a form of not being sure not knowing what next”
— Agnes de Mille
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
— Albus Dumbledore
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
— Mary Oliver
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unseen but healing makes it a dance again”
“The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware joyously drunkenly serenely divinely aware”
— Henry Miller
“When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living.”
“Live to the point of tears.”
— Albert Camus
“Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.”
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you but by the wonder you bring to life”
— Khalil Gibran
“We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give”
— Winston Churchill
“I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I have never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do”
— Georgia OKeeffe
“The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life”
— Marie Kondo
“It is not death that a man should fear but he should fear never beginning to live.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage.”
— Anais Nin
“I will live this day as if it is my last”
— Og Mandino
“The secret of living is giving”
— Tony Robbins
“You do not think your way into a new kind of living you live your way into a new kind of thinking and faith leads the way”
— Henri Nouwen
“They alone live who live for others the rest are more dead than alive”
— Swami Vivekananda
“The only people for me are the mad ones the ones who are mad to live mad to talk mad to be saved”
— Jack Kerouac
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage and to live with faith multiplies that courage immeasurably”
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life”
“I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it I want to have lived the width of it as well through kindness”
— Diane Ackerman
“Each person must live their life as a model for others.”
— Rosa Parks
“To live is the rarest thing in the world because most people exist without ever experiencing true wonder”
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards”
“The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about nor read about nor seen but if one will are to be lived.”
“There are only two ways to live your life as though nothing is a miracle or as though everything is and faith sees everything as miraculous”
— Albert Einstein
“There is only one meaning of life the act of living itself”
— Erich Fromm
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
— Helen Keller
“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.”
— D.H. Lawrence
“Take care of your body. It is the only place you have to live.”
— Jim Rohn
“The purpose of life is to live it to taste experience to the utmost to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
“The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose”
— Robin Sharma
“It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all”
— J.K. Rowling
“In the end just three things matter how well we have lived how well we have loved and how well we have learned to let go”
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“As we express our gratitude we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.”
— John F. Kennedy
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.”
“They alone live who live for others through compassion and selfless service”
“In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go.”
“The proper function of family is to live not to exist merely.”
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else when approached with wonder”
— Emily Dickinson
“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”
— Epicurus
“Instructions for living a life pay attention be astonished tell about it and always be kind”
“In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?”
— Buddha
“To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“Life must be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards and faith provides the courage to live forward”
“What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other”
— George Eliot
“There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”
— John Adams
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
— Mae West
“One day you will wake up and there will not be any more time to do the things you have always wanted. Do it now.”
— Paulo Coelho
“God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by wonder”
— Dag Hammarskjold
“I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze.”
“Your time is limited, do not waste it living someone elses life.”
— Steve Jobs
“When you arise in the morning think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive to breathe to think to enjoy to love”
“Each person must live their life as a model for others”
“Those who have a why to live, can bear with almost any how.”
— Viktor Frankl
“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions toward peace.”
— Hafiz
“In the end these things matter most how well did you love how fully did you live how deeply did you let go”
“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.”
“I have come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understanding that has created the new level of living I now enjoy”
“In the end it is not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful”
— William Morris
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
— William James
“As long as you live keep learning how to live”
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.”
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist that is all. Truly living means finding peace.”
“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.”
“Life in a family can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
— Norman Cousins
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
— Will Rogers
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what compassion you bring to life”
“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Run from what is comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.”
— Rumi
“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”
“Happiness is not a goal to reach. It is a signal you are living the right way.”
— Maxime Lagace
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.”
— Dale Carnegie
“The main thing is to be moved to love to hope to tremble to live”
— Auguste Rodin
“The good life is a process, not a state of being.”
— Carl Rogers
“To believe in something and not to live it is dishonest and authentic faith demands authentic living”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living we live ourselves into new ways of thinking”
— Richard Rohr
“The extension of the art of dwelling is the art of living”
— Charlotte Perriand
“In the end just three things matter how well we have lived how well we have loved how well we have learned to let go and all require kindness”
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