165 quotes
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
— Mary Oliver
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.”
— Dale Carnegie
“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
“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
“Living is a form of not being sure not knowing what next”
— Agnes de Mille
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
— Norman Cousins
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
— Oscar Wilde
“All real living is meeting and all true meeting happens through the openness of faith”
— Martin Buber
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“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”
— Tony Robbins
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
— Les Brown
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
— Seneca
“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”
— Jack Kornfield
“The good life is a process, not a state of being.”
— Carl Rogers
“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a good deal of it.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist that is all.”
“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of it”
“Life in a family can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
“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”
“Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.”
“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.”
— D.H. Lawrence
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“They alone live who live for others through compassion and selfless service”
— Swami Vivekananda
“Instructions for living a life pay attention be astonished tell about it and always be kind”
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage”
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you but by the wonder you bring to life”
— Khalil Gibran
“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
“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.”
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.”
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“To live is the rarest thing in the world in a family. Most people in families exist and that is all.”
“Life is a journey, not a destination.”
— Emerson
“Run from what is comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.”
— Rumi
“Each person must live their life as a model for others.”
— Rosa Parks
“The proper function of man is to live not to exist”
“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
“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”
“When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living.”
— Tecumseh
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else when approached with wonder”
— Emily Dickinson
“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
“I will live this day as if it is my last”
— Og Mandino
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist that is all. Truly living means finding peace.”
“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living we live ourselves into new ways of thinking”
— Richard Rohr
“To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all”
“The proper function of family is to live not to exist merely.”
“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.”
“In the end these things matter most: how well did you love how fully did you live how deeply did you let go.”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.”
— Hafiz
“As long as you live keep learning how to live”
“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
— Albus Dumbledore
“Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived.”
— Gabriel Marcel
“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions toward peace.”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage.”
— Anais Nin
“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”
— Epicurus
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful”
— William Morris
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage and to live with faith multiplies that courage immeasurably”
“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
“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“It is not death that a man should fear but he should fear never beginning to live.”
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“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
“We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give”
— Winston Churchill
“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
“Those who have a why to live, can bear with almost any how.”
— Viktor Frankl
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
— William James
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards”
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what compassion you bring to life”
“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
“This is the real secret of life: to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.”
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow and learn as if you were to live forever and faith bridges both”
“My religion is to live and die without regret”
— Milarepa
“In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?”
— Buddha
“It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all”
“Live to the point of tears.”
— Albert Camus
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
— Will Rogers
“To live is the rarest thing in the world because most people exist without ever experiencing true wonder”
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
— Helen Keller
“In the end it is not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.”
— William Wallace
“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.”
“To believe in something and not to live it is dishonest and authentic faith demands authentic living”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Your time is limited, do not waste it living someone elses life.”
— Steve Jobs
“The secret of living is giving”
“What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other”
— George Eliot
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware joyously drunkenly serenely divinely aware”
— Henry Miller
“All real living is meeting and every meeting deserves kindness”
“Take care of your body. It is the only place you have to live.”
— Jim Rohn
“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
“Happiness is not a goal to reach. It is a signal you are living the right way.”
— Maxime Lagace
“They alone live who live for others the rest are more dead than alive”
“There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”
— John Adams
“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”
“The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose”
— Robin Sharma
“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”
“There is only one meaning of life the act of living itself”
— Erich Fromm
“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
“In the end these things matter most how well did you love how fully did you live how deeply did you let go”
“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
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.”
“The extension of the art of dwelling is the art of living”
— Charlotte Perriand
“Each person must live their life as a model for others”
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
“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.”
“The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life”
— Marie Kondo
“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”
“I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze.”
“Live your life so that the fear of death can never enter your heart.”
“The main thing is to be moved to love to hope to tremble to live”
— Auguste Rodin
“Life must be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards and faith provides the courage to live forward”
“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life”
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
— Mae West
“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
“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.”
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