Living Life Quotes

Live no one else today, so you can live like no else tomorrow

~ Dave Ramsey

If you're in your 20s now, by the time you're 75, you'll be able to live 'til you're 150. By the time you're 150 you'll be able to live 'til you're 300. See you at your 1000th birthday party!

~ Neil A. Hogan

A nagging focus on time management makes us want to increase the speed of our lives. Maintaining a focus on priority management helps us recognize the need to slow down. When our use of time is built around well-defined priorities, life is less a question of how much we can get done and more a question of whether something is worth doing at all.

~ Joe Jordan

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

~ Adam Silvera

… 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 enough if you don't freeze in the cold and if thirst and hunger don't claw at your insides. If your back isn't broken, if your feet can walk, if both arms can bend, if both eyes can see, if both ears hear, then whom should you envy? And why? Our envy of others devours us most of all. Rub your eyes and purify your heart -and prize above all else in the world those who love you and who wish you well. Do not hurt them or scold them, and never part from any of them in anger; after all, you simply do not know: it may be your last act before your arrest, and that will be how you are imprinted on their memory.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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.

~ Voltaire

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.

~ Tom Robbins

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?

~ Voltaire

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

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

~ Andrew Ashling

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.

~ Chris Cleave

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.

~ Deborah Davis

Fear not death, fear not having lived.

~ Kevin Focke

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

~ Gwen Calvo

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.

~ Joey Comeau

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?

~ Malebo Sephodi

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

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I live larger than life.

~ Neo Shamon

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.

~ Amie Kaufman

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!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If you want to feel the life and the body of great men who are long gone, go to their tombs or monuments; if you want to understand the real life and the wisdom of great men who are long gone, go to their libraries!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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.

~ Jojo Ghostrider

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.

~ Kate Chopin

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

~ Stephen Richards

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

~ Shashi

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.

~ Denise Hildreth Jones

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.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

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

~ Robin Hobb

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.

~ Aireen Pontillo

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

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

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

~ Ean Rodriguez

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

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

~ Zach Sobiech

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.

~ Charles Frazier

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.

~ Oscar Wilde

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.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

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

~ Charmaine Smith Ladd

There is always a hope for the living.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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.

~ David Foster Wallace

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.

~ Orhan Pamuk