Living Quotes

We can transform our lives by renewal of our mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Mindfulness is not the path of chasing. It is the path of beautification. When flowers blossom, the fragrance spreads, and the bees come.

~ Amit Ray

Free your mind from the prison of your past. Time has allowed you to grow and develop into the person you're meant to be. Now, you are living a purposed filled life.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I think about the pepper plant, the corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, and more plants. And I've noticed that while those seeds are living within the fruit or vegetable they can not grow. It is only when those seeds have died, that they can be planted and grow. And, I can relate this same process to the human body. In order to grow and thrive in the spirit, you must die to the flesh. Meaning, You have to rid your mind and body of toxic negative worldly things in order to grow and develop more spiritually.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily sacrifice of heart over mind,the forever ongoing task of explaining this and that,and why I don’t want to look like this and be like thatbut still here I am and if this is the body I’ve been given I’m sure as hell gonna make it work.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.

~ Lolly Daskal

Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.

~ Lolly Daskal

God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying your future and who is the person holding you back.

~ Shannon L. Alder

What you know can never be the beyond. Whatever you experience is not the beyond. If there is any beyond, this movement of 'you' is absent. The absence of this movement probably is the beyond, but the beyond can never be experienced by you; it is when the 'you' is not there. Why are you trying to experience a thing that cannot be experienced?

~ U.g. Krishnamurti

Life never goes according to plan. That's okay, because often our plans are much smaller than life intends. Probably EASIER, but smaller.

~ Stacey T. Hunt

Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things—eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies—since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.

~ Seneca

Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored.

~ J.f Hermann

I’m going to give you some advice: don’t be such a whiny asshole. It makes you look weak.

~ Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

While thinking about who you are and how you are alive is powerful, feeling who you are and how you are alive is even more powerful.

~ Jill Telford

You have the power to shape your life the way that you want it to be. Every thought, every word, every action guides you with a purpose. And that purpose is to fulfill your destiny. Some may say you're just a dreamer, but everything imagined begins with a dream.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

There may be something going on in your life right now, that seems like a giant, so big that you think it's impossible to conquer. But, remember no matter how gigantic your problems may be, you have everything in you to overcome. You have the power to say to that mountain move, get out my way. Activate your faith, and watch it happen. The victory is yours!

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

~ Mark Twain

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.

~ Stevie Smith

How will people remember you when you are gone? And for how long until they forget? Were you selfish or selfless? A gossip or a patient listener? Did you add value to the world, or did you simply take from it? Did you add value to the lives of others, or did you take the value out of someone's life? Were you a plus or negative? Meaningful or meaningless? Do you live to take or live to give?

~ Suzy Kassem

My world had for some years been Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Living in this world, the person we are most unfamiliar with is probably ourselves.

~ Yixing Zhang

You can't live in the world without an idea of the world, but it's living that makes the ideas. You can't wait for a theory, but you have to have a theory.

~ Tony Kushner

If reshaping a life style boils down to pretending and dwindling into a world of make-believe, living may turn into a schizophrenic merry-go-round and the real self might be crunched and munched on, piece by piece. (“He did not know that she knew”)

~ Erik Pevernagie

You can’t make a small world for yourself, because what are you going to do when that small world implodes?

~ S.r. Crawford

We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life.… All that happens to us is divinely great, and we are always in the centre of a great world. But we must accustom ourselves to live like an angel who has just sprung to life, like a woman who loves, or a man on the point of death. If you knew that you were going to die to-night, or merely that you would have to go away and never return, would you, looking upon men and things for the last time, see them in the same light that you have hitherto seen them? Would you not love as you never yet have loved?

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

If I see only my bias, I have surrendered to a single myopic lens through which to view the world. If I dare to surrender my bias, I will spend the rest of my life seeing the world and throwing away lenses.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

I don't know what happened. Disease? War? Social collapse? Or was it just us? The Dead replacing the Living? I guess it's not so important. Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.

~ Isaac Marion

The way you see the world is how you live it.

~ J.r. Rim

We colour the world,Not with the darkness of our pasts, But with the rainbow of our hope.

~ Jenim Dibie

I want to sleep. To find a safe place somewhere, and close my eyes, and rest, like an animal. That is what I am. An animal. Living from moment to moment, day to day, trying to make sense of the world in which I find myself.

~ S.j. Watson

Sometimes in life you find love so powerful that you get tunnel vision. You only see the one you love, the one you desire. No one or no thing gets in the way of what you feel. A love so strong which makes you feel invincible in this world. And, everywhere you go, all the people can see you glow.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Kamand, die every dayso you rememberto live.

~ Kamand Kojouri

To love is to finally live.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The meaning of life is to die living it.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Who knows if you’re alive anymore, but better yet, who knows if I’m even alive anymore?

~ Dominic Riccitello

How can you be afraid to live yet scared to die?

~ Dominic Riccitello

The most valuable gift you can give to humanity is a good example.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Expressing anger is an art. The more grace you apply to it, the more effective it shall be.

~ Yuvaraja Dhayanithi