Living Quotes

Rewards of life lived with principles; bloom, when life is about to end or has departed already.

~ Aniruddha Sastikar

The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for. The rest is a day-to-day enjoyment of life. That's the explanation for your Father Divines; people naturally flock to anyone they can trust for the necessities of life... They are the backbone of a community--solid, trust-worthy, essential.

~ B.f. Skinner

Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree beside the ladder: never before had he been so suddenly and so keenly aware of the feel and texture of a tree's skin and of the life within it. He felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Trust that whatever you are dealing with, whatever doorway to crisis you experience, it is leading you to a greater lesson in liwing where ideally the power of love is what you learn. Forgive, and broadcast your excitement to be alive.

~ Barbara Marciniak

The venerable teachers, philosophers & spiritual practitioners throughout history have concluded that the greatest happiness we can experience comes from the development of an open, loving heart.

~ Allan Lokos

Now is everythingNow is the essenceNow is the focusFocus on the nowFor that is the key

~ Karen Hackel

The harassed look is that of a desperately tired swimmer or runner; yet there is no question of stopping. The creature we are watching will struggle on and on until it drops. Not because it is heroic. It can imagine no alternative.Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young-man - all present still, preserved as fossils, dead. Their message to this live dying creature is: Look at us - we have died -what is there to be afra

~ Christopher Isherwood

…In this way that he sought to control the very passage of his life, deftly and without forethought, yet precisely and with enormous care. Part of it was to allow what was enormous, what was profound, without limiting it.

~ Jesse Ball

No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.

~ Adam Silvera

The goal that you hope you will one day arrive at after a long and roundabout journey you are able to possess right now, if only you do not deny it to yourself. That is, if you can let go of the past, entrust the future to Providence and redirect the present according to justice and the sacred. To the sacred, so that you welcome what has been given to you, for Nature has brought this to you, and you to it; and to justice, in order that you may speak the truth freely and without distortion, and that you may act in accordance with what is lawful and right. Do not allow yourself to be hindered by the harmful actions, judgments, or the words of another, or by the sensations of the flesh which has formed itself around you. Let the body take care of those. But if, when you have come to the end, having let go of all other things, you honor only your guiding part and the divinity that is within you, and you do not fear ceasing to live so much as you fear never having begun to live in accordance with Nature--then you will be a man who is worth of the Cosmos that created you; and you will cease to live like a stranger in your own land, that is, surprised at unexpected everyday occurrences and wholly distracted by this and that.

~ Marcus Aurelius

I've spent years living safely to secure a longer life, and look where that's gotten me. I'm at the finish line but I never ran the race.

~ Adam Silvera

We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine

~ T. S. Eliot

The moment you will be most stiff is when you die - you never get stiffer than that. So you've got to sleep well, eat well and keep moving.

~ Richard Lloyd Parry

Living things are creations, masterpieces. All Life Matters!

~ Brent M. Jones

With a cluther of limbs and organs, all that is needed to live again, to hold out a little time, I'll call that living, I'll say it's me, I'll get standing, I'll stop thinking, I'll be too busy, getting standing, staying standing, stirring about, holding out, getting to tomorrow, tomorrow week, that will be ample, a week will be ample, a week in spring, that puts the jizz in you.

~ Samuel Beckett

In the end, life is about collecting experiences and looking for the lesson and blessing in each one. Yet we are never to carry these experiences on our backs, only in our hearts. One will hold us back, while the other will keep us moving forward.

~ Suzy Kassem

Heroes deal out vengeance, wiping out insults, and in an existential sense denying their own death. In twentieth-century camps, however, Todorov found, some people instead found transcendence by displaying kindness toward other people. Through small, everyday acts that committed them to the survival of other human beings--even at the cost of lowering their own chances--they demonstrated their own commitment to an abstract yet personal value. Although heroic acts were as suicidal in twentieth-century death camps as they were in nineteenth-century slave labor camps, even in hell there was still room to be a moral human being.

~ Edward E. Baptist

If you cannot peacefully coexist with many different cultures and beliefs, then you should probably not be living in the USA.

~ Steven Magee

Okay, even if we disagree on that point, we still need to keep living our lives, don't we?...

~ Susin Nielsen

And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for a 'living funeral'. Each of them spoke and paid tribute.. Some cried. Some laughed. One woman read a poem: 'My dear and loving cousin.. Your ageless heart as you ,love through time, layer on layer, tender sequoia..' .. And all the heartfelt things we never get to say to those we love, Morrie said that day.

~ Mitch Albom

Cloud travel is well and good when you have mastered the landings. I never have. I must live, not dream about living.

~ Binyavanga Wainaina

It is not the small number of big decisions that we take but the large number of small decisions that we take in life, shapes our life.

~ Ratish Edwards

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

~ Alfred Adler

To die or not to die, that is the question; it is nobler to live in torment and rage than not to live at all?

~ Anne Rice

You are the most sensual person I know; the goddess of my dreams; the gold at the end of the rainbow; the topping on my ice cream and the best thing that has ever happened to me.And when I wake up in the morning and still find you there next to me, I know that I am living my dream.

~ Anthony T Hinkcs

I have drunk the night and swallowed the stars. I am dancing with abandon and singing with rapture. There is not a thing I do not love. There is not a person I have not forgiven. I feel a universe of love. I feel a universe of light. Tonight, I am with old friends and we are returning home. The moon is our witness.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages. -from Instant Recognition between Strangers

~ Dean Young

The real lessons is the reality of living life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What a great grace to be alive?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Live this life as gently as you would breathe in the seaside air. Then release all those dreams and wonders to the water. Keep breathing until you’re inches from where you wish to be. Then exhale, remembering that gentle life you grew up from.

~ F.k. Preston

The unemotional life is not worth living.

~ Marty Rubin

I have nothing to lose, only to live.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages.

~ Dean Young

Be still! Or life will pass you by.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

I don't think about how to live my life. I just live it.

~ Marty Rubin

I don’t necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don’t wait around for an invitation to stand back up either.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You must choose the life you live at the time you live it.

~ Claire North

However, if the long shot is your only shot, then you have to take it.

~ Nicola Yoon

The price of living seems to always be death.

~ Kiersten White

The life-loving, smart,good-hearted deaddon't want forty days of mourningor say, After me the deluge!Leaving behind some helpful things- a few words, a tree, a smile -each gets up and goesand does not burden the livingwith the darkness of the tomb,carrying the weightof his stone all alone.And because they ask for nothingfrom the living, it's as if they aren't d

~ Nâzım Hikmet