Living Quotes

Which is the right path for man to choose for himself? Whatever is harmonious for the one who does it, and harmonious for mankind.

~ Yosef Marcus

When it comes to living and loving, we're all amateurs.

~ Marty Rubin

The only thing that matters is we are here to live our lives.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Reminding me how fragile this life is and how easily it can be lost. Compelling me to live and to live well, while I still can.Because sooner or later, we must all face eternity.

~ Jessica Khoury

It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.There is always a certain madness in love. But also there is always a certain method in madness.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

...to be able to enjoy the life you have spent, is to live it twice.

~ Marcus Valerius Martialis

When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.

~ Clarice Lispector

It wasn’t until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving ‘through’ life without driving ‘in’ life. So, I’ve decided to walk because the pace is slower and the windows are always down.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Thus the activity of preservation should be distinguished from the nostalgia accompanying fantasies of a lost home from which the subject is separated and to which he seeks to return. Preservation entails remembrance, which is quite different from nostalgia.

~ Iris Marion Young

...you have to bear witness to your dead. You simply have to. You have to step into their energy field of whatever remains of their spirit, their soul, their essence and let it pass through your body. And in the passing, maybe a wisp of it adheres to you, grafts itself to your cells. And in this communion, the dead continue to live. Or strive to.

~ Dennis Lehane

Don't think you're living when you just exist!

~ Ahmed Mostafa

In the distance are the lights of town. People must be finishing their workdays, picking up their kids, figuring out dinner. They're talking to one another in easy voices about things of great significance and things that don't mean much. The distance between us and all of that living feels insurmountable.

~ Nina Lacour

We live, if we still do live, in a Sea of Chaos, out of which any fucking monster can evolve.

~ Stephen Jones

I need my eulogy to look better than my resume. I'm living for that.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Someone who lives always with a plane schedule in the drawer lives on a slightly different calendar.

~ Joan Didion

None of my life is based on how others think I should have lived it.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

~ Elbert Hubbard

It’s really a rather simple thing to bring balance to my anger. All I need to do is remember that the ‘hand of cards’ that have been dealt to me pale in comparison to the ‘deck of cards’ that I’ve thrown at others.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I'd forgotten about it, and now I forgot it again. There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

~ Jim Thompson

Call it Irony or destiny of life, but the fact is I failed to make a living from what 'I loved doing the most' nor did I justify for what I was paid for!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Incidental, all of it, of course, but this was what this city bestowed that novels couldn't: not what you needed in order to live, but what made the living worth doing in the first place.

~ Garth Risk Hallberg

It is time to stop standing at the edges of rooms. Hugging the walls. Living in my head. Wishing I had something to say.

~ Shonda Rhimes

Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the fundamental impermanence of ourselves unchains us from the strictures of living a terrestrial life stuck like a needle vacillating between the magnetic pull of endless desire and the terror of death. Once we achieve freedom from any craving and all desires and we are relieved of all titanic fears, we release ourselves from living in perpetual distress. Once we rid ourselves from any impulse to exist, we discover our true place in the universal order. The composition of our life filament is exactly right when we accept the notion of living and dying with equal stoicism.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The moment we understand life, we will begin to live.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Is there any adventure like living life?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is the greatest gift. As long as I live, I can only be grateful.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Directing a funeral isn’t about death at all. Funerals are for the living, not the dead.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I’d seen a thousand lifetimes come and go, but had never truly lived.

~ Jacqueline Pawl

Bandit or demon, human or beast, none of it made any difference. The bandits had made this a situation of predators and prey. Only living mattered. Everything else was nothing more than an afterthought.

~ Drew Hayes

Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the human goal is, what it is that humanity should create.Doctors should first determine at the fundamental level what it is that human beings depend on for life...Modern scientific agriculture, on the other hand, has no such vision. Research wanders about aimlessly, each researcher seeing just one part of the infinite array of natural factors which affect harvest yields.Even though it is the same quarter acre, the farmer must grow his crops differently each year in accordance with variations in weather, insect populations, the condition of the soil, and many other natural factors. Nature is everywhere in perpetual motion; conditions are never exactly the same in any two years.Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experiences. The results are arranged for the convenience of research, not according to the needs of the farmer.

~ Masanobu Fukuoka

The hour is only love thus, if you've waited.

~ J. Limbu

Show me a universal life manual and I will show you a ready-made scam.Life is spontaneous. Live and learn.

~ Magnus Nwagu Amudi

When you live in a glass house,buying curtains for the windows doesn't help.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

It feels like home, far from home, yet homely. I have always been a fan of Delhi's practical life not that i have lived in an aspiration or yearning to make a living here, but delhi has always been on my soapbox.

~ Parul Wadhwa

If you live your life worried about the what-ifs, you're going to live a very desolate life.

~ Katherine Bogle

You're alive, Haven, but when are you going to start living?

~ Katherine Bogle

It's chance, I tell you,' he interrupted, ' as everything is in a man's life.

~ H.g. Wells

I realized then that all of the problems in my life that I thought were unsolvable were in fact solvable—except for having just jumped.

~ Ken Baldwin

Outside your comfort zone is the only place worth living.

~ Karina Bliss