Living Quotes

The problem with catching dreams is you forget how truly incredible they are when you live with them everyday.

~ Stacey T. Hunt

People come and go in our lifetime, but we hold onto the ones worth keeping, the ones who have touched our lives in such a way that changes everything we thought we knew or felt; life itself changes.” -Nina Jean Slack, Once Lost, Forever Found (Vol. #1)

~ Nina Jean Slack

Hate destroys, love builds: be a creator. Fear closes, love opens: be an advocate for life. Guilt stagnates, love permits: be a peaceful warrior. Anger takes away, love gives: be a foundation for life. A defeatist attitude makes its own bed while love has the power to design its very own house.

~ Madelaine Standing

Get busy living or get busy dying.”― Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption

~ Stephen King

I was born into a town and a family and the town ad my family happened to me. I own none of it. It is everyone's. It is shareware. I like it, I like having been a part of it, I would kill or die to protect those who are part of it, but I don not claim exclusivity. Have it Take it from me. Do with is what you will. Make it useful. This is like making electricity from dirt; it is almost too good to be believed, that we can make beauty from this stuff.

~ Dave Eggers

The clouds won't shatter my dreams, but this is a story about how I lost myself to the storm.And something's got me tethered to you...Always to you...They think I'm crazy... I love him. I swear, I do.Then why are you here, T?Esto es complicado, Eli. It's all the lies I made up to get away from you, the distance I drove to free myself, that's brought me here. It's that moment before your kiss and the sound of my name on your lips. It's you that's taken me the five miles I needed to be where you are. I won't run again.“What are we doing?”“We’re LIVING.

~ Nadège Richards

It’s not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it’s the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat.

~ Richie Norton

What is the price of freedom! I'm not talking about the physical restraining kind, but the spiritual, mental, emotional kind! If we glance at a tiny bird, it represents the ultimate freedom, the ability to fly, to rise above all, to look down on earth while getting tickled by clouds of cotton candy. But the price of this bird's freedom is living off scrapes of food & sippes of water!I guess the price of freedom is all about living in content. If u need to spread ur wings wide and fly off into the horizon, you need to learn that what you already have can certainly set you FREE!

~ Larissa Qat

Who is the daughter of God?

~ Madelaine Standing

a soul is far too large to hide.

~ Maggie Schein

Some of the greatest journeys of humankind are those that, at the time being, only the one living it understands.

~ Madelaine Standing

Protect the future by living and fulfilling your God-given dreams.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

She turned back to the reporter, holding out the microphone. “I'm not an expert, I'm a survivor. I hope you can learn how to be one yourself.

~ Rose Wynters

Death changes us, the living. In the presence of death, we become more aware of life.... It can inspire us to decide what really matters in life--and then to seek it. (Founder of M.A.D.D.)

~ Candy Lightner

It sometime is so amazing to know, how the most ordinary day turns so extraordinary, in a flash of second. And depending on harshness of a sudden jolt of reality, sometime one has no option but to still be hopeful, listen to the heartbeat, still dream grand, still dream impossible; and keep one's inner self illuminated forever. After all, dream only turns into reality, if one is genuinely passionate and truthful to it. What a waste of life it would be otherwise.

~ Smishra

Live to start your stupid ideas, and start to live a life without regret--a life filled with meaning, freedom, happiness, fun, authenticity, and influence.

~ Richie Norton

We gonna be a family again in Heaven. It takes some strong patience, but the Lord will come through. And as long as we here, we can get on living by never forgetting. Never forgetting and always remembering.

~ Andrew Galasetti

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

~ Arundhati Roy

Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

~ Meg Rosoff

Just make sure that the thing you're living for is worth dying for. --Levi

~ Jill Williamson

Someday your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.

~ Gerard Way

Being different is the only way to live

~ Cath Crowley

New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which newspaper you want. When the barista has your order ready before you open your mouth. When you start to recognize the people in your orbit, and you know that, say, if you're waiting for the subway at eight fifteen on the dot, odds are the redhead with the red umbrella is going to be there too.

~ David Levithan

Be happy that after living so many lives, I finally found something to die for

~ Stephenie Meyer

Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time.

~ Nenia Campbell

Existing is going through the motions of life with no zeal and feeling you have no control, living means embracing all that this large world has to offer and not being afraid to take chances. The beauty of living is knowing you can always start over and there's always a chance for something better.

~ J'son M. Lee

I'll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can--until I die.

~ Anne Lamott

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...

~ Madeleine L'engle

Funerals are for the living, Jace, not for the dead.

~ Cassandra Clare

From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.

~ Arundhati Roy

One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.

~ Douglas Adams

Every time we look at the clock, we must learn to feel a sense of urgency. We must learn to realize that “now” is happening and will very soon be gone. We must look at the digits on the display and be overcome with an urge to do something before those digits change. Before “now” slips through our fingers. We must look at the ink on the calendar and see an immediate opportunity to do something wonderful, incredible, or beautiful.It’s that simple. We need to change our thinking from “when the number changes” to “before the number changes”.

~ Dan Pearce

That I always had space to run and that I had the opportunity to play with my imagination. I also loved that my mum drew and painted with me. I always remember that my parents loved me, and that is essential when you're a kid; they always showed me how proud they were of my achievements. It's also very important when parents put their kids' drawings on the refrigerator.

~ Taylor Swift

I think our lives are surely but the dreamsOf spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres,Who as we die, do one by one awake.

~ Edgar Saltus

[i]We were fighting so very hard and achieving so very little aside from staying alive. BUT THAT’S EVERYTHING, my father wrote to me, when I told him that in a letter.[/i]

~ Helen Oyeyemi

To live for the hope of something isn’t really living at all, and so, like a child putting away its toys and picking up a tool, he marched to Lyca’s bathroom, to shower off the stench of failure, soap up the death of hope, then wash away the ashes of his love for Daphne.

~ Mark A. Rayner

Begin. . . where you are, NOT where you want to be. Begin stuck in the doldrums of your false story--if that is where you are. Begin there because, in truth, there is no other place to start from. Tell yourself that you are going to listen for the sound of your own voice--and remind yourself when you forget. And you will forget, over and over again.

~ Florence Falk

I'd think it strange that the boardinghouse attracted both him and me, but that's what cheap places do -- draw in people with no money. An apartment of my own was unthinkable at that time of my life, and even if I'd found an affordable one it wouldn't have satisfied my fundamental need to live in a communal past, or what I imagined the past to be like: a world full of antiques.

~ David Sedaris

Life is a book that someone else is reading—and you, a key character—hence the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't have any boring books.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Some people simply seem to know how to live. They know when to seize the day, when to go with the flow, and when to row for dear life.

~ Nel Newman