Living Quotes

There is more to life than just living.

~ Ashok Kallarakkal

Don't become a prisoner of your own reality, set yourself free by creating a life worth living.

~ Steven Redhead

You only know of existence, once you rebel. You only know of life, once you die.

~ Lionel Suggs

Start living by taking back the control of your life now! Create a life more in tune with your true desires.

~ Steven Redhead

One life, One story. Make it a fairytale.

~ T.a

If you are not careful you will end up living the illusions that others have created for you.

~ Steven Redhead

People don't buy Moet & Dom because they love the taste, the buy it because they need Livin' Large photo on Facebook!

~ T.a

Ignore what you don't like. Insist what u need.

~ T.a

None but ourselves will put the concrete on our road to success.

~ T.a

Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

~ Paulo Coelho

And the fact was that he remembered once thinking that he was fine with dying anywhere at any time… but now, gazing at each corpse in turn, he thought with all his heart, I’m glad I didn’t die there. I have to go home. I’ve still got things to do.

~ Yukako Kabei

Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution.

~ Grigoris Deoudis

She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.

~ Ellen Hopkins

I did not know I was on a search for passionate aliveness. I only knew I was lonely and lost and that something was drawing me deeper beneath the surface of my life in search of meaning. There is a hunger in people to go to those deep depths, to know that our lives are sacred, that our hearts are truly capable of love. It is a yearning to be all the we can be. A longing for what is real.

~ Anne Hillman

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 like fossils on superimposed layers, and, like fossils, dead. Their message to this live dying creature is: Look at us - we have died - what is there to be afraid of?It answers them: But that happened so gradually, so easily. I'm afraid of being rushed.

~ Christopher Isherwood

I find that I am most happy and healthy when I am living in alignment with my goals, dreams, and principles.

~ Steve Maraboli

I know my time will come soon enough, but I will not dwell on it. What is the purpose? We might as well dwell on the work of our teeth or on the mechanics of our walk. It is there, it will always be there, and I don't intend to spend my glorious hours looking over my shoulder to see death's icy face.

~ Alberto Manguel

Everything was so much sharper without the Link fogging me--sights, sounds, smells. It was exhilarating and shocking and terrifying. I knew my emotions had grown too strong. They were dangerous to the Community. They were dangerous to me.But still, I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live. And that meant that I couldn't give the glitching up. At least not yet. Just a little bit longer.

~ Heather Anastasiu

It seems to me that we do live in two worlds... there is this physical one, which is coherant, and there is the spiritual one, which to the average man with his flashes of religious experience, is very often incoherant. This experience of having two worlds to live in all the time, or not all the time, is a vital one, and is what living is like.

~ William Golding

Life is sweet or bitter depending on where your attention is, at that moment.

~ George Alexiou

We make a living by what we give, and live a life by what we have yet to give.

~ George Alexiou

Things were good. He had things to look forward to. That, for now, was to be his definition of living - to always have a thing to look forward to.

~ Kevin Sampson

We're always on breath away from something--living or dying--, sometimes it just can't be helped.

~ Heather Gudenkauf

Past, I am letting you go; future, I will see you tomorrow; present, I love you, live in you, use you and never let you go.

~ Debasish Mridha

In politics no permanent friends, no permanent enemies but permanent interest.

~ Patience Johnson

Our dreams define our sacred destiny.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Passionate embrace your sacred existence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It takes time, or does time take it?

~ Anthony Liccione

Live a courageous life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

~ Adam Silvera

We gave the woman for her trouble a generous fee, with which she was highly pleased, and proceeded to put it in the bed under her sleeping husband's head. We laughingly told her not to put it there as he might get it, and it was money she had earned herself. She appreciated the joke, though it was told mostly by gestures, but seemed to have true ideas of the matrimonial relation, and was nothing loath to trust her all with him. page. 116

~ Helen Josephine Sanborn

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

~ Eartha Kitt

Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time.

~ Robert Herjavec

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.

~ William Nicholson

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

~ Jane Addams

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.

~ Bill Mauldin

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

~ Voltaire

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

~ Arthur Ashe

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

~ Eva Green

I'm a big believer in living out your dreams and facing your fears.

~ Brock Lesnar