Living Quotes

I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories... water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Keep your mind open. The meaning of things lies in how people perceive them. The same thing could mean different meanings to the same people at different times.

~ Roy T. Bennett

One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

~ Dale Carnegie

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

~ Lao Tzu

Like madness is the glory of this life.

~ William Shakespeare

When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.

~ Hermann Hesse

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

~ Hermann Hesse

Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you!

~ C. Joybell C.

Integrity is doing what is right and truthful, and doing as you say you would do.

~ Roy T. Bennett

If you care about someone enough, you’ll always be there for them no matter what.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Nobody is exempt from the trials of life, but everyone can always find something positive in everything even in the worst of times.

~ Roy T. Bennett

The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

One of the best ways to influence people is to make those around you feel important.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Every challenge you face today makes you stronger tomorrow. The challenge of life is intended to make you better, not bitter.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

~ Jack Kerouac

We don’t truly appreciate what we have until it’s gone… We don’t really appreciate something until we have experienced some events; we don't really appreciate our parents until we ourselves have become parents. Be grateful for what you have now, and nothing should be taken for granted.

~ Roy T. Bennett

The Way is not in the sky, the Way is in the heart.

~ Gautama Buddha

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surroundings.We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear. We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in.

~ Oliver Sacks

The more you talk about them, the more important they will feel. The more you listen to them, the more important you will make them feel.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.

~ Roy T. Bennett

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something, to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.

~ Criss Jami

But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.

~ Banana Yoshimoto

I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

~ John Green

You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts.

~ Victoria Schwab

It is when we think we can act like God, that all respect is lost, and I think this is the downfall of peace. We lie if we say we do not see color and culture and difference. We fool ourselves and cheat ourselves when we say that all of us are the same. We should not want to be the same as others and we should not want others to be the same as us. Rather, we ought to glory and shine in all of our differences, flaunting them fabulously for all to see! It is never a conformity that we need! We need not to conform! What we need is to burst out into all these beautiful colors!

~ C. Joybell C.

The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to be free to choose a life that makes you happy.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.

~ Roy T. Bennett

The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Be the kind of person who dares to face life's challenges and overcome them rather than dodging them.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Remember that things are not always as they appear to be… Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Until you change how you get things done, you'll never know what works best.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

~ Antonio Machado

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.

~ Ming-Dao Deng

Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

~ Mary Harris Jones