Living Life Quotes

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

We are terrible for each other, and, yes, we are a disaster. But tell me your heart doesn't race for a hurricane or a burning building. I'd rather die terrified than live forever.

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.

To live at all is miracle enough.

At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.

Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

You don't have to find out you're dying to start living.

If your life has no problems, you're not really living it.

I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson.

There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life.

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.

The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living

The path of your life can change in an instant.

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

If life is worth living then it's worth recording.

The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.

An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

Quit planning your dream and start living it.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

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

Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

LIFE is WORTH LIVING when you find PURPOSE.

As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

Knowing God is like listening to beautiful music. His words have power. He lifts me up & soothes my soul. He makes me dance. He gives me joy.

We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.