Living Quotes

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.

I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

The worst of all fears is the fear of living

I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

Postpone not your life.

You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived.

Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

My life has been the poem I would have writ,But I could not both live and utter it.

The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

Don't dream your life, but live your dream

In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In ruling, be just. In daily life, be competent. In action, be aware of the time and the season.

Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.

Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.

Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played.

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we call life.

Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don't have something, and a purpose in your life, you're gonna die.

You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive.

Live the moment for the moment.

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Don't miss out on today by living in yesterday.

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

To be awake is to be alive.

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

I have heard a good many pretend that they are going to die; or that they have died, for aught that I know. Nonsense! I'll defy them to do it. They have n't got life enough in them.... Only half a dozen or so have died since the world began.

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.

You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.

To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.

The best thing about living at the water's edge: You only have assholes on three sides of you, and if they come this way you can hear them splash.

Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies.