Living Quotes

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

He who breathes deepest lives most.

I learned from my two years' experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one's necessary food; that a man may use as simple a diet as the animals, and yet retain health and strength.

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it must be lived forward. The more one thinks through this clause, the more one concludes that life in temporality never becomes properly understandable, simply because never at any time does one get perfect repose to take the stance - backward.

To live in love is to live in life, and to live in life is to live in love

I don't want to spend my whole life talking about the promised land without ever getting there. I want to live in it.

I note the derogatory rumors concerning the use of alcoholic stimulants and lavish living. It is the penalty of greatness.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Life only avails, not the having lived.

Whoever lives true life, will love true love.

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

Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

I wrote when I did not know life;now that I do know the meaning of life,I have no more to write.Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

Every man has a right to life, and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living.

For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my vehicle that is essential. I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my education that is essential. I don't think what is essential about me is my house or my car or my clothes. What is essential about me? Well, I think what is essential is that I live and embrace life right now, wherever I am. I grab it in my arms! Don't spend time crying about yesterday-yesterday is over with! I forgive my past. I forgive the people who've hurt me. I don't want to spend the rest of my life blaming and pointing a finger.

Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.

If we live truly, we shall see truly.

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one's watching. Love as if it's all you know. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure.

Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

None can lead this life who are not almost amphibious.

You have to stop looking in the mirror and realize that your living for yourself, not other people.

One of the major reasons why people are not doing well is because they keep trying to get through the day. A more worthy challenge is to try to get from the day.

Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives.

Live a vital life. If you live well, you will earn well. If you live well, it will show in your face; it will show in the texture of your voice. There will be something unique and magical about you if you live well. It will infuse not only your personal life but also your business life. And it will give you a vitality nothing else can give.

You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

He lives most life whoever breathes most air.

In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.

Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.

Happiness and success in life are not the result of what we have, but rather of how we live. What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life.

Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.

In order to die, you must first have lived.

No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated

I want to know if I can live with what I know, and only than.

You better get busy living, because dying's a pain in the ass.

Let go of the past and live the future . . . Live the life you imagined.

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

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

Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.

So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.

. . . but mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute - look at it and really see it - live it - and never give it back.

People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Remember: Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken) Forgive quickly, kiss slowly Love truly, laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything that makes you smile. The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won't be found at the bottom) Don't sweat the small stuff, You are who you are meant to be, Dance as if no one's watching, Love as if it's all you know, Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today