165 quotes
“My religion is to live and die without regret”
— Milarepa
“All real living is meeting and every meeting deserves kindness”
— Martin Buber
“The main thing is to be moved to love to hope to tremble to live”
— Auguste Rodin
“God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by wonder”
— Dag Hammarskjold
“It is not death that a man should fear but he should fear never beginning to live.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Think of the life you have lived until now as over and as a dead man see what is left as a bonus and live it properly.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all”
— Oscar Wilde
“In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?”
— Buddha
“What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other”
— George Eliot
“Those who have a why to live, can bear with almost any how.”
— Viktor Frankl
“You do not think your way into a new kind of living you live your way into a new kind of thinking and faith leads the way”
— Henri Nouwen
“The secret of living is giving”
— Tony Robbins
“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of it”
— Seneca
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
— Les Brown
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
“In the end, just three things matter: how well we have lived, how well we have loved, how well we have learned to let go.”
— Jack Kornfield
“Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“As long as you live keep learning how to live”
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.”
— Albert Camus
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist that is all. Truly living means finding peace.”
“The only people for me are the mad ones the ones who are mad to live mad to talk mad to be saved”
— Jack Kerouac
“You must understand the whole of life not just one little part of it that is why you must read that is why you must look at the skies that is why you must sing and dance”
— J. Krishnamurti
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage.”
— Anais Nin
“I have come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understanding that has created the new level of living I now enjoy”
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
— Mary Oliver
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
— William James
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist that is all.”
“In the end just three things matter how well we have lived how well we have loved how well we have let go”
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful”
— William Morris
“The extension of the art of dwelling is the art of living”
— Charlotte Perriand
“Living is a form of not being sure not knowing what next”
— Agnes de Mille
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life”
“Take care of your body. It is the only place you have to live.”
— Jim Rohn
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.”
— Hafiz
“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a good deal of it.”
“Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived.”
— Gabriel Marcel
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else when approached with wonder”
— Emily Dickinson
“When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living.”
— Tecumseh
“I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze.”
— Jack London
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards”
“Each person must live their life as a model for others”
— Rosa Parks
“The proper function of man is to live not to exist”
“Run from what is comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.”
— Rumi
“This is the real secret of life: to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.”
— Alan Watts
“All real living is meeting and all true meeting happens through the openness of faith”
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Live to the point of tears.”
“One day you will wake up and there will not be any more time to do the things you have always wanted. Do it now.”
— Paulo Coelho
“As we express our gratitude we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.”
— John F. Kennedy
“Live your life so that the fear of death can never enter your heart.”
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
— Norman Cousins
“I would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot”
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.”
“The proper function of family is to live not to exist merely.”
“In the end these things matter most: how well did you love how fully did you live how deeply did you let go.”
“The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life”
— Marie Kondo
“The good life is a process, not a state of being.”
— Carl Rogers
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
“When you arise in the morning think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive to breathe to think to enjoy to love”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“I will live this day as if it is my last”
— Og Mandino
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
— Henry Miller
“To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die but he can never know that he is dead.”
— Samuel Butler
“The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about nor read about nor seen but if one will are to be lived.”
“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.”
— D.H. Lawrence
“The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware joyously drunkenly serenely divinely aware”
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go.”
“There are only two ways to live your life as though nothing is a miracle or as though everything is and faith sees everything as miraculous”
— Albert Einstein
“To live is the rarest thing in the world in a family. Most people in families exist and that is all.”
“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.”
“Happiness is not a goal to reach. It is a signal you are living the right way.”
— Maxime Lagace
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
— Mae West
“They alone live who live for others the rest are more dead than alive”
— Swami Vivekananda
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage”
“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”
— Epicurus
“I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I have never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do”
— Georgia OKeeffe
“I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it I want to have lived the width of it as well through kindness”
— Diane Ackerman
“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living we live ourselves into new ways of thinking”
— Richard Rohr
“Life is a journey, not a destination.”
— Emerson
“In the end these things matter most how well did you love how fully did you live how deeply did you let go”
“Your time is limited, do not waste it living someone elses life.”
— Steve Jobs
“There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”
— John Adams
“They alone live who live for others through compassion and selfless service”
“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions toward peace.”
“Life must be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards and faith provides the courage to live forward”
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
— Will Rogers
“In the end it is not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“The purpose of life is to live it to taste experience to the utmost to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“In the end just three things matter how well we have lived how well we have loved and how well we have learned to let go”
“Instructions for living a life pay attention be astonished tell about it and always be kind”
“Each person must live their life as a model for others.”
— Albus Dumbledore
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unseen but healing makes it a dance again”
“In the end just three things matter how well we have lived how well we have loved how well we have learned to let go and all require kindness”
“We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give”
— Winston Churchill
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow and learn as if you were to live forever and faith bridges both”
“There is only one meaning of life the act of living itself”
— Erich Fromm
“To believe in something and not to live it is dishonest and authentic faith demands authentic living”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.”
— Dale Carnegie