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It sometime is so amazing to know, how the most ordinary day turns so extraordinary, in a flash of second. And depending on harshness of a sudden jolt of reality, sometime one has no option but to still be hopeful, listen to the heartbeat, still dream grand, still dream impossible; and keep one's inner self illuminated forever. After all, dream only turns into reality, if one is genuinely passionate and truthful to it. What a waste of life it would be otherwise.
— smishra
Live to start your stupid ideas, and start to live a life without regret--a life filled with meaning, freedom, happiness, fun, authenticity, and influence.
— Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
We gonna be a family again in Heaven. It takes some strong patience, but the Lord will come through. And as long as we here, we can get on living by never forgetting. Never forgetting and always remembering.
— Andrew Galasetti, These Colors Don't Run
The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.
— Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.
— Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now
Just make sure that the thing you're living for is worth dying for." --Levi
— Jill Williamson, Captives
Someday your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.
— Gerard Way
Being different is the only way to live
— Cath Crowley, A Little Wanting Song
New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which newspaper you want. When the barista has your order ready before you open your mouth. When you start to recognize the people in your orbit, and you know that, say, if you're waiting for the subway at eight fifteen on the dot, odds are the redhead with the red umbrella is going to be there too.
— David Levithan, Invisibility
Be happy that after living so many lives, I finally found something to die for
— Stephenie Meyer, The Host
Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time.
— Nenia Campbell, Terrorscape
Existing is going through the motions of life with no zeal and feeling you have no control
—  living means embracing all that this large world has to offer and not being afraid to take chances. The beauty of living is knowing you can always start over and there's always a chance for something better.
I'll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can--until I die.
— Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...
— Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
Funerals are for the living, Jace, not for the dead.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.
— Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.
— Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
Every time we look at the clock, we must learn to feel a sense of urgency. We must learn to realize that “now” is happening and will very soon be gone. We must look at the digits on the display and be overcome with an urge to do something before those digits change. Before “now” slips through our fingers. We must look at the ink on the calendar and see an immediate opportunity to do something wonderful, incredible, or beautiful.It’s that simple. We need to change our thinking from “when the number changes” to “before the number changes”.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
That I always had space to run and that I had the opportunity to play with my imagination. I also loved that my mum drew and painted with me. I always remember that my parents loved me, and that is essential when you're a kid; they always showed me how proud they were of my achievements. It's also very important when parents put their kids' drawings on the refrigerator.
— Taylor Swift
I think our lives are surely but the dreamsOf spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres,Who as we die, do one by one awake.
— Edgar Saltus, Poppies and Mandragora
[i]We were fighting so very hard and achieving so very little aside from staying alive. BUT THAT’S EVERYTHING, my father wrote to me, when I told him that in a letter.[/i]
— Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox
To live for the hope of something isn’t really living at all, and so, like a child putting away its toys and picking up a tool, he marched to Lyca’s bathroom, to shower off the stench of failure, soap up the death of hope, then wash away the ashes of his love for Daphne.
— Mark A. Rayner, The Fridgularity
Begin. . . where you are, NOT where you want to be. Begin stuck in the doldrums of your false story--if that is where you are. Begin there because, in truth, there is no other place to start from. Tell yourself that you are going to listen for the sound of your own voice--and remind yourself when you forget. And you will forget, over and over again.
— Florence Falk, On My Own: The Art of Being a Woman Alone
I'd think it strange that the boardinghouse attracted both him and me, but that's what cheap places do -- draw in people with no money. An apartment of my own was unthinkable at that time of my life, and even if I'd found an affordable one it wouldn't have satisfied my fundamental need to live in a communal past, or what I imagined the past to be like: a world full of antiques.
— David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Life is a book that someone else is reading—and you, a key character—hence the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't have any boring books.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Some people simply seem to know how to live. They know when to seize the day, when to go with the flow, and when to row for dear life.
— Nel Newman
You can do what you want. You can fly as far as you want, be as determined as you want, but sooner or later you have to ask yourself, or the person with you, ‘will there be everything we have hoped for?’ When you realise there’s so little hope left, it is like seeing an entire shadow all over the world.
— Kyra Gregory, Secrets Clad in Light
You are message to the world make it motivating.
— Nadair Desmar
Never had anyone said, "Listen. Life is short. Pretend your body is still in its twenties. Jump for the brass ring. Swing for those bleachers. Dive into the deep end of the pool. Act like a fool if you must, but at least *live*.
— Cathie Pelletier, The One-Way Bridge
At my core, I know this: God is God. All that lives and breathes flows from him in both original and ongoing states.
— Nicole Nordeman
It is love, the teeth told him, that resurrects life from death. Leave us here. Turn your head to the living.
— Naomi Benaron, Running the Rift
I've noticed that houses take on the personality of the people who live in them. I'm not sure how it happens, but they become alive in some way, as if they have their own spirit.
— Shannon Wiersbitzky, The Summer of Hammers and Angels
Whether rich or poor, following the Should Life will lead to heartache and struggle. Leading your life will lead to places you never thought you'd be, people you never thought you'd meet, knowledge you never thought you'd gain, and a life of adventure and growth. Lead your life; not the Should Life.
— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.
— Slash Coleman, The Bohemian Love Diaries: A Memoir
Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?
— Slash Coleman, The Bohemian Love Diaries: A Memoir
The decision to be positive is not one that disregards or belittles the sadness that exists. It is rather a conscious choice to focus on the good and to cultivate happiness--genuine happiness. Happiness is not a limited resource. And when we devote our energy and time to trivial matters, and choose to stress over things that ultimately are insignificant. From that point, we perpetuate our own sadness, and we lose sight of the things that really make us happy and rationalize our way out of doing amazing things.
— Christopher Aiff
It is still beautiful to hear the heart beatbut often the shadow seems more real than the body.
— Tomas Tranströmer
I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.
— Slash Coleman, The Bohemian Love Diaries: A Memoir
Life demands much. Give more.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
...I don't ever want to feel that way. Feel as if there are no surprises left. The surprises make life worth living. Expecting nothing, accepting it all. Accepting isn't the right word. ACKNOWLEDGING it all. I suppose I'll just try to figure it out as I go or at least try to understand it. Or f***, just think about it. I'll face whatever comes my way...
— John O'Callaghan
Life is a game, you live so you play. Follow your dreams and win what your happy heart desires.
— Roel van Sleeuwen
Karma will hit you. So don't say bullshit.
— Ainun Annisa
My life's been defined by my actions. I've shaped my destiny through my battles. I would rather keep chasing after my dreams until I crumble into dust than sit around waiting for fate to show me mercy.
— Kōji Suzuki, Paradise
Everyone gets so worried about the people who are still living when the people who are really hurting are the dead ones. People like Grandma and Graham.They don’t exist anymore.There is nothing worse than that
— Matthew Green, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.
— Patrick Carman, The Tenth City
Good news is, I'm still alive. Bad news is, Bitches be crazy.
— Ksenia Solo as Kenzi
He thought he’d lived through everything. Only now did he realise he’d merely existed.
— Dianna Hardy, The Demon Bride
Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact. By most astounding stroke of luck and infinitesimal portion of all the matter in the universe came together to create you and for the tiniest moment in the great span of eternity you have the incomparable privilege to exist.For endless eons there was no you. Before you know it, you will cease to be again. And in between you have this wonderful opportunity to see and feel and think and do. Whatever else you do with your life, nothing will remotely compare with the incredible accomplishment of having managed to get yourself born. Congratulations. Well done. You really are special.
— Bill Bryson, I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
Learn to appreciate the things you have in the life you're living. It is your present.
— Adem Spahic
Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
1. Who is a Death Warrior?Anyone can be a Death Warrior, not just someone who is terminally ill. We are all terminally ill. A Death Warrior accepts death and makes a commitment to live a certain way, whether it be for one year or thirty years.2. When does one become a Death Warrior?There is a specific moment during which you can decide to become a Death Warrior. That moment is when death shows you that you will die.3. How do you become a Death Warrior?Once you accept that life will end, you can become a Death Warrior by choosing to love life at all times and in all circumstances. You choose to love life by loving.4. What are the qualities of a Death Warrior?A Death Warrior is grateful for every second of time given and is aware of how precious each second is. Every second not spent loving is wasted. The Death Warrior's enemy is time that is wasted by not loving.5. Why should you become a Death Warrior?So you can live and die with truth and courage, and because life is too painful when you're wasteful with the time given to you.--The Death Warrior Manifesto, by DQ
— Francisco X. Stork, The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
Life and all that is in it is a gift from the infinite mind / God
— And the only way that life can go wrong is by the limited finite mind / Man.
Life itself has an incomparable ability to test your wits that you won’t require anything extra or don’t have to go anywhere outside your space to get them tested. – Aniruddha.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
Warning: Before beginning an program of physical inactivity, consult your doctor. Sedentary living is abnormal and dangerous to your health.
— Frank Forencich, Exuberant Animal: The Power of Health, Play and Joyful Movement
We all know that the un-examined life is not worth living (socrates). But if all you are doing is examining, you are not living.
— Adam Leipzig
Do you want to live in a world where things are possible or one where they aren't?
— Léna Roy, Edges
The inside and the outside of our lives are each the shell where we learn to live.
— Jeanette Winterson
There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 'tis hardly worth while to be here at all.
— Viscount Henry St. John Bolingbroke
I’ve realized the most effective writing and living are done when we are willing to be vulnerable. I think we spend most of our lives trying to cover up our insecurities.
— Katie Kiesler
I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
How we take it for granted – those trivial conversations
—  those mundane moments that we think hold no meaning. We never realise how much we rely on the ordinariness of everyday life. When love is gone – when our entire world is gone – only then do we understand those moments are what we live for.
Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.
— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
— Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God's valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn't know what it is like to climb out of a pit of shame and rise above their temptations.
— Shannon L. Alder
I have leveled with the girls - from Anchorage to Amarillo.I tell them that all marriages are happyIt's the living together afterward that's tough.I tell them that a good marriage is not a gift,It's an achievement.that marriage is not for kids It takes guts and maturity.It separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls.I tell them that marriage is tested dily by the ability to compromise.Its survival can depend on being smart enough to know what's worth fighting about.Or making an issue of or even mentioning.Marriage is giving - and more important, it's forgiving.And it is almost always the wife who must do these things.Then, as if that were not enough, she must be willing to forget what she forgave.Often that is the hardest part.Oh, I have leveled all right.If they don't get my message, Buster,It's because they don't want to get it.Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocalsBecause nobody wants to red the small print in dreams.
— Ann Landers
I got a body covered in scars, but then who doesn’t? If you don’t have a few scars, you haven’t really lived.
— Lexi Blake, A Dom is Forever
But this is a thing that I know--to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.
— Deanna Raybourn, A Spear of Summer Grass
Dying’s easy. It’s living that’s hard.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dance with the Devil
Rest and peace should not be left until you're deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The more I learn, the more I yearn.
— Aaron B. Powell, Priority
The simple things in life are the greatest gifts.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
To live, is to suffer. To survive, well, that's to find meaning in the suffer.
— D.M.X.
It is not possible to express the most precious insights, To see all that craves to be seen, To visit even the closest neighbors in the universe, To learn all that needs to be learned, To live without dying, And I am sad about it.But I livedAnd I am happy about that.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I'm happily married to Peter senior; we're best friends as well as lovers, which is probably the best recipe for a successful relationship. We live in a lovely part of England.
— Carole Mortimer
All human activity is prompted by desire.
— Bertrand Russell
It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.
— Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
The most precious gift to give to your spouse is not your life because if you die,he/she will no longer have use of you rather the most precious gift is your time, attention, affection, self and love!
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Sometimes you go through life and the wrong thing happens.
— Jennifer Manske Fenske, The Wide Smiles of Girls
If one comes to the sense that they have arrived, they no longer feel the need to submit themselves to the process of learning and growing. This is a dangerous mindset to carry. The day that we stop learning is the day we stop living.
— Jenelle Dancel
Pray that you are in the right place, at the right time, to meet the right person, that together you may help one another.
— Don Polson
If science can eliminate sleep, we will have more time to live and no time for the dreams. But living is superior to the dream because it is real!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Can't look at the damage that's been done, it's not healthy. Have to look ahead of it. Can't change what I've done, only what I'm gonna do.
— Jordan Ghere
It’s time for a spring cleaning of your thoughts, it’s time to stop to just existing it’s time to start living.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Who are you if nobody knows your story?
— Thisuri Wanniarachchi, COLOMBO STREETS
But it would be like going to Heaven and not finding any of your friends there. Her life would go all beatific and empty in the eyes.
— Lorrie Moore, Like Life
Hate is infectious, but so is love, the difference between the two is one takes effort and the other one doesn’t.
— Dave Guerrero
There seemed to be endless obstacles preventing me from living with my eyes open, but as I gradually followed up clue after clue it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
— Joanna Field
Life....Isn't a roller coaster, it isn't unexpected or surprising. It's not a free ticket to go along for the ride... Simply put, Life is life. Its who you are, what you do that defines you and your life, so choose ... but choose wisely, because life is here to stay...
— Bilal Hussain
It's a lot easier to be crazy or mad than to just get on with living.
— Jaclyn Moriarty, The Year of Secret Assignments
If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and--what will perhaps make you wonder more--it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
— Seneca
there are so many dayswhen living stops and pulls up and sitsand waits like a train on the rails.
— Charles Bukowski
It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing.
— Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
I have come to believe that our innate purpose is nothing more than to be the greatest version of ourselves. It is a process of refinement, improvement, and enhancement. When you are aligned with this process and living your purpose, you have the potential of creating something amazing.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
We are fighters and survivors. We are here. We are alive and breathing, living and loving, birthing and caring, working and earning. The sky is above us. The earth is below us. We can never be poor. ~ NanaAnna
— Sister Souljah, A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story
It’s not that we have to leave this life one day, it's how many things we have to leave all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, wine, summertime, drunkenness, and the physics of falling leaves, clothing, myrrh, perfumed hair, flirting friends, two strangers' glance; the reflection of the moon, with words like, 'Soon' ... 'do you want me?' ... '...to lie enlaced' ... 'and sleep entwined' thinking ahead, with thoughts behind...?' Ô, Why!Why can’t we leave this life slowly?
— Roman Payne
I mean obviously, staying alive is pretty fucking important . . . but there’s got to be something beyond that, right?
— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series
You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change.
— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
It's not the best life in the world, but it's all I know.
— Shannon A. Thompson, November Snow
We're meant to stay connected to our hearts, you see. Feeling our feelings, present in the moments we're given. But we don't do that. And that's when we get in trouble. ...We mature and take responsibility for ourselves and others, and that's a good thing. But we're never meant to lose that alive quality, to get cut off from our true hearts. Growing up isn't the same thing as shutting down. ...We can fight it. We have to fight it. Because when our hearts shut down, we become mere shells of who we once were. We don't laugh—not honestly, not from the heart. We don't dream. We don't feel our feelings or use our gifts. We end up trying to just survive instead of live. It's like we've handed our hearts over to the enemy of our souls and said, 'Here you can have it. I'm giving up.
— Denise Hildreth Jones, Secrets Over Sweet Tea
See with your mind, Speak with your heart,Touch with your eyes, Love with your entire being.
— B.J. Neblett, Elysian Dreams: Where the Past Meets the Present
The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse
Living on steam isn't easy.
— Jessica Fortunato, Steam
We have an internal check and balance system. By design we are so filled with possibility, opportunity, with greatness that when we live small, within the bottom of our capability, we innately know we should be living greater than that, and it creates a disconnect inside that leads us to feeling empty, unhappy, maybe even depressed.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
— D.H. Lawrence
There is no time frame on living life, only the frame we place about ourselves to hinder our lives from living to its fullest.
— NRN
Green and living jewels drip into my eyes" from the poem "All Green and Living Things" in the book "Terra Affirmative
— Jay Woodman, Riding the Escalator and Terra Affirmative
The process of living, for each of us, is pretty similar. For every gain there is a setback. For every success, a failure. For every moment of joy, a time of sadness. For every hope realized, one is dashed.
— sue atchley ebaugh
Let me live my final days whole.Let my memory remain that I might know love's face.Life don't unwrap me to be fed to scavengers.I want to escape into light - not exist in darkness.
— Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams
And what cats have to tellon each return from hellis this: that dying is what the living do, that dying is what the loving do, and that dead dogs are those who do not knowthat dying is what, to live, each has to do.
— Alastair Reid
Paraphrasing Yeats: It was as the Irish poet had written, a waste of breath, the years that had gone past, the years to come. There was only the present moment to live and die in. [ref. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death ...The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death. W.B. Yeats
— Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists
I don't know it is that I always feel that other people can create things but that I can't. I imagine it's simpler living in remote tribes or communities where one is obliged to have a go or else you have to do without. I suppose it is fear of failure in an age where political correctness is trying to erase the word 'failure' from the language. It's OK to fail isn't it, but only if you've tried? What is so bizarre is that when one does try, one rarely falls short. Obviously some people do things better than others but if it gives you pleasure, then so what? As my grandmother used to say, 'patience and perseverance made a bishop of his reverence!' So don't say you can't make candles or soap or that you can't spin or weave until you've tried it. As for mending, well, if you're not throwing everything away, then you have no option but to make do and mend. After all, the only way to get rid of shopping malls and supermarkets with their food miles is for people not to shop in those places and the way to cure this mercenary mercantile world is to make your own things.
— Clarissa Dickson Wright, Greener Life
This would have once been a place for contemplation. He looked up at the towers surrounding him. Many of the dead bodies had been removed. Their places had been taken by the living.
— Rupert Thomson, The Five Gates of Hell
I eat you, life; you make me living eat.
— William Kean Seymour, The Cats of Rome: New and Selected Poems
You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times.  There's life in a nutshell.
— Bear Grylls, Mud, Sweat and Tears
Do You think it matters if they're tiny or deep? he asked. Well, if they're not tiny breaths and they're not deep breaths, then they're just ... breaths. Then you're just breathing for the sake of ... breathing. ... Seize them. Feel them. Love them ...
— K.A. Tucker, Ten Tiny Breaths
I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.
— Oscar Wilde
Ah, lust. It makes us forget anything we want to. The greatest relaxant, the greatest stimulant.
— James Lusarde, The Apartment of Sex
As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.
— Natalie Goldberg
I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover--and practice--the art of acceptance. When I started to accept life for what it was and I started to accept whatever situation I was in as the way things were, I started to see that my happiness depended on my own attitude. When I started focusing on getting the most out of my life the way it was rather than trying to turn it into what I thought it should be, I started to realize that I was, indeed, becoming a much happier person.
— Tom Walsh
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.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
— Olive Schreiner
I firmly disbelieve in death. A spirit never dies. Where it wanders when it leaves the flesh, is a cognitive proposition.
— Kellie Elmore
See the world anew and write down the bones of it.
— A.D. Sams
I want my life to be about LIVING, not leaving --which is why I'm LEAVING nothing behind.
— Shelley K. Wall, Numbers Never Lie
The best standard of living will be attained when your house will be filled with God's blessings.
— Moazzam Shaikh
It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not in the room when a man is dead in it.
— Ray Bradbury, A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories
The difference between the one who remembers Allah and the one who doesn’t is like the living and the dead.
— Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf
I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.
— Abigail Padgett, The Paper Doll Museum
The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).
— John Piper, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
He was pale as only one state on Bhast dictated—not lacking color necessarily or vitality, certainly. Fey white was more comparable to a pearl; the color subtle and the luster soft, but still vibrant. In spite of the tragedy that could come with it, it was not a dying state. It was a state of living…sometimes much more brilliantly than people could cope with, including the Fey individuals themselves.
— T.A. Miles, Darkside
architecture is a way of life
— Barwa
All who are born are always dying.
— Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper
I make a new discovery that totally blows
—  dying is the easy part. It's coming back to life that sucks.
In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending it. There are many things to do. There are books to write and naps to take. There are movies to see and scrambled eggs to eat. Life is essentially trivial. You either decide you will take the trite business of life and give yourself the option of doing something really cool, or you decide you will opt for the Grand Epic of eating disorders and dedicate your life to being seriously trivial.
— Marya Hornbacher
That’s the thing about living vicariously
—  it’s so much faster than actual living.
Seemingly suicidal, it's not. I never wanted to live. I wanted to be happy. Living was always accidental.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Stop complaining and start living.
— Habeeb Akande
Scars are an affirmation of living.
— Joshua Wisenbaker
Dream sets us on fire.Dream gives us direction.Dream betters our potential.Dream helps us prioritize.Dream adds value to our work andlife.Dream colors our future.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
— Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, A Woman of Independent Means
Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family's life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.
— Arthur Hailey
Living erotically is opening oneself up to nature-- externally and within.
— Kristie LeVangie
Everyone has their own New York in the heart, place where there is hope for everybody.
— T.A
I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns of practical living.
— Kim Krizan
Once upon a time she had liked to dance. When she had been about the same age as the little brunette out there who kept lifting her dress up over her head. Now that was living. Just lift your dress if you wanted to get down and don't worry what anyone thought.
— Erin McCarthy, Jacked Up
A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.
— Deanna Vasquez
...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it.
— Theodore Roosevelt
There is more to life than just living.
— Ashok  Kallarakkal
Don't become a prisoner of your own reality, set yourself free by creating a life worth living.
— Steven Redhead, Keys to Creating Your Reality
You only know of existence, once you rebel. You only know of life, once you die.
— Lionel Suggs
Start living by taking back the control of your life now! Create a life more in tune with your true desires.
— Steven Redhead, Keys to Creating Your Reality
One life, One story. Make it a fairytale.
— T.A
If you are not careful you will end up living the illusions that others have created for you.
— Steven Redhead, The Solution
People don't buy Moet & Dom because they love the taste, the buy it because they need "Livin' Large" photo on Facebook!
— T.A
Ignore what you don't like. Insist what u need.
— T.A
None but ourselves will put the concrete on our road to success.
— T.A
Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
And the fact was that he remembered once thinking that he was fine with dying anywhere at any time… but now, gazing at each corpse in turn, he thought with all his heart, I’m glad I didn’t die there. I have to go home. I’ve still got things to do.
— Yukako Kabei, Kieli, Volume 7: As the Deep Ravine's Wind Howls
Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution.
— Grigoris Deoudis
She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.
— Ellen Hopkins, Identical
I did not know I was on a search for passionate aliveness. I only knew I was lonely and lost and that something was drawing me deeper beneath the surface of my life in search of meaning. There is a hunger in people to go to those deep depths
—  to know that our lives are sacred
Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young man - all present still, preserved like fossils on superimposed layers, and, like fossils, dead. Their message to this live dying creature is: Look at us - we have died - what is there to be afraid of?It answers them: But that happened so gradually, so easily. I'm afraid of being rushed.
— Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man
I find that I am most happy and healthy when I am living in alignment with my goals, dreams, and principles.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
I know my time will come soon enough, but I will not dwell on it. What is the purpose? We might as well dwell on the work of our teeth or on the mechanics of our walk. It is there, it will always be there, and I don't intend to spend my glorious hours looking over my shoulder to see death's icy face.
— Alberto Manguel, Stevenson Under the Palm Trees
Everything was so much sharper without the Link fogging me--sights, sounds, smells. It was exhilarating and shocking and terrifying. I knew my emotions had grown too strong. They were dangerous to the Community. They were dangerous to me.But still, I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live. And that meant that I couldn't give the glitching up. At least not yet. Just a little bit longer.
— Heather Anastasiu, Glitch
It seems to me that we do live in two worlds... there is this physical one, which is coherant, and there is the spiritual one, which to the average man with his flashes of religious experience, is very often incoherant. This experience of having two worlds to live in all the time, or not all the time, is a vital one, and is what living is like.
— William Golding
Life is sweet or bitter depending on where your attention is, at that moment.
— George Alexiou
We make a living by what we give
—  and live a life by what we have yet to give.
Things were good. He had things to look forward to. That, for now, was to be his definition of living - to always have a thing to look forward to.
— Kevin Sampson, Powder
you got one life so dont stop living it!
— Hedley
We're always on breath away from something--living or dying--, sometimes it just can't be helped.
— Heather Gudenkauf
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man
—  true nobility is being superior to your former self.
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!
— Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
— Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
— Aldous Huxley
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
— Ernest Hemingway
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
— Jim Rohn
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time
—  but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
Do your best, and be a little better than you are.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day.
— Anne Frank
All we are not stares back at what we are.
— W.H. Auden
WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad and hoping that we’re good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds—never touch our basic wealth. They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun. But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.
— Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
You only grow when you are alone.
— Paul   Newman
Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.
— Michael Jordan
Try giving up all the thoughts that make you feel bad, or even just some of them, and see how doing that changes your life. You don't need negative thoughts. All they have ever given you was a false self that suffers. They are all lies.
— Gina Lake, What about Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment
Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.
— Deborah Day
The never-ending task of self improvement.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.
— Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life
Often it’s not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us.
— Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop
Once you admit to yourself that you are or aren't something, then you can begin searching for the reason why," Deuce went on. "And once you've found that, you can begin to take steps toward making it better. So, tell yourself you're an asshole, stop being an asshole, your problem's solved," Deuce said in a pleased voice.
— Abigail Roux, Sticks & Stones
If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?
— Miguel Ruiz
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.
— Richard G. Scott
Resolution number one: Obviously will lose twenty pounds. Number two: Always put last night's panties in the laundry basket. Equally important, will find sensible boyfriend to go out with and not continue to form romantic attachments to any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobic's, peeping toms, megalomaniacs, emotional fuckwits or perverts. And especially will not fantasize about a particular person who embodies all these things
— Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary
There's nothing wrong with self-improvement, as long as you recognize that at some point you're going to have to accept yourself in all your imperfect glory. What's wrong with liking yourself the way you are?
— Jessica Zafra, The 500 People You Meet in Hell
The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.
— Zig Ziglar
Everything is practice.
— Pelé
Is your animosity towards a person warranted, or is it a reflection of your own insecurities?
— Trenice Carter
An authentic and genuine life grows like a sturdy tree. And like a tree, it grows slowly. Every time you make a different and better decision, it grows a little. Every time you choose to do the right thing, even when nobody would find out otherwise, it grows a little. Every time you act with compassion, relinquish your right to strike back, take a courageous stand, admit fault or accept responsibility, it grows a little.
— Steve Goodier
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
— C.S. Lewis
Refrain to-night;And that shall lend a kind of easinessTo the next abstinence, the next more easy;For use almost can change the stamp of nature,And either master the devil or throw him outWith wondrous potency.
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.
— Judith McNaught
No one can save me except myself.
— Susane Colasanti, Take Me There
I find it sad that too many do not understand themselves, or their potential. They don't even take the time to get to know their unconsciousness. You can truly learn so much, by simply getting to know the "you" that is behind the reality of yourself.
— Lionel Suggs
Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.
— Laura Joh Rowland, The Concubine's Tattoo
In the event of a total loss of direction in life, be sure to sort our your own shit before you start telling people what to do.
— A.C. Ping, Be
If I hadn't lost my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my own potential. I have to be better than the average person to succeed.
— Lou Ferrigno
Work on your character, let life fall into place.
— Sonia Rumzi
If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really be any change at all, but only disguise, just bogus self-improvement on our own terms.
— Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.
— Linda Kaplan Thaler
self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Daily ripples of excellence -over time- become a tsunami of success
— Robin S. Sharma
When One judges another, they unconsciously allow themselves to be judged.
— Steven Farmer
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
— Malcolm Forbes
We must become what we wish to teach.
— Nathaniel Branden, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
Never be bitter, become better. A testimony is pain that has been reassigned
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.
— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
It's fine to feel truer than others.But it's much truer to fix our fault.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Everyday, you get home from the shops with a bag of cat food and bin-liners and realise that, yet again, you failed to have cosmetic surgery, book a cheap weekend in Paris, change your name to something more glamorous, buy the fifth series of The Sopranos, divorce your spouse, sell up and move to Devon, or adopt a child from Guatemala.
— Lynne Truss, Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
This is what I think now; that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. I think also that in an adult the desire to be finer in grain than you are, "a constant striving" (as those people say who gain their bread by saying it) only adds to this unhappiness in the end--that end that comes to our youth and hope.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
If she[…] had known how much her first half-inch beginning to let go would take - and how long her noticing and renouncing owning and her turning her habits, and beginning the slimmest self-mastery whose end was nowhere in sight - would she have begun?
— Annie Dillard, The Maytrees
The type of person you are is usually reflected in your business. To improve your business, first improve yourself.
— Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
Develop a can-do-spirit and be sure you are not suppressed by the naysayers whose daily actions are meant to discourage you from achieving what you believe.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
If you walk 100 miles into the life you don't want. Often, you must walk those same 100 miles to get out of that life. This is the answer to why the journey to fulfillment is often so difficult. However, if you can find a shortcut, a new path, you can get to the life you want much quicker. This is the premise of personal development, self-improvement and self-discovery..!
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
BE OPEN TO new thoughts, to new people, to new principles, to new ideas, to new experiences. "NEW" MAKES US GROW
— Rossana Condoleo
The role of any person in this world is to be themselves without damaging the rest. We are important as long as the rest "is". - Rossana Condoleo
— Rossana Condoleo
Don't stand in traffic and complain about all the cars.
— Andreas Codispoti
She did not arrive at Annandale without taking the chisel to herself more than once, without rubbing up against a few boys to smooth an edge or two.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)
It's tough to get out of one's inherited imbecilic culture, and a thus inherited or endowed lunatic belief system. A freethinker must overcome every deadened system. Especially one's own.
— Fakeer Ishavardas