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There are hard days to live. You awake to a day when you feel you've done it all before, and you're going to do it again, so why do it at all.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
You don’t need a sad soul to feel the beauty of a dead graveJust stay with the pale moonwhen darkness wants the night to be brave
— Munia Khan
You'll never fly, if you're too scared of the height,You'll never live if you're just too scared to die,Everybody wants heaven, I knowBut darling freedom ain't free, it's a long roadYou'll never find your place up there in the skyIf you never say goodbye.
— Hardwell & Dyro & Bright Lights
I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.
— John Fowles, The Collector
Different plants thrive together in a well nurtured garden. Just as they thrive, they pass on a message to mankind - God created us all to thrive with one another and planted love in our hearts for this reason. Let's learn to embrace each other, knowing Love is all we have to keep us growing and going.
— Kemi Sogunle
Life was about loss. One minute standing on the promise of your dreams, then free-falling backward into nothingness. Is this what it meant to grow old? To gradually be stripped of all you cared about. And then what? Were you supposed to spend the rest of your life, dreaming about the past while you waited to die? Or did you start a new life, set the cycle in motion once again. Take the chance of losing that, too. And if you did, what happened to the old life? Did it die away from lack of attention?
— Shelley Noble, Beach Colors
Kate, I can't live my life in the shadow of your fears.
— Elizabeth Camden, With Every Breath
The fantasies of dying could be no stranger than the fantasies of living. Survival is perhaps the strangest fantasy of them all.
— Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter
Give someone you wronged a chance to express their true feelings and learn about yourself and your shortcomings.
— Unarine Ramaru
It seemed as if the longer she lived, the more was taken from her. Not gradually, as old age fell into the inevitable, but lobbed off in great chunks, the healthy branches sacrificed along with the frail.
— Shelley Noble, Beach Colors
Once You Realize your Purpose in Life, do whatever it Takes within Good means in order to Fulfill your Destiny. This is Your Life, No One can Live it for You. The Journey is Yours.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
You are a light born to shine. You are not who the world thinks you are. You are not what you think you are. You are as God created you. Never see yourself less than that. You are powerful than you know!
— Kemi Sogunle
You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
You can’t be living always in the promise of the clouds
—  it must rain now. Leave the talking and live by walking… It will yield an indelible impact!
What’s worth living for? what’s worth dying for? what’s completely foolish to pursue?
— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
When will I realize that without God my world is draped in shadows between which there is not a single ray of light? And when will I recognize that with God, my world is deluged in light between which there is not a single thread of darkness?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wholly satisfied? And those who remain know it.
— Fay Weldon
Being by yourself is not a sin,being by yourself is worth living
— Marcelle Hinkson
We want not only life but an intense awareness of being alive. The large tendency of our mechanical and standardized civilization is to blunt that awareness by surrounding us with ideas and forms that require the lowest degree of consciousness. One lives in it less by reflection than by reflex. The effect of the uniform blows with which the environment strikes us is to make us insensitive to any but the most violent stimuli; two-thirds of life ceases to exist for us because the valves of attention require cataclysmic upheavals before they will open. Lacking the capacity to be excited by any but the most gross and violent stimuli, we spend our lives in a frantic race with boredom.
— Denham Sutcliffe, What Shall We Defend?: Essays And Addresses
Delayed, unexpressed appreciation is meaningless. The dead need no appreciation. The living do.
— Srividya Srinivasan
I am grateful to God for all the good and bad that has given me, Without reproach the past, without waiting in the future I continue, just living in the moment makes me completely happy!
— Ebelsain Villegas
Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out.
— Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
The enemy plotted against you and awaited your downfall. Look at you surviving. And your enemies can not figure out how. What you have inside is greater than any negative force.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I'll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those actions and deeds behind the gong of your boasting.
— Criss Jami, Healology
In a way it scared me, having a summer of experiences and feelings that belonged to me alone. What happened in front of my friends felt read. What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by own fears and wants. And who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
— Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Do you want to be in your own story or on the outside writing about it? Everyone battles fear and uncertainty every day. However, the only failure in life is believing that your value relies on other people's approval or resources. The reality is this: When you are living your authentic self and not how people want you to act, then you are free to use the full spectrum of your creativity and gifts. People don't need resources to get out of any life situation. They need creativity to create resources. When you realize that, becoming stuck is impossible.
— Shannon L. Alder
Consider your actions and words. Be thoughtful when expressing your feelings or concerns. Sometimes it's not what you say, but the way you say it. That makes all the difference
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
Forget the American dream...whats your dream? The thing that keeps you up at night...the thing that makes you happy...the thing that keeps your spirit going. Do that thing. Don't label it a hobby or what you do in your spare time type of thing...label that thing you do the thing you love to do. The thing you were born to do. When you stop doing what you love you lose a huge part of yourself. Don't get lost.
— Jill Telford
Yes, one can wager war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbor while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.
— Albert Camus, The Fall
Then I truly feel like a living being in the middle of this garden of the dead, I'm most definitely alive in here.
— Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Butterflies in November
Erase the victim mentality. Remember you are capable of achieving greatness. If only you'd believe in your abilities to overcome. You are victorious. Celebrate the victory.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
Be aware of the company you keep. You'd be surprised how easily they rub off on you. You don't want to attract the wrong influence.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die I know I lived.
— Jill Telford
Have concern about where you're from, where you live, and where you may travel. The village is global.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
You may have read the poetry, but you haven't lived it. And that's what makes the difference.
— Suzanne Harper
We have to live within the framework of our limitations and the mistakes we make. Argue with Destiny, but never try to wrestle it into submission. If you do, you’ll end up losing.
— Adib Khan, Spiral Road
Livin' ain't livin' if your livin' ain't givin'.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
I never wanted a too die for house, or a too die for car. I always wanted a too die for life.If you were to die tomorrow would you feel like you did everything you wanted to? Loved everyone and meant it? Lived with honesty and integrity? Stood up for what you believed in? Did you work to live or did you live to work? Those that hurt you or upset you did you try to work it out? Did you still love them from a distance even if they hurt you so bad? If not work to change and make it right before it's too late.Remember the house, the car, the money and the material possessions you can't take with you when your gone. All you have is YOU and what YOU were about. Remember that.
— Jill Telford
Within Eros, there is (the) promise; within Love there is (the) Truth.
— Noetis
It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.
— Ruskin Bond
I'm dead, but I can't stop living.
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
Take a moment to reflect on your life. If you are not satisfied with your reflection, then make adjustments. It's never too late to live the life of your dreams. Believe in your ability to make it happen.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
Unleash your potential. Seek the opportunity to make a difference. Success is attainable. You just have to reach out and grab it.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
In order to be authentic, you have to make decisions based on what you want, rather than how it will be perceived.
— Shannon L. Alder
But Viv, if I've learned anything at all in the last eight years of my life? It's that people just like to tell themselves stories about where they came from. They can't help themselves. They don't trust the world around them--it's too good for them, or not good enough--so they tell themselves stories about it. They tell themselves an old magician who lives up in the sky made them out of clay and put them here until whenever he makes up his mind to take them out again. Your parents didn't like their creation myth, that's all--it had pain in it, and chaos, and their own parents were ashamed. So they told themselves a story that was at least partially true: about two good people who deserved happy lives. And probably at some point they started to believe that story. But the thing is, really, that it doesn't matter. For your parents or anyone else. It doesn't actually matter where we came from, or where we're going, or when. The only thing that matters is what we have to do while we're here and how well we do it.
— Katie Coyle, Vivian Apple at the End of the World
My prayer for you:Know the Lord in greater depth.Abide in the presence of God.Live under the shelter of most High,God.Remain under the shadow of God’s grace in Jesus Name.Amen.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Happiness is an art and the one who knows this art lives happily even if they don't have anything.
— Raaz Ojha
Living in the past is like choosing to cling to a chronic illness.
— Asa Don Brown
It's not in the life, it's in the living.
— Raheel Farooq
I honor the divine on a daily basis, but I want to know that the greatest magick in my life is living authentically with what I have and can do.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.
— Harper Lee
Love is for the living, for people who have a stake in the future.
— Simon R. Green, Ghost of a Chance
Program your life the way you want it to be: don't waste the unuse energy that lodges in the matrix of your soul. You are transcendent, be a superintendent.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
And so I've written everything down, too afraid of my demons and what they may say, the doubt that eats at me from the inside. Too afraid that I'll forget and it'll all be a madwoman's dream.
— Nadège Richards, 5 Miles
People will doubt you, but do you doubt your own self? People will insult your integrity, but do you trust yourself? If you are at peace with yourself and with God, you can be at peace with the world.
— Nana Awere Damoah
Many of us are reactive, not proactive. We react. We hit back. We are ‘an eye for an eye’ practitioners. We attack when we are attacked, with good measure. Our barometer reads from the environment and makes us act accordingly. We are mirrors who reflect the anger in others, the bad attitude in the other person, the negative comments of others. Let me show you a higher level of living.
— Nana Awere Damoah, Excursions in my Mind
Whenever you get an appetite, you feed yourself. Therefore, fill your belly on wisdom of things old and new. Only swallow the truth, less you choke on the lies.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
Your thoughts are certain kinds of seeds in your life. You can water them and allow them to grow on fertile soil. Or, you can let them diminish and wither amongst the weeds. Be careful that your seeds are not contaminated as they begin to take root.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
Live desired in the world, and die lamented.
— Richard Sibbes, Christ Is Best
I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teach myself to live again.
— Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
I feel life trembling within me, in my tongue, on the soles of my feet, in my desire or my suffering, I want my soul to be a wandering thing, able to move back into a hundred forms, I want to dream myself into priests and wanderers, female cooks and murderers, children and animals, and, more than anything else, birds and trees; that is necessary, I want it, I need it so I can go on living, and if sometime I were to lose these possibilities and be caught in so-called reality, then I would rather die.
— Hermann Hesse, Wandering
Within each of us there is an Owl, a Rabbit, an Eeyore, and a Pooh. For too long, we have chosen the way of Owl and Rabbit. Now, like Eeyore, we complain about the results. But that accomplishes nothing. If we are smart, we will choose the way of Pooh. As if from far away, it calls to us with the voice of a child's mind. It may be hard to hear at times, but it is important just the same, because without it, we will never find our way through the forest.
— Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
Always do good when you're tempted to do evil. The reward in doing good is priceless.
— Kemi Sogunle
If you are reading this, be sure to count this on your blessings list.
— Anthony Liccione
What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.
— Criss Jami, Healology
He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, "I have lived.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Become faithful to yourself, if you do, it will come natural towards everyone else.
— Unarine Ramaru
It’s not as easy as it looks to come back from the dead.
— Nicholas Kaufmann, Dying Is My Business
Still, I could not imagine how being poor could be worse than being rich and hating yourself. I had seen enough of what it was like to be dead. It was time to try living.
— James Patrick Kelly, Mr. Boy
Reach for all the purpose you can and in the end you will find that it was fulfilled
— Blake Higginbotham
Life is given to us to be lived...Most of us spend an entire lifetime preparing to live." What is it that you are doing ...LIVING or PREPARING TO LIVE at some point ! Are you waiting for the IF AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS or Are you living NOW ! A thought that changed my life forever !!
— Abha Maryada Banerjee, Nucleus: Power Women: Lead from the Core
LIVE TO LOVE THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE WITH YOULIVE TO LEARN TO EARN YOUR LIVINGLIVE TO MAKE YOUR PRESENCE FELT IN SPITE OF YOUR ABSENCE LEARN TO FIGHT IN SPITE OF OBSTACLES DO NOT FORGET JUST LIVING DO NOT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE TO THE WORLDDr.T.V.Rao MD
— Dr.T.V.Rao MD
Most accounts of mystical experiences... insist that the Other in the encounter appears to be "living" or alive, as in "living God." But is it alive in any biological sense? Does it eat and metabolize? Does it reproduce - an option that monotheism would seem to foreclose?
— Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
Expectation is the greatest impediment to living, running ahead to tomorrow, it loses today.
— Lars Iyer
To take this one shot at life and live it with God is to take this one shot and have it reverberate across and around my world as if it were a million shots and more.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Life is always moving...often without realization...just like in an Aeroplane which feels like we are not moving at all...but we know its flying at few hundred miles an hour, many thousand feet above sea level!!!
— Abha Maryada Banerjee, Nucleus: Power Women: Lead from the Core
You don't decide what your purpose is in life you discover it. Your purpose is your reason for living.
— Bob Proctor
If you weren't built for this life, you'd be dead by now. i think the problem is people don't share enough of their pain with the world, so they never know who else is in pain, too, and what others are going through. we're never really alone in anything.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum of fossils of life and civilisations.
— Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Those things that inspire, enthuse, and compel you should consume your life.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.
— Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
Remember that every day you quicken into motion waves that undulate on to the very confines of existence; you stir up waves that break upon the shores of eternity itself. And it is of much importance whether they are waves of brightness that are radiated, bearing light and fragrance far and wide, or whether they are waves of gloom, carrying misery and misfortune to loosen pent-up glaciers that will create an Ice Age of the national heart.
— Halldór Laxness, Independent People
You want to make sure that your purpose is something people can benefit from long after you're gone.
— Bob Proctor
Your future depends of the choices you make today. The future for this reason can be predicted by your day to day living.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
If it wasn’t possible to reinvent the past in such a way as to make it conform to the present’s cheerful view of the way things ought to have been, why bother living?
— Kathryn Davis
Your purpose is why you you're living, your vision is how you're going to execute it.
— Bob Proctor
I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum.
— Hank Green
I am a complicated person with a simple life.
— Charlotte Eriksson
If you live life so cautiously as to never fail, you end up failing at life itself.
— J.S.B. Morse, Now and at the Hour of Our Death
And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles, he has not lived long – he has existed long. For what if you should think that man had had a long voyage who had been caught by a fierce storm as soon as he left harbour, and, swept hither and thither by a succession of winds that raged from different quarters, had been driven in a circle around the same course? Not much voyaging did he have, but much tossing about.
— Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
It's peculiar to me,' she said, 'that everybody pays so much attention to living and so little to dying. Why are these high-powered scientists always screwing around trying to prolong life instead of finding pleasant ways to end it? There must be a hell of a lot of people in the world like me--who want to die but haven't got the guts.
— Horace McCoy
Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
If you can’t dream big, you will never see the vivid colors of probability over the darkness of possibility.
— Shannon L. Alder
Whoever lives wins. Don't feel guilty about having survived. If you have time to be feeling guilty, work on living a day longer, a minute longer. And once in a while, remember the ones that died before you. That's good enough."Vol 1 Chap 4
— Atsuko Asano
He was in the right place. He was living his best life. How many other people in the multiverse could say that?
— Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land
My art, my greatest art, is the skill to live within me.
— Alireza Salehi Nejad
Those who know who one should die knew how one should live.
— Alireza Salehi Nejad
A death without being a loss to anybody is the most unworthy death.
— Alireza Salehi Nejad
In this world and the hereafter, we should not be afraid of no one but ourselves.
— Alireza Salehi Nejad
One dies the way he lives.
— Alireza Salehi Nejad
If you want to live a godly life, then choose to put the things into your mind that lead to living a godly life.
— Elizabeth George, Life Management for Busy Women: Living Out God's Plan with Passion & Purpose
Don't regret
—  just celebrate your knowledge and wisdom. Life isn't about an easygoing sheltered heaven
Life is about mindfulness. It's about being in the moment, being aware.
— Katie Kacvinsky, Still Point
What separated the living from one another could be as impenetrable as whatever barrier separated the living from the dead.
— Joshua Ferris
For a moment, frustration clouded his features. He inhaled deeply, and the clouds went away. “I miss people, you know? I miss actually living. I want to have a purpose in my life, but I don't. I'm just existing, and I don't know how long I can continue it.
— Rose Wynters, Phase Three: Devastate
One day I decided that existing simply did not work for me, and that was when I began to live.
— Sai Marie Johnson
This corner of history was as real as the tiled floor under our feet or the wooden tabletop under our fingers. The people to whom it had happened had actually lived and breathed and felt and thought and then died, as we did - as we would.
— Elizabeth Kostova
When I look back on history, and think about the ‘great depression’- when men, women and children starved- I’ve often wondered why people fell back to Government and money. That was the issue (after-all). Perhaps people believed that they were powerless... People had skills, to continue doing things like farming, building.. helping each other- coming together. But I think that they didn’t see that they had power, because they had been told that they didn’t.When you think about the power that people have (especially today), you can see that if something (like the collapse of banks) were to happen, we would all be perfectly okay. We still have inventors, builders, farmers, gardeners, entertainers, doctors, barristas, sports people, writers, etc. They don’t disappear. We could simply just go on, do what we love, and not worry about income from those pursuits. And everyone would be okay. Probably better, in-fact. No worry about paying bills, or affording things we want (or need). Too bad that people (during the depression) never thought to do that. But then again. What’s that saying?‘Hindsight is 20/20’...."From the third book in the "I Am... Subject to change without notice" series, by Cheri Bauer
— Cheri Bauer
My life isn't perfect and it will never be I make mistakes, I learn from them and keep moving forward.
— Shellie Palmer
In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Sometimes, staying alive solely depends on keeping your head in place and your senses alert
— Susana Fortes
Jesus came to give us life to the very edges of life.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
life is other, always there,further off, beyond you andbeyond me, always on the horizon,life which unlives us and makes us strangers,that invents our face and wears it away
— Octavio Paz, Sunstone/Piedra De Sol
better the crime,the suicides of lovers, the incest committedby brother and sister like two mirrorsin love with their likeness, better to eatthe poisoned bread, adultery on a bedof ashes, ferocious love, the poisonousvines of delirium, the sodomite who wearsa gob of spit for a rose in his lapel,better to be stoned in the plaza than to turnthe mill that squeezes out the juice of life,that turns eternity into empty hours,minutes into prisons, and time intocopper coins and abstract shit
— Octavio Paz, Sunstone/Piedra De Sol
I am no longer the left behind. I am the living. And I want everything this life has to offer. I stop for a second and look around at all the shops and stores and stalls. At all the people, going about their days, at all the moments they're living. This is what I want. I want to live every moment. I want to feel everything.
— Daisy Whitney, When You Were Here
You better not be touched by love; you are living peacefully. But if you do, you better not be left by it. Because the wounded in love is only shreds of heart scattered. Even if you manage to regain it, you will never be that peaceful person again. Such is the curse of love.
— Heenashree Khandelwal
Oh I must pass nothing byWithout loving it much,The raindrop try with my lips,The grass with my touch;For how can I be sureI shall see againThe world on the first of MayShining after the rain?
— Sara Teasdale, Flame and Shadow
If you never been rabid, you ain't never lived.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Rant
With limited money you can survive, with more money you can live.
— Amit Kalantri
L I V E or E V I L -- to Live life is to spell forward. To not live life is to spell backwards.
— Shannon L. Alder
This is what I think aboutwhen I shovel compostinto a wheelbarrow,and when I fill the long flower boxes,then press into rowsthe limp roots of red impatiens—the instant hand of Deathalways ready to burst forthfrom the sleeve of his voluminous cloak.Then the soil is full of marvels,bits of leaf like flakes off a fresco,red-brown pine needles, a beetle quickto burrow back under the loam.Then the wheelbarrow is a wilder blue,the clouds a brighter white,and all I hear is the rasp of the steel edgeagainst a round stone,the small plants singingwith lifted faces, and the clickof the sundialas one hour sweeps into the next.
— Billy Collins, Picnic, Lightning
You can't NOT cross the street because you might get hit by a car.
— Tanya Masse, Stairway to Awesomeness!: 30 Fundamental Steps to Living a Life of Awesomeness!
Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.
— Charles Stross, Saturn's Children
It's okay to be afraid, it means you have something to live for.
— Alicia D'Aversa, The First Child
Do for the others more than you do for yourself
— Book of Eli Movie
233Life is for the living and the dead, she said in a smile,And flashed me a bit of pale thigh in the summer time
— Derek Keck
As you turn into a daddy, soon now, you’ll find that, on marrying, a man and woman start actually living.
— Ernest Vincent Wright, Gadsby
I don't expect answers from anyone. The most I ever hope for is that here and there one may find someone who at least acknowledges the question!
— Anne Perry
Life is for the living and the dead, she said in a smile,And flashed me a bit of pale thigh in the summer time
— Derek Keck, Of Butterflies and Ghosts
I know a little of living and a little of dying. I know how to survive, i have mastered it as a soldier gains mastery of his weapons. Yet i prefer dying, for in dying i learn to live.
— Paul Bamikole
Nothing is more important than living an important life.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
You don't need to change who you are to praise God.
— Unarine Ramaru
THE SILENT PEOPLESome people are so rude,Living their lives with no concern for others,Or possibly just intent on pissing other people off-Annoying everyone around them.The silent people-Want to kill them-And drive forks into their skulls-Create weapons of extreme torture-And scream from the top of their lungs-"SHUT UP."But words are not spoken-And attention is not given.Though annoyance is apparent,The annoying keep on living.
— Giorge Leedy, Uninhibited From Lust To Love
When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
If God gives you a seed, He expects you to plant it;if He plants it for you, He expects you to water it; if He waters it for you, He expects you to prune it; if He prunes and keeps it for you, He expects you to harvest it; if He harvest it for you, He expects you to store it; if He stores it for you,He expects you to keep it safe from getting rotten and if He keeps it from getting rotten for you, He expects you to account for the seed.Yes!Life is all about purposefully fulfilling a purpose. We are expected to be doing something at each moment in our life or we live without purposefully living.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, The Untapped Wonderer in You: Dare to Do the Undone
Everybody is Beautiful and Unique in Their Own Special Way, Beauty goes Beyond the Outer Appearance. I think it's More Important to have a Beautiful Mind. Stop Comparing Yourselves Amongst Yourselves. Nobody is like You and Never will be You. Stop being Jealous of Others. Stop Hating on Others. Appreciate your Qualities and Characteristics.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Even a brick wants to be something.A brick wants to be something.It aspires. Even a common, ordinary brick... wants to be something more than it is.It wants to be something better than it is.
— Louis Kahn
Ralph chose the firm strip as a path because he needed to think, and only here could he allow his feet to move without having to watch them. Suddenly, pacing by the water, he was overcome with astonishment. He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.
— William Golding, Lord of the Flies
Learn to live together with other people
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To conform is to be average.
— Manoj Vaz
The Atonement has not only helped me be cleansed, and be healed, but it has also helped me live.
— Jayda Skidmore
Keep extending hand for friendship. Those alive will grip yours with theirs, while the morally dead will inflate; rubbing their own palms.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living.
— Daisy Whitney, When You Were Here
When I live each day so well, I will have no regrets when tomorrow never comes.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.
— Daisy Whitney, When You Were Here
When your life flashes through your eyes make sure there is enough to see, until then work hard on your ambitions and live life to the fullest.
— Unarine Ramaru
If lies comfort, and truth disturbs - self is being agitated as a result of prideful living.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Never cry for the same person twice.
— Manoj Vaz
Fantasies are the escape that every prisoner of the soul indulges in.
— Manoj Vaz
The real troubles with living is that living is so banal.
— James     Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
Love is like is like the setting sunafter shining brightly, it dips steadilytill it disappears...only to resurface another day.
— Manoj Vaz
Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
Fat or thin. tall or short. we have a problem with almost everything, and maybe, that is why we should actually start "LIVING".
— anjali mukherjee
Leave me, and go to another, but never stand alone
— Oliwier Ernest Brzezinski
Everyone, he continued, wants his life to stand for something other than what it would, which is about eighty years – in the West, at any rate – eighty years of working, eating, sleeping, shitting, breeding, and dying. Lives of buttoning and unbuttoning – who said that?
— Zia Haider Rahman, In the Light of What We Know
You don't need to change who you are to praise the God.
— Unarine Ramaru
As Sri Krishna says, And when he sees me in all and sees all in me, then I never leave him and he never leaves me. And he, who in this oneness of love loves me in whatever he sees, wherever this man may live, in truth, he lives in me...
— Vanamali, Hanuman: The Devotion and Power of the Monkey God
Runnin's not a bad thing, sir, so long as you're runnin' towards somethin' good.
— Jonathan Auxier, The Night Gardener
I really should talk to him. He's had a near-death experience!”"We all have. It's called living."(Hogfather)
— Terry Pratchett
Everybody learns from their own mistakes.The wise learn from mistakes others make.
— Manoj Vaz
To win the rat race, you have to think and behave like a cat.
— Manoj Vaz
Everybody looks good in their own mirror!
— Manoj Vaz
He wore his medals. He had a surprising number of them, the real kind, not the ones you got for turning up. Although turning up was no mean thing, some days.
— Nick Harkaway, Tigerman
Life may not have dealt you a great set of cards... but who says the one with better cards will win?
— Manoj Vaz
Your achievements die with you.Your deeds live on as your legacy!
— Manoj Vaz
The factory of love encompasses all, but on some days, does it seem to be one of suffocation, squeezing its target too tightly? And on other days not tight enough? Or maybe that is the breath of a living love knowing when to protect, when to release, and when to protect again. For we are the products of an active love - the Father the creator, the Son the perfecter, the Spirit the supervisor - but just like in a factory, to deny the process is to ultimately create a defect of oneself.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
In life, I have learnt that the more I learnt about life, the sadder I became and the sadder I became the desire to learn about life increased.
— Manoj Vaz
Don't stop livingbefore you stop breathing.
— Manoj Vaz
Life nurtures.Life tortures.Either way, you come out stronger!
— Manoj Vaz
Life isn't complicated.We are.
— Manoj Vaz
It is the 'Teacher', that shapes a novice; not only with his studies, but character too.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
Dreams are like living things; they can grow, they can suffer disabilities, they can have deficiency diseases and they can also die off when they meet unfavourable and favourable conditions respectively.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
To gain significance, you must first realise that you are insignificant.
— Manoj Vaz
Life will test you, hurt you, betray you, break you, swallow you, shatter you... but as long as it doesn't leave you, you still have a shot.
— Manoj Vaz
Don't expect life to serve you what you expect. Just enjoy the buffet.
— Manoj Vaz
Depravity and decadence are two sides of the same coin.
— Manoj Vaz
Don't try to understand women.Women don't want to be understood,they just want to be loved.It is men who crave understanding.
— Manoj Vaz
God is a necessary evil.
— Manoj Vaz
Some days in the camp you prayed to live; some days you prayed to die quick. Some days you didn't bother praying, knowing there was no sense to anything.
— Allan Dare Pearce, Hitler Burns Detroit
There is always a hope for the living.Life is worth living, no matter what situation you may have encounter.No situations is permanent.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is always hope for the living.Keep hope alive.Never give in to fear.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Where there is no will,there is always a way out.
— Manoj Vaz
Living appears good, long, and tiresome, but it is way too short than a single stroke of lightning.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
Between hope and despair treads a life without love!
— Manoj Vaz
Why live unless you live large? Death is a reality, always present, waiting, with that in mind, live today, it is everything you own.
— Jason Goodman
I don't want to merely exist, Parker. I want to live. I want to leave the world with that one sweet moment.
— Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero
Living things don't all requirelight in the same degree. Some of usmake our own light: a silver leaflike a path no one can use, a shallowlake of silver in the darkness under the great maples.But you know this already.You and the others who thinkyou live for truth and, by extension, loveall that is cold.
— Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2012
It is not in my nature to be interested in the living.But there are many things, I have found, that defy nature.
— Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well
Eating was hard.Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
The living are more demanding
—  the dead can wait.
What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.
— Doug Dorst, S.
To die is more important than trying to be alive. When we try to be alive, we have trouble. Rather than trying to be alive or active, if we can be calm and die or fade away into emptiness, then naturally we will be all right.
— Shunryu Suzuki, Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen
We worship numberless gods or idols, but we all need to be the grandest possible versions of ourselves, we need to walk across the face of the earth with as much grace and beauty as we can muster before we’re wrapped in our winding sheets, and returned.
— Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen
I thought there would be time, but we always think stuff like that, don't we? We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
— Stephen King, Duma Key
I Drink. I Burn. I Dream.And Sometimes, I tell Stories !
— Hélène Cixous, The Book of Promethea
Let’s only care about the place where we are.There’s beauty enough in being here and not anywhere else.If there’s someone beyond the curve in the road,Let them worry about what’s past the curve in the road,That’s what the road is to them.
— Alberto Caeiro, Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa,: Including Poems by His Heteronyms: Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis [And] Alvaro de Campos, as Well as Some of His Eng
The power of God has not in the least bit been diminished over the past 2000 years. Our Lord still sits on His great throne and His train still fills the temple. He still walks on the wings of the wind, He still rides on the backs of the mighty cherubim, and He still is the Triumphant Champion from Calvary. All hell still bends to His will, and sin and death have lost their hold on all who rest in the shadow of His presence. And the God who calmed storms, raised up dead men to life, and multiplied fishes and loaves to feed thousands is the same God we have today.
— Eric Ludy, Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God
I don’t see how anyone can find happiness in this world.
— Denice Envall
Living is art.Breathing and heart beating is music.Seeing is painting the world with our eyes.Touching is sculpting the shape of everything.Life is the most intense art of all.
— Jacob Nordby
This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.
— Shaun Hick
One needs longing to live and enemies make one long for them.
— Aporva Kala, Life... Love... Kumbh...
Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
— Muriel Spark, Memento Mori
Man, I’m just trying to get you lighten up a bit.” “Murphy, we’re looking at a thousand rotting corpses. Lighten up?” “Life is what you make it, man.
— Bobby Adair, Infected
He hurt everywhere, so at least he must be alive. Another comforting thought because, despite everything, he wanted to be alive. It was the business of living he wanted nothing to do with.
— John Martel, Conflicts of Interest
The weathered dairy barn, the wilted chicken coop, the leaning corn crib, the corroded silos-- all were revealed as structures of utility and grace. Someone must have rigged Ry's perception so that he had spent his whole life seeing only the ultimate futility of these structures while concealing what made them worthy, the struggle itself, the striving for a better day.
— Daniel Kraus, Scowler
The success of a civil order should not be judged by its most affluent members, but by the standard of living of its poor.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Thanks,” Johann finally said. “It’s the irony of war. Those who want to live, die. Those who want to die, live on.
— Lee Strauss, Playing with Matches
We should live deeply and with delight for those who were cheated of life's gift.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You are never more alive than when you are enraptured by pain.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Your next action could change the world, so make it a good one.
— A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
Blessed are those with cracks in their broken heart because that is how the light gets in.
— Shannon L. Alder
Being alive and living aren't the same.
— Alex London, Guardian
I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else’s version of it.
— Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke
You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.
— Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die
The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are...There's a million times more dead than living and the dead are dead a million times longer than the living are alive...
— Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear It Away
Someone who doesn’t know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.
— Shannon A. Thompson, Take Me Tomorrow
When it's about your life, it's time to be selfish.
— Dee Dee Artner
I weep fer the livin. I weep fer the dead. I weep fer the yet to be born.
— Moira Young, Rebel Heart
You wanted to live," he says."You say that like it's a good thing. A virtue.""What is it really?"I think about this. "Selfish.""Wanting to live is selfish?""Yes.
— Stephanie Kuehn, Charm & Strange
Death does not come when the body is too exausted to live.Death comes because the brilliance inside of us can only be contained for so long.We do not die.We pass on.Pass on the life burning through our throats.When you leave me, I will not cry for you.I will run into the strongest wind I can find and welcome you home.
— Michael Lee
Life in all its resiliency, beauty and strength is sometimes eclipsed by its unquestionable transient frailty. Today we are alive…tomorrow is not promised. And it seems, the evil that lurks in the shadows, this side of heaven, often has its say. But let it never be that we allow evil, which basks in our fear, to hinder our ability to live vibrantly unafraid of what tomorrow might bring. The only way to defeat the inevitable darkness that touches this world is to live and love brilliantly bright with purpose. To not do so, is to diminish the very memory and glow of all the beautiful lights that have gone out before us.
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
All of our lives are a living, breathing story, and each heartbeat means a new page has been turned; chapters don't close, they continue.
— Jeff Dixon - Storming the Kingdom
Millionaires don't play the blame game but the gain game.
— Dee Dee Artner
It was a brave city, she decided, eyeing them. Brave in its other sense; not courageous, so much as outstanding, commanding. It was too nice a town to die in. Though it had no honeysuckle vines and no balconies and no guitars, it was meant for love. For living and for love, and the two were inseparable; one didn't come without the other.("Too Nice A Day To Die")
— Cornell Woolrich, Tonight, Somewhere in New York: The Last Stories and an Unfinished Novel
I don’t existmetal pressed to pagesspilling blood, inkin vein each thought ragesSunlight shootingthrough a forest of pinesblack top windingand yellow dotted linesI am not hereonly a deep aching,a lightning flashand a tree trunk breakingSheets once alive covered in a deep redmark the presentbut I am not yet deadNothing is hereonly the rain and mistfresh air and soilI do not need to exist.
— Abby Musgrove
Surviving is a necessity. Living is an art.
— Cathryn Louis
Give up your holy books, and remember the Lord, you fool, and stop oppressing others so badly.
— Bhagat Kabir
The first key to a purposeful living is to accept the responsibility of your mission. When you agree "yes" to the calling, then you ask God "why?".
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
There’s plenty of room for strangeness, mystery, originality, wildness, etc. in poems that also invite the reader into the human and alive center about which the poem circles.
— Thomas Lux
Isn't it interesting how much we dislike the days that allow us to enjoy our weekends? The days that pay. If you don't like Monday's, you're not living your authentic life! You’re in the wrong job! What do you really want to do with your life…?
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
In my sleep I have my nightmares, awake I have my thoughts, I am not sure which is worse.
— Carl R. White
Books had rescued me when i most needed saving... Books were smarter than me and words inspired me... to try something new, charge forward without a clear understanding of what would happen next, because "given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too deeply?"In the end, Thoreau, Whitman, Hafiz, and a dozen other writers put me up to the task of seeing if I dared to "live a life worth living.
— Dee Williams
...today, I’m writing about the extraordinary; those ‘moments’ in life that reach us, and change us. Those moments take place all the time, really – it’s just that we’re taught not to notice. We’re taught that whims are for the foolish; that instinct and passion are more akin to fairy tales than reality; that they won’t get us very far, and everyone would laugh at us if they knew what we really held close to our hearts.It’s a lie we allow ourselves, and it’s understandable.But it’s simply not true.
— Dianna Hardy, The Spell of Summer
None of us are ordinary – we just settle into ordinary lives.
— Dianna Hardy, The Spell of Summer
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.
— Maya Angelou
In the midst of life we are in death,'" said Miss Ophelia.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Lord, You made us and gave us breath. May we do justice, love and mercy, and walk honorably before you this day. By the precious name of Jesus, I ask for your help to do this. Amen.
— Dee Henderson, Before I Wake
To work for the sheer joy of it, to wake up and be really excited on a Monday, to love what you do so much that the idea of a long vacation looks boring - that's living.
— Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom