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Life's a book filled on pages Just awaiting to be written.Some don't open it for ages,Maybe afraid of being bitten.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, How to Make a Book
Woe unto you when all men speak well of you.
— Joan Bauer, Best Foot Forward
Life is for living.
— Laird Hamilton, Force of Nature: Mind, Body, Soul
If someone likes you when you are living a lie, remember - he likes the lie, not you.
— Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy
Sometimes wisdom dictates that you take a few steps backwards to be able to go much further
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
Every aspect of your life is anchored energetically in your living space, so clearing clutter can completely transform your entire existence.
— Karen Kingston
I don't believe in sin. My relationships that failed have failed because I somehow attract devout christians. I don't believe in virtue either. I think people just do shit and it's life.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
You can’t be beaten by something you laugh at.
— Jonathan Harnisch, Freak
I took up space. I was a collection of cells and memories, awkward limbs and clumsy fashion crimes; I was the repository of my parents' expectations and evidence of their disappointments
— Robin Wasserman, Girls on Fire
Be yourself because an original is worth more than a copy.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Live as intensely as possible, burn your candle of life from both ends.
— Osho, And The Flowers Showered Discourses On Zen
Every living word that gives life was once without form.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
The only way to survive after death is by breathing life into the universe before death.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
A giver's purse can never be paused.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what "just living" might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.
— Núria Añó
You can't attack the giants in your life, if you are not aiming to strike and hit the target. You can't run a race in vain, if you have no plans to win or finish it. Start, strive and aim high...never give up. Your best is yet to come!
— Kemi Sogunle
Then I wondered why on earth would anyone ever stand in the world as if standing in the cornucopic middle of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon but inside a tiny white-painted rectangle about the size of a single space in a car park, refusing to come out of it, and all around her or him the whole world, beautiful, various, waiting?
— Ali Smith
I always think fondly of my years inside Detention Center LC/766B.The women and the children I met had all lost people they loved, but they never wallowed in despair.Dying is one of the few experiences we'll eventually all enjoy firsthand, and like most shit that's commonplace, it's boring to dwell on. My fellow inmates/classmates (and really, what's the difference?) showed me it was more interesting to concentrate on the living.Because death is fucking predictable... ...but life has science experiments and free time and surprise naps and who knows what comes next?
— Brian K. Vaughan, Saga #36
How alive am I willing to be?
— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
What if you knew before you were born that love will not be a given? If you learned that rejection would be the blueprint for your entire life? If you were the one calling the shots, would you still choose to be born?
— Ina Catrinescu, Love of Fate
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
— William Wallace
When, shortly afterward, I stopped at the top of the hill and saw the town beneath me, my feeling of happiness was so ecstatic that I didn’t know how I would be able to make it home, sit there and write, eat, or sleep. But the world is constructed in such a way that it meets you halfway in moments precisely like these, your inner joy seeks an outer counterpart and finds it, it always does, even in the bleakest regions of the world, for nothing is as relative as beauty. Had the world been different, in my opinion, without mountains and oceans, plains and seas, deserts and forests, and consisted of something else, inconceivable to us, as we don’t know anything other than this, we would also have found it beautiful. A world with gloes and raies, evanbillits and conulames, for example, or ibitera, proluffs, and lopsits, whatever they might be, we would have sung their praises because that is the way we are, we extol the world and love it although it’s not necessary, the world is the world, it’s all we have. So as I walked down the steps toward the town center on this Wednesday at the end of August I had a place in my heart for everything I beheld. A slab of stone worn smooth in a flight of steps: fantastic. A swaybacked roof side by side with an austere perpendicular brick building: so beautiful. A limp hot-dog wrapper on a drain grille, which the wind lifts a couple of meters and then drops again, this time on the pavement flecked with white stepped-on chewing gum: incredible. A lean old man hobbling along in a shabby suit carrying a bag bulging with bottles in one hand: what a sight. The world extended its hand, and I took it.
— Knausgaard, Karl Ove
this was not the end of the world, actually it was the world.
— Knausgaard, Karl Ove
The death of any man will not remove God's throne.
— Olawale Daniel
Some fail to bear in mind that everyone is sentenced to death. Death is a treacherous virus that strikes randomly. The only truth is that nobody is going to make it out alive. We are all living on probation and our expiry date is indefinite. ( “Living on probation” )
— Erik Pevernagie
Don’t waste your time dying over the past, spend it living in the present.
— Saim Cheeda
Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived.
— Osho, Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other
Don't be sad that it's over.Be glad that you ever lived to see it.
— A.J. Beirens
One day you will be the only one in the room not living.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
It's time, friends. Time to give back. Time to step out and risk more than we want. Time to dream dreams bigger than we imagined. Time to mourn with those who mourn, to bring beauty where there are ashes, to announce a new season in the world. This isn't mere altruism or sympathy; it's more than a tax write-off or publicity stunt. It's a shot at living the lives we were meant to live, that the world needs us to live, that we're scared to live.
— Jeff Goins, Wrecked: When a Broken World Slams into your Comfortable Life
How you survive on earth is only known to you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Typical Pollution, they’re always living in the wrong place at the wrong time.
— Rebecca McNutt, Shadowed Skies: The Third Smog City Novel
Who wanted to live to a hundred and one? Who wanted to go on living at all at times?
— Catherine Cookson, The Black Candle
Be glad for the sacred breath.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You cut yourself off from all sorts of experience because you tell yourself you re not 'that sort of person
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Look at this beautiful world!
— Heather Demetrios, I'll Meet You There
Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?
— Virginia Woolf, The Years
My innocence is not lost—it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call "breaking" is the pain that comes from resisting the truth. Life broke parts of me that needed to fall away for me to live an open and truthful life.
— Jewel, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story
This is the best worst time of my life.
— Jewel, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story
When you love someone, you can just live without it. You desire to connect and communicate.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Take time to relax, renew and be revived.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There was nothing so very unfamiliar about the excitement she was feeling, and yet it felt always like a new excitement. It was, in other words, a perennially unfamiliar feeling.
— Sōseki Natsume, Light and Darkness
Positive life, positive actions.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
He seemed to become aware of a dark, imponderable force pushing him left when he meant to go right or pulling him back when he meant to go forward. Until that moment, hewould have felt certain that his actions had never been subject to restraintby others. He had been certain that he did whatever he did of his ownaccord, that everything he said he intended to say.
— Sōseki Natsume, Light and Darkness
The living have no place at the feasts of the dead.
— George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Connect and communicate to sacred strangers in daily life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
How strange that as I'm dying, you're calmly alive.
— Taijun Takeda, This Outcast Generation and Luminous Moss
Connect and communicate!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I lived in the city of light for 4 years 10 months, the generosity of sacred souls sustain my livelihood.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you say yes when you mean no, you are not being authentic, or true to yourself, to who you really are. You are not living your life, you are trying to fit in with someone else's.
— Rishika Sharma
Do not just pass through life, purposely live it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hope always comes after evil has done its work. We cannot keep living on hope, though. (Box of Pandora)
— Erik Pevernagie
The tender spring upon thy tempting lipShows thee unripe; yet mayst thou well be tasted:Make use of time, let not advantage slip;Beauty within itself should not be wasted:Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their primeRot and consume themselves in little time.
— William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis
There is no loss in life. The only loss is the love did not express.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is worth living with fearless heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We're truly alive when facing the prospect of our own mortality, if you convince yourself that you'll live forever, you'll never really have lived at all.
— RyLee Harrison
Enjoy the ride of life. It is irreplaceable.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Living life is the greatest adventure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Live each day with great love, hope and faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Live a fearless life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Living life is my greatest miracle.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I build my life with light, love and loyalty.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The grace of existence is the power of giving.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Live a fuller sacred life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you stop giving, you stop the stream of abundance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Live life with grace, there is no return from the grave.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What liberate us is what we live to serve.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The writer’s life is frightful
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Those who are happy will make many souls happy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Let your life blossom like sacred flower.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
This fiddling and drifting and not impressing oneself upon anything – this always refraining and fingering and cutting things up into little jokes and facetiousness – that's what's so annihilating. Yet given little money, little looks, no special gift – what can one do? How could one battle? How could one leap on the back of life and wring its scruff?
— Virginia Woolf, A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary
Life can only be live with grace and gratitude.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I live by great faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not just exist, be fully awake.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We survived life by adaptation to the changing situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It's one thing to love someone so completely that their loss causes you unfathomable grief, agony that rips at your very being. It's another thing to love someone so completely that you can no longer go on with your own life.
— Tess Oliver, Seth
Hunting, bathing, gaming, laughing: that's living (venari lavare ludere ridere occest vivere).
— Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Live your life without any regrets.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Live life daringly.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not fear to live thy sacred life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The living dead do things without putting life into it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Those who think life is a competition become corrupt.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Goodness is an open gate to a great life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Living in the past is a place that has no future.
— Jeffrey Fry
This the kind of world, if you don’t die, you just keep on growing up and living through everything that comes.
— J. California Cooper, Some Soul to Keep
You can do anything you set your mind to. You’re a human being, full of so many different thoughts and emotions; you’re the most powerful force in your universe. So when you realise that the absolute worst that could happen to you is death, wouldn’t you rather die knowing you did your best you lived your life in the most amazing way? You followed your dreams, you found your purpose and you served the rest of mankind simply by being the best person you can be? Or would you prefer to die with the regret of everything that you didn’t make time to do?
— K.A. Hill, The Winners' Guide
There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception.
— E.B. White, One Man's Meat
I learn so much that I previously did not know about the world of the immobile that it is hard to believe it all takes place over a few hours. At random: I learn about the casual indifference of the London cabbie to the wheelchair user and that the clearance on accessible entrances is measured in millimetres less than a knuckle. I learn how intractable it is to push a grown man around for hours and how spontaneity is the privilege of the able-bodied. In solid counterpart to all this grief, I learn about the lengths nurses are prepared to go to assist a purely recreational and ambitious project by one of their patients.
— Marion Coutts, The Iceberg
They got to live before they can afford to die.
— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
— John Dewey, Democracy and Education
Earth is for living only
— Anuja Ghosh
Nothing is more painful than the loneliness of being with someone who is never completely there.
— Rick Yancey
Life is sacred gift.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Which soul shall escape the power of the grave?.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
How do you wish to live in lifetime existence; envying, hating and loving? It is better to live life loving
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Achieving your heart’s desires is the key to living a life of bliss.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
I try not to judge people. It's wrong and unfair and a terrible way to go about being a human.
— Joselyn Hughes
Living life is the greatest miracle.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Live fuller life while you can still breathe.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There’s no rerun of life. Rejoice while there’s breathe.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every day is a miracle.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Living a lifetime is experiment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Blessed are the living souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is good to work for your living.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Happiness is happiness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Awake all living souls and shine thy light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Then since we mortal lovers are,Ask not how long our love may last;But while it does, let us take careEach minute be with pleasure passed:Were it not madness to denyTo live because we're sure to die?
— George Etherege, Works: Plays and Poems. Edited With Critical Notes and Introduction
It’s is not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It is a matter of doing what you love with love. Then your life and all lives will be transformed.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
A life without sweets is not much worth living.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
What is success? Freedom from lies. Living your truth.
— J.R. Rim
If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Time has become quiet flexible inside the library. (This is true of most places with interesting books. Sit down to read for twenty minutes, and suddenly it's dark, with no clue as to where the hours have gone.)
— Ellen Klages
DEATHWhy do you fear me?I am your friend.I but guide trav'lersRounding the bend ---Lead them to freedomFrom time and age,Help them start writing a new page...Seek for me never,Keep your course true ---When I am neededI'll come to you,Then I will show youRoads without end ---Why do you fear me?I am your friend.
— Clarence E. Flynn
Cian smiled a little, but it didn't reach those cool blue eyes. 'Whether it's by violence or nature, the result is the same. I've seen more death than you, more than you ever will. But still, you've seen more than most humans have or will. And that separates us, you and me, from the rest.''We don't have any choice about that.''Oh, of course we do. I know a bit about loneliness, and what can chase it back, even for the short run.
— Dance of the Gods
It's the ride of life the journey from here to there living and loving every moment like we have none to spare.
— Jess "Chief" Brynjulson, Highway Writings
Survival requires a dose of madness—what cynics call “hoping against hope”—just like art does; you conjure your future from white space, locate the hidden person, yourself, against this unfamiliar background, peering through grief and loss at something greater. “Survivors are more urgently rooted in life than most of us,” observed one Holocaust expert. “Their will to survive is one with the thrust of life itself, as stubborn as the upsurge of spring. A strange exultation fills [their] soul, a sense of being equal to the worst.
— Mark Matousek, When You're Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living
As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living.
— Dan Groat, An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy
Learn from the ants- how a tiny heart is big enough to love, help and care about another living existence.
— Munia Khan
I'm not scared of death, just tired. So fucking tired of being alive yet never fully breathing.
— Jessica Sorensen, Wreck Me
Love is scary. But not as scary as living without the one person who makes your life worth living.
— Danielle Pearl, Okay
Learning is essential for living the life you love.
— A.D. Posey
It’s a funny thing, one day you’re living and the next day you’re not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don’t even know if I would want a warning if it was my time. I think I’d rather be surprised.
— Dan Groat, An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy
It is better to live with great faith than in fear.
— Lailah  Gifty  Akita
I never even heard her voice."And after a while:"It is a strange grief."Softly:"To die of nostalgia for something you never lived.
— Alesandro Bariko
The vision of her own personality, of herself as a real everlasting thing, different from anything else, unmergeable, like the sea or the wind, flashed into Rachel's mind, and she became profoundly excited at the thought of living.
— Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
It would be wise to define ‘living’ as walking in the fullest expression of who I am, verses wallowing in the confines of who I’m not.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays
There are two ways to learn life's lessons, the easy way and the hard way. I seem to prefer the hard way.
— Patty Houser
Life passes by in a second; we are like mushrooms in the forest, eternal today and rotten tomorrow...
— Damian Maher, This One Thing
Conquer hate with love and evil with goodness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, On Eagles Wings:Rise
~I hope that in this year to come, YOU make mistakes. Because if YOU are making mistakes, then YOU are making NEW things, trying NEW things, learning, living, pushing YOURself, changing YOURself, changing YOUR world. YOU're doing things YOU've never done before, n MORE importantly, YOU're doing something~
— Neil Gaiman
To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.
— Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
No two days are the same.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Stop wasting time and start living.
— Renee Cefalu
Live optimistic life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
We are dust and to dust we shall return.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Seek the miracles in sacred moment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
In every endeavour, we need God’s grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Overworking leads to exhaustion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
To wonder is to recreate a sacred self.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Man is mortal
—  we are dust and to dust we shall return
To live is to wonder.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Those who want to start a new journey, there are always new roads open for you
— Aida Mitsu
Let living know they will die one day. They ought to live wisely.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Live a sacred life of love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Love is a spark of divinity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
We are in this world to fulfill a specific sacred mission.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Live a sacred life in the fullness God’s grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
We created not only to exist but to fulfill a sacred mission.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
May God grant you a great grace to live the fullness of life in the coming year.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Live your life to fullness of your sacred existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home.
— Shannon L. Alder
Having dignity doesn't require you to fall out of love with someone. You can love someone your entire life and not been in their life. It simply means you won't allow their actions or inactions to guide your future. The moment you feel derailed from your life purpose, in limbo or have to sell your worth, you have crossed over from love to desperation.
— Shannon L. Alder
A memorable heart is the easiest way to immortality.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Karate is action, survival, living; hesitation is paralysis, reaction, mortality
— Soke Behzad Ahmadi, Shorinjiryu Ryujin Kenpo
Our dreams will always tell us what we are missing in our lives. The smaller we make them tells God how little faith we have in him to make them come true.
— Shannon L. Alder
Every new morning brings new freshness and new renewal.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
We are not living. We are swimming in water called time. When our bodies get tired, we drowned and die.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
Little things done with love are better than big things without love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
We live for the glory of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
If you don't take life seriously,Life will take you, seriously!
— Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
May the living have hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The great way to live life is to love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
There is revival after rest.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Exercise promotes positive self-image and good well-being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Change of heart comes from the Creator.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Revived spirit, restored strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A relax soul is a sacred-being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I nurture daily wellness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Don’t lose faith in the people.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Let every soul revive in Jesus Name. Amen.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Positive life, positive deed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
How beautiful to be fully alive in the moment?
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The art of living is to rise above lesser things so that we can truly enjoy great things. And the message of Christmas is the greatest of all things.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
Great is the Lord’s provisions. Even in times of famine, we have more than enough to eat.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Be good to your sacred self.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
It's odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there's barley any separation between who we are and who they are.
— Penelope Douglas, Corrupt
To-day I shall be strong,No more shall yield to wrong,Shall squander life no more;Days lost, I know not how,I shall retrieve them now;Now I shall keep the vowI never kept before.
— A.E. Housman, More Poems
There is an end to every journey.Even life will come to an end one moment in time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Every action you take, leads to a consequence you face. Choose wisely!
— Kemi Sogunle
Death is the destiny of every man. Every man must know this to live wisely.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The Lord God is our great helper.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Maintain a persistent focus of what you want
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I live my life by the grace of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The miracle of everyday living is the blessed breath of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I have no regrets. Everything that happens to me was divinely ordered.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The glory to God is the act of great thankfulness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Was it worth while to lay— with infinite exertion—a roof I can't live under? —All those blueprints, closings of gaps,measurings, calculations? A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do. I'm naked, ignorant, a naked man fleeing across the roofs who could with a shade of difference be sitting in the lamplight against the cream wallpaper reading—not with indifference—about a naked man fleeing across the roofs.
— Adrienne Rich, Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974
Live in the light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
My life is change with the heart of gratefulness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You only need to live for your dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
To live is to change, to die one hundred deaths.
— Kingsolver Barbara
Don't get caught in "Waiting". When I 'Get This' then I will be able to fully 'Live'. Escape the time dominant mind by fully being here 'NOW'.
— Matthew Donnelly
Live a good life. Love while you're at it.
— Haley(fabulous/crazy/Daughter of the King of Kings
Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimateart.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I live for the moments that won't die in my memory.
— Jenim Dibie, The Calligraphy of God
... it is possible to heal. It is even possible to thrive. Thriving means more than just an alleviation of symptoms, more than Band-Aids, more than functioning adequately. Thriving means enjoying a feeling of wholeness, satisfaction in your life and work, genuine love and trust in your relationships, pleasure in your body.
— Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
When you live with dignity no man will ever take it. Live without it and every boy will steal it.
— Shannon L. Alder
To ‘live’ is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
Man is now able to fly through the air like a bird, he is able to swim under the sea like a fish, he is able burrow beneath the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.
— Tommy Douglas
This savoring of life is no small thing. The element of wonder is almost lost today with the onslaught of the media and gadgets of our noisy world. To let a child lose it is to make him blind and deaf to the best of life.
— Gladys M. Hunt, Honey for a Child's Heart
I live life in the light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
No one will live forever.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Living the life I wanted was my ultimate responsibility. Learning to forgive was my ultimate act of self-love.
— Andrea T. Goeglein
Belief and faith are great, but very few people have been led astray by thinking for themselves.
— Leah Remini
You never live an inch without involvement and hurting people and fucking yourself everlastingly.
— James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
When you first meet a person, sometimes they'll pretend to be all that you like. Deception is hard to predict instantly at times, but if you hang with them for a while their true colors will eventually begin to show.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
What have I to prove, and to whom, and why? I'm keen enough to want nothing more than to live a simple, humble, unfettered life.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Life is but a sleep disturbed By dreaming
— Kahlil Gibran
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses and start making changes.
— Roy  Bennett
It is important to know you are not above or below anyone.
— Unarine Ramaru
We only regret the chances we didn't take
— Robin Dabhi
A life well lived is better than too many quotesSometimes we are too fast, we want to shoot at people with our knowledge of the Bible. We don't really need to open our mouth much! Like the bible says: we are suppose to be those living epistles read of all men. Our actions talk more than our religious behaviour. Let's be more showing Christ than showing our knowledge about the Word. God bless you.
— Jean Faustin Louembe
Like taking a breath, learning was the simple and extraordinary result of being alive.
— Zander Sherman, The Curiosity of School: Education and the Dark Side of Enlightenment
Hope is fuel for living; without it, we'll stop here.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
Those who know how one should die knew how one should live.
— Alireza Salehi Nejad
The crucial point in life is: are we living our 'own' life or simply a life for 'other' people. Are we not playing a role on behalf of some social groups and masquerading for fear of being excluded? ( "Quest for the real moment" )
— Erik Pevernagie
We live our lives supposing things are as they appear to be when that is almost never the case.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.
— Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
When everything looks the same on the outside, yet everything has changed on the inside, we break. We break in half.This is the duality of loss.
— Christina Rasmussen, Second Firsts Live Laugh and Love Again
Some waste away their lives by drinking, partying or by simply having fun and living for pleasure.
— Sunday Adelaja
Real choices – the ones that changed you and shaped you – were never made with the head, but on the beat of a heart that saw a future it couldn't live without.
— Dianna Hardy, Rise Of The Wolf
When we stop noticing small things, we are no longer truly alive.
— Neel Burton
Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
— Albert Camus
And, while I may not live to live them/ Rest assured, ladies and gentlemen/For I have lived more than most/By just dreaming..."- Dreams, Dreams by Mansi Tejpal
— Mansi Tejpal, Drizzling Dreams
In the lowest of lows you can learn the highest of highs, and that often when you get to the point of wanting to die, it’s because you already have and are truly aching to live.
— Jackie Haze, Borderless
It’s not that I’ve ‘faked my own death’ as the saying goes. Maybe it’s that I’ve ‘faked my own life,’ and in doing so I’ve yet to realize how dead I really am.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons
On the brink of sleep I have a gloomy thought: that saving yourself is only pushing yourself even deeper into the trap rather than getting out. Dying is the only way out.
— Erri De Luca, Tre cavalli
Don't limit your imagination,the best part of your life,is living your desires.
— Ebelsain Villegas
A poem a day keeps the doctor away.
— Jill Telford
The only thing more fragile than life is the living we take for granted.
— James Stoddah, A Parallel Trust
The brain is both an emitter and a receiver of many forms of electromagnetic energy. There are fields of various forms around all living things, some we know about and others have yet to be documented.
— Steven Magee
I arrived in the USA in 2001 and by 2015 I knew through experience that I was living in a country of corporate incompetence and blatant frauds.
— Steven Magee
Life demands that we live to care for others instead of living to care for self
— Sunday Adelaja
People who spend their lives like to go to parties and cinemas, sit at home and watch movies, TV Series, TV dramas, etc.They think this is life. But it is spending life not living life.
— Sunday Adelaja
This is the only life I have to live.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May we live impossibly,” Sebby said when he opened his eyes. “Against all odds. May people look at us and wonder how such jewels can sparkle in the sad desert of the world. May we live the impossible life.
— Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life
Drink the sun’s warmth and the moon’s icy glitter, and taste that which the dead and the yet-to-be-born cannot: the potency of this world.
— Emmanuelle de Maupassant, The Gentlemen's Club
Most people have to get to a point where they don't have a choice before they'll change something.
— Alex Marwood
In the midst of a busy life don't forget to live.
— Marty Rubin
Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Seeking knowledge is mandatory for every human being, as the quest for truth is the true purpose of living. We are given an entire lifetime to collect and assemble truths. Truths are acquired only when we learn to filter all information, including those valuable lessons and insights gained from our own personal experiences, through our conscience. And as we near death, the knowledge in our hearts at the end must match the knowledge which was put in our hearts in the very beginning. All else is irrelevant.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
...the act of kindness is an unselfish act, it is medicine for your soul...
— Travis Culliton, Why I love My Prozac
Living through difficult life circumstances in not an excuse for passing trauma onto someone else.
— Cortney S. Warren, Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception
The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Live each day with graceful gratitude.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it might go on
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Savor every little bit of life and spin your own wonderfully beautiful web.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
What a great pleasure to work for your living?
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
There has to be at least one other reason besides money that makes you do the things that you do.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
You are not on earth to simply make a living for yourself that is too small a purpose.
— Sunday Adelaja
Time became more important the closer to death one was, so an extra few hours to make peace with the world were worth more than years.
— Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Do you think maybe your writing isn't going anymore because you're unhappy? Because you're not living the life you could? A life worth writing about? You must know that cliche-write what you know-but what do you know, Bree, when you shut the world out?
— Holly Bourne, The Manifesto on How to be Interesting
Mourning was really for the living.
— Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams
Courage can't exist without action. Anything else is a lion without his roar.
— Shannon L. Alder
Adversity doesn't exist to make us stronger. Adversity exists because this world is a damn hard place to live. Prove that you're better than the things it throws at you. Live.
— Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse
Life is a pilgrimage. Each moment is to be lived in depth, because each moment contains God, hidden within it.
— Banani Ray, Glory of OM: A Journey to Self-Realization
September tried to show her sternness. It was becoming a habit. She could show her sternness and think about this another time, when it was quiet and no new red Moon turned somersaults in the sky. But when she reached for her sternness, all September found in her heart was the bar of a trapeze, swinging wild, inviting her to catch it....She leaned up and kissed her Marid and hoped it was the right thing. Her heart caught the bar and swung out, swung wild, over the lights and the gasps below, reaching for a pair of sure blue hands in the air and willing them to find hers.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
It seemed to her that living without control of your own will was hardly a step above not living at all.
— Jessica Khoury, Vitro
You enjoy things less when you are always trying to control things instead of just living.
— Kaza Kingsley, The Monsters of Otherness
Simplicity make no mans great, but makes life easier and not complicated.
— Bradley B. Dalina
Living isa thing you donow or never --which do you?
— Piet Hein
Thinking of things" is but a special way of dealing with them; but, as is obvious, it is a secondary manner of doing so and thus presupposes another [i.e., the primordial one]. The fundamental error—the "intellectualist" error—committed in Greece and modern Europe is tantamount to presupposing the opposite and to regarding one's intellectual manner of relating to things as one's primordial way of living. Descartes thus dared to define a human being, that is, the one living or "self," as une chose qui pense d'autres choses ["a thing that thinks of other things"]. That's done it! As if living were just being engaged in thinking of things! What about stumbling on them?
— José Ortega y Gasset, What Is Knowledge?
Leaving Humanity is only your decision.
— Udayveer Singh
When your Knowledge is linked together it’s called Experience.
— Udayveer Singh
We live in that grave, in those clothes, in the pressure between nothing and everything, we live by perpetual movement from place to place but we want oh we so much want to escape to say it all to come home at last to the right place our rightful place our rightful space. As if that was possible.
— Gabriel Josipovici, Migrations
Living your life without goals and plans is like trying to send a letter to somewhere without adding the correct the address... The letter may get elsewhere in some days
—  so your life too goes somewhere else without better goals!
Although we, as Christians, are living in Sodom, we are not to become citizens of Sodom. . The story of Sodom is God's reminder to the modern world
— Sunday Adelaja
Air, Food, Water, Shelter, Love and Godis what we all need to live.If one more thing is missing, it's being wise.WISE enough to consume them wisely.
— Bradley B. Dalina
Air, Food, Water, Shelter, Love and Godis what we all need to live.If one more thing is missing, it's being wise.WISE enough to consume them well.
— Bradley B. Dalina
What is happiness? What is a good life? Is it a life without suffering? Something like that doesn't exist... Life is filled with suffering and sorrow. So it's no wonder that to those who fear suffering, the world seems like a living hell! And still...those who bravely keep going and try to push through this hell... They'll find that it's only a small stretch of the road to happiness. The truly great are those who never lose hope, even when thrown into hell... And as long as we have faith in ourselves, even hell itself can be a paradise!
— Naoyuki Ochiai, syndrome 1866 10
I've been living for too long abroad and aboard, Methinking the concept of being grounded or floored.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
You know kid…it’s not that every adult stops dreaming because they want to…it’s because…once we grow up, we realize that the world’s like the big bad wolf from the Little Red Riding Hood…it stinks big time and is ever-ready to gobble up any stragglers. It’s this race we sign up for from the moment we are born…if we lose, we get thrown out pretty bad.
— Srijita Sarkar, Red Christmas
Just being alive feels so arduous that all I want to do is climb under the covers and sleep.
— Lauren DeStefano, Wither
Doing life without God is not doing life.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an ending. Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimateart.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Exist with me. We'd do so beautifully.
— Alaska Gold, Growing Light
You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself.
— Shannon L. Alder
Never stop loving while living, when you stop loving, you stop living.
— Kemi Sogunle
When I hear that people live by the book, I always wonder which one.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
To enjoy each breathing day, you have to set time aside to play.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Do anything totally and it is finished
—  you will not carry a psychological memory of it. Do anything incompletely and it hangs with you.
Some people hear the voice of God in their dreams or through prayer or meditation. For me, God is truly in the details—the details found in the connections between the living things on the planet all working together to maintain the atmosphere and the soil.
— Timothy Goodwin, Within These woods: a collection of Northwoods nature essays, with original illustrations by the author
The point of meditating is not to learn to sit quietly in a room. The point is to live that way in the world.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
A nation is only great when its citizens fall in love with the art of dwelling in peace and unity.
Life's always sweeter behind River Nile! Cross it
—  forget the days of the bitter Bile! Leave the torture behind and give a Smile! Keep smiling
Your life is a sculpture, every day chip away.
— J.R. Rim
You may bend, but that will not bring your life to an end. Your refusal to give up is the key; your rose flowers blossom from the thorns of life!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Environmental radiation research is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
— Steven Magee, Solar Radiation, Global Warming and Human Disease
Made to observe the vastness of our world, the greater breadth and depth of stars unfurled, the mind can grasp an order and a plan and ponder the deep question, "Who is man?
— Mary Angeline Bell, Triumphs I & II
t can be easily argued that all living things are conscious in some aspect, but many would agree that advanced consciousness like our own is unique.
— Kat Lahr, Parallelism Of Cyclicality
You need to remember, he told her, that you don't have another life in the bank. You got to make the most of the one you're living right now. - Old Man Crow
— de Lint Charles Vess Charles
We're too young to want to stop living, because after all, we shouldn't stop something we haven't even started.
— Anonymous
It is possible to be happy and successful by living on one’s own terms.
— Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
Every day is spectacular sacred time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Read! Write! Imagine! Create! Love! Live!
— Helen Deakin
Because of the value placed on individual materialistic success in our society, we are surrounded by people primarily interested in getting something from others. Their attitudes are characterised by selfishness and a lack of empathy for others.
— Tim Crawshaw, So, You Want to Be Rich... But Jesus Doesn't.
There were never going to be any happy ending for me. I know that now. But that is all right. That is all right.
— S.J. Watson
You haven’t lived till you’ve played Scrabble in a psych ward.
— Artie Lange
Love reduces the complexity of living. It amazes me that when Henry walks towards the cafe table where I wait for him, or opens the gate to our house, the sight of him is sufficient to exult me. No letter from anyone, even in praise of my book, can stir me as much as a note from him.
— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home.
— Rebecca McNutt, Smog City
Procrastination is a way of living in the past instead of the present moment.
— Debasish Mridha
Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
I'm homeless. I've taken to the belief that home is not where we lay our heads comfortably some nights, or where we entertain visiting friends. It's not where love is unconditional. When I look up and realize I haven't run away in a long time, I'll know I'm home.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
All death matters.""Only to the living.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse
It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
The most amazing thing that makes life worth living is your love.
— Debasish Mridha
Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.
— Calvin Trillin, About Alice
Life's more important than a living. So many people who make a living are making death, not life. Don't ever join them. They're the gravediggers of our civilization - The safe men. The compromisers. The moneymakers. The muddlers-through. Politics is full of them... so is businesses... so is the church. They're popular. Successful. Some of them work hard, other are slack, but all of them could tell a good story. Never where there such charming gravediggers in the world's history.
— James Hilton
Your craft is comprehensive if it represents you.
— Unarine Ramaru
The human face shines as it speaks of thingsNear itself, thoughts full of dreams.The human face shines like a dark skyAs it speaks of those things that oppress the living
— Robert Bly, Silence in the Snowy Fields
He did not wish to be the man to whom nothing was ever to happen.
— Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
If you're determined to face death, then you'll find away to live.
— Auliq Ice
Many of the women in Los Angeles are part of the notorious gang culture, and they will forever have my gratitude for, you know, letting me live.
— Jennifer Harrison, Write like no one is reading 2
Be who you are. If a man, be one. If woman, be so. The gender-change, behaviour or role, is a mind-made turd. As illusory as this world.
— Fakeer Ishavardas