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It never occurred to me before, but I always thought of time like it was a road, or an empty plane. I could see it and mark it and claim it as mine, but the reason I couldn't travel my own speed was because I was waiting on the present to catch up, I had to wait to get to my destination. But really, there is no road, or flat plane or anything... there's just this very dangerous edge... cliff that we're dangling off of, there isn't a future really, I mean sure we can plan and prepare, but tomorrow may not come.I'm not saying base your life on that- if tomorrow does come, what you do today will influence it! But anything can push you off that cliff. So start living.
— Melanie Kay Taylor
Choose Love, Love! Without the sweet life ofLove, living is a burden - as you have seen.
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
Living in the Spirit changes your attitude, thinking, and ultimately your actions.
— Elizabeth George, A Woman's Guide to Making Right Choices
I want to tell them that almost dying is awfully easy. Its the living that's hard.
— Jennifer Holm
You'll let him talk you out of your dreams. That's what love does sometimes- talks you out of your dreams." "Not me," Katie said. "Jack would talk me into my dreams.
— Patti Callahan Henry, And Then I Found You
I thought: This is what the living do. And I swooned at the ordinary nature of the task and myself, at my chapped hands and square palms, at the way my wrists bent and fingers flexed inside this living body.
— Dee Williams
If living Life is an art, then Only You can be the artist to make it colorful.
— Sagar Gosavi
My daughter, dad where do homeless people come from? My answer, everywhere.
— Ray Price Billy
Simplicity comes at a cost; the rich can't stand for, forget affording.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
Dress for the position you want, not the position you have.
— santosh inani
We are truly defined by what we pass on to the next generation.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Life was for living, so why as I wasting?
— Amber Fae, Moving On
Life was for living, so why was I wasting it?
— Amber Fae, Moving On
We are the sum total of our experiences. Those experiences – be they positive or negative – make us the person we are, at any given point in our lives. And, like a flowing river, those same experiences, and those yet to come, continue to influence and reshape the person we are, and the person we become. None of us are the same as we were yesterday, nor will be tomorrow.
— B.J. Neblett
Never mistake the uncomfortable feeling of insecurity and the fear of the unknown with the Holy Ghost’s promptings. Sometimes those feelings are simply Satan keeping you stuck where you are because he knows you will have a half-life there. He knows that you will spend half of your life disconnected, discontented and convincing your mind of what its heart will never accept. He knows when you have settled, gave up and didn’t try. Inaction is his greatest weapon, while regret is his second.
— Shannon L. Alder
It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Beware some people are just talking to you to gain information to use against you. Be careful with what you say around others because it may not be understood the way you expected. There are those who are waiting for the opportunity to spread rumors. And, with only a few words your life has been turned into a soap opera.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
We live longerbut less preciselyand in shorter sentences.
— Wisława Szymborska, Here
When you see someone on top, look away and don't try to bring him down, because he may someday help you reach the top.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
It’s called ”being an artist” for a reason
—  it’s something YOU ARE. It’s how you live. It’s WHO you are. How you spend your life and what you leave behind.
Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.
— Ross Macdonald, The Chill
Here's the sting of livingness. He's back after his nightly voyage of sleep, all clarity and purpose; he's renewed his citizenship in the world of people who strive and connect, people who mean business, people who burn and want, who remember everything, who walk lucid and unafraid.
— Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen
Hope for the best,brace yourself for the worst and no matter what you’re faced with, make a plan to KEEP GOING!
— Tanya Masse
There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a great many worthier people would be in line for them long before Michael and Laura and himself. But the happiness of the unworthy and the happiness of the so-so is as fragile and self-centered and dear as the happiness of the righteous and the worthy; and the happiness of the living is no less short and desperate and forgotten than the joys of the dead.
— Peter S. Beagle, A Fine and Private Place
So you thought you could shit and eat at the same time. How disgustingly convenient.
— Nenia Campbell, Touched with Sight
It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.
— Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live
What do you think I live on, rainwater and daydreams?
— Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Whatever you do today, impacts your historicity.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Peace of mind comes with truth. Lying requires you to tell different lies over and over again. Tell the truth! Create beautiful memories.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Funerals aren't for the dead. They're for the living.
— Gavin Extence, The Universe Versus Alex Woods
Sing, then. Sing, indeed, with shoulders back, and head up so that song might go to the roof and beyond to the sky. Mass on mass of tone, with a hard edge, and rich with quality, every single note a carpet of colour woven from basso profundo, and basso, and baritone, and alto, and tenor, and soprano, and also mezzo, and contralto, singing and singing, until life and all things living are become a song.O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.
— Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object—the joy of living—is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up. There are valleys, cliffs, streams, precipices, and slides, and as he walks these steep paths, the climber may think he cannot go any farther, or even that dying would be better than going on. But then he resumes fighting the difficulties directly in front of him, and when he is finally able to turn and look back at what he has overcome, he finds he has truly experienced the joy of living while on life's very road.
— Eiji Yoshikawa, Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan
If the whole world seems like it's against you, it helps to know that you've still got home. A safe place. It just takes one person—a teacher, a friend, a parent. If I didn't have you and Dad, if you hadn't made it so clear you loved me as much as you did, or if you'd said, 'yeah, why don't you do it, and put yourself out of our misery, just shut up,' I would have killed myself. I really would have. I spent most of those days wishing I were dead anyway, and what always stopped me was the fact that doing so would destroy the lives of the only people who ever cared about me.
— Nenia Campbell, Freaky Freshman
It's interesting, isn't it? Being in the world.
— Eiji Yoshikawa, Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan
We need to increasingly live from the fullness of our whole hearts in order to become who we are meant to be and play the significant role that is ours to play. We want to be awake and alert. We want to be women who live their lives on purpose.
— Stasi Eldredge, Becoming Myself: Embracing God's Dream of You
You may be going through a storm right now, but understand that the sun will shine again. It is during the storm that you learn the lesson. You can either let it make you or break you. Take this time to reflect on your choices in life. Many times we create our own storms by the choices we make. Right now while you are in the midst, decide to not go backwards, move forward with more positivity.” 
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Don't go through life with a closed mind. Allow innovations and creativity to flow. We should always challenge ourselves to excel in more ways than one. Be open to ideas or suggestions on how to improve. And, the chances of reaching your goals will increase enormously.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
In this one life, this one life that you have to live, you must embrace every moment that creeps into your existence. You must feel every possible emotion to realize you’re really alive, you’re really living. If you build walls and you hide behind them in fear, you’re not embracing moments, you’re not actually living. And if you’re not living, then you’re dead. Maybe not physically, but mentally and emotionally, you are non-existent. Why would you want to waste such precious time, non-existing, especially behind a crumby wall? Fear? Fear of what? Fear of something great? Fear of something amazing? Hurt? Fear of pain? Isn’t pain what makes us appreciate feelings of absolute happiness and love? Who doesn’t want happiness? Let me be the one to tell you that this life is short, it’s damn short. So, let go of your grudges, your past, your stupid walls and feel reality. Avoidance is not life. Pain is life, happiness is life, emotion is life. Live your damn life. Stop being dead. Embrace every good feeling in your heart and soul and act on it without the fear of hurt, because undoubtedly hurt will happen, but hurt will also disappear and lead to the most valuable feelings in this world. Regret is not something you want to live with in this short, short life. So follow that tiny fist sized drum in your chest because it is honest and it is true. Take those fucking chances, take them knowing this world is full of opportunity, opportunity for great things, absolutely amazing fucking things. Take chance because that is living and no one wants to be dead. No one really wants to hide behind these crumby walls. Walls are built for protection, but guess what? You’re not protecting yourself, you are limiting yourself. You’re limiting your existence. You are the source of your suffering. You’re missing out on the best opportunities by hiding behind these shit walls. So you8 want to play it safe? Why? Life is for taking the risks, for closing your eyes and taking that damn leap of faith. This, this is living; this is your one shot. So take the risk, find opportunity, break down walls, fell the hurt, feel the happiness, live in the now, embrace what your heart is telling you and love EVERY damn moment of your existence. And please keep living, really, whole-heartedly keep living.
— Anonymous
Renewal of the mind is good for the soul because it allows you to be focused and gain understanding of your life choices. It allows you to renew your spirit and become uplifted filled with hope. Take a moment to transform those negative thoughts into something more positive. And, you will discover anything is possible when you believe.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain, hope played like a playing card upon another hope, a wish for kindness and mercies to emerge like kings and queens in an unexpected change of the game. One could hold the cards oneself or not: they would land the same regardless.
— Lorrie Moore, Bark: Stories
Your perception of a person, place, or thing may not be accurate. Just because it looks good does not mean it is good and vice versa. Always be aware of your surroundings. Pay attention to the people, places, and things around you. Don't allow your misperception to put you in an uncomfortable situation
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Each of us have a winner within. Tap into your potential and gain unlimited success! The only one who can stop you is yourself. Think Positive! Be Optimistic! Don't be fooled into thinking it can't be done. Look around amazing things are accomplished everyday. New inventions, discoveries are happening all the time. If you can get one foot in the door, you can make it happen.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Religion is a virus that we cannot get rid of. A virus of the brain that comes from no other source than itself. We who are uninfected must find the cure.
— Jordan Beem
Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently?
— Shannon L. Alder
I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change what the sane will not. This is the paradox of philosophers---trying to understand mass delusion among great people that have faith and knowledge, yet they can’t graduate from their institutions of religious theology to apply the knowledge they have gained for the shifting of Zion---- from words to action; from comfort to uncomfortable; from self serving to self giving; from competition to supporting; to tradition to unity; from bias to acceptance; from me to us.
— Shannon L. Alder
Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain-they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with laughter. With an average life expectancy of 78.2 years in the US (subtracting eight hours a day for sleep), I have around 250,00 conscious hours remaining to me in which I could be smiling or scowling, rejoicing in my life, in this race, in this story, or moaning and complaining about my troubles. I can be giving my fingers, my back, my mind, my words, my breaths, to my wife and my children and my neighbors, or I can grasp after the vapor and the vanity for myself, dragging my feet, afraid to die and therefore afraid to live. And, like Adam, I will still die in the end.
— N.D. Wilson, Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
Whether I was a genius or not did not so much concern me as the fact that I simply did not want a part of anything. The animal-drive and energy of my fellow man amazed me: that a man could change tires all day long or drive an ice cream truck or run for Congress or cut into a man's guts in surgery or murder, this was all beyond me. I did not want to begin. I still don't. Any day I that I could cheat away from this system of living seemed a good victory for me.
— Charles Bukowski, Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990
I can’t change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it.
— Charlotte Eriksson
If you could do one thing to improve yourself today, it would be this: Rid yourself of bias. If you can do this, you can learn to listen. If you learn to listen, then you can learn to communicate. If you can communicate, then you can begin to verbalize your feelings. When you verbalize your feelings, then you can release stress and frustrations. When you free yourself of what bothers you, then you can fully give yourself to others. When you come this far, then you have learned to grow spiritually.
— Shannon L. Alder
Life is a fragile and awesome gift.
— Steve Goodier
Become the person of no rank. Become the noble soul, and live in this awakened way, not imitating anyone. Whatever the circumstances your life asks of you, respond to them in your own individual Zen-spirited way. Don't waste any time trying to be someone else...We are not here to have someone else's experience. We are here to have our own vivid experience. So please don't cling to yesterday, to what happened, to what didn't happen. And do not judge today by yesterday. Let us just live today to the fullest! Moment after moment, each sitting is the only sitting.
— Maurine Stuart, Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart
It was Hell, if hell is where the life we love cannot exist.
— Jeanette Winterson, Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
A hero stands up to the villain in themselves.
— Ricky Maye
Most of us focus so much on 'capturing' the moment that we don't realize we keep losing it for the next which we will lose next:-)
— Prashant Chopra
No matter how cleverly we disguise our anxieties they bear witness to the imperfect nature of the human heart. To be is to become. To become is not to be. We are a work-in-progress, incomplete, imperfect, unrealised, and by virtue of temporal actions, temporary - a verb more than a noun, an inner quest and an outward odyssey framed by metaphors, like Escher's "Print Gallery"; we make the endless journey round the pictures, retracing our steps in forgetfulness, avoiding but mindful of the space where there are no pictures, where there is no gallery, where there is nothing at all. And like flies in a fly bottle, trapped by a failure of vision, we go round and round and round the moebius loop of a print gallery of our own making, a picture inside a picture inside a picture, forever.
— Billy Marshall Stoneking
If you can only do one thing today, choose to help someone in need. There are many who are less fortunate. Take some time to lend a helping hand. You will be surprised by how much you will uplift their spirit.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Angels often do now know whether they walk among the dead or living.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Life and death are something everyone will experience. It is living that only few will have embraced
— Ricky Maye
Living is more than just existing. When you are living you feel emotions that you may not be able to decipher. You commit mistakes and learn from them and you will be carved in people’s hearts and souls with love and happiness so when you are gone you may not be able to exist anymore but you will still be living inside people’s heart and souls and your memory will forever be cherished by them.
— Perky Peppermint
How do you live out God’s plan for your life? By living God’s way one day at a time.
— Elizabeth George, Small Changes for a Better Life: Daily Steps to Living God's Plan for You
An expectation is a thought.It has no power or influence.
— Dee Dee Artner
In ballet, any dancer who asks himself what step comes next must freeze. Any man who takes a sex manual to bed with him invites frigidity. Dancing, sex, writing a novel--all are a living process, quick thought, emotion making yet more quick thought, and so on, cycling round.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.
— Jack Johnson, Jack Johnson - On and on
In all of your living don’t forget to live.
— Ricky Maye
I would encourage you to embrace life in your living.
— Ricky Maye
You have to stand out, do something, to be remembered.
— Patricia Hamill, Fearless
I love the gray area between right and wrong.
— Dan Brown
When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the song of my gypsy girl, the great wheel turns over and lands on a minor key. It is then that you come of age and life means nothing to you. To live, to die, to overdose, to fall in a coma in the street... it is all the same. It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there being only life, the young cling to it, they fear death… And they should! ...For they are 'in' life.
— Roman Payne, The Wanderess
For each and every person, our Lord and Master provides sustenance. Why are you so afraid, O mind? The flamingos fly hundreds of miles, leaving their young ones behind. Who feeds them, and who teaches them to feed themselves? Have you ever thought of this in your mind?
— Guru Nanak, Sri Guru Granth Sahib
The way we are living,timorous or bold,will have been our life.
— Seamus Heaney
Oh, Major, you do so love to annoy, don't you?""It is the stuff of living, my lady.
— Gail Carriger, Timeless
A life's meaning comes not from the manner in which one dies, but in the manner in which one lives.
— Mike Kalmbach, The Caldarian Conflict
Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
— Sri Aurobindo
It seemed to me that life was a giant ice skating rink, and I was the only one who didn’t have skates. Most people fear death. I don’t. I’m only afraid of not living. I don’t want to be the one behind the ice rink fence, watching other people having fun.
— Milena Veen, Just Like a Musical
Wherever sufficiently numerous series of the remains of any given group, which has endured for a long space of time, are carefully examined, their morphological relations are never in discordance with the requirements of the doctrine of evolution, and often afford convincing evidence of it. At the same time, it has been shown that certain forms persist with very little change, from the oldest to the newest fossiliferous formations; and thus show that progressive development is a contingent, and not a necessary result, of the nature of living matter.
— Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
At the moment when the road looks the harshest, and you think you cannot continue on that is when you relearn your first mode of transportation; you crawl. You dig your fingers into the dirt, and propel yourself forward with your toes, but you never give up. You've gotta learn to bend with the sway. You never know what is around the next curve.
— Sai Marie Johnson
If coffee were like dreams, then I would be wired in constant bliss, never needing sleep to live out my dreams.
— Anthony Liccione
Maybe in a way all living things are like flickering flames in a precarious night, always on the verge of being extinguished. Whether we kindle slowly but steadily, or go out in a brilliant burst of light and color, is our choice. Perhaps the most important choice we'll ever have.
— Nenia Campbell, Bleeds My Desire
All of us need to be constantly reminded it takes a heap of living and loving to make a house a home.
— Marvin J. Ashton
I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. Let them become the photograph on the table. Let them become the name on the trust accounts. Let go of them in the water. Knowing this does not make it any easier to let go of him in the water.
— Joan Didion
I had to hope there was more to life than death. More to living than not dying.
— Rachel Higginson, Love and Decay, Vol. Two
The most challenging aspect of living is staying in your lane.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
The day you stop learning is the day you begin to die. Lack of knowledge is the fundamental principle for killing "alive and kicking" dreams.
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Mom wanted me to fight. To live.I'd just never dreamed that I'd have to do it alone.
— Debra Driza, MILA 2.0
Nobody should know what's waiting for them. If you knew your future, why... it would take all the fun out of living.
— David Llewellyn, Trace Memory
...I have decided that I shan't sweat the small stuff. Sense and sensibility will, I assume, come in their own time. If indeed they ought to come. And in the meantime, I shall continue to work my ass off... and whenever the opportunity arises... dance my ass off. ... As someone very smart once wrote, 'Those who were seen dancing were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music'.
— Amy Mowafi, Fe-mail 2
I want to do a good job living today.
— Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
I don't know about you, but this whole life thing has been the cause of all my problems.
— Bond Bixler
The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that’s only if you’re very lucky. And you listen very hard.
— Mark Slouka
My heart was still beating, I was still breathing, but was living something more?
— Molly Looby, Playing with Reality:
I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.
— Sara Sheridan
Being an innovator is something that most people just won't get. It's still yummy doing this thang over here though. The older I get I've come to place where I just love to create so much that I do me regardless of what it looks like to anyone else. Just think: The people in the world who just know they'll make it (In their way) regardless- Always make it to their chosen destinations. It's wonderful to see. So DO you always, And do so unapologetically with happiness! Peace and love.
— Sereda Aleta Dailey, How to Go Vegan Overnight
Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we’ll do what we want.
— Daniel Willey
Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.
— Daniel Willey
There are billions of people in this world that don’t believe or act exactly as we do. It is not our place to reject them, only accept them. Again, we don’t have to agree with everything they believe or do, but we do need to love and accept who they are.
— Daniel Willey
A life spent in fear is not much of a life at all.
— Daniel Willey
I’m not looking for fate. I’m seventeen. I’m looking for kissing, and to move forward a few paces on the game board. You know, do some Living. (With my lips.)
— Laini Taylor, Night of Cake & Puppets
When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn’t become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.
— Shaun Hick, The Army of Five Men
Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.
— Guru Nanak, Sri Guru Granth Sahib
I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with the blind worship of the ignoble past, with the idea that all the great and good are dead, that the living are totally depraved, that all pleasures are sins, that sighs and groans are alone pleasing to God, that thought is dangerous, that intellectual courage is a crime, that cowardice is a virtue, that a certain belief is necessary to secure salvation, that to carry a cross in this world will give us a palm in the next, and that we must allow some priest to be the pilot of our souls.
— Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
I would rather burn out than rust out.
— Amy Carmichael
it's something rebellious about picking up and leaving buying a one way ticket and not knowing when you want to return.
— Turcois Ominek
But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open.
— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures upon the 'harmony of Genesis and Geology.' Like all hypocrites, these men overstate the case to such a degree, and so turn and pervert facts and words that they succeed only in gaining the applause of other hypocrites like themselves. Among the great scientists they are regarded as generals regard sutlers who trade with both armies.Surely the time must come when the wealth of the world will not be wasted in the propagation of ignorant creeds and miraculous mistakes. The time must come when churches and cathedrals will be dedicated to the use of man; when minister and priest will deem the discoveries of the living of more importance than the errors of the dead; when the truths of Nature will outrank the 'sacred' falsehoods of the past, and when a single fact will outweigh all the miracles of Holy Writ.Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then, and not until then, will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher, become a real and blessed truth.
— Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
To be alive is to be dizzy and not to know exactly where to go.
— Ander Monson
Like completing a run, living today begins with preparation, planning, and prayer.
— Elizabeth George, Loving God with All Your Mind
God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players downhere.We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each word we spoke,each thought we etched on our brains. And Momma had written herscript, too.And a sorry one it was.
— V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
But she didn't want to recall things. She wanted to live things — or as a compromise, relive rather than reminisce.
— Betty  Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The true Epicurean cultivates the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around him chase pleasure in more things.
— Luke Slattery, Reclaiming Epicurus
Until you make a destiny defining decision, you can't move from where you are to the rightful place you should be.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
My Favourite hobby is to sit still and convert oxygen into Carbon Dioxide. Love to Live.
— Brahmananda Patra
We make choices and are in turn made by them.
— Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing
Stop existing and start living!
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
By forgetting the Supreme Lord, all the ailments cling to the man.
— Guru Arjan Dev
Living a happy life is more than enough.
— Shrikant Rao
What's the point of living if you don't feel alive?
— Leigh Hershkovich
Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so often do we see the smallest masses selected for use in Nature, that even enormous ones are built up solely by fitting these together. Indeed, all Nature's efforts are devoted to uniting the smallest parts of our bodies in such a way that all things whatsoever, however diverse they may be, which coalesce in the structure of living things construct the parts by means of a sort of compendium.
— Marcello Malpighi
I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.
— Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
Life is too important to take seriously.
— Corky Siegel
I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath.
— Elizabeth Scott
It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue.
— Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether occupy a bare one per cent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine per cent is just living in waiting.
— Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
Pull yourself together. People among the living still need your help, and I haven't given you permission to quit.
— Ann Aguirre, Horde
To distort our faces with joy, or wail and weep with sorrow, or collapse in agony, or wallow in sentimentality – wasn’t an inviolable human trait but something we can lose simply by leading dull and dreary lives. ‘A rich emotional life,’ she’d written, ‘is a privilege reserved only for the daring few’.
— Ryū Murakami, Audition
It's all a matter of perception. What one person deems to be important may be just as equally unimportant to another.What one deems to be right may seem very wrong to someone else.Your moral compass and values may not always be totally in sync with others you meet. In the end it's all just your perception of how you choose to live your life and this may not always win you friends. In fact it may gain you some enemies.Live your life how you choose to and if people don't like the way you do things then disagree if you must, but be nice & be respectful and then if you must, move on and leave it all behind you. It's your life after all and only you can live it. Choose your path and set your compass then start walking.
— Michael Tianias
The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs.
— Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories
All that really matters isto feel alive, if only for a single moment –to feel in Intense Sensationthat our existence is not an endless repetitionof sleeping, eating, drinking, and dressing.
— Pietros Maneos
Your purpose will be clear only when you listen to your heart.
— Lolly Daskal, Thoughts Spoken From The Heart
One of the reasons why I liked living in Manhattan was that the city would share your mood the moment you walked out the door. If you were in a hurry, everything else was too, even the pigeons. You shared the same speed and sense of urgency to get wherever you were going.When you had time to kill, it was happy to give you things to look at and do that easily took up whole days. I didn't agree with people who said Manhattan was a cold, indifferent town. Sure it was gruff, but it was also playful and sometimes very funny.
— Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks
Sometimes the walk to the doctors is a better cure than the medicine you receive
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
Remember, Little Ones, everything is not important all the time. Only living is important all the time. Not things. Not money. Not more things and more endless money. Spend well the quality of your time. And yes, be greedy with your hours. If only to then give those hours away as the most precious gifts you have to offer to yourself, your family, and your friends. And yes, to my Little Ones.” –From The Legacy Letters–“The Everything and Nothing of Money.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
I feel sad for the people who I hear always plan, plan, plan the next day's event to occur. Life only stands still for them.
— Ingrid Nkenlifack
Let it be..let it be..Let the ppl think the way they want,Live the life the way u wantLet it be..let it be..Nothing is permanent then why to worry,Live life condition freeLet it be..let it be..Smile cost nothing..still u pay for it, why we live life in hurry when everthing is tempory..Let it be..let it be..Respect ur elders wether they scold u, love urslf wthr no1 else does, u r most beautiful creature.beleive and accept it nd..Let it be..let it be..U r the king, u r the ruler..conquer urslf nd let things pass like water in the river..move with flow..live has no other flow..So..let it be..let it be..
— Nitish Sharma
The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all the other branches of learning. Learning is another name for vanity. It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings.
— Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
A journey begins with a single step
— Ricky Maye, Barefoot Christianity
Living in the fast lane is great as long as you remember where the slip roads are
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
Death was easy. Life was complicated.
— Callie Hunter, All At Once
There is a very, narrow, thinness of line between the living and the dead; actually, it's just a lack of a heartbeat away.
— Wes Adamson
No matter what, you can only live this moment.
— Krishna Sagar
Our physical body knows it cannot function without physical water. So, too, our spiritual life should realize that it can't function without the "living water" of Gods Word.
— Jim George, A Young Man After God's Own Heart
Life is not meant to be lived on the sidelines or the edge of the pool. It is meant to be embraced, inhaled, and devoured. It is meant to be tasted, chewed and swallowed, savoring each and every experience as if it were the most delicious delicacy ever eaten.
— Monica E. Tunnell
As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better.
— Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight
I'm fine," [her dad] said gently. "Back on the horse, Cath.''What's the horse?' she sighed, watching him pull on a South High hoodie. 'Jogging? Working too much?''Living,' he said, a little too loud. 'Life's the horse.
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
The person who says it can’t be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it.
— Shannon L. Alder
Some people are given relatively fair lives. But others-they carry the burden of the unfairness of the world.
— David Levithan, Invisibility
I tell myself I’m fine on my own, but am I? No friends to fall back on, no relationships, no support. Left to my own devices, I have no devices.
— Jael McHenry, The Kitchen Daughter
What is the one thing that gets you up every morning? The one thing that keeps you going every day, every month, every year? Let me get you started. My one thing is this, ‘I'm one day closer...’ One day closer to a goal, an outcome, or the results I'm after in my life. This is my way of remembering the importance of focusing on the life I desire and living a life of gratitude! So, what’s your one thing…?
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
If you feel like a nearly-drowned rat that’s been dragged through the mud, all twisted up inside your mother’s borrowed, prized quilt, having been tossed about by gale force winds that managed to entangle you in barbed wire one-thousand miles from your goal in the middle of a hot, barren nowhere void of any basic necessities―then congratulations! You’re no observer but an actual participant in the game of life! Stand up and keep living.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
When my grandpa died, I had this same fear. I love Grandpa so much. He was Mom's dad, and he was my favorite person in the whole world. He lived up north, between Grayling and the Mackinaw Bridge. He had, like, twenty acres. He had horses and dirt bike and all this awesome stuff. I'd go up there for weeks at a time during the summers, and he'd let me do whatever I wanted. We'd go hunting and fishing and four-wheeling, and I'd stay up till midnight every night. Then one day, he died. All of a sudden, just like that that. I cried for days. Dad kicked the shit out of me for crying, but I didn't care. I loved Grandpa, and he was gone. Then, like a month after he'd died, I had this panic attack. I couldn't remember what he looked like. I thought it meant I didn't love him, or that I'd forgotten about him. It was the only time Dad was anything like helpful. He told me you have to forget what they look like. Otherwise, you can't learn to live without them. Forgetting is your brain's way of telling you it's time to try and move on. Not forget who they were, just...keep living.
— Jasinda Wilder, Falling into Us
Yesterday, today, tomorrow and maybe forever, living and leaving without you.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
I don't believe that the course of anyone's lifetime has ever been as unerring as that of the rising and setting sun, but I know many lives that have been just as inspiring.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Only in sleep, where there's nothing but mind, can the mind clearly process all of the day's experiences/memories - without distraction. And, perhaps, only in sleep, where there's nothing but mind, can the mind truly understand the meaning of these memories, as well, and assimilate them with all the other memories you've accumulated over time, forming greater meanings - unintelligible in the light of day - building, perhaps, to some ultimate meaning at the culmination of life - unintelligible in the light of living.
— Mark X., Citations: A Brief Anthology
Does this world feel like hell to you? Of course it does, because it is.
— Naoyuki Ochiai, Syndrome 1866 Vol. 4
You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard.
— Kahlil Gibran
If you truly want to pursue and achieve the success you were created for, you must recognize the role of vision, the significance of dreams and the power of actions without which you are just making a living.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers
I do not worship a DEAD and buried Christ at Calvary. I worship a ressurected and LIVING Christ in Heaven! Jesus Christ is alive.
— Israelmore Ayivor
My life wasn’t horrible, but I didn’t see any passionate reason to love it.
— Shannon A. Thompson, 2013: A Stellar Collection
The power behind living a dream lies in either believing it's a dream or knowing it's not.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Only those who have tasted the bitterest of the bitter can become people who stand out among others. -Guanchang Xianxing Ji
— Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
I spend more time with the living, than the dead now.
— Jennifer Hotes, Four Rubbings
God wanted us to do something, and we went the bad way. Then he said "No!, I am not going to lose what I want done!, So I'm gonna save this people and restore their dreams back to them"!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Ones life will have much more meaning and happiness if one makes their own decisions
— Duncan William Gibbons
Why live for tomorrow, when you’re not even through living today! Focus on what you can accomplish now and create the tomorrow's you desire today….
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
Relationships have their ups and downs, however if the downs outweigh the ups, then its probably time to hit the door
— Epiphana Lewis
We are killing, every one of us, every moment of the day - just by living. And if one realizes this, is this very realization itself not a conscious consent to murder? If a truly circumspect Jain was truly serious about not killing anything, wouldn't his only recourse be to kill himself?
— Mark X., Citations: A Brief Anthology
This trespass had not come without a price. Living un-lives, material comforts and luxuries became superfluous, connection to the outside world undesirable, and power their only sustenance. But they had paid gladly, considering this “humanity” a small price for the power they now wielded; power that would sustain them far beyond the lives of mere humans and perhaps, in time, even grant them immortality.
— J. Valor, Salome
A place to live is not a place to stayA place to stay is not a living place
— Munia Khan
I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. It’s the living. Those of us left behind.
— Jael McHenry, The Kitchen Daughter
When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.
— David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing
Gavin's Law: Live to start. Start to live.
— Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –
— Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
Your life should consist of more than commuting, working, eating, surfing the Internet, sleeping and watching TV. Your life should be filled with purpose-driven experiences and projects that bring excitement, passion, energy, and authentic meaning and joy into your life.
— Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...
— Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing, and which shirking pain, misses happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime ‘let out all the length of the reins.
— Mary Cholmondeley
Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.
— Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
Worldly possessions didn't matter much to him, but his freedom did. He could come and go as he pleased, with nothing more than the backpack underneath his seat. It was a simple existence for a simple man.
— Rose Wynters, My Wolf Protector
Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.
— William T. Vollmann, Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means
If ever you feel lost, terrified, alone, emotionally and physically drained...when you feel like depression has overpowered you, and that the world itself, has devoured you...just remember that you are not alone, you are loved, you are a beautiful story waiting to be told.” -Nina Jean Slack, Once Lost, Forever Found (Vol. #1)
— Nina Jean Slack, Once Lost, Forever Found
What's the good of being alive if you don't do anything?
— Kirsten Hubbard, Like Mandarin
The problem with catching dreams is you forget how truly incredible they are when you live with them everyday.
— Stacey T. Hunt
People come and go in our lifetime, but we hold onto the ones worth keeping, the ones who have touched our lives in such a way that changes everything we thought we knew or felt; life itself changes.” -Nina Jean Slack, Once Lost, Forever Found (Vol. #1)
— Nina Jean Slack, Once Lost, Forever Found
Hate destroys, love builds: be a creator. Fear closes, love opens: be an advocate for life. Guilt stagnates, love permits: be a peaceful warrior. Anger takes away, love gives: be a foundation for life. A defeatist attitude makes its own bed while love has the power to design its very own house.
— Madelaine Standing, Heaven In The Meat Packing District
Get busy living or get busy dying.”― Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption
— Stephen King, Shawshank Redempt 27
I was born into a town and a family and the town ad my family happened to me. I own none of it. It is everyone's. It is shareware. I like it, I like having been a part of it, I would kill or die to protect those who are part of it, but I don not claim exclusivity. Have it Take it from me. Do with is what you will. Make it useful. This is like making electricity from dirt; it is almost too good to be believed, that we can make beauty from this stuff.
— Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The clouds won't shatter my dreams, but this is a story about how I lost myself to the storm.""And something's got me tethered to you...""Always to you...""They think I'm crazy... I love him. I swear, I do.""Then why are you here, T?""Esto es complicado, Eli. It's all the lies I made up to get away from you, the distance I drove to free myself, that's brought me here. It's that moment before your kiss and the sound of my name on your lips. It's you that's taken me the five miles I needed to be where you are. I won't run again."“What are we doing?”“We’re LIVING.
— Nadège Richards, 5 Miles
It’s not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it’s the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat.
— Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
What is the price of freedom! I'm not talking about the physical restraining kind, but the spiritual, mental, emotional kind! If we glance at a tiny bird, it represents the ultimate freedom, the ability to fly, to rise above all, to look down on earth while getting tickled by clouds of cotton candy. But the price of this bird's freedom is living off scrapes of food & sippes of water!I guess the price of freedom is all about living in content. If u need to spread ur wings wide and fly off into the horizon, you need to learn that what you already have can certainly set you FREE!
— Larissa Qat
Who is the daughter of God?
— Madelaine Standing, Heaven In The Meat Packing District
a soul is far too large to hide.
— Maggie Schein
Some of the greatest journeys of humankind are those that, at the time being, only the one living it understands.
— Madelaine Standing, Heaven In The Meat Packing District
Protect the future by living and fulfilling your God-given dreams.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
She turned back to the reporter, holding out the microphone. “I'm not an expert, I'm a survivor. I hope you can learn how to be one yourself.
— Rose Wynters, Phase One: Identify
Death changes us, the living. In the presence of death, we become more aware of life.... It can inspire us to decide what really matters in life--and then to seek it. (Founder of M.A.D.D.)
— Candy Lightner
I am living while I am living.
— Anderson A. Charles