Fully Live Quotes

It was in 1931 that the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase "the American dream."
The American dream is not just a yearning for affluence, Adams said, but also for the chance to overcome barriers and social class, to become the best that we can be. Adams acknowledged that the United States didn't fully live up to that ideal, but he argued that America came closer than anywhere else. ~ Nicholas D. Kristof

"Transcending the ego" thus actually means to transcend but include the ego in a deeper and higher embrace, first in the soul or deeper psychic, then with the Witness or primordial Self, then with each previous stage taken up, enfolded, included, and embraced in the radiance of One Taste. And that means we do not "get rid" of the small ego, but rahter, we inhabit it fully, live it with verve, use it as the necessary vehicle through which higher truths are communicated. Soul and Spirit include body, emotions, and mind; they do not erase them. ~ Ken Wilber

It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into ourselves, that we can fully live the life of community. ~ Jean Vanier

Nobody turns down an invitation to the white house, but I've seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live. ~ Bob Goff

Some men are willing to die for their faith, but they are not willing to fully live for it. Christ both lived and died for us. ~ Ezra Taft Benson

When you fully live each moment, nothing in the future exists because you are making the next moment right now - and nothing you did before this moment is holding you back. ~ James Runningfox Moss

Don't be anyone's firefly in a jar! A lot of people are attracted to the light. Some are also intimidated by it. They selfishly try to keep it for themselves. Sometimes it happens so fast, you don't even realize you're being captured. There is magic within you that will suffocate in a jar. If you wake up one morning and realize there's a lid above you, do whatever it takes to free yourself. Life is much better beyond the jar. The world needs your light! Shine, Baby, shine! ~ Sheri Fink

You celebrate a person's life by living your life fully. ~ Asra Nomani

Coaching is an ongoing intentional conversation that empowers a person or group to fully live out God's calling. ~ Keith E. Webb

To not understand neocolonialism is to not fully live in the present. ~ Bell Hooks

I try to explain in my own words, and I gesture to his chest. "It's in your bones; it's what keeps you alive. The foundation of your body. To suck out all the marrow of life... I think about how Thoreau went into the woods and stripped life to the barest necessities. To learn what life is really made of, the feeling of water slipping between fingers, the chilled glass in my hand, the wind that rustles your damn hair. And I think about how I feel these barest things every day with you. To live life at its most essential level so as to fully live. ~ Krista Ritchie

I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words. ~ Henri Nouwen

You don't need to live to fulfil other's expectations. Live for yourself, love yourself and do not let them tell you that it is selfish. ~ Mridula Singh

Today is a gift.
Today is all I have.
I will be fully awake in today. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully. ~ Ruth Gordon

So go ahead and face that fear, make that effort, move forward into new territory and fully live the grand possibilities with which you're blessed. Boldly face life, and you'll find it to be better than you ever imagined. ~ Ralph Marston

With memories of gravestones, of combing fingers through tangled hair, I wonder too ... If the rent in the canvas of our life backdrop, the losses that puncture our world, and our own emptiness, might actually become places to see.
To see through to God.
That which tears open our souls, those holes which splatter sight, they actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart aching beauty beyond. To him. To the god whom we endlessly crave.
But how? How do we choose to allow the holes to become seeing through to collect places? How do I give up resentment for gratitude, anger for spilling joy, so focus for God communion. To fully live to fully live grace enjoy with all that is beauty internal it is possible ~ Ann Voskamp

None of us sees history fully; none of us is adequately aware of how the arrangements of the present moment foreclose the possibilities of others to fully live their only lives. ~ Garth Greenwell

People are attracted to those who fully live life without excuses. ~ Peggy Sue Wells

Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge. ~ Alice Borchardt

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

Someday, somewhere we may find that someone that loves us despite all the mud over our face. Despite the scars that cover our body. Perhaps someday. Until than we can only wait and live. Wait and live. Wait and live... ~ Trisscar

There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happiness - a sense of belonging and at the same time gratitude that I'm so privileged that I can live my life in my city. ~ Bjorn Ulvaeus

Be in the World, Not of the World - Kind of like Lucky Charms cereal: there are lots of pretty marshmallows in with the cereal, but they're not the same. So live with the cereal, but remember: you're a pretty marshmallow. ~ Laura Jensen Walker

I want to give myself totally to Him ... I want to live no longer but for Him. ~ Therese Of Lisieux

A worthy woman has the power to rise above the limitations and expectations of others and live her authentic truth. ~ Shannon Tanner

Companionship was at the top of Epicurus's list of life's pleasures. He wrote, 'Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship. ~ Daniel Klein

So I just live with my insomnia. I do crossword puzzles, or wander out to the music room and fool around on the piano, or read. Those late hours when the world is completely still, when the only sound is the rustle of the air in the vents and the wind visiting the trees outside, when the darkness is tucked tight around the house and you feel as life itself the movements of your own consciousness-these are wonderful hours to read. There is no interruption. ~ Stephen Goodwin

We spend so much time scrambling from one thing to the next, getting through it, getting to the end, and starting over again, that I would not forget to fully breathe in the miniscule moments of beauty and peace. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich

We live and breathe words. ~ Cassandra Clare

As Germaine Greer puts it in The Whole Woman, to become a mother without wanting it is to live like a slave, or domestic animal. ~ Caitlin Moran

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture. ~ Robert McAfee Brown

What I do is live, how I pray is breathe, what I wear is pants. ~ Thomas Merton

Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless. ~ Anthony Trollope

It is too simple
to pet a stray dog
then watch it run under a car
and say it wasn't mine

It is too simple
to admire a rose
then pick it and forget
to put water in the vase

It is too simple
to use a person
for loving without love
then leave him standing alone
and say I don't know him
anymore

It is too simple
to know one's flaws
then live them at great cost to others
and say that's just the way I am

It is too simple
the way we sometimes live our lives
for after all life simply is
a serious matter ~ Margot Bickel

The willingness to walk away, above all other factors, does more to tell a woman of your high value than any amount of money can. You must be prepared to follow through and to fully believe that you'll never see or hear from her again, because women instinctively know when you're faking. ~ Roosh V

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

The pathbreaker who disdains the applause he may get from the crowd of his contemporaries does not depend on his own age's ideas. He is free to say with Schillers Marquis Posa: "This century is not ripe for my ideas; I live as a citizen of centuries to come." The genius' work too is embedded in the sequence of historical events, is conditioned by the achievements of preceding generations, and is merely a chapter in the evolution of ideas. But it adds something new and unheard of to the treasure of thoughts and may in this sense be called creative. The genuine history of mankind is the history of ideas. It is ideas that distinguish man from ali other beings. Ideas engender social institutions, political changes, technological methods of production, and ali that is called economic conditions. And in searching for their origin we inevitably come to a point at which ali that can be asserted is that a man had an idea. Whether the name of this man is known or not is of secondary importance.
This is the meaning that history attaches to the notion of individuality. Ideas are the ultimate given of historical inquiry. Ali that can be said about ideas is that they carne to pass. The historian may point out how a new idea fitted into the ideas developed by earlier generations and how it may be considered a continuation of these ideas and their logical sequei. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

The world is not uni-cultural. We must live together rather than seeking to dominate each other. The people in the world cannot accept domination anymore. ~ Mohammed Morsi

We live in Secret. We live in Silence. And we live Forever ... ~ Luis Marques

In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases. ~ S. Jay Olshansky

This was my life to live … I might never make it in the music business. But I'd rather try and fail than live with the regret of never having taken the chance. ~ E.A. Andrews

Much is being said of deep crime which darkens heaven's windows. We shudder at immoralities which terrify us. We nearly panic at the divorce frequency and broken homes and delinquent children about us. But perhaps sometimes we should stop to reflect that all are not criminals, all are not bad, and all are not rebellious. . . . The gospel of Jesus Christ teaches men to live righteously, to make the family supreme, the home inviolate. It moves the characters of its adherents toward faultlessness. It is the true way. If lived rightly it will ennoble men toward Godhood ~ Spencer W. Kimball

We all die. I can't promise to live forever." His arms
tightened around her. "But I can promise to love you as long as I
live. ~ Iris Johansen

If your words, actions and intentions are not genuine, I have no use for you or room for you in my life. ~ Tanya Masse

In novels in general - and also on the television - we do live in a world where bodies is what we are. We do not talk about the spirit or the soul, and there is a sense that we no longer talk about beliefs, either Freudian or Marxist. ~ A.S. Byatt

I don't need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself. ~ Henry James

I decided that it's either, you know, if I want to have children, have a family and - and live a long life, I've got to make some real, real serious changes. ~ Carnie Wilson

Since brokenness is the way of folks, the only way to live peacefully is to forgive everyone constantly, including yourself. ~ Glennon Doyle Melton

The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I'd rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless. ~ Immortal Technique

We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love. ~ James Kavanaugh

We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It is one of our main ways of making our lives sensible. Trying to live without stories can make us crazy. They help us recognize what we believe to be most valuable in the world, and help us identify what we hold demonic. ~ William Kittredge

As the virtual world of electronic communication becomes the world many of us inhabit all the time, in turning to imaginative literature we may not be seeking mere reassurance nor be impelled by mere nostalgia. To enter with heart and mind into the world of the imagination may be to head deliberately and directly toward, or back toward, engagement with the real world. In one of T. S. Eliot's poems a bird sings, "Mankind cannot bear very much reality." I've always thought that bird was mistaken, or was talking only about some people. I find it amazing how much of the real world most of us can endure. Not only endure, but need, desire, crave. Reality is life. Where we suffocate is in the half-life of unreality, untruth, imitation, fakery, the almost-true that is not true. To be human is to live both within and beyond the narrow band of what-happens-now, in the vast regions of the past and the possible, the known and the imagined: our real world, our true Now. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

The way I see it, you can live your life as is, continuing to feel like an underdog, or you can step up. Be someone who matters, and make a change. ~ Kayla Krantz

Who says you have to live for right now? What if you can have the greatest love of your life, but you have to relive the past to find it again? Who says going back to the beginning won't make you happy right now? ~ Shey Stahl

We only live once. We all have an expiration date after that we will never come again. I am not saying that to make you sad. I am saying that so you can cherish each moment in your life and be grateful that you are here and you are Special ~ Pablo

I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold. ~ Neil Young