Live Living Quotes

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

when i baffled with death at my door!
the wounded hands of mine!
were punching the keys for someone to love.!
death was merciful on my work.
no wonder, even death gave me a life to ease your sufferings everyday.
now i know why i die everyday to get back to life again to make you live ~ Qalandar Nawaz

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

The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is not possible to express the most precious insights,
To see all that craves to be seen,
To visit even the closest neighbors in the universe,
To learn all that needs to be learned,
To live without dying,
And I am sad about it.
But I lived
And I am happy about that. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

I have made it my mission to inject life into each moment, filling these moments up until they are fat and ready to burst! Life is short, it should be lived. ~ C. JoyBell C.

There is no past and future for those who exist in the now. Live in the moment, today is the only reality. ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I need my eulogy to look better than my resume. I'm living for that. ~ Darnell Lamont Walker

And sometimes we die to prove that we lived. ~ Fabio Moon

The question isn't "Why do we die?" The question is "Why do we live? ~ S.M. Reine

I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me. ~ Steven Wright

Everything was so much sharper without the Link fogging me
sights, sounds, smells. It was exhilarating and shocking and terrifying. I knew my emotions had grown too strong. They were dangerous to the Community. They were dangerous to me.
But still, I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live. And that meant that I couldn't give the glitching up. At least not yet. Just a little bit longer. ~ Heather Anastasiu

I live for the moments that won't die in my memory. ~ Jenim Dibie

You can always get another job. You'll never get another life. ~ Richie Norton

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

Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want. ~ John Updike

Today you are lifted higher. Understand that you can go further and be better than you ever thought possible. Start by saying yes to all good things. Doors will open for you filled with unlimited opportunities. ~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Life is not only about acquiring knowledge, it is about applying knowledge. ~ Amit Kalantri

Living in the Spirit changes your attitude, thinking, and ultimately your actions. ~ Elizabeth George

Who wanted to live to a hundred and one? Who wanted to go on living at all at times? ~ Catherine Cookson

But are you finding monastic history a very compelling reason to live?"
"I'm not human," he said. "I don't require a reason to live. Living is my default condition."
I couldn't help it; I laughed, and teas weleld in my eyes. That answer was quintessentially Orma, distilled to his elemental Orma-ness. ~ Rachel Hartman

Have concern about where you're from, where you live, and where you may travel. The village is global. ~ T.F. Hodge

No one ever says on their deathbed they wish they'd loved fewer people. ~ Jeff Zentner

L I V E or E V I L
to Live life is to spell forward. To not live life is to spell backwards. ~ Shannon L. Alder

You'll never fly, if you're too scared of the height,
You'll never live if you're just too scared to die,
Everybody wants heaven, I know
But darling freedom ain't free, it's a long road
You'll never find your place up there in the sky
If you never say goodbye. ~ Hardwell & Dyro & Bright Lights

I want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive. ~ Jason Gray

Why in the world have we never found what we're really looking for? Because what we need is often the very thing we won't accept. And sadly, in turning away the God we need, we need to understand that we have chosen to live without everything we need. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I'll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can
until I die. ~ Anne Lamott

Waiting to live now so you can live later is stopping you from living now and later. ~ Richie Norton

None of us can discover personal bliss by blindly following the footsteps of other people. We must dare to be originals for we have only one life to live. Living a life that placates other people is fool's gold. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I can't change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it. ~ Charlotte Eriksson

There is no certainty, not even your next breath.
Live like you are dieing because in reality we all are. ~ Nikki Rowe

Memories are a nice place to visit, but a terrible place to live. ~ Marty Rubin

If one comes to the sense that they have arrived, they no longer feel the need to submit themselves to the process of learning and growing. This is a dangerous mindset to carry. The day that we stop learning is the day we stop living. ~ Jenelle Dancel

Don't expect the unexpected. Let the unexpected expect you. ~ Kiara S. Maharaj

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

We colour the world,
Not with the darkness of our pasts,
But with the rainbow of our hope. ~ Jenim Dibie

We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

But the thing about knowing you're about to die is that you spend a lot of time thinking about being alive. Way more than you do if you're actually going to live - living takes up so much brain space that it squished out the other stuff. The important things. Like when you feel like the best version of yourself. Who was there when you did. Whether you've been chasing that version of yourself ever since and never found her. ~ Non Pratt

No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ~ Andrea Hairston

Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I always thought it was disgusting and ugly, how the weak live their lives depending on each other shamefully licking each other's wounds. A way of life that no one could truly want. I was certain that no greatness could ever come from that. That's what I thought until I met you. ~ Naoyuki Ochiai

To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I don't ever want to feel that way. Feel as if there are no surprises left. The surprises make life worth living. Expecting nothing, accepting it all. Accepting isn't the right word. ACKNOWLEDGING it all. I suppose I'll just try to figure it out as I go or at least try to understand it. Or f***, just think about it. I'll face whatever comes my way ... ~ John O'Callaghan

Appreciate the sacred life you have, it is a gift from God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Die every night so in the morning you are reborn. ~ Kamand Kojouri

Life on earth is to be live but once.
Live life to the best you can.
Live to your fullness. ~ Lailah GiftyAkita

Dying is as natural as being born, and all of us have to face it someday. Some sooner than others. It's difficult to understand the meaning of it all. The question isn't, 'Why do we die?' The correct question is, 'Why do we live? ~ S.M. Reine

It is only by loving others that we can learn to live; living is rare nowadays ... most people survive; that is all. ~ Sandra Chami Kassis

The worst denial of all is being in denial that we're in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that's not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Let today be the day you embrace your beautiful spirit and shine light for those living in the dark. Light their path so the road traveled will be seen more clearly. You never know how much a simple act of kindness is appreciated if you never try. Be that candle for someone today and shine bright. ~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

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

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune. ~ Sophocles

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.
(Interview, The Paris Review) ~ William S. Burroughs

The grace of living life is to give glory to God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you saying? ~ Elizabeth Adeniyi

For libertarians, freedom entails the right of people to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. For conservatives, freedom entails the right of government to do just about anything it wants, even if its conduct is violent. ~ Jacob G. Hornberger

I wanted to listen to him, but I did not want to answer now. That strange responsibility we feel towards others when they speak, to offer them the solace of any answer. Poor humans! And anyway he had not asked a question. He was merely floating there in the room, insubstantial, a living man in the midst of life, dying imperceptibly on his feet, like all of us. ~ Sebastian Barry

If you choose your words as you choose your shoes then they would always be soft, comforting, supportive, and would always fit the occasion. ~ Wyatt Allen

Dying is easy. Anyone can do it. Living is the problem – Lazarus has been brought back to life and he can't explain himself. ~ Richard Beard

Is that all souls are for?" Esmé had asked him earlier. "For when we die?"
Mihai could have laughed or cried when she'd asked him that. In all its simplicity her question was like cupped hands holding the meaning of his life.
"No," he'd said. "They're for living too. ~ Laini Taylor

Together with God you can successfully handle any difficulty. ~ Jim George

Ecologically, bourgeois exploitation and manipulation are undermining the very capacity of the earth to sustain advanced forms of life. The crisis is being heightened by massive increases in air and water pollution; by a mounting accumulation of nondegradable wastes, lead residues, pesticide residues and toxic additives in food; by the expansion of cities into vast urban belts; by increasing stresses due to congestion, noise and mass living; and by the wanton scarring of the earth as a result of mining operations, lumbering, and real estate speculation. As a result, the earth has been despoiled in a few decades on a scale that is unprecedented in the entire history of human habitation of the planet. ~ Murray Bookchin

She isn't the girl who used to live next door, hasn't been for years. Back then she had freckles and jeans with holes at the knees and a ponytail yanked so tight it made her eyes pull at the corners. Now she wears pantyhose and tailored suits; she has had the same short bob hairstyle for five years. But when Patrick gets close enough, she still smells like childhood to him. ~ Jodi Picoult

The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life. ~ Seamus Heaney

The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning. ~ George Orwell

The thing is, I grew up in L.A., so I had this unique opportunity to live in both communist Russia and see that life, and then move to America as a young girl and experience a completely different life. ~ Dasha Zhukova

You have to tell your children about the world they live in, about the discrepancies, about the things that don't work ... So you have to bring it up with a scientific orientation so they learn to ask questions, and learn how to say the most difficult thing in the world: 'I don't know'. ~ Jacque Fresco

But just as water carried Moses to his destiny down the Nile, so water carried another baby from a woman's body into an expectant world. Wrapped now in flesh, the God who once hovered over the waters was plunged beneath them at the hands of a wild-eyed wilderness preacher. When God emerged, he spoke of living water that forever satisfies and of being born again. He went fishing and washed his friends' feet. He touched the ceremonially unclean. He spit in the dirt, cast demons into the ocean, and strolled across an angry sea. He got thirsty and he wept. ~ Rachel Held Evans

[Jesus] tilted His head back, pulled up one last time to draw breath and cried, "Tetelestai!" It was a Greek expression most everyone present would have understood. It was an accounting term. Archaeologists have found papyrus tax receipts with "Tetelestai" written across them, meaning "paid in full." With Jesus' last breath on the cross, He declared the debt of sin cancelled, completely satisfied. Nothing else required. Not good deeds. Not generous donations. Not penance or confession or baptism or ... or ... or ... nothing. The penalty for sin is death, and we were all born hopelessly in debt. He paid our debt in full by giving His life so that we might live forever. ~ Charles R. Swindoll

What strange times we live in, when good must disguise itself in the tawdry rags of evil! ~ Amin Maalouf

You've spent two years at the same school as Mina, hardly talking to her, never even realizing she is alive. Then she goes and does something crazy, against my wishes. She placed her own life in danger to save yours." Her face became very still. "Now, because of those actions, our whole family has to live with the consequences. You now feel obligated to help her, like she did you. I get that, I really do. But what gives you the right to question our actions and lifestyle?" Silence filled the kitchen. Mina held her breath, afraid to move. Brody straightened in his seat and swallowed slowly. Sara brushed her hands over her forehead in defeat. "You're enamored. That's it. In another week or so, you will wake up, and this will all be a dream. You will forget that Mina ever even saved your life. She will go back to being my clumsy, forgotten, outcast teen daughter, and you will go back to ruling the school and dating the head cheerleader. ~ Chanda Hahn

The real story of Nader, Shahed, and other women who live as men in Afghanistan is not so much about how they break gender norms or what they have become by doing that. Rather, it is about this: Between gender and freedom, freedom is the bigger and more important idea. In Afghanistan as well as globally. Defining one's gender becomes a concern only after freedom is achieved. Then a person can begin to fill the word with new meaning. ~ Jenny Nordberg

Death is the veil which those who live call life;
They sleep, and it is lifted. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Yes, this was a family, here in this room, but every last one of them was aware that it was a family they'd had to create, a family of necessity. It wasn't the same as a family with parents and siblings and a future that extended beyond preparing them to work for a living. ~ Kristi Ann Hunter

I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses. ~ Stella Young

Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them. ~ Christy Hall

THE BASIC CON

Those who can't find anything to live for,
always invent something to die for.
Then they want the rest of us to
die for it, too. ~ Lew Welch

The present's perfect, young grasshopper, because we're breathing, moving, laughing, crying, and are surprised when we finally meet someone we connect with. Stop living in the past and wasting your present. ~ Alison G. Bailey

Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow, ~ Jane Curtin

May living your truth set you free! ~ Erin Fall Haskell

Wherever you go, there you are. Your emptiness goes with you. Maddening. Things that help: writing, reading, water, walks, forgiving myself every other minute, practicing easy yoga, taking deep breaths, and petting my dogs. These things don't fill me completely, but they remind me that it is not my job to fill myself. It's just my job to notice my emptiness and find graceful ways to live as a broken, unfilled human ...
If there's a silver lining to the emptiness, here it is: the unfillable is what brings people together. I've never made a friend by bragging about my strengths, but I've made countless by sharing my weakness and my emptiness. ~ Glennon Doyle Melton

I remember at the reception you said to me, 'I'm the daughter of a father who's been married five times. Mother killed herself. My sister killed herself. My brother has been in a mental institution. I'm twenty-three and divorced with two kids.' I said, 'Brooke, either you've got to open the window right now'--we were on the tenth floor--'either you've got to open the window right now and jump out, or say "I'm going to live," because you're right, it's the worst family history that anybody ever had, and either you jump out the window or you live. ~ Brooke Hayward

Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows may shock, but only on a superficial level. They'd never risk market share to really explore the issues. They report, but don't analyze or suggest any new ways for living our lives. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

Life is for living, not for complaining. ~ Debasish Mridha

The fact is that our Union rests upon public opinion and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens...If it can not live in the affections of its people, it must die. ~ James Buchanan