Live Life Quotes:

She was crazy. I could be too. It was my greatest fear, that I'd snap one day too. Just like she had. I wanted to live life because if that day came I wanted to have lived once.

- Abbi Glines

topic: Crazy, Live Life, One Day, Snaps

I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.

- Al Jourgensen

topic: Live Life, Reality, Paris

Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.

- Alan Lightman

source: Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.47, Vintage

topic: Live Life, Butterfly, Sadness, Like A Butterfly

I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.

- Alan Rickman

topic: Live Life, Home, Yogurt, Fridges, Coca Cola

People are very proud of Newcastle, very proud to come from here. This is a working class City and they just want to enjoy themselves and live life to the full. They work all week, pick their wages up at the end of the week and they spend it over a weekend by having a good time and watching the football. That's our life.

- Alan Shearer

topic: Football, Live Life, Weekend, Newcastle, Living Life To The Full

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.

- Alanis Morissette

topic: Live Life, Writing, Songwriting, Journaling

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

- Alexander Herzen

topic: Life, Live Life, Thinking

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

- Alexandre Dumas

topic: Atheist, Live Life, Men

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Live Life, Wonder

The hardest part of living is loving 'Cause loving turns to leaving every time And the hardest part of leaving is living Life is hard when love is so unkind

- Allison Moorer

source: Song: The Hardest Part

topic: Live Life, Love Is, Life Is Hard

Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.

- Amos Oz

topic: Live Life, Living My Life, Mark, Question Mark, Fundamentalist

Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.

- Amy Neftzger

source: Amy Neftzger (2013). “The Orphanage of Miracles: The Kingdom Wars: Book One”, p.169, Field of Gold Publishing, Inc.

topic: Live Life, Tears, Alive

Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.

- Andy Andrews

source: FaceBook post by Andy Andrews from Aug 21, 2012

topic: Live Life, Choices, Privilege

Youve got to live life to write a book about it.

- Andy Williams

topic: Live Life, Book, Writing

If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end...

- Angela Johnson

source: Angela Johnson (2010). “The First Part Last”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

topic: Live Life, Knowing, World

Rare is the book that can actually transform us into better, more fulfilled people. Having combed through the research and documented case studies all over the world, Kristof and WuDunn present the clearest view I have ever seen of the human soul. A Path Appears tells us whether we are intrinsically good, why specific ways we parent our newborns help predict their chances for success, and how we can live lives of greater significance. This book, full of rich and riveting true stories, reminds us that human greatness is all around us, and even within us, if we dare to look.

- Ann Curry

topic: Live Life, Book, Greatness, True Story, Case Studies

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead; that is where your future lies. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?

- Ann Landers

topic: Lying, Live Life, Hard Work

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.

- Ann Patchett

topic: Live Life, Book, Reading, Reading Fiction

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

- Anne Sullivan Macy

topic: Selfish, Live Life, Imagination, People Don't Change, Commonplace

I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

- Anthony Hopkins

topic: Live Life, Enough, Sudden Death

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Live Life, Meaning Life, Metaphors Of Life, True Meaning Of Life

Effort is required to live life of others, but to live our own every action comes all and only natural.

- Anuj

topic: Live Life, Effort, Action

A person can always live life of his own only if he is prepared to stand alone when there is none to support the things that he applauds, believes and cherishes in his soul.

- Anuj

topic: Believe, Live Life, Support

There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if - as the poet Rumi put it - everything is rigged in our favor.

- Arianna Huffington

source: Arianna Huffington (2014). “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder”, p.22, Harmony

topic: Live Life, Looks, Purpose

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

- Aristotle

topic: Workout, Live Life, Philosophical, Sharing Knowledge

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

source: "Mindfulness" edited by Ellen J. Langer, (p. 133), 1989.

topic: Determination, Work, Live Life, Daily Work, Work Day

Country to me is living life at its simplest: Learning to appreciate a sliced vine-ripe tomato with a dash of salt, served between two slices of good bread and eaten over the kitchen sink.

- Art Smith

topic: Country, Live Life, Two, Kitchen Sinks

Go back. Go back in time. Everyone's life is a chain of memories. In each chain there are shining links, happenings where this element of wonder...was very strong. Why don't you reach out and relive some of those memories? If you work at it, remembering the wonder can revive your ability to live life as it should be lived.

- Arthur Gordon Webster

topic: Strong, Memories, Live Life, Scrapbooking, Go Back In Time

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen short in almost any undertaking, it was seldom because I had tried and failed. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.

- Arthur Gordon Webster

topic: Live Life, Past, Trying, Live Life To Its Fullest, Live To The Fullest

Is it so wrong to just live life and enjoy it? Between fun and function, why must we choose the latter?

- Arthur Nersesian

topic: Fun, Live Life, Latter, Just Living Life

To be alive, to able to see, to walk...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.

- Arthur Rubinstein

topic: Live Life, Journey, Miracle

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.

- Arthur Smith

topic: Live Life, Writing, Elderly

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

- August Wilson

source: "Theater Pros Debate Multi-Cultural Casts - Speech By Playwright August Wilson Ignites A Controversy At Conference" by Misha Berson, community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. July 07, 1996.

topic: Art, Live Life, Way

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Inspirational, Live Life, Humor

Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect.

- B. R. Ambedkar

topic: Live Life, Men, Self, Enriching

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.

- B. R. Ambedkar

topic: Live Life, Victory, Ethics

I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process.

- Barry Goldwater

source: Barry Morris Goldwater, C. C. Goldwater (2007). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.129, Princeton University Press

topic: Hurt, Believe, Live Life, Social Interaction, Interacting With Others

[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need to evaluate—whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama.

- Bart D. Ehrman

topic: Live Life, Writing, Needs, Eliot

Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends.

- Baz Luhrmann

topic: Dream, Live Life, Ends, Rouge

Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.

- Beck

topic: Live Life, Men, America

Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

- Bell Hooks

topic: Inspiring, Live Life, Justice

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Work, Failure, Live Life, Blockheads, Being Ignorant

We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.

- Bernard Malamud

topic: Live Life, Two, Suffering

It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.

- Betty Friedan

topic: Women, Live Life, Easier

All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live.

- Betty Smith

topic: Life, Live Life, Kind

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

- Bill Ayers

topic: Live Life, Live Your Life, Needs, Just Live Your Life, Live Life Happy Inspirational

You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.

- Bill Hybels

topic: Live Life, May, Simplify

I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.

- Bobby Womack

topic: Live Life, Sometimes, Lows

And I deeply pray that everyone discovers that they can strip away anything that might be holding them back on every level, and can begin living life from the real essence of their own soul.


- Brandon Bays

topic: Real, Live Life, Essence

Discipleship is the art and science of helping people find, follow and fully become like Jesus. Discipleship happens as God's people show love, share truth and live life with one another, making new disciples along the way.

- Brandon Cox

topic: Jesus, Art, Live Life

Reach for the sky, set goals, live life to fullest and always remember to wake up each day with a smile.

- Brandy Miller

topic: Cute, Live Life, Sky

Live life to the fullest. Follow your dreams - don't let anything stop you.

- Brendan Foster

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Live Life

People may call what happens at midlife 'a crisis,' but it's not. It's an unraveling - a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you're 'supposed' to live. The unraveling is a time when you are challenged by the universe to let go of who you think you are supposed to be and to embrace who you are.

- Brené Brown

source: Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

topic: Motivational, Letting Go, Live Life, Unraveling

Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion. False, manhandled religion produces the opposite effect. Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretexts, it draws us away from reality and God.

- Brennan Manning

topic: Fashion, Live Life, Men, Authentic Christianity, Human Personality

Living life with a clear conscience is the fruit of a repentant heart and new life through Jesus Christ.

- Brian Houston

topic: Jesus, Live Life, Heart, Clear Conscience

I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.

- Brian K. Vaughan

topic: Live Life, Littles, Pages

Live life today and deal with tomorrow when it comes!

- Brian McFadden

topic: Live Life, Today, Tomorrow

There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Live Life, Limits, Plateaus

Italy is still very much the same place it was 2,000 years ago. Italians are still the same .. there's a sense of beauty and a sense of dignity and a sense of living life to the full that infects everyone.

- Bruno Heller

topic: Live Life, Years, Dignity, Living Life To The Full

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Motivational, Live Life, Mean, Wrong Road, Progress In Life

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Truth, Live Life, Thinking, Wishful Thinking, Words Of Comfort

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Education, Clever, Live Life, Very Clever, Lecturer

There are people who live lives little different than the beasts,and I don't mean that badly. I mean that they accept whatever happens day to day without struggle or question or regret. To them things just are, like the earth and sky and seasons.

- Celeste De Blasis

source: Celeste De Blasis (1985). “Wild Swan”, Bantam Books

topic: Regret, Struggle, Live Life

Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.

- Celia Imrie

source: Twitter post from Aug 21, 2013

topic: Live Life, Actors, Circus, Trapeze

When you realize youre alive, you can live life!

- Chad Michael Murray

topic: Live Life, Alive, Realizing

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

- Charles Ives

source: Charles Ives (2004). “129 Songs”, p.30, A-R Editions, Inc.

topic: Art, Live Life, Thinking, Life And Living, Thinking About Life

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Friendship, Fun, Live Life, Making Friends, New Friendship

I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.

- Charlie Hunnam

topic: Live Life, Thinking, People

I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.

- Che Guevara

topic: Live Life, Knees, Standing

The goal isn't more money. The goal is living life on your terms.

- Chris Brogan

source: Twitter post from Jun 24, 2010

topic: Live Life, Goal, More Money

How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing.

- Christian Slater

topic: Stars, Live Life, Trying, Christian Living

Imagine all the people, living life in peace. Well, that's hard to do when you're on this blood stained street.

- Christine Lavin

topic: Live Life, Blood, People

I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.

- Christopher Reeve

topic: Laughter, Live Life, Joy, Equestrian, Life Well Lived

I'm living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what I wanted.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Live Life, Wanted

If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die.

- Colleen Hoover

topic: Live Life, Scared, Given

If I were you I'd promise to live life for all it's worth, take all you've been given and leave your mark upon this Earth. Trust your heart to show you everything you need...and if you were you, I'd fall in love with me.

- Collin Raye

topic: Falling In Love, Live Life, Heart, Forbidden Love, Trust Your Heart

Never let your soul be silenced. Live life out loud. Every day tell your truth not with words but with actions from your heart.

- Cory Booker

topic: Live Life, Heart, Soul

From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived."

- Craig Scott

topic: Live Life, Stories, Scar, Wounds And Scars, Survived

We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Regret, Live Life, Compassion, Self Awareness, Have No Regrets

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

- Darren Aronofsky

topic: Live Life, Second Chance, Long, Animator

If you live life, then you become what are.

- Dave Matthews

source: Song: What You Are

topic: Live Life

It's a lot of work living the life that you want to live, but that's what I'm doing.

- David Alan Harvey

topic: Live Life, Want

I think it may have been Tom Wolfe (if it wasn't, my apologies, Tom, and my apologies to whoever it was) who said in print once, 'David Carradine lives the life that Hunter Thompson only writes about.'

- David Carradine

source: David Carradine (2014). “The Kill Bill Diary: The Making of a Tarantino Classic as Seen Through the Eyes of a Screen Legend”, p.14, A&C Black

topic: Live Life, Writing, Apology

Liza, I love you more than any words can say. You have made me a complete person. You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever.

- David Gest

topic: I Love You, Live Life, Thinking, Love You Forever, Love You More

You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got.

- David Miliband

source: "David Miliband: politics for the pinched generation". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2012.

topic: Hate, Live Life, Yield, Spilt Milk

When God calls His child to live the life of a missionary, He gives him the desire with the calling.

- David Sills

topic: Children, Live Life, Giving

A lot of ultramarathoners are soloists. They're single and live lives off the grid.

- Dean Karnazes

topic: Live Life, Grids

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

- Democritus

topic: Live Life, Life Wisdom

Angels assist us in connecting with a powerful yet gentle force, which encourages us to live life to it's fullest.

- Denise Linn

source: Denise Linn (1995). “Sacred Space”, Wellspring/Ballantine

topic: Powerful, Live Life, Angel

A Quest of any kind is a heroic journey. It is a rite of passage that carries you to an inner place of silence and majesty and encourages you to live life more courageously and genuinely.

- Denise Linn

source: Denise Linn, Meadow Linn (2012). “Quest: A Guide for Creating Your Own Vision Quest”, p.4, Hay House, Inc

topic: Live Life, Journey, Silence, Rite Of Passage

The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life- how terrible! Nita gulped for control as she remembered Fred's word of just this morning, an eternity ago. And this was what being a wizard was about. Keeping terrible things from happening, even when it hurts. Not just power, or control of what ordinary people couldn't control, or delight in being able to make strange things happen. Those were the side effects- not the reason, the purpose.

- Diane Duane

topic: Hurt, Morning, Live Life

You cant write about stuff you dont know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

- Dierks Bentley

topic: Dirty, Live Life, Writing

We can't all be stars; we can't all be leaders. We are all God's creatures, living life, and we have that God light in us and we're supposed to let it shine. And not everybody wants to be like me and stick their neck out to get up on stage and perform. There are those like me, but there are also those that are of a shyer nature. And they're smarter than most of us that are out there showing our asses.

- Dolly Parton

topic: Stars, Live Life, Light

Live the life you're living and try and stay who you are

- Donald Cerrone

topic: Live Life, Trying, Who You Are

Decide that life is good and you are special. Decide to enjoy today. Decide that you will live life to the fullest now, no matter what. Trust that you will change what needs changing, but also decide that you're not going to put off enjoying life just because you don't have everything you want now. Steadfastly refuse to let anything steal your joy. Choose to be happy...and you will be.

- Donna Fargo

topic: Live Life, Life Is Good, Joy, Choose To Be Happy, Enjoy Today

You have to live life if you're going to create believable lives on paper.

- Donna Jo Napoli

topic: Live Life, Paper

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

- Doris Day

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Funny Love, Live Life, Animal, Masculinity, Animal Lover

I'm living life right now, maine and this what Imma do til it's over, til it's over.. but it's far from over.

- Drake

topic: Live Life, Humble, Maine

Living life from a whole different angle. Only see the road through the wings of an angel.

- Drake

topic: Live Life, Humble, Angel, Different Angles

You like to live life without regret but that's what the good Lord intended for me - that's just the way it was. My goal was to make it in the NFL, I played with a lot of great players in college who went on to have illustrious, incredible careers and in the end it just didn't happen for me. I failed at that.

- Dwayne Johnson

topic: Regret, Live Life, Player

The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!

- Dziga Vertov

topic: Drama, Live Life, Long, Bourgeois

The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in altered states of consciousness. The previous fear of death is typically quelled. If the individual generally remains thereafter in the existential state of awareness, the deep internal feeling of eternity is quite profound and unshakable.

- Edgar Mitchell

topic: Live Life, Profound, Feelings, Altered States, Desire To Live

Life is the game that must be played.

- Edwin Arlington Robinson

topic: Live Life, Games, Life Is, Arlington, Life Is A Game

Our focus reflects our love and admiration for you. . . . We want you to live lives of spiritual maturity and fulfillment, free of unrealistic comparisons.

- Elaine L. Jack

topic: Spiritual, Live Life, Maturity, Spiritual Maturity

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Happiness, Live Life

Because I'm a performer I can justify and sometimes sell the things about me that offend and shock the conventional world. I need to live life in the fast lane. I need to do things to excess. I need to go over the edge. I have an obligation to experience the things most people can't experience. The taboos. The things you're not supposed to know or do. That's part of my job. That's why I do it. I would probably do it anyway.

- Elizabeth Ashley

source: Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books

topic: Jobs, Live Life, People, Fast Lane

Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.

- Elizabeth Strout

topic: Live Life, People, Moments

There were days - she could remember this - when Henry would hold her hand as they walked home, middle-aged people, in their prime. Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it. But she had that memory now, of something healthy and pure.

- Elizabeth Strout

source: Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.162, Random House

topic: Memories, Live Life, Home

...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for.

- Eric Greitens

source: Eric Greitens (2011). “The Heart and the Fist: The education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Live Life, Fighting, World, Worth Fighting For

We spend most of our lives conjugating three verbs: to want, to have, and to do.

- Evelyn Underhill

topic: Live Life, Three, Verbs

Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. Its surroundings give to it a beauty, quality, and power which are not its own. We take it out, and at once a poor, limp dull thing, fit for nothing, is gasping away its life. So the soul, sunk in God, living the life of prayer, is supported, filled, transformed in beauty, by a vitality and a power which are not its own.

- Evelyn Underhill

topic: God, Prayer, Live Life, Fish In The Sea

Don't live life as a spectator.

- Felix Baumgartner

topic: Live Life, Spectators

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

- Francis Bacon

topic: Life, Change, Live Life, Change Growth, Change And Growth

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

- Francis Chan

source: Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.170, David C Cook

topic: Christian, Powerful, Live Life, Just Living Life, Christian Living

It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.

- Francis Crick

topic: Life, Live Life, Difficult

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

- Frank Sinatra

topic: Inspirational, Family, Live Life, Wonderful Times

His saying was: live and let live.

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Life, Live Life, Live And Let Live

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.

- Gabourey Sidibe

source: "Living the Life" by Tim Murphy, nymag.com. September 25, 2009.

topic: Morning, Live Life, Sleep

When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.

- Garrett Hedlund

topic: Live Life, Past, Light

Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced to live the life of a cow on a feedlot, or a monkey in a laboratory, or an elephant in the circus, or a bull in a rodeo, or a mink on a fur farm. Then people would be awakened from their soporific states and finally understand the horrors that are inflicted on the animal kingdom by the vilest species to ever roam this planet: the human animal!

- Gary Yourofsky

topic: Live Life, Thinking, Animal, Speciesism, Mink

I don't wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.

- Gene Simmons

source: Twitter post from Jan 22, 2014

topic: Live Life, Waiting, Calendars, Live Life To Its Fullest, Live To The Fullest

No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can't stand it any longer, we binge.

- Geneen Roth

source: Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

topic: Live Life, Anorexia, Soul, Binge Eating

The big horrible thing isn't the plane crash or the earthquake or the diagnosis. When those things occur, we act, we know what to do. We live or we die. Hell is what we do in the meantime. It is the ways we starve our souls as we prepare for the future that never comes as planned. The true disaster is living the life in your mind and missing the one in front of you.

- Geneen Roth

topic: Live Life, Earthquakes, Missing, Plane Crashes

Life is not measured by the time we live.

- George Crabbe

source: George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.98

topic: Life, Live Life, Life Is

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

- George Eliot

topic: Hope, Pain, Live Life, Middlemarch, Eagerness

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

- George Eliot

topic: Dog, Live Life, Animal, Inspirational Dog, Dog Lover

Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.

- Germaine Greer

source: "Guilt poisons women" by Germaine Greer, www.cnn.com. March 12, 2013.

topic: Husband, Live Life, Apology, Earn Respect

Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you.

- Geronimo

topic: Live Life, Creator, Medieval War, Native American Proverbs

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Gratitude, Grateful, Live Life, Joy And Gratitude, Inspirational Gratitude

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Time, Inspiration, Live Life, Middle Aged

I never took a lesson until I was 20, and I'm glad I had those years living the life of a normal person. I don't consider that time wasted.

- Glenn Tipton

topic: Live Life, Years, Lessons

In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

topic: Laughter, Fun, Live Life, Life Is Fun, Fun Life

Christian ethics is not primarily an individualistic, one-on-one-with-God brand of personal holiness; rather it has to do with living the life of the Spirit in Christian community and in the world.

- Gordon Fee

source: Gordon D. Fee (1994). “Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God”, p.81, Baker Academic

topic: Christian, Live Life, Community, Individualistic, Christian Community

Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.

- Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

topic: Dream, Life And Love, Live Life, Live Life Happy, Chase Your Dreams

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

- Harrison Ford

topic: Jobs, Live Life, Interesting

When in doubt, do something.

- Harry Chapin

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Live Life, Compassion, Doubt

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

- Harry Nilsson

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Believe, Live Life, Men, Singer-songwriters, Quiet Desperation

People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Running, Live Life, Thinking, Sneer

Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Running, Live Life, Endurance

If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.

- Harvey Mackay

source: FaceBook post by Harvey Mackay from Apr 11, 2012

topic: Live Life, Want, Ratios

The price for living the life I have -- for any serious, devoted person, is that at times one must live alone, or feel alone. I think loneliness is associated in many people's minds when they think about success.

- Helen Frankenthaler

topic: Loneliness, Live Life, Thinking

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Art, Live Life, Suffering, Art Of Living

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Dream, Live Life, Ambition

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Sad, Live Life, Silence

If you're feeling fancy free, come wander through the world with me, and any place we chance to be, will be a rendezvous. Two for the road, we'll travel through the years, collecting precious memories, selecting souvenirs and living life the way we please.

- Henry Mancini

source: Song: Two for the Road, 2004

topic: Travel, Memories, Live Life, Souvenirs, Rendezvous

If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Mother, Children, Live Life, Beams Of Light

If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing?

- Hill Harper

topic: Live Life, Excited

I had been in the gym training for many, many years, but I definitely stepped it up when it was time to get into shape to play 'Lights'. I began trying to live the life of a boxer, and that means everything that you would expect.

- Holt McCallany

source: "Holt McCallany and Warren Leight Interview LIGHTS OUT". Interview, collider.com. March 23, 2011.

topic: Live Life, Mean, Light, Gym Training

To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Live Life, Eye, Passion

I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one.

- Honus Wagner

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Live Life, Mean, Player

I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest.

- Hope Solo

topic: Live Life, Thinking, People, Really Living

Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it meaningful... . Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man.

- Hu Shih

topic: Meaningful, Live Life, Men, Meaningless Life, Asking Yourself Why

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.

- Hugh Hefner

topic: Live Life, Heart, Magazines

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

- Hugh Prather

source: Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.41, Bantam

topic: Change, Life Changing, Live Life, Just Living Life, Learning About Yourself

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

- Hugh Prather

topic: Change, Life Changing, Live Life

A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally

- Irvin D. Yalom

topic: Live Life, Messages, Would Be

Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.

- Irvin D. Yalom

topic: Life, Important, Live Life, Unexamined Life, Life Is Not Worth Living

And yet, these insights of connectedness and oneness, which make us feel so at home in the world, are so difficult to hold onto. And so, inevitably, we wind up living lives of isolation and loneliness.

- Irwin Kula

source: "Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero". "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 2002.

topic: Loneliness, Live Life, Home, Isolation And Loneliness

Extraverts ... cannot understand life until they have lived it. Introverts ... cannot live life until they understand it.

- Isabel Briggs Myers

topic: Live Life, Introvert, Sociability

The reason women are always reluctant to reveal their age is because other people label them as 'past it'. In the 21st century, women over 60 are not past it - we are vital, active, sexual beings, living life to the full.

- Ita Buttrose

topic: Women, Live Life, Past, Living Life To The Full

Abide in Me says Jesus. Cling to Me. Stick fast to Me. Live the life of close and intimate communion with Me. Get nearer to Me. Roll every burden on Me. Cast your whole weight on Me. Never let go your hold on Me for a moment. Be, as it were, rooted and planted in Me. Do this and I will never fail you. I will ever abide in you.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Letting Go, Jesus, Live Life, Never Let Go, Rooted

Do what you feel is right and back yourself up. Live the life you want to live.

- Jack Barakat

topic: Live Life, Want, Feels

Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.

- Jackson Browne

topic: Live Life, Long, Losing

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

- Jacqueline Novogratz

topic: Live Life, Thought Provoking, May, Immersion

My goal is to assist people in the process of rapidly achieving their goals so they are able to live the life of their dreams. My hope is that they will eventually pay-it-forward and help those that they care about the most do the same

- Jairek Robbins

source: "How to 10X and Get What You Want in Life" by Sean Kim, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2015.

topic: Dream, Live Life, People, Pay It Forward

I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card - the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it.

- Jamaica Kincaid

topic: Live Life, Home, Heart, Greeting Card

Follow your heart and be true to yourself. Never live the life of another. You have to create your own road.

- James Van Praagh

topic: Live Life, Heart, Be True To Yourself

There are as many ways of living a good life as there are people living lives.

- Jane Caro

topic: Good Life, Live Life, People, Living The Good Life

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me -and I love to live life at full throttle.

- Janice Dickinson

topic: Life, Live Life, Past, Live To The Fullest, Throttle

We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live life not according to their own desires are those who have no desires--which is the majority, actually. People can say what they like, they can speak of abnegation, sacrifice, generosity, acceptance, and resignation, but it's all false. The norm is for people to think that they desire whatever comes to them, whatever they achieve along the way or whatever is given to them--they have no preconceived desires.

- Javier Marías

topic: Live Life, Acceptance, Sacrifice, Abnegation

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

topic: Live Life, Support, Community

There's no real formula for doing it, it's either just living life and writing down a joke you think of in the middle of the day and then pieces those together later.

- Jeff Dunham

topic: Real, Live Life, Writing, Just Living Life

Like most other creatives, I struggle with self-sabotage, self-doubt, and feeling like an imposter more often than not. I struggle with expressing myself, because it does sometimes feel easier or safer not to.

- Jeff Jarvis

topic: Struggle, Live Life, Self, Imposter, Self Sabotage

The truth is never the problem; The problem is always the problem.

- Jeff VanVonderen

source: Jeff VanVonderen (2008). “Tired of Trying to Measure Up: Getting Free from the Demands, Expectations, and Intimidation of Well-Meaning People”, p.87, Bethany House

topic: Live Life, Problem, Truth Is

Girl you are a beauty. Well, I am a beast. They must have been trippin to let me off the leash.

- Jeremih

source: Song: Down On Me, Album: All About You, 2010

topic: Girl, Live Life, Beast, Leashes

I've never been passionate about acting, and I find more and more that I work to live the life I want to live. There's something about the detachment I have, the feeling of the lack of importance about what I do, that is healthy.

- Jeremy Irons

topic: Live Life, Feelings, Healthy

Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future! Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

- Jerry Garcia

topic: Running, Live Life, Winning

I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment.

- Jill Hennessy

topic: Live Life, Adventure, Journey, Life Journey, Long Journey

Be awesome. Live life to the fullest. Shoot for the stars and never settle.

- Jillian Michaels

source: Jillian Michaels (2013). “Slim for Life: My Insider Secrets to Simple, Fast, and Lasting Weight Loss”, p.3, Harmony

topic: Motivational, Stars, Live Life

...many of us inhibit our capacity for growth because the culture encourages us to live lives of uniformity. We stall, deny, ignore the ensuing crisis because of confusion, malaise, and yes, even propriety.

- Joan Anderson

topic: Live Life, Confusion, Growth, Uniformity, Malaise

Whatever you do, just don't stand still. Make the changes you need today, so you can live the life you want, tomorrow.

- Joel Brown

source: Twitter post from Feb 22, 2015

topic: Live Life, Needs, Want

Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that you desire.

- Joel Brown

source: Twitter post from Mar 17, 2017

topic: Live Life, Self, Desire

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time, your attention, your love, your concern.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Live Life, Love You, Giving, Spending Your Time, Gift Of Time

I'm lucky - we're all lucky - to be playing a game for a living.

- Joey Harrington

topic: Life, Live Life, Games

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Wise, Live Life, Men, Thousand Years, Raises Questions

The most important part of living life on your own terms and having it all is having faith and belief in yourself and in the intelligent power that created you.

- John Assaraf

source: "Arrowsmith". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1925.

topic: Live Life, Intelligent, Important, Belief In Yourself

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

- John Buchan

source: 1916 The Power-House, ch.3,'Tells of a Midsummer Night'.

topic: Wall, Live Life, Thinking, Saturn

The best way to prepare for death is to live life to its fullest.

- John Bytheway

source: St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.48, St Athanasius Press

topic: Live Life, Way, Live Life To Its Fullest

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

- John Galsworthy

topic: Live Life, Men, Wish

You notice. And noticing, you live.

- John Graves

source: John Graves (2016). “From a Limestone Ledge: Some Essays and Other Ruminations about Country Life in Texas”, p.163, University of Texas Press

topic: Life, Live Life, Noticing, Noticing You

I try to live life so that I can live with myself.

- John Green

topic: Hipster, Live Life, Trying

Imagine all the people living life in peace...

- John Lennon

source: Song: Imagine, Album: The U.S. vs. John Lennon

topic: Live Life, People, Imagine, Make Love Not War, Make Peace Not War

When you live life for yourself it's hard on everyone. And that hasn't changed. For me, if anything, it's gotten worse.

- John Mellencamp

topic: Live Life, Changed

It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.

- John Oliver

topic: Live Life, Visa

Live life to it's fullest, love wastefully, and be all we can be.

- John Shelby Spong

topic: Determination, Live Life

It's better to die free than live life in a cage.

- Jordan Dane

topic: Live Life, Cages

Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Live Life, Order, Giving, Serpent, Circle Of Life

If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you, every moment becomes a prayer.

- Joseph Frank Bianco

topic: Religious, Prayer, Live Life

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

- Joshua L. Liebman

topic: Success, Stress, Live Life

Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Live Life, People, Trying