Living Fully Quotes:

If you carve out what you expect, that's how you end up getting disappointed, not living fully in the present.

- Gwyneth Paltrow

source: "Here and Now". Interview with Steven Smith, articles.latimes.com. April 22, 1998.

topic: Ends, Disappointed, Living Fully

Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see photographers cultivating the strangeness or awkwardness of a scene, thinking it is poetry. No. Poetry is two elements which are suddenly conflict — a spark between two elements. But it’s given very seldom, and you can’t look for it. It’s like if you look for inspiration. No, it just comes by enriching yourself and living.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

topic: Inspiration, Reality, Thinking, Living Fully, Awkwardness

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

- Michael Landon

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

topic: Positive, Want, Tomorrow, Live To The Fullest, Just Live Your Life

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Live And Learn, Importunate

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

- Annie Dillard

source: "The Writing Life". Book by Annie Dillard, 1989.

topic: Life, Wisdom, Time, Live To The Fullest, Carpe

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

- Pope Paul VI

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Live Life To Its Fullest, Live To The Fullest

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

- Mark Twain

topic: Positive, Men, Fear Of Death, Someone Who Is Dying, Live To The Fullest

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

- William Blake

source: 'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Peace, Beautiful Nature, Spirit Of Life

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Inspirational, Life, God, Just Live Your Life, Kickass Women

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.

- Randy Pausch

source: YouTube Channel "R2Agent"/"Randy Pausch addressing the CMU 2008 graduating class", www.youtube.com. May 19, 2008.

topic: Life, Beats, Born, Living Fully, Reaper

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

- William Blake

topic: Hands, Infinity, Palms, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Earth

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

- Mel Brooks

topic: Funny, Life, Witty, Life Is Not Worth Living, Living Fully

But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.

- Thomas Merton

source: "My Argument with the Gestapo: Autobiographical novel".

topic: Wisdom, Thinking, Hair, Living Fully

A life of love is one of continualgrowth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to thewonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Love, Life, Doors, Living Fully, Continual Growth

Ram Dass

- Ram Dass

source: Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.80, Sounds True

topic: Art, Pain, Unbearable, Transcending, Quaker

Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power.

- Graham Kendrick

topic: Selfish, Heart, Men, Living Fully

I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had “become a lesbian”—but because I had returned to my own body after years of alienation. The sensual details of life are the raw materials of a poet—and with that falling-in-love I was able to return to living fully in my own fleshly self.

- Minnie Bruce Pratt

source: "Minnie Bruce Pratt: Feminist Poet Describes Call To Action, Struggle To Write" By Minnie Bruce Pratt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2011.

topic: Falling In Love, Writing, Self, Details Of Life, Living Fully

Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's no way for me to separate this from my poems.

- Alex Lemon

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Essentials, Fragility, Alive, Living Fully

Not reaching back for what was lost in my yesterdays. And not reaching for what I hope will be in my tomorrow. But living fully with what is right in front of me. And truly seeing the gift of this moment.

- Lysa TerKeurst

topic: Yesterday, Tomorrow, Moments, Living Fully, Reaching Back

If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures ofits inheritance on new and more stable foundations, there is indeed need for those now living fully to realize how far the decay has already progressed.

- Johan Huizinga

topic: War, Civilization, History, Living Fully, If Then

I don't have time' is the single most frequently given reason for living fractional, perpetually indentured lives, for not living fully or freely. Because time is life, when we say we don't have enough time, we are admitting that we don't have enough life.

- Sonia Johnson

source: Sonia Johnson (1989). “Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution”, Wildfire Books

topic: Time, Admitting, Reason, Living Fully

For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.

- Janet Morris

source: Janet Morris, Chris Morris (1990). “Storm Seed”, Baen Books

topic: Death, Honor, Meaning Of Life, Living Fully, Facing Death

Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years becuase you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action.

- Miguel Angel Ruiz

topic: Motivational, Years, Risk, Living Fully

Enlightenment means that you're never the same. You move and shift as the quiescent state, in a body or out of it. And since the quiescent state is perpetual and endless ecstasy, therefore you are endless.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Moving, Mean, Enlightenment, Living Fully

I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be.

- John Shelby Spong

topic: Religious, Christianity, Eternity, Living Fully

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

- Terry Eagleton

source: "Ideas for modern living: virtue" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2010.

topic: Mean, Virtue, Enjoy, Living Fully

A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful.

- Gail Sheehy

source: Gail Sheehy (2006). “Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life”, Random House Incorporated

topic: Sweet, Wine, Life Experience, Alluring, Sparkling

Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully.

- Tara Brach

topic: Self, Years, Roots, Living Fully, Radical Acceptance

If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.

- Roy T. Bennett

topic: Past, Worry, Focus, Living Fully

To suppress the grief, the pain, is to condemn oneself to a living death. Living fully means feeling fully; it means becoming completely one with what you are experiencing and not holding it at arm's length.

- Philip Kapleau

source: Philip Kapleau (1990). “The Wheel of Life and Death: A Practical and Spiritual Guide”

topic: Pain, Grief, Mean, Living Fully

Let go of what you can't control. Channel all that energy into living fully in the now.

- Karen Salmansohn

topic: Letting Go, Wisdom, Energy, Living Fully