Living Quotes

Though under earth, and throneless now I beYet while I lived all earth was under me.

C.S. Lewis

Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly you forget meDo not look for meFor I shall already have forgotten youIf you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my lifeAnd you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have rootsRememberThat on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my armsAnd my roots will set off to seek another land

Pablo Neruda

We have an internal check and balance system. By design we are so filled with possibility, opportunity, with greatness that when we live small, within the bottom of our capability, we innately know we should be living greater than that, and it creates a disconnect inside that leads us to feeling empty, unhappy, maybe even depressed.

Steve Maraboli

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

Neil Gaiman

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Stephen King

Only a life lived for others is worth living

Albert Einstein

The harder I work the more I live.

George Bernard Shaw

Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.

Thomas Jefferson

Today, you have the opportunity to transcend from a disempowered mindset of existence to an empowered reality of purpose-driven living. Today is a new day that has been handed to you for shaping. You have the tools, now get out there and create a masterpiece.

Steve Maraboli

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

With a sigh, he grabbed hold of his chair and lifted himself out of it, then wrote on the blackboard: How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? - A.Y.'I'm going to leave that up for the rest of the semester,' he said.'Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I don't want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to understand how people have answered that question and the questions each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life.

John Green

We're living in science fiction, but we don't realize it.

Terry Pratchett

I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.

Oscar Wilde

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

Blaise Pascal

If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.

Albert Camus

Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

Paulo Coelho

People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. Live your truth and don't EVER stop!

Steve Maraboli

Like madness is the glory of life.

William Shakespeare

I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

John Green