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Quotes About Living

Living in fear or judgement is not how I will spend my life. Realizing that this life is all I get and your life is all you get, brings a need to make the best of all possible.
~ Giancarlo Stanton
Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
~ Jack Kornfield
Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
~ Jack London
Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
~ John Lewis
If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day . . . the here, the now.
~ Simone Elkeles
Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.
~ Solomon Northup
Life's for the living, so live it, or you're better off dead.
~ Passenger
We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
~ Erica Jong
To live a life half dead, a living death.
~ John Milton
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
~ Joseph Campbell
It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live." ~spoken by Augustus McCrae
~ Larry McMurtry
The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.
~ Maria Montessori
I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
Life is short, break the rules.
~ Mark Twain
Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques
~ Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts.
~ Joan Z. Borysenko
Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.
~ Betty Smith
The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
Never be discontent with the life you've been dealt, be discontent with the way you're living it.
~ Mike Donehey
We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.
~ Minor White
If you spend your life thinking, "I wonder if today is when it ends," you're going to miss out on everything wonderful.
~ Dick Van Dyke
Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
~ Edward Abbey