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Quotes About Living

The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.
~ Gerry Spence
If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.
~ Haley Reinhart
Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
~ Jack Kornfield
There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead of passive living.
~ Janet Guthrie
It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.
~ Seneca the Younger
I just eat life... I engage in life.
~ Tom Cruise
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Do I really want to spend my whole life trying not to die by mistake?
~ Amanda Seyfried
Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.
~ Carl Jung
When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
~ Seneca the Younger
It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life.
~ Thorstein Veblen
In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.
~ W. H. Auden
You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world, going out and loving the real people God has put into your life.
~ Wendy Beckett
When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
~ Adyashanti
Life is not a mixture of matter and energy but energy in matter, bound in such a way that dissociation is impossible so long as the living process continues.
~ Alexander Lowen
When you realize you're alive, you can live life!
~ Chad Michael Murray
Choose to fully and graciously live life as it comes. The richest rewards by far are the ones to which you most sincerely give of yourself.
~ Ralph Marston
Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
~ Denzel Washington
There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.
~ Dick Costolo
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
~ John Irving
You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life
~ John Irving
My focus, my life, my world is now. You just can't plan the future.
~ Juliette Lewis
People say you're flirting with death but really you're flirting with life.
~ Lauren Hutton