Quotes About Living

The fundamental principle of true healing consists of a return to natural habits of living.

Bear witness. My tale is told. Wake. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Don't let me (Or anyone else) Tell this tale again.

When I was on a book tour last year, I saw a sign in a bookstore in a seaside town in Maine that was carefully drawn with popular symbols of coastal living and these words were entwined: Hope anchors the soul. From that childhood that many might call "disadvantaged," I was anchored in the belief that most things are possible.

I think the most important thing for you to do in the meantime is live. It is a very involving job, which takes much concentration and practice.

People are living too much or too little, and I wondered if anyone out there is living the right amount.

I think language beautifully full of the poetry of immanent clarification of some small pinprick of what living might mean. Fuck. Why else would anyone care to spend a life writing sentences?

To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it.

Modern culture anesthetizes the mind while mainlining the soul with emotional experiences that keep the worldling believing he is really living.

They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.

It was their creed that devils had no place on earth, that evil was not a living creature in the world. There was no one to blame other than oneself.

There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.

You can't look back. You can't dial up euphoria on demand, or try to recreate what happened a quarter century ago. You move forward and you live your life and try to be a better person every day than you were the day before. You take each day as a new journey, even as you are grateful for the ones you have already had.

Life for all its gains pierces in ways that leave scars, where I've bled, I've lived

A vida não parava nunca, para a gente poder viver direito, concertado?

I must live a little each day, greet the sun as it rises and revel in its setting, swim naked, sip coffee and wine by the shore, generate new ideas, admire myself, talk to animals, meditate, laugh, risk adventures. I must try to be soft, not hard; fluid, not rigid; tender, not cold; find rather than seek. I have been embraced by the sea, tested by its elements, emptied of anxiety, cleansed with fresh thought. In the process, I have recovered myself.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die or when. But you can decide how you're going to live now

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

They said it was death to kill a sibyl, death to love a sibyl, death to be a sibyl … and they meant a living death.

Also living is option.

Yesterday's gone, so has the day before. Don't let's waste today arguing about it.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

At the crossroads, the sacred may dwell. The devout practice a religion, performing its daily rituals. Perhaps we call it practice because we hope to become better. . . . but surely we practice a faith because that faith is our living.

There seemed to be endless obstacles preventing me from living with my eyes open, but as I gradually followed up clue after clue it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.