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Quotes About Living

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
~ James Broughton
Life is beautiful, enjoy every moment of it.
~ Patti Hansen
Live life to the fullest.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I want to do things - scuba diving, sky diving, seeing the world. I'm an avid supporter of living life to its fullest and not always waiting for tomorrow.
~ Teri Polo
The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.
~ Thomas Merton
Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
~ John Cage
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
~ John Dryden
The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.
~ John of the Cross
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
~ Josh Billings
The less I understand life, the more I live it!
~ Jules Renard
Life's too short to be organized.
~ Kendall Schmidt
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.
~ Laurens van der Post
A life without passion is not living, it's merely existing
~ Leo Buscaglia
Vicarious living is only slightly less impossible than vicarious eating.
~ Mason Cooley
Life is very short, try everything you've dreamed about (within the perimeters of sanity and the law) and regret nothing. Oh, and don't forget the sunscreen.
~ Amber Benson
To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
~ Anais Nin
Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
~ Bernie Siegel
Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.
~ Billy West
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
~ Henry David Thoreau
I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
~ Henry James
The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak it up, to revel in it.
~ Joan D. Chittister
It's not that we're trying to avoid death; we're trying to enjoy our lives fully, to wring every wonderful drop out of life that we possibly can.
~ Joe De Sena