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Quotes About Living

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
~ George Santayana
Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.
~ Gabriel Bá, Daytripper
Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.
~ Ellen Hopkins, Perfect
I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.
~ Libba Bray
Just think life's too short to get hung up on maybes.
~ A. Meredith Walters
Don't expect anything. Erase all life expectancies. Just live.
~ Adrian Tan
You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.
~ Anne Fortier
A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
~ Edward Abbey
You don't choose a life, dad. You live one.
~ Emilio Estevez
If I had my life to live over I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.
~ Erma Bombeck
Accept the challenges of life and you'll continue to find that winning is the spirit of living . . . it's merely a state of mind.
~ Mychal Wynn
When we...go back in to the past and rake up all the troubles we've had, we end up reeling and straggering through life. Stability and peace of mind come by living in the moment.
~ Pam W. Vredevelt
Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what — if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again.
~ Robert Breault
For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.
~ Janet Morris
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment
~ Rose Kennedy
You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.
~ Saint Augustine
Life reveals itself to us only in so far as well live it.
~ Thomas Merton
You can insure yourself up to your eyeballs, but if you don't take risks, what's the point? You have to enjoy life.
~ Vanessa Mae
My point of reference is life, in everything that I do.
~ Howie Mandel
Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations.
~ James O'Donnell Bennett
And what do you think will happen to you when you find life is just too good to be left alone? You'll start living it.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.
~ Chuck Palahniuk