Quotes About Living

I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living because I believe that you have the strength to bear it.

Put the past behind you and the future ahead where they belong and spend your time in the present with the rest of us.

You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is as plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are mostly inside yourselves. He paused anew. Cats are not included in that analysis. Cats don't waste time wondering about such things. Cats just get on with the business of living.

Life is a risk. Life is precious. But life has to be lived in a way that matters.

Life is for the living, and the living have an obligation to carry on.

Life does not give you a pass from upheavals even in the best of times. Life gives you living—which is messy and uncertain, constantly shifting your place in the world and your expectations

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

In this world, everyone must die. None of us has any choice in that. Our choice is how we wish to live.

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

Life connects us all to magic, as illustrated through the design of the Grace. So, for a Confessor, I don't need a gifted person, just a living one.

What are half-people? Living people he has stripped of their souls.

Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.

One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?

Just a minute, said Lobsang. Who are you? Time has stopped, the world is given over to...fairy tales and monsters, and there's a schoolteacher walking around? Best kind of person to have, said Susan. We don't like silliness. Anyway, I told you. I've inherited certain talents. Like living outside of time? That's one of them. It's a weird talent for a schoolteacher! Good for marking, though, said Susan calmly.

Look, this is just the cemetery. It's got bylaws and things! It's not Transylvania! There's just dead people here! That doesn't make it scary, does it? Dead people are people who were living once! You wouldn't be so worked up if there were living people buried here, would you?

The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse.

Listening over and over to the voices through a family of instruments allowed us to recognize and appreciate the dignity and uniqueness of each living thing in the meadow and forest.

I am not afraid of ghosts. My mother said they can't hurt you. Only the living can.

The more happiness and love that can be reborn the better, because it will make this world more beautiful and kind. Therefore you and I should be living our weeks, days and hours in order to be reborn constantly as happiness, love and kindness.

If you live without awareness it is the same as being dead. You cannot call that kind of existence being alive. Many of us live like dead people because we live without awareness. We carry our dead bodies with us and circulate throughout the world. We are pulled into the past or we are pulled forward into the future or we are caught by our projects or our despair and anger. We are not truly alive; we are not inhabited by awareness of the miracle of being alive.

If we have too many worries, fears, and doubts, we have no room for living and loving. We need to practice letting go.

Don't wait to start living. Live now! Your life should be real in this very moment.