Quotes About Living

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

I'm going to spend it all. . . why leave it to our errors?

Our concern must be to live while we're alive ... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

Any life truly lived is a risky business, and if one puts up too many fences against the risks one ends by shutting out life itself.

It is only by risking ... that we live at all.

We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

In the main it is not by introspection but by reflecting on our living in common with others that we come to know ourselves. What is revealed? It is an original creation. Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

Forget the past and live the present hour.

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

People are always asking about the good old days. I say, why don't you say the good "now" days? Isn't "now" the only time you're living?

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, esson, or delight that moment has to

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

Happy the man, and happy he alone He can call today his own. He who, secure within can say, "Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today."

Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly.

I believe that only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

The present is the living sum-total of the whole past.

It is now, and in this world, that we must live.

J. C. F. von Schiller

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.