Quotes About Living

Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

The past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

Don't waste today regretting yesterday instead of making a memory for tomorrow.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

When shall we live if not now?

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, "here and now," without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

Today, well lived, will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.

Live wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

The sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

I live now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

The mere sense of living is joy enough.

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 liv'd today.

Tomorrow life is too late: live today.

Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured.

I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart 'til it stops beating."

I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.

I don't plan anything any more. I just live my life.

Life was meant to be lived full measure, flat out, pedal to the metal. Don't live the rest of your life like a Porsche that never leaves the garage because somebody's afraid to scratch it.

Life was meant to be lived full measure, flat out, pedal to the metal

According to His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, when you're happy everything in life is bearable and grief and stress are just passing emotions. Happiness is not something that you feel after something good happens. It is a state of living that is present whether good things are happening or not, whether you're suffering or not.

Happiness is not something that you feel when good things happen in your life. It is not something you feel when people say good things about you. It is not something you feel when you win an award. It is a state of living – present in grief or celebration, success or failure, stress or relaxation, suffering or pleasure.

Life, she remembered, had to be lived, even - and maybe particularly - in the middle of death