Quotes About Living

I will live this day as if it is my last. And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks.

pirmiausia reikia stengtis gyventi dabar, ši? akimirk?. Ta?iau vien gyventi maža. Žmogus privalo išnaudoti vis? jam Dievo duot? gali?, visas galimybes.

La vida es fácil si se vive un día, cada día, sin pensar en los ayeres ni afanarse por los mañanas

I'm convinced true fulfillment is living in God's world one day at a time, savoring it, leaving today's disapointments behind and borrowing no troubles from tomorrow. It's done not only by accepting life, fever, and things that go bump in the night, but also by cultivating love and new and old friendships, and especially by finding a new work or project that makes it exciting just to get up in the morning.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

The best of times is now.

And my number-one spiritual practice is trying to live in the present moment … to resist projecting into the future, or lamenting past mistakes … to feel the real power of now. That, my friends, is the secret to a joyful life.

The gift of deciding to face your mortality without turning away or flinching is the gift of recognizing that because you will die, you must live now. Whether you flounder or flourish is always in your hands—you are the single biggest influence in your life.

Com o passar dos anos, aprendi a concentrar minha energia no presente, a ter plena consciência do que está acontecendo e não me preocupar com o que deveria ter acontecido, com o que está acontecendo de errado ou com o que pode vir em seguida.

Ich hoffe der heutige Tag bleibt Ihnen als der in Erinnerung, an dem sie beschlossen haben, dass jeder Augenblick zähl und dass Sie jede Stunde so genießen werden, als wäre es ihre letzte. Und wenn Sie wählen können, ob Sie etwas aussitzen oder ob Sie tanzen, dann tanzen Sie hoffentlich!

However blissful it is being a soul without a body in the realm of the dead, so too is being a body without a soul among the living; what a pity nobody realizes this before dying. Therefore, during my lovely funeral, as I grievously watched my dear Shekure wear herself out weeping in vain, I begged of Exalted Allah to grant us souls-without bodies in Heaven and bodies-without-souls in life.

Is this the secret of Istanbul—that beneath its grand history, its living poverty, its outward-looking monuments, and its sublime landscapes, its poor hide the city's soul inside a fragile web?

Why do we allow the mirage of to-morrow to keep our eyes from the beauties of to-day?

Perhaps it's called the end of the world because it's the end of the games, because I can go to one of the villages and become one of the little boys working and playing there, with nothing to kill and nothing to kill me, just living there. As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what just living might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

all living things are manipulated as long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.

There are maybe two or three thousand people in the world as smart as us, little sister. Most of them are making a living somewhere. Teaching, the poor bastards, or doing research. Precious few of them are actually in positions of power." "I guess we're the lucky few." "Funny as a one-legged rabbit, Val." "Of which there are no doubt several in these woods." "Hopping in neat little circles.

If the dead could forgive, should not the living? Harrison would find his own way through life, and his own path to death. Judgment would have to come, if it came at all, from someone wiser than Alvin.

this temple of living cells on a frame of bone

Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all

Mine is the apartment that receives all noises, even from the basement below. For one hundred and ten dollars a month, I feel as if I live inside a radio.

The only interesting thing is to live.

The only interesting thing, said François Mitterrand, is to live.