Quotes About Living

I haven't the slightest interest in being happy. I prefer to live life passionately, which is dangerous because you never know what might happen next.

For those that were never wounded by love, they will never be able to say: "I lived". Because they haven't.

This is the present moment. Learn how to gobble it up without fear or guilt.

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly.

To die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

La conciencia de la muerte nos anima a vivir más

Every moment should be lived with feeling and emotion because if we try to decipher it and understand it, the magic disappears. We

life is the moment we're living right now.

If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

lived only for the present, because the present was full of surprises.

Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

the truth about this existence of ours...can be summed up in one word: Live

I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

Life would be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now.

don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

Seek to live. Remembrance is for the old.

Books, for example—she had thought of books as diversion and amusement. Now she knew they were communication between minds, her own and others, living and dead. Such communication was the source of learning and she had a thirst for learning

The main question is, are we living in a way that adds further aggression and self-centeredness to the mix, or are we adding some much-needed sanity?

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals.

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.