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Quotes About Living

The best advice I have been given is to live in the moment, as cliché as that sounds. It's crazy.
~ Big Sean
Worrying about tomorrow is the best way to screw up today.
~ Denis Leary
The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.
~ Morrie Schwartz
We need to learn to live in the here and now; this moment is the best moment. Live it fully.
~ Satish Kumar
The best revenge is living well without you.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Sometimes the best things are the ones that aren't planned, the decisions made while living in the moment.
~ Jessica Sorensen
The present is a great treasure, live in the present.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Live your life to the fullest.
~ Shakira
If I had to live again I would do exactly the same thing. Of course I have regrets, but if you are 60 years old and you have no regrets then you haven't lived.
~ Unknown
My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
~ Janis Joplin
If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.
~ James M. Cain
If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.
~ Ross Perot
We have to make sustainable living convenient, sustainable business profitable & sustainable change fashionable
~ Wayne Visser
In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.
~ Steve Guttenberg
I just always dreamed of racing cars, but I didn't think I could do it as a living.
~ Kurt Busch
Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.
~ Mary Wesley
The best thing about living... Is the chance to keep on doing it!
~ Lena Horne
Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
You only get a chance to live your dream once, and I'm living mine right now.
~ Chris Paul
six ways of compassionate living: generosity, discipline, patience, enthusiasm, meditation, and prajna—unconditional wisdom.
~ Pema Chodron
Traditionally it's said that the cause of suffering is clinging to our narrow view. Another way to say the same thing is that resisting our complete unity with all of life, resisting the fact that we change and flow like the weather, that we have the same energy as all living things, resisting that is what's called ego.
~ Pema Chodron
Death and hopelessness provide proper motivation—proper motivation for living an insightful, compassionate life.
~ Pema Chodron
Do You know what ghosts are, Stuey? I'll tell you. They're secrets haunting the memories of the living. So long as we carry their secrets, they refuse to leave. They wait." "Wait for what?" "To be forgotten. My father has been gone for sixty years, but" — he tapped the side of his head — "he's still here. He never left.
~ Pete Hautman
He had been living in the dark world of his anxieties, and no infliction of reality could seem more terrible than that
~ Peter Ackroyd