Quotes About Living

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.

Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life

Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live.

After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years (a sunk cost if ever there was one), people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them. — Marshall Goldsmith

We're lucky just to be alive.

Setiap orang harus mati. Saya akan mati, dan kamu akan mati. Dan yang penting ialah bagaimana untuk hidup sampai mati.

You are afraid to die, and you're afraid to live. What a way to exist.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that 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 window today. —DALE CARNEGIE

You can't be a good writer in the States anymore... Because to be a good one you have to have a country where you can be poor and still eat, and still make your living standards secondary to your writing. Thoreau himself couldn't do that in the States today... (Sept. 1953 letter to Millen Brand)

Ghosts were not the spirits of the dead returning but the memories of the living not yet laid to rest.

Man is the living soul, turning slowly into a life-giving Spirit. But you cannot tell it except in a parable or metaphor to excite the mind of man to get him to go out and prove it.

Inner action orders all things according to the nature of itself. Try and see whether a desirable ideal once formulated is possible, for only by this process of experiment can you realise your potentialities. It is this that this creative principle is being realised. So the clue to purposive living is to centre your imagination in the action and feeling of fulfilled desire with such awareness, such sensitiveness, that you initiate and experience movement upon the inner world.

When we begin to ascend while here in this three-dimensional world, we find that we move in an entirely different environment – we have entirely different circles of friends, and an entirely different world – while still living here. We know the great mystery of the statement, "I am in the world but not of it.

Great leaders possess tremendous long-term clarity about what they're trying to accomplish both personally and in their careers. And it's this long-term perspective that builds character, wisdom, and self-discipline. Long-term thinking is the hallmark of high-performance living, yet it's often neglected in favor of the treadmill of urgent activities of the moment.

Now is now... There is nothing but now and I try to hold on to that. The past is gone, the future hasn't happened yet. This, right here, is all there is.

Being sober isn't just about not using. Being sober is about the joy a life of clarity and living by spiritual principles can bring. There is nothing greater than that. Forget drugs. Forget needles. Forget everything. We are living to experience the undiluted amazement of life on life's terms.

As Atul Gawande writes, 'We end up with institutions that address any number of societal goals ... but never the goal that matters to the people who reside in them: how to make life worth living when we're weak and frail and can't fend for ourselves any more.

There are too many poems about death. Death, churchyards, wormy cadavers. Death is really a small part of life, and it's not the part that you want to concentrate on, because life is life and it's full of untold particulars.

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.

We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.

It was reality TV that convinced SILAS he would need to annihilate humanity in order to go on living.