Top 100 Life Lived Quotes
#1. A life lived from the back seat, observed as it blured by. An indifferent life.
Khaled Hosseini
#2. Benedictine spirituality, after all,
is life lived to the hilt.
It is a life of concentration
on life's ordinary dimensions.
It is an attempt to do
the ordinary things of life
extraordinarily well.
Joan D. Chittister
#3. Each one had marked, as it were, the inauguration of a new phase in her life. She did not believe that things could present themselves in the same way in different places, and since the portion of her life lived had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better.
Anonymous
#4. They flow above the chimneys, ride the sidewalks, slip through your jacket and shirt and breastbone and lungs, and pass out through the other side, the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.
Anthony Doerr
#5. [ ... ] he felt that he too was only a baby, with the chance to live without shame, without the need for consolation for a life lived wrong, a chance to be again innocent, simply and impossibly happy.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#6. In everyone there sleeps
A sense of life lived according to love.
To some it means the difference they could make
By loving others, but across most it sweeps,
As all they might have done had they been loved.
That nothing cures.
Philip Larkin
#7. Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.
A. Powell Davies
#8. Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.
Patrick Kavanagh
#9. What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.
Carlos Castaneda
#11. A life lived as variously as Roger's, and evoked in writing as powerful as his, means that even after death his influence continues to flow outwards. Green Man-like, he appears in unexpected places, speaking in leaves.
Robert Macfarlane
#12. Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.
Tom Shadyac
#13. Am driving us home to Mrs. Lush in her shiny kitchen with a checked tablecloth in a house where the grass looks as if it's been Hoovered. You see, only in the land of Croca-Colas does the sun shine in Technicolor. Life lived at the end of the rainbow.
Sally Gardner
#15. THALES. Maybe so. Still, I'll defend a life Lived worthily in its brief time on earth. PROTEUS. A life like yours, yes - it persists Well past the bounds of mortal days. Among the crowd of pale and drifting ghosts 8620 I've noticed you these many centuries.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#16. A life lived well is one you're not prepared to compromise just in order to draw it out for another day." "Well
Mark Lawrence
#18. I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.
Ben Stein
#19. A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.
Suze Orman
#20. A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.
Neale Donald Walsch
#21. A Romantic builds everyday fulfillment through tenacious observation of daily life and an abundance of reliance on intuition. The result: An extraordinary life lived in ordinary days.
Shannon Ables
#22. Life lived somehow for love is life never wasted.
Amanda Knox
#23. The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralize about it. He did not even think the law; he merely lived the law without thinking about it at all.
Jack London
#25. [Happiness is] a ghost, it's a shadow. You can't really chase it. It's a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.
Eric Weiner
#26. A high point in a life lived at sea level, prone to flooding.
Michael Chabon
#27. Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
Ben Stein
#28. It is not the easy or convenient life for which I search, but life lived to the edge of all that I may be. - Mary Anne Radmacher
Barbara De Angelis
#29. A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.
Nora Roberts
#30. Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch.
Pat Conroy
#31. Others see their possibility in the reality of you. Your message is your life lived.
Neale Donald Walsch
#32. The truth is that not story or life lived goes on without the experiences changing you. For better or worse, life does that. The events that take place make you who you are. Sometimes they take more than you have to give.
Joann Buchanan
#33. He had been someone before. That person had been the result of a lifetime of choices, good and bad. And like it or not, he was drawing closer to that identity now. Not the freedom of infinite variety, but the tyranny of a decision made, a path walked, a life lived. What if he didn't like the view
Marcus Sakey
#34. Be real. Be authentic. Be yourself, whatever the emotional cost. Pain goes away, while regret over a life lived trying to be a plastic version of yourself does not.
Vironika Tugaleva
#35. Sometimes one act of bravery is better than a life lived as a coward.
-Mukta
Amita Trasi
#36. There is a life lived on long journeys that cannot emanate within the walls of a two-week annual vacation.
Luke Maguire Armstrong
#38. But that age ... exerts on us
An almost terrible charm,
Like the memory of things seen
And a life lived in dreams.
Heinrich Heine
#39. Because life, as Pablo Picasso averred, 'is a very bad novel', it has to be reworked through the writers' suffering into something much more meaningful, much more valuable. A life lived and relived, then, emitting intensity and beauty only achievable by a journey through pain.
Cirilo F. Bautista
#40. Yesterday's tomorrow brought us close ...
Tomorrow's yesterday pulled us apart again.
Between yesterdays and tomorrows, a life lived !
We blossomed and wilted, blossomed and wilted again !
Deeba Salim Irfan
#41. Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.
Carl Jung
#42. A truer barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of every day.
Wayne W. Dyer
#43. The life of an Essentialist is a life lived without regret. If you have correctly identified what really matters, if you invest your time and energy in it, then it is difficult to regret the choices you make. You become proud of the life you have chosen to live.
Greg McKeown
#44. Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.
George Weigel
#45. A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.
Kirk Hammett
#46. What we consider real is also imagined; every life lived is also an inner life, a life created.
Margaret Atwood
#47. A life well-lived or a life lived well? The placement of words really does change the connotation.
Carol Morgan
#48. There is no true joy in a life lived closed up in the little shell of the self. When you take one step to reach out to people, when you meet with others and share their thoughts and sufferings, infinite compassion and wisdom well up within your heart. Your life is transformed.
Daisaku Ikeda
#50. I would have told them that he lived a life lacking in purpose or direction. Like those aimless rides I took him on. A life lived from the backseat, observed as it blurred by. An indifferent life.
Khaled Hosseini
#51. A life lived following one's dreams and passions is the purest form of existence. It is the only way to truly understand the music of the universe.
Vincent Lowry
#52. Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since
Josephine Hart
#53. There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.
Gabrielle Zevin
#54. Now seen ... now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy ... though it's here and gone.
Saigyo
#55. A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin.
Steven J. Carroll
#56. An hour without you Is like ages but a minute with you is like my life lived for once and all
Shobhit Agarwal
#57. A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Denis Waitley
#58. But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.
Tamera Alexander
#59. Searching outside oneself for what can only be found within can lead to a life lived in the wrong direction and sacrifices made for the wrong reasons. People can wind up alienated from themselves even if they achieve lofty goals set by others.
Michael Meade
#60. From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament ... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
Bernard Berenson
#61. What is a life lived without passion? he asked himself. And what is passion, but a yearning of the soul for recognition and self-expression? The beauty within seeks beauty without.
Dermot Davis
#62. A life lived by choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived by chance is a life of unconscious reaction.
Neale Donald Walsch
#64. No writer, even the most proficient, could re-enact in words the flow of a life lived.
Ruth Ozeki
#65. When one is total, life flowers - and that flowering is spirituality. Spirituality is not an attitude, it is not a discipline. It is an outcome of a life lived totally, joyfully, delightfully; of a life of no complaint; of a life lived courageously, intensely. Then this flowering happens.
Rajneesh
#67. It's important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did more than just gobble up stuff for themselves. I realized that a life lived for yourself is not much of a life,
Ben Affleck
#68. - and there, on the table under her bedroom window, lies the voice that has set her dreaming again. Fragments of a life lived a long, long time ago. Across a hundred years the woman's voice speaks to her - so clearly that she cannot believe it is not possible to pick up her pen and answer.
Ahdaf Soueif
#69. Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived - life lived in a blaze of reality.
Dolores LaChapelle
#70. Rewards of life lived with principles; bloom, when life is about to end or has departed already.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#71. No amount of security is worth the suffering of a life lived chained to a routine that has killed your dreams. I
Kent Nerburn
#72. To my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online. He once wrote a short memoir in which he described himself in the third person, with the formality usually reserved for China's most famous writers.
Evan Osnos
#73. You are sunshine and moonlight, laughter and joy, a life lived entirely without fear. You heard the call of a dream and made it a reality. You are everything I believed I was fighting for all those years.
Elaine Levine
#74. It is the Master of Self who is the masterpiece; the life lived is the canvas that reveals the Master's great works.
Jo-Ann L. Tremblay
#75. I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.
Virginia Gildersleeve
#76. Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are.
Kathleen Norris
#77. Knowledge is power; power corrupts. Corruption brings shame and ruin. Ignorance may not be bliss, but it is perhaps preferable to a life lived in shame.
Lauren Kate
#78. The greatest tragedy is a life lived and died without knowing Father God intimately and experiencing His love personally.
Bob Parr
#79. A life lived mired in resentment is one that is lived primarily in the past and this is never one that is filled with joy.
Taite Adams
#80. There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.
Jaron Lanier
#81. A life lived well embraces death by feeling open, from heart to all, in every moment. Wide open, you can offer without holding back, you can receive without pushing away.
David Deida
#82. If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.
Barry Lopez
#83. My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.
Peter Orner
#84. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN.
Jack London
#85. Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.
Oswald Chambers
#87. If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably.
Rachel Maddow
#88. We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time.
Joseph Bottum
#89. I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.
Marianne Williamson
#90. A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.
Mahatma Gandhi
#91. He best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.
John McGahern
#92. There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
Ralph Blum
#93. I learned much too late
that what you called love
was nothing but a
desperate and irrational
fear of a life lived alone.
Beau Taplin
#94. Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
Leo Buscaglia
#95. A life lived at less than its full potential is a life half wasted.
Tony Clark
#96. There is a special kind of beauty that manifests itself only in the faces of very old women. Their furrowed skin contains all the marks and memories imprinted by a life lived. Old women whose bodies the earth is crying out to embrace.
Henning Mankell
#97. For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing
lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be
there to know what we have done for those we love.
Frank Pittman
#98. A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.
Macklemore
#99. The greatest testament of a life lived is to be missed when you are gone. It is not something you can plan for or buy ahead of time. It is a sentiment that comes freely from the lives you touch in positive ways.
Brian MacLearn
#100. They're battle scars of a life lived and tangible evidence of her strength. She made another human being. The weight of that knowledge is heavy.
Eliza Lentzski
