Top 100 Life Lived Well Quotes
#2. A life well-lived or a life lived well? The placement of words really does change the connotation.
Carol Morgan
#3. [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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.
Hector Berlioz
#7. A well lived life means weathering a few storms. Our lessons don't come from sunny days on the beach, they come from copping a few waves on the head.
Tony Curl
#8. Imagination and the journey-quest is at the heart of every life well-lived
Azar Nafisi
#9. To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark - in a way that you think is important and lasting - that's a life well-lived.
Laurene Powell Jobs
#10. death is a joyous journey for the purposeful life and a melancholy for the mediocre life
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#11. There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#12. 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
#13. I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation.
Frank Sinatra
#14. I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.
Thomas Browne
#15. I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.
Lauren Bacall
#16. Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!
Clara Barton
#17. Climbing was one of her strengths, but she didn't do it with grace - which, come to think, was an apt description of the way she lived the rest of her life, as well.
Michelle Sagara
#18. Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.
Mollie Marti
#19. In the end, what matters most is how well you lived, how well you loved, and how well you learned to let go.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#20. When I was younger, I just lived my life on paper. I didn't really live in the real world very much. As a consequence, I couldn't cope with the real world and real people very well. That in itself became life threatening, so I had to stop drawing so much and learn how to cope with people.
Robert Crumb
#21. In-Between the strumming of the strings...
a Life is Lived and Ends...
Play your music well, It's All you have to Give
Dr. Marc
#22. A life is well lived when you are content with your condition and gracious for your possessions.
Debasish Mridha
#23. Here, then, is one way in which we would do well to go a little native: backward, or perhaps it is forward, to a time and place where the gathering and preparing and enjoying of food were closer to the center of a well-lived life.
Michael Pollan
#24. Time, though you've probably lived all your life believing the contrary, is not money. If you run out of money, there are many ways to scrounge up more. If you run out of time - well, that's all she wrote.
Jay Conrad Levinson
#25. ...this was what she had been taught: To choose marriage and babies over a glamorous career would be an unthinkable failure. Love was supposed to be the by-product of a life well lived not the goal. And this is what she realized: Everything she had been taught was wrong.
Jade Chang
#27. I just want to make sure Mama. Sometimes I don't even know what I want. A lot of times I'm just tired."
Mama reached up and smoothed Liza's curls away from her face. "Well darlin', that's the sign of a life being lived. I think we're all tired when we're giving it our best.
Gwenn Wright
#28. I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that's in your head.
Andrew McCarthy
#29. The measure of a life well lived is how many good dogs you can fit into it.
[or cats]
Marion Lennox
#30. Anyone can make a positive impact on the lives of other people. All we have to do is live our ordinary lives extraordinarily well. Be happy and positive. Do what you love and love your work. Reach out not only by using your hands, but with your heart as well. Life is lived wonderfully that way.
Kcat Yarza
#31. A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.
Cate Blanchett
#32. Living well has something to do with the spirituality of wholeheartedness, of seeing life more as a grace than as a penance, as time to be lived with eager expectation of its goodness, not in dread of its challenges.
Joan D. Chittister
#33. Very comforting, that-choosing your truth. Makes life quite tolerable when lived on such terms, does it not? Well, at least for a bit.... Until one brushes up against another's truth whose fur does not lie in the same direction.
Pamela Aidan
#34. In the Upper Room and on Calvary's hill, Jesus teaches us that the most important aspects of a well-lived life are love, humility and obedience.
Joan Campbell
#35. I went to a haunted house once, and I don't do well in situations like that, and I've lived my entire life not being scared or anything.
Katie Chang
#36. What we desire in our hearts, Arathan, and what must be ... well, that is a rare embrace, so rare you're likely to never know it. You have lived that truth. I have no promises to make you. I cannot say what awaits you, but you are now in your year and the time has come for you to make your life.
Steven Erikson
#37. Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.
Dean Karnazes
#38. Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.
Chuck Palahniuk
#39. Max, the trouble with you is for the last nine years - well, most of your life, come to think of it - you've lived in a masculine world; you're used to logic, reason, sense. Females don't think like we do; they're emotional.
Anne Gracie
#40. Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities.
Right and wrong, however, are for - well, not unhappy people, maybe, but scarred people; scared people.
Hanya Yanagihara
#41. You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.
Erwin McManus
#42. Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another day and understand why you lived in the day!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#43. Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
Katharine Hepburn
#44. Prinn lived by one governing thought: Whenever life seems to be going surprisingly well, just wait ten seconds and everything will go back to shit like normal.
Victor Gischler
#45. There is a distinct feeling of contentment that engulfs your entire being after a day well lived, a battle well fought, and a purpose tirelessly pursued.
Steve Maraboli
#46. Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.
Milan Kundera
#47. Danny: I'm a bit jealous, Sheila.
Sheila: Are you, my dear? What on earth for?
Danny: Well, because you've really lived, Sheila.
Sheila: Of course I have, Daniel. What else is life for?
Louise Wener
#48. I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman
#49. Is love partnership for everyone? Is it essential to a life well lived, or is that just a cultural myth?
Jeff Brown
#50. Indeed, the big decisions in life are hardly ever clear - except for one. And that one is piercingly clear: life is a series of dilemmas, of options, of conundrums, of possibilities taken and not taken. Negotiating these moments well is of the essence of the life well lived.
Joan D. Chittister
#51. There are principles which govern our life-they are the principles of Life. If our life is lived according to these principles all is well, and harmony reigns in place of vexation and struggle.
Henry Thomas Hamblin
#52. The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.
Donald E. Williams Jr.
#54. Happiness is not a goal ... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#55. At times like this There's not a lot that words can do To help ease your pain and sense of loss And though it may be hard to believe right now Know that the pain will ease with time And you will look back at the memories of your dear one And smile and remember a life well lived and loved.
Margaret Jones
#56. I want to die living. And I want to be remembered as one who lived with purpose, joy and feeling. I want to spend my time learning what goes into a whole and happy life, then building that life the best I can.
Steve Goodier
#57. The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
#58. True wealth does not glitter. It is revealed by the beauty of a life well lived.
Debasish Mridha
#59. Only the passionate were immortal, it seemed. If you fought, screwed, screamed, laughed, or otherwise experienced life intensely, for better or worse, you left a record. Those who lived a quiet, well-behaved, well-tempered life? Gone without a trace.
Magnus Flyte
#60. A lot of people might define a life well lived by how much is in the bank. I feel like it's how much you laugh.
Jill Kargman
#61. Photos sat on the piano and shelves bulged with books, testament to a life well lived.
Louise Penny
#62. A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn't. (356)
Victoria Moran
#63. Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.
Sidney Sheldon
#64. The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#65. It's not how long but how well you lived which matters.
Krishna Saagar
#66. I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.
Ahmet Ertegun
#67. The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty.
N.D. Wilson
#68. At the end of my life on that day I want the Lord to look at me and say, "Well done Tonia, you lived a life of purpose and used all of the gifts and talents I bestowed upon you to bring me glory
Tonia Shalel
#69. A life well-lived in the present is all but impossible when you are tethered to your past.
Tucker Elliot
#70. And it made me hurt inside of my bones with sadness. Because in a life that is long and well lived there are sorrows and darkest doldrums that cannot be understood by those who live day to day like it could be any other.
Brian McGreevy
#71. A life without imagination would not be a life well lived. Colour your thoughts and paint the shared skies with your dreams for all to see.
Truth Devour
#73. Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.
Mark Batterson
#74. The ultimate act of heroism shouldn't be death. You're always saying you want to give Baz the stories he deserves ... So you're going to kill him off? Isn't the best revenge supposed to be a life well-lived? The punk-rock way to end it would be to let them live happily ever after.
Rainbow Rowell
#75. Happiness comes as a by-product of the "life well lived." And
Henry Cloud
#76. Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.
Benjamin Whichcote
#77. One of the hallmarks of a life well lived, a life worthy to return to God's presence and receive a fulness of the Father, is to be "valiant in the testimony of Jesus". Paul was valiant, and we can be valiant as well. To be "valiant in the testimony of Jesus" is to be faithful.
Lawrence E. Corbridge
#78. When you have lived the life I've lived, when you've loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad
well, that's when you realize you'll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you'd rather die first.
Judy Garland
#79. My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'
Kitty Kelley
#80. Happiness is the result of a life well lived
Danny Dover
#81. You need to remember the best legacy you can give your kids is an example of a life well lived. They may listen to what you say, but they will do what you do. If you tell them to take care of yourself but you don't do it yourself, what kind of message are you sending?
Brooke Castillo
#82. Real security only comes when we are comfortable with who we are, real happiness is a byproduct of a life well lived.
Daniel Gottlieb
#83. I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth?
Janet Fitch
#84. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another.
Albert Camus
#85. Nothing in any life, no matter how well or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or clearer than sorrow. And
Gregory David Roberts
#86. A work of art like this,' he tells one of the journalists, 'demands that the life lived in it be a work of art as well. I am certain that Viktor Landauer and his beautiful wife will do the place justice.
Simon Mawer
#87. People say, 'What if your name was Niki Smith?' Well, if Niki Smith lived the life I've lived, it would have great bearing.
Niki Tsongas
#88. And I could go the rest of my life like this, don't get me wrong. This was reality and I'd certainly learned to adapt to that reality. I didn't love it, I'd never love it, but I lived with it pretty well.
Beth Harbison
#89. I have lived this life, and no matter what others may decide about it, I must claim each decision as mine. I have caused harm, failed in the expectations and obligations of love. I have loved well. What I do each day is carried within me until I die.
Meredith Hall
#90. I know one day I'll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window's gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow - I would not care. I feel like I've lived, I feel like I've had a great life.
Tom Ford
#91. Life's here to be lived, and if we're going to be in the soup next week - well, next week is a long way off.
George Orwell
#92. A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.
Erwin McManus
#93. Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.
Almost.
It is death by living.
N.D. Wilson
#94. A passionately lived life is not always comfortable. Going for it involves being open to all of life - the joys, the sorrows, the mundane as well and the magic, the splendid victories, the most abject defeats. You might even stop closing your eyes during the scary parts of the movie.
Nicholas Lore
#96. The best revenge is a life well lived.
Chloe Neill
#97. The silence of death, of the cemetery, was no punishment, but a reward for a life well lived.
Caitlin Doughty
#98. Experiences are the currency of a life well lived.
Mark Batterson
#99. No empire lasts forever, no dynasty continues unbroken. Some day, you and I will be mere legends. All that matters is whether we did what we could with the life that was given to us.
Krishna Udayasankar
#100. Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.
Lysa TerKeurst
