Life Should Be Lived Quotes

#1. He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.

Alice Sebold

#2. What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.

Plato

#3. Life should be lived more from the heart and less from the head.

John Paul Warren

#4. Your whole life should be lived as a heroic deed

Leo Tolstoy

#5. Life shouldn't be about sitting around staring at frosted glass. Life should be lived and that's all there is to it.

Oliver Reed

#6. Life should be lived as play.

Plato

#7. Philosophy seeks to explain life and portray how life should be lived

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. I believe that life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#9. Life should be lived to the dregs to be able to transcend it.

Nicola Lecca

#10. Life should be lived to the point of tears

Albert Camus

#11. Life should be lived as a dream.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.

Philippe Petit

#13. Life should be lived as a dream to see and enjoy the beauty of life.

Debasish Mridha

#14. I was privileged because my father was a policeman, and we lived in town. Many people in Malawi are from typical villages. My grandmother insisted I should be in both worlds, and so I needed to be acquainted with village life.

Joyce Banda

#15. I must accept my fate! But how was life to be lived in a world of which I had all the laws to learn? There would, however, be adventure! that held consolation; and whether I found my way home or not, I should at least have the rare advantage of knowing two worlds!

George MacDonald

#16. A story should have a point, but a life doesn't need one. It just needs to be lived.

Matthew Sturges

#17. The standards of judgement must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

Saul D. Alinsky

#18. The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

Sting

#19. I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that ourlife should be lived as tenderly and daintily as one would pluck a flower.

Henry David Thoreau

#20. I'm not sure bravery is something you acquire more of with age, like wisdom
but maybe here, in Dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom, the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear.

Veronica Roth

#21. I think life is a gift from God and should be lived to the full and with purpose.

Tony Blair

#22. When you have lived your life under such dominant image-leadership, its pressures put a certain invisible English on the cue ball of your development: It influences all of your ideas about who you should be, all the ways in which you become yourself.

Cintra Wilson

#23. I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

Alan Cumming

#24. Life is a gift, and should be cherished, lived and experienced. Though experience often reveals itself as pain in this world, it is still purposeful, it still has its place in the evolution of our spirit.

Michael Poeltl

#25. I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.

Caitlyn Jenner

#26. Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

Ozzy Osbourne

#27. The only pride of her workday was not that it had been lived, but that it had been survived. It was wrong, she thought, it was viciously wrong that one should ever be forced to say that about any hour of one's life.

Ayn Rand

#28. This was life as it should be lived - proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man.

Terry Goodkind

#29. Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.

C. Neil Strait

#30. ...always remember one thing, life is and will always be meant to be lived. Taste it, savor it, consume it and let it consume you. Get lost in it. Life is intoxicating if it's lived right. You should never be afraid of life.

Nicole Banks

#31. To grow, change, love, adapt, experience. We have to be open minded. This is the life and that's the way it should be lived.

Shannon Leto

#32. If you have no regrets from the life you have lived,
your biggest regret should be the life you haven't lived.

Robert Sauber

#33. Where life is fully and consciously lived in our own neighborhood, we are cushioned a little from the impact of great far-off events which should be of only marginal concern to us.

Hubert Butler

#34. There should be an age limit for patients, he thinks as he takes off his shoes. You just have to say to them, You lived long enough. From now on, think of what's left as a bonus, a gift without an exchange slip. It hurts? Stay in bed. It still hurts? Wait: Either you'll die or it'll pass.

Etgar Keret

#35. One's forty, one has lived more than half one's life, the world is marvellous and mysterious. And yet one spends four hours chattering about nothing at Tantamount House. Why should triviality be so fascinating? Or is there something else besides the triviality that draws one?

Aldous Huxley

#36. I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#37. Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated.

Rajneesh

#38. A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived with delicacy on the earth without doing anyone harm. "We should be dying." the judge almost wept.

Kiran Desai

#39. As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.

Daniel Morgan