Life Truly Lived Quotes

#1. Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.

Lillie Langtry

#2. Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

Stefan Kanfer

#3. A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until, at last, we are strong enough to stand in our naked truth.

Marion Woodman

#4. You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

#5. Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

George Bernard Shaw

#6. 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

#7. I look down the farthest side of the mountain,
fulfilled and understanding all,
and truly content that
I lived a full life and one
that was my own choice

James Elroy Flecker

#8. Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.

George Weigel

#9. I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if you held wonder in one hand and courage in the other and truly believed that anything was possible.

Jean Houston

#10. I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. While I looked, my inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose; I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never yet truly lived, were at last about to taste life. In that morning my soul grew as fast as Jonah's gourd.

Charlotte Bronte

#12. It's in the small moments that life is truly lived.

Marion Roach Smith

#13. Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.

A. Lee Martinez

#14. Most of all, I am thankful for Lily, who, since she entered my life, has taught me everything I know about patience and kindness and meeting adversity with quiet dignity and grace. No one makes me laugh harder, or want to hug them tighter. You have truly lived up to the promise of man's best friend.

Steven Rowley

#15. [M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never yet truly lived, were at last about to taste life.

Charlotte Bronte

#16. John Lee Hooker became a friend of mine and I love all of his work. He was truly an icon. He lived the life. I miss him.

Mick Fleetwood

#17. In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now ?

Dana Gioia

#18. I think everyone should go crazy at least once in their life. I don't think you've truly lived until you've thought about killing yourself.

Pete Wentz

#19. I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man's heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely.

Mark Lawrence

#20. The way I lived my life, I truly wasn't an active resistance fighter.

Angela Merkel

#21. When I was a child I truly loved:
Unthinking love as calm and deep
As the North Sea. But I have lived,
And now I do not sleep.

John Gardner

#22. The best story in life, is your own.
The only story that you truly lived and died for.

Kay

#23. Without his mate to share his life, he was but a screen for events and circumstances to pass through. He was npt even empty, for he was no vessel to hold even the thinnest of air.
He lived, though was not truly alive

J.R. Ward

#24. A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.

Marion Woodman

#25. Life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of 'family.

Betty Friedan

#26. I will one day accept death with gratitude if I meet it having lived a life that became truly my own.

Dan Pearce

#27. If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of
Heaven first ...

Spider Robinson

#28. I'd seen a thousand lifetimes come and go, but had never truly lived.

Jacqueline Pawl

#29. Life must be enjoyed to be truly lived.

Debasish Mridha

#30. 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

#31. Many times in the Old Testament, God refers to human beings as His beloved. But when God called Jesus His beloved, Jesus did something truly remarkable: He believed Him. And He lived every moment of His life fully convinced of His identity.

Jonathan Martin

#32. Millie told me once that the ability to devastate is what makes a song beautiful. Maybe that's what makes life beautiful too. The ability to devastate. Maybe that's how we know we've lived. How we know we've truly loved.

Amy Harmon