Life Well Quotes

#1. I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.

Ellen Glasgow

#2. My mom's response after seeing a sign that read 'Love God, People and Life': 'Well a lot of people don't like people.'

Sasheer Zamata

#3. Do not plan to die, do not plan for the death of your name or your influence - rather, plan for the resting of a life well lived. Make an eternal mark.

Archibald Marwizi

#4. Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?

Jennifer Garner

#5. A gauge of a life well-led: when it won't change if something you own breaks or is stolen; even a heart.

Gregor Collins

#6. Life in itself is a big classroom - so learn all the chapters of life well. This chapter of illness is but only one chapter. Learn whatever it has come to teach you and move on in life.

Sanchita Pandey

#7. Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram.

Steven Wright

#8. The measure of a life well lived is how many good dogs you can fit into it.
[or cats]

Marion Lennox

#9. 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

#10. If you're looking at the Bible for a guide to living a compassionate, wise and humane life, well, frankly you've got more chance of finding a lap dancing club in Mekka or a virgin in a catholic orphanage.

Pat Condell

#11. There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

Michel De Montaigne

#12. Because this is my life, the only one I get. And if it's a choice between a life Albilitoled, or a life full of Life... well, that's not really a choice at all.

David Arnold

#13. Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.

Dean Karnazes

#14. When she was teaching us to garden, cook, read, clean, sew, she said she was preparing us for life. Well, life has changed a lot in the years since she was my age, but somehow the lessons haven't really changed. They've evolved. And I want to be part of that.

Robyn Carr

#15. Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

Robert Herrick

#16. If you examine your life well, you will find many instances when God showed His unmistakable mercy to you. Trouble was brewing, but it passed you by for some reason. God delivered you. Acknowledge these and thank God, Who loves you.

Theophan The Recluse

#17. We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in art.

Oscar Wilde

#18. 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

#19. Life is a MISSION
Fulfilled through our VISION
Live life well this SEASON
You were born for a REASON ...

Israelmore Ayivor

#20. Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Anita Brookner

#21. As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#22. What if you had the chance to go back and tell yourself not to make the mistakes you made? A chance to change everything you think went wrong in your life?" "Well,

Rysa Walker

#23. If you also thinks it means I wake up every morning wondering what I did to deserve having you back in my life, well, you'd be right about that too.

Julie James

#24. Being surrounded by the people you loved is what made life ... well, life.

Tracy Brogan

#25. Is love partnership for everyone? Is it essential to a life well lived, or is that just a cultural myth?

Jeff Brown

#26. Life is so bloody hard. I don't want the whole struggle to be pointless. If I'm going to get crap thrown at me from great heights my whole life, well, I want to damn well make sure I leave a mark on this world in exchange for all the misery.

Holly Bourne

#27. What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are the people who are closest to me. My parents are very positive people. They've been supportive. They're always there.

Derek Jeter

#28. 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

#29. You better write me letters. I said yeah, I will, but they'll be boring. Nothing happens in my life. Nothing has to happen, she said, for it to be life. Well, I said, I'll try.

Miriam Toews

#30. What more really can be at stake except life itself, which is why maybe artists are always equating the two and driving everybody crazy by insisting that art is life. Well. Cut us some slack. It's harder work than one might imagine, and riskier, and takes a very special and dear kind of mad person.

Peter Heller

#31. What was Aristotle's life?' Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: 'He was born, he thought, he died.' And all the rest is pure anecdote.

Martin Heidegger

#32. I think the best way to be an activist is to live your life well and be honest. It means being out. If you are not comfortable marching, you can make a big difference just by working side by side with someone who actually knows you're gay and a fine human being.

Melissa Etheridge

#33. Earning my college degree. It was a promise I made to my parents. I understand that football is only a certain time in my life, and my degree will help me sustain my life well past football. I was so proud of that, and the amount of work I put into it.

Marcus Mariota

#34. A long life is a life well spent.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#35. My buddies are like, 'You live the most amazing life!' Well, I'm working like a dog. I come home most nights and pass out on the couch.

Dennis Crowley

#36. 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

#37. A life well-lived or a life lived well? The placement of words really does change the connotation.

Carol Morgan

#38. Was that life? Well then, once more!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#39. 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

#40. Imagination and the journey-quest is at the heart of every life well-lived

Azar Nafisi

#41. I think about all the people who have created something that lives after them - works of art, plays, music, films, literature, poetry that will be read, seen, performed, and heard for the rest of time. If I could do something that lives after me, then I think I will have had a life well led.

Seamus Dever

#42. If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?

Robert Fulghum

#43. Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.

Mollie Marti

#44. ...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

#45. You cannot buy a life well lived!

Shawn King

#46. If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.

Ellen Terry

#47. Before she closed her eyes tonight, Rose said she regretted that she has not done something heroic in her life. Well, it's not like she can suddenly climb a tree and save a cat, or go to medical school and begin some important cancer research. But Rose has been my sister. I think that's heroic.

Lori Lansens

#48. When you get to be older, and the concerns of the day have all been attended to, and you turn to the inner life - well, if you don't know where it is or what it is, you'll be sorry.

Joseph Campbell

#49. You only get one life. Well, two lives. The second one starts the moment you realize you only have one.

Karina Halle

#50. Benedictine spirituality is a consistent one: live life normally, live life thouhtfully, live life profouncly, live life well. Never neglect and never exaggerate. It is a lesson that a world full of cults and fads and workaholics and short courses in difficult subjects needs dearly to learn.

Joan D. Chittister

#51. There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.

Michel De Montaigne

#52. Happiness is the result of a life well lived

Danny Dover

#53. The sharp knife of a short life, well
I've had, just enough time.

Kimberly Perry

#54. 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

#55. Real security only comes when we are comfortable with who we are, real happiness is a byproduct of a life well lived.

Daniel Gottlieb

#56. 'Cause if your love was all I had in this life, well that would be enough until the end of time. So rest your weary heart and relax your mind, 'Cause I'm gonna love you, girl, until the end of time.

Justin Timberlake

#57. You gave them everything I had!" the boy said. "Everything I've saved in my entire life!" "Well, what good would it be to you if you had to die?" the alchemist answered. "Your money saved us for three days. It's not often that money saves a person's life." But

Paulo Coelho

#58. Pray for the field. If God calls, then prepare for the field. When it is time, go to the field. A life lost for Christ is a life well spent.

Paul Washer

#59. Happiness comes as a by-product of the "life well lived." And

Henry Cloud

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. A life well-lived in the present is all but impossible when you are tethered to your past.

Tucker Elliot

#63. I don't think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess.

Dustin Diamond

#64. If there's ever been a dark moment in my life ... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

Gloria Estefan

#65. he loved her deeply and irrevocably. His life would be forever changed and if she weren't in his life, well, it would be meaningless".

Laura Hunsaker

#66. You want a great life? Well, greatness is on the other side of that f***ing wall ... don't just go over it, go through it! What are you waiting for?

Steve Maraboli

#67. And if he told her about his real life-well,she'd probably think I was crazy by association.

Kiersten White

#68. The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty.

N.D. Wilson

#69. Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one's life well and happily ...

Wilhelm Reich

#70. A life full of laughter is a life well lived.

V.C. Birlidis

#71. I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember ... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

Randy Pausch

#72. We often hear Islamists declare, 'We love death as much as you people in the west love life.' Well, if we're going to now celebrate and jubilate in the death of Bin Laden, I have to say, I think that comes eerily close to mimicking the likes of the Islamists. And that gives me the creeps.

Irshad Manji

#73. Photos sat on the piano and shelves bulged with books, testament to a life well lived.

Louise Penny

#74. When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

Richard Rohr

#75. She couldn't hide from everyone for the rest of her life ... Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good.

Ann Brashares

#76. 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

#77. Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?

John Malkovich

#78. True wealth does not glitter. It is revealed by the beauty of a life well lived.

Debasish Mridha

#79. I sat cross-legged in the sand and contemplated my life. Well, there, and what difference did it make? What's going to happen to me up ahead?

Jack Kerouac

#80. Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.

Alexander Pope

#81. 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

#82. Happiness is not a goal ... it's a by-product of a life well lived.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#83. And she knew Life well enough to know that if one person in a house gets really miserable for any length of time, the misery spreads like smallpox.

Jenny Wingfield

#84. When you don't manage your life well, you become angry and frustrated as things don't go as intended, and our bad mood is a sign showing we were not able to resolve the conflict.

Jorge Bucay

#85. 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

#86. A life well used procures a happy death.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#87. To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.

Anna Deavere Smith

#88. I want to ask someone the truth, I think truth is what has been missing in my life. Well, it's one of the things that has been missing, along with a sense of purpose and positive self-esteem.

Susan Juby

#89. The reason people think I look good now is because I was never a beauty as a wee girl. And thank heavens. It's frightening to get old anyway, but if your looks were the cornerstone of your life, well, it would be very difficult.

Lulu

#90. ... the garden gleams with summer jewelry. We live vy simply - but with all the essentials of life well understood & well provided for - hot baths, cold champagne, new peas, & old brandy.

Winston S. Churchill

#91. 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

#92. If I could figure out a way to earn a living while traveling for the rest of my life, well, I think that'd be a dream come true.

Lauren Weisberger

#93. Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and live his life well.

Richard Livingstone

#94. The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Robert Herrick

#95. To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Gaston Bachelard

#96. Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

Ronald Dworkin

#97. A normal day in my life - well right now it's kinda just like hang out and be lazy .I'm just kinda like enjoying my break, basic, what everybody does. Hang out in my pajamas and eat cereal and watch cartoons.

Drake Bell

#98. I speak it to God: I don't really want more time; I just want enough time, time to do my one life well.

Ann Voskamp

#99. The best revenge is a life well lived.

Chloe Neill

#100. Life well spent is long.

Leonardo Da Vinci