Top 100 Live Fully Quotes
#1. To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.
Ernest Becker
#2. Ultimately the men who choose against violence, against death, do so because they want to live fully and well, because they want to know love. These are the men who are true heroes, the men whose lives we need to know about, honor, and remember.
Bell Hooks
#3. I will die the way I learned to live. Fully aware. At peace. With a heart so full of love that even as it slows, it is still full.
Because I know something the Scientists refuse to acknowledge.
Death is only the beginning.
Krista McGee
#4. Your lifetime in form is to be honored and celebrated. Go beyond your enslavement, and live fully in the now, as this is the only time you have.
Wayne Dyer
#6. To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?
Tom Robbins
#7. I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves.
Pam Houston
#8. Les moments de crise produsent un redoublement de vie chez les hommes.
Moments of crisis produce a redoubled vitality in men. Or, more succinctly perhaps: Men don't begin to live fully until thier backs are against the wall.
Paul Auster
#9. Part of my approach to my illness has been to say I want to choose life, I want to keep going, I want to live fully until I die.
Thea Bowman
#10. The lesson Arendt drew was that a beautiful soul is not enough, for "it was precisely the soul for which life showed no consideration." To live fully and securely, every human being needs what Arendt calls "specificity," the social and political status that comes with full membership in a community.
Adam Kirsch
#11. To be concentrated means to live fully in the present.
Erich Fromm
#12. To live fully, in these transitory lives on this fragile earth, in such a way that we somehow participate in the glory of God - that would be flourishing. And that is what we are meant to do.
Andy Crouch
#13. I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.
Lee H. Hamilton
#14. She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself?
Emile Zola
#15. Children raised with love and compassion will be free to use their time as adults in meaningful and creative ways, rather than expressing their childhood hurts in ways that harm themselves or others. If adults have no need to deal with the past, they can live fully in the present.
Jan Hunt
#16. Eloquent and moving ... an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of love - beyond faith and dogma. It reminds us of why we are here: to love and live fully, to be curious about all things, and to live a compassionate - and passionate - authentic life.
Mira Bartok
#17. to be compassionate with myself, even when my will is weak and my body fails me; to give myself freely to those I love, even when it means my heart may be broken; and to live fully and completely while I have the chance - just
Camille Pagan
#19. I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?
Debra Winger
#20. Love is you. Love is calling you. Life is awaiting you. Go forth and live fully. Be whomever you are. Define you.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#21. The more you are grateful for what you have, the more you can live fully in the present.
Dana Arcuri
#22. But life and pain go hand and hand. On e cannot live fully unless one faces pain at least occasionally.
Mary Balogh
#23. The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.
Arnold Bennett
#24. This counting blessings was the unlocking of the mystery of joy, joy, "the gigantic secret of the Christian," joy hiding in gratitude ... God had used the dare to give me this; led me all he way to give me this, live fully, fully live. Page 83
Ann Voskamp
#25. Yet if we are to live fully, we must love as though we've never been hurt, dream as though our hopes have never been dashed, and take steps toward the future as though life has never given us pain.
Rhonda Britten
#26. Now is the moment to live fully, and live in happiness. If there is no happiness today, how can you expect to be happy tomorrow?
Satish Kumar
#27. Life is too precious for us to lose ourselves in our ideas and concepts, in our anger and our despair. We must wake up to the marvelous reality of life. We must begin to live fully and truly, every moment of our daily lives.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#28. The robbers of time are the past and the future. Man should bless the past, and forget it, if it keeps him in bondage, and bless the future, knowing it has in store for him endless joys, but live fully in the now.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#29. Beautiful things should not be kept behind glass, they should be used. Just as beautiful women should live fully and not let herself turn into a hothouse flower, pampered and useless.
Lisa Cach
#30. If a man makes two-thirds of his existence subservient to one-third, for which admittedly he has no absolutely feverish zest, how can he hope to live fully and completely? He cannot.
Arnold Bennett
#31. When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time.
Shunryu Suzuki
#32. Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#33. We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.
Timothy Keller
#34. We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime.
Herbert Otto Gille
#35. Tremendous happiness and peace of mind are the results of loving service to others. Nobody can live fully and happily who lives only unto himself or herself.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#36. Motherhood is a predicament. How to live fully inside of it with any grace?
Sarah Ruhl
#37. Living each day as if it were your last doesn't mean your last day of retirement on a remote island. It means to live fully, authentically and spontaneously with nothing being held back.
Jack Canfield
#38. To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
Jack Kornfield
#40. [Readers] are escaping from a narrow, limiting view of the world and journeying to a place where it is possible to experience a deeper connection to our real selves and to live fully in our world.
Duncan Smith
#41. The thing is to live fully, all the time knowing that it could be your last breath. That takes some powerful faith.
Art Hochberg
#42. A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in each moment. I believe it would be evident that for the person who was fully open to his new experience, completely without defensiveness, each moment would be new.
Carl Rogers
#43. Don't become too narrow. Live fully. Meet all kinds of people. You'll learn something from everyone. Follow what you feel in your heart.
Yuri Kochiyama
#44. The questions asked at the end of lie are very simple ones: Did I love well? Did I love the people around me, my community, the earth, in a deep way? And perhaps, Did I live fully? Did I offer myself to life?
Jack Kornfield
#45. I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why I'm alive. And all I actually have to offer as a writer is my version of life. Every single thing that has happened to me is mine.
Anne Lamott
#46. To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am.
Dawna Markova
#47. Like forgiveness, it was not a thing once learned and then comfortably put aside but a matter of constant practice - to accept the notion of one's own mortality, and yet live fully, was a paradox worthy of Socrates.
Diana Gabaldon
#48. To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.
Charles Bukowski
#49. A love ethic presupposes that everyone has the right to be free, to live fully and well.
Bell Hooks
#50. Let me put aside every desire, so that my heart grows used to its farthest spaces. Better that it live fully aware, in the terror of its stars, than as if protected, soothed by what is near.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#51. Your journey begins with a choice to get up, step out, and live fully
Oprah Winfrey
#52. In order to live fully, it is necessary to be in constant movement, only then can each day be different from the last.
Paulo Coelho
#53. People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.
Daisaku Ikeda
#54. A people that doesn't live at the center of the world, as defined and described by its poets and storytellers, is in a bad way. The center of the world is where you live fully, where you know how things are done, how things are done rightly, done well.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#56. You can't live at all unless you can live fully now.
Alan Watts
#57. Be courageous. Get out of your comfort zone to live fully and abundantly.
Debasish Mridha
#58. What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past and the future as well into the hands of God. The biblical statement that "time shall be no more" means that we will one day live fully in the present, without obsessing about past or future.
Marianne Williamson
#59. To live for others was to live fully; to live only for yourself, a cold kind of death.
Joe Hill
#60. Dying is easy, beloved. It is living that is difficult. The secret is to live fully, to embrace every instant of existence, beautiful and ugly, blissful and painful. And remember to dance between the worlds, for that is your heritage as a child of the infinite Oneness.
Leonide Martin
#61. What made Jim truly mystical was his ability to live fully conscious of how, every day, a bit more of the sacred becomes desecrated. Still, Jim's awareness of how much had been lost didn't stop him from appreciating what remained.
Robert Jensen
#62. An eternally changing world offers no future for which you must aim. With no future to aspire to, you are free to live fully in the here and now.
R.L. Prendergast
#63. To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task
Etty Hillesum
#64. No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in life. Some would say (and I am one of them) that we can live fully only by making ourselves answerable to the claims of eternity as to those of time.
Wendell Berry
#65. Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.
Dogen
#66. I vow to live fully in each moment.
Nhat Hanh
#67. If you don't accept yourself, you won't live fully, and if you don't live fully you'll need to get full some other way.
Victoria Moran
#68. The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all its paradoxes, the essence of nowness. If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place.
Chogyam Trungpa
#69. This again was the curious thing about Ambrosio, his willingness to live fully inside the moment, whatever its virtue or folly, without regard for the future.
Michael Paterniti
#70. At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
Jack Kornfield
#71. I want to live fully, very intensely. I would never want to live partially, suffering from illness or injury. If I ever happen to have an accident that eventually costs my life, I hope it happens in one instant.
Ayrton Senna
#72. A full life will be full of pain. But the only alternative is not to live fully or not to live at all.
M. Scott Peck
#73. Mindfulness frees us of forgetfulness and dispersion and makes it possible to live fully each minute of life. Mindfulness enables us to live.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#74. I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
Ann Voskamp
#75. When you see a close person you know pass in front of your eyes, it's hard core. After all that, I just wanted to enjoy every day. That was my goal. And to give thanks and to live fully.
Lenny Kravitz
#77. To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.
John Powell
#78. Live fully, love deeply, let go with no bitterness.
Paulo Coelho
#79. Gratitude is present when you see that everything that occurs in your life can be used to show you how to live fully as a human being.
Maria Nemeth
#80. You can die for your country or your people or your family, but for a god you should live fully and busily, every day of a long life.
Terry Pratchett
#81. Love empowers us to live fully and die well. Death becomes, then, not an end to life but a part of living.
Bell Hooks
#82. Live fully present in this world with your heart attuned to God's heart, and you will be torn by the sight of so much suffering and ignorance.
Maria Grace Dateno
#83. A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now
LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick brings a light, delightful touch to a hard subject, and creates a great, relatable, readable memoir.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#84. Let us remember ... that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the world in which we live them, and that if we more fully inhabit these things, we might be less apt to destroy both.
Christian Wiman
#85. I don't really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits
Anais Nin
#86. Live so fully and so brilliantly that your pain diminishes in your aliveness.
Bryant McGill
#87. Whatever circumstances you were born into, whatever family life and education you had or didn't have, you came here to make your dreams come true, and no matter where you are now, you are fully equipped with everything you need to do it!
Rhonda Byrne
#88. Sonia lives her life fully. If she dies tomorrow, she'll die happy. If she lives the way you want her to live, she'll die miserable. So leave her alone, okay?
Sonia Sotomayor
#89. Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.
Carlos Slim
#90. To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable.
Aldous Huxley
#91. I believe that when we are fully present, we not only live well, we live well for others.
Terry Tempest Williams
#92. In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?
Gautama Buddha
#93. I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live.
Theaster Gates
#94. If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe # running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life,
Haruki Murakami
#95. Be grateful for each moment we have and be happy, but more than anything live it fully.
Valerie Harper
#96. Choose to fully and graciously live life as it comes. The richest rewards by far are the ones to which you most sincerely give of yourself.
Ralph Marston
#97. The amazing thing is that we live our lives with the hope that things will go right, that things will happen. And all along the way, we're inspired by the unknown and the unnameable. The minute you can fully describe something it's gone.
Laurel Nakadate
#98. Sadly like cancer, we may never fully find a way to STOP bullying. But we can continue to work diligently to help empower children to rise above its despair and lead them to live healthy productive lives in their future.
Bullying Ben
Timothy Pina
#99. Your generosity is cosmetic if you don't fully comprehend that the power to give is positively correlated with a concomitant power to deny, and both of these are the privileges of those who live in abundance, and I don't mean money.
Ellen Miller
#100. We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence.
Duane Elgin
