Top 100 Living It Quotes
#1. It was not so much that he lied as that there was no truth to tell. He had had his life and it was over and then he went on living it again with different people and more money, with the best of the same places, and some new ones.
Ernest Hemingway,
#2. Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.
Judith Viorst
#3. To live the practical aspect of life as part of our schooling is formidable, but to adopt living it as our ultimate goal is absurd.
Samael Aun Weor
#4. No one recognises the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it
Orhan Pamuk
#5. This is the life you're living. It's not temporary and it's not pretend and there's no do-over.
Nicola Yoon
#6. If life isn't dangerous, you aren't living it right.
Morgan Stone
#7. Just understanding life as it is, and living it with courage; not escaping from it, not hiding from it, facing it with courage, whatsoever it is, good or bad, divine or evil, heaven or hell.
Osho
#8. We can achieve the fullest measure of life by living it for others.
Seth Adam Smith
#9. Race is there. You're tire of hearing about it? Imagine how fucking exhausting it is living it.
Jon Stewart
#10. If you are not in some way living your life like a Dr. Suess rhyme, than you may in fact be living it wrong.
Thurman P. Banks Jr.
#12. Action, not philosophy will get you going. Pick yourself up and move forward. That is the only way you can still enjoy life while you are blessed to be living it.
Charles F. Glassman
#13. When people feel safe, they can come up with ideas. It's important to listen to the actor who is there on the stage and living it.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
#14. I'm not trying to say that people don't have the right opinion but I have to live my life. And I'm living it and I'm loving it.
Brandon Jennings
#15. Let us be alert to the season in which we are living. It is the season of the Blessed Hope, calling for us to cut our ties with the world and build ourselves on this One who will soon appear. He is our hope - a Blessed Hope enabling us to rise above our times and fix our gaze upon Him.
A.W. Tozer
#16. I think he hoped I'd do something really impressive with my life. He wanted me to be like Scully from The X-Files - you know, an FBI agent who goes around kicking paranormal ass for a living. It's kind of hard to be a kick-ass graphic designer.
Torre DeRoche
#17. It was hard enough to get to this point, to figure out what my true purpose is and who I am, and then when I found the courage to start living it, I thought the hard work was done!
E. E. Cummings
#18. You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.
Eleanor Porter
#19. Just like any woman, ... we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same.
Francesca Lia Block
#20. So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.
Brit Marling
#21. You'd better start rocking that boat right now or else your live is going to pass you by before you even start living it.
Nicole Williams
#22. People search for the inner meanings of life instead of living it to the fullest. Life is too beautiful to be analyzed. Living is a spontaneous response meant to be taken in a stride.
Adhish Mazumder
#23. I'm still living it now, every day, living it out in my mind - following the ups and downs, walking the pathways, reliving the moments of our Moonlight World ...
It's a day that never dies.
Kevin Brooks
#26. Assuming that tomorrow will be the same as today is poor preparation for living. It equips us only for disappointment or, more likely, for shock. To live well, to be mentally healthy, we must learn to realize that life is a work in process.
Joan D. Chittister
#27. So we take the deal. We agree to do a job in exchange for a set of instructions. And for the hundred years that it led to increasing standards of living, it seemed like a very good deal.
Seth Godin
#28. The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.
Jeff Buckley
#29. For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing me to stay home with our daughter, but not so great financially or, sometimes, ego-wise.
Will Allison
#30. Fear or anxiety is a normal part of living. It's the body's way of telling us something isn't right. It keeps us from harm's way and prepares us to act quickly in the face of danger.
Abhijit Naskar
#31. A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.
Markus Zusak
#32. I will never stop trying to find new ways to promote healthy living. It's my passion and my mission to help others understand what's necessary for our bodies to function properly.
Stacy Keibler
#33. Day-to-day life is a lot of work. I work a lot on stand-up stuff, and then day-to-day life and, you know, just living. It's always different. Try to work out, try to stay in shape, and try to have some fun.
Chris Tucker
#34. I'm not scared of getting hurt. I'm not scared of, pretty much, anything. If you live your life scared, what's the fun in living it? If you were scared of getting hit by a car, would you still cross the street?
Mark Zupan
#35. Never be discontent with the life you've been dealt, be discontent with the way you're living it.
Mike Donehey
#36. When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.
Gary Player
#37. If your life's worth living, it's worth recording.
Tony Robbins
#38. This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.
Tilda Swinton
#39. I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.
Karl Lagerfeld
#40. I talk to women for a living. It's pretty much what I do with my day.
Tracy McMillan
#41. I also remember it was Sunday night because that was the time I felt most depressed and vulnerable. Somehow have a moment to contemplate the miserable, low-paying week that lay ahead was more painful than living it.
Adam Carolla
#42. Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
William Hazlitt
#43. Preparing to live your dream is postponing it. You are either living it, or not.
Alan Cohen
#44. Everybody wants to have a commentary on my life, like they are actually living it. Cool, comment all you want but I'm the one that's living it.
Katy Perry
#45. We breathe for the sake of breathing, eat and drink for the sake of eating and drinking, we take shelter for the sake of taking shelter, we study to satisfy our curiosity, we take a walk for the walk. All that's not for the sake of living, it is living. Life is a sincerity.
Emmanuel Levinas
#46. Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Soren Kierkegaard
#47. Life is not about spending it but for loving and living it.
Debasish Mridha
#48. What could be more exciting! As long as you're fascinated and as long as you keep on fighting the things you think are wrong, you're living. It isn't the evil people in the world who do the most harm. It's the sweet do-nothings that can destroy us.
Edna Ferber
#49. For it seems to me that the first responsibility of a man of faith is to make his faith really part of his own life, not by rationalizing it but by living it.
Thomas Merton
#50. Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.
Carl Jung
#51. I stood with my mom in the cemetery. She felt terrible pain. My grandmother is with God. My mom has to continue living. It's not so easy, moving forward.
Tucker Elliot
#52. I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just like trees and birds ...
Rajneesh
#53. When I first came to L.A., I worked at the Magic Castle, and it was so much fun. But the best part of magic for me these days is not having to do it for a living. It's being able to pull a trick out when people least expect it, when they don't know that you do magic.
Steve Valentine
#54. You are only given one life, one chance at fully living it ... take risks, believe in your dreams, explore the world and her people, live out loud!
Danell Lynn
#55. I didn't appreciate the moment as much as I should have while living it, but I can attribute that to my poor emotional state and hindsight.
S.A. Tawks
#56. What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?
Elizabeth Gilbert
#57. Are you busy proving your worth or living it? A critical distinction
Renae A. Sauter
#59. Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
Rachel Carson
#60. Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Paulo Coelho
#61. Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression that he's drawing. But when I would write a story - I know it's going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile - I would, in a way, start living it.
Al Jaffee
#63. She believes that going too far is wrong. Yet she's not trying to prove her point; she's just living it out.
Travis Thrasher
#64. In health, in the bustle of living, it was easy to believe in heaven and a life to come. But when the blow fell, and those you loved passed into the great Silence, where you could not get at them, or they at you, then doubts, aching doubts took possession of one.
Henry Handel Richardson
#65. We want to see our lives dramatized on the screen as we are living it, the same as other people, the world over.
Oscar Micheaux
#66. If your life has no problems, you're not really living it.
Ryan Higa
#67. There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art. When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have that choice.
Raf Simons
#68. When I give talks like the one I'm going to give at the Changing Advertising Summit, one of the points I often make to the audience is that I'm not one of those speakers who stands in front of the audience and pontificates - everything I talk about I'm actually doing myself. I'm living it.
Cindy Gallop
#69. The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.
Frederick Buechner
#70. I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.
Kristin Gore
#71. I don't want to hear what anyone has to say about my life. Living it is hard enough.
C.D. Reiss
#72. It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend to do something creative for a living, it's absolutely essential.
[check for wording] Proper pride says, "I'm good at this." Improper pride says, "I'm better than you.
James A. Owen
#73. The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.
Rachel Joyce
#74. The world's not black and white," she tells me. "Life doesn't have good guys and bad guys or a beginning, middle, and end. Not while you're living it. It's just people doing stuff that's beautiful or stupid or somewhere in the middle.
Robin York
#75. Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.
Donald Davis
#76. There's good stuff and bad stuff, but you continue on. I'm not prescriptive - I cannot tell anyone else what to do with their lives, and I'm a deeply flawed individual - but this is it. We're all just living it and ... bless us all.
Annie Lennox
#77. Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.
Rosanne Cash
#78. you got one life so dont stop living it!
Hedley
#79. Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.
Carl Honore
#80. By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other centers in perspective.
Stephen Covey
#81. If you feel like life has passed you by then you weren't really living it.
Life begins when you start living it.
Tara Devaney-Thompson
#82. If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al, for sure, but not if we simply uproot them from their epoch and stamp them into 21st-century soil.
Julian Baggini
#84. You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living!
Duane G. Carey
#85. Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced.
Steve Maraboli
#86. Every life is a unique story written by an unique person who is living it. So write it fearlessly, write it better.
Debasish Mridha
#87. The result of your not listening to your experience is that you keep re-living it, over and over again.
Neale Donald Walsch
#88. When you grow up around racing, you just want to race for a living. It doesn't matter what it is.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
#89. A life like this develops the comedy sense. You can't play tragedy while you're living it.
Edna Ferber
#90. Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple ... There's a human-rights issue.'
Terry Pratchett
#91. An actor wants to get up every day and they can't think of anything particularly more fun to do than getting into a made-up situation and living it out as if it's real.
Jeff Goldblum
#92. Life's too short to waste time living it any other way.
Cora Carmack
#95. And to you, my dear visitors, I wish to speak of this youth, my brother, for there has been no appearance in my life more precious than this one, more prophetic and moving. My heart feels tender, and at this moment I am contemplating my whole life as if I were living it all anew ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#96. I have a vision for living. It's about elements of style. It's about all the things that I love, that I believe in.
Ralph Lauren
#97. I note the derogatory rumors concerning the use of alcoholic stimulants and lavish living. It is the penalty of greatness.
W.C. Fields
#98. Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.
Mary Balogh
#99. You don't know who Nicolas Cage is?" North sounds incredulous. "You need to see National Treasure immediately. I mean, it's terrible, but since you're essentially living it, you ought to at least see it.
Lauren Miller
#100. No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot.
Stephenie Meyer
