Top 100 Living Just To Live Quotes
#1. Life is about giving yourself away in the service of others. Life is not about living just to live.
Debasish Mridha
#2. What am I doing with my life? Am I just going to some humdrum job that I don't really want to be at, doing some minuscule task, getting paid to be a mindless drone? Or am I out there living life, on my terms, the way I want to live it, doing the things that I want to do?
Kai Greene
#3. I don't really know how to live my life, just like lots of other people don't. I guess you just learn along the way.
Marina And The Diamonds
#4. 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
#5. I cannot find the perfect person, but I refuse to live my life living a tragic love story based on just sex, and selfish act.
Roxy Writer
#6. I refuse to live in a constant fighting match, Landon. It will not do!'
'And I've tried living without you, and it just won't do!
J.L. Sheppard
#7. When you love someone, you can just live without it. You desire to connect and communicate.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#8. I've always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live on the fringe. I'm not like a weirdo with a trench-coat but I just prefer to be alone or minimally surrounded by people.
Sara Quin
#9. And you're stuck like a hook through the roof of your mouth
Tired of living for your sick days
Every day makes you sick
Tired of living just get paid
When you're dying to live
but you can't
Dominic Owen Mallary
#10. Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.
E.B. White
#11. I wanted to know if we could live in that state of love, not just every so often, but as an ongoing reality. The answer is YES. There are people who are doing just that, and I wanted to share with the world how they're consistently living in a state of love.
Marci Shimoff
#12. We need to sharpen our focus & live to the point just like a pencil.
Robin S. Sharma
#13. Humans should believe in the power of living for just one day, those who want to live for tomorrow are not living.
Santosh Kalwar
#14. why am i dying to live, if im just living to die?
Levi Miller
#15. My strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.
Jason Mraz
#16. I want to write a song for someone who has just fallen in love or someone single and living their live.
Taylor Swift
#17. Art provides us with clues about how to live our lives more fully ... about how creating, collecting, and even just appreciating art can make daily living a masterpiece.
Michael Kimmelman
#18. When we live to the glory of God, we show His goodness living through us instead of just ourselves.
Beth Moore
#19. Each moment is just that... a moment. Whether good or bad it will pass to the next. Forward to the next and create a wonderful life.
Gillian Duce
#20. If, like Charles Silberman, we think school "should prepare people not just to earn a living but to live a life - a creative, humane, and sensitive life,"22 then children's attitudes toward learning are at least as important as how well they perform at any given task.
Alfie Kohn
#21. I understood that if ever one wanted to live with someone you cooked for them and they came running. But then it is my idea of hell these days, living with someone. The idea of sharing your life with someone is just utterly ghastly. I know why people do it, but it's never a good idea.
Nigel Slater
#22. It's ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride.
Lance Armstrong
#23. I don't care what you do. We all deal with it if we're living life, trying to find those moments where you can turn off your brain and connect to whatever and just be grounded, live in the moment, which I find really difficult but try to practice on a daily basis.
Lisa Rinna
#24. We can't keep living with what other people want for us, or don't want for us," Yena said. "We have to live for what we want. But everything that's in your head, the things you've been told to believe and do, you can't just throw it all out like bathwater, even when you know it's hurting you. So
Foz Meadows
#25. I used to be a big planner and had to have things figured out ahead of time, but I'm learning to love living in the moment. Last night, I called my friend up randomly and said, 'Where are you? I want to come see you!' It's not a new version of me. I'm just embracing it more.
Lily Collins
#26. I enjoyed living in New York City, I liked the premise of the show [ Saturday Night Live], I liked working with a different host every week and different musicians. I always thought, "This is great. I never expected to get this in the first place, so I'm just happy being here."
Kevin Nealon
#27. Do you want to die, Gabriel?" "No." His hand fell to cover hers, heated and rough. "I just want that moment when the choice to live or die isn't my responsibility. Not my life, or anyone else's." Pale eyes fixed on her. "More than anything, I want a reason to keep living.
Cole McCade
#28. If you live with a single parent, you don't see compromise. You witness a grown person living in a world where they do what they want to do. When you are raised by two parents, you are constantly watching compromise take place. Just by observing that, it made me a better person.
Chris Rock
#29. Just trying to live our lives and figuring out how to turn that into art. It's tough to say that the art was premeditated. Instead you just focused on living. 'How do I want to live? What do I want to do?' Then you figured out how to make that into art.
Casey Neistat
#30. I don't believe in sin. My relationships that failed have failed because I somehow attract devout christians. I don't believe in virtue either. I think people just do shit and it's life.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#31. It's just that I don't believe in living a life in decline. Either one grows, one blooms, or one diminishes. I wasn't able to imagine any way after witnessing the white nights to continue to live while growing. And since I refuse to live and diminish, I wanted to die.
Roman Payne
#32. Nothing I do is thought out or planned or premeditated. It's just that I'm breathing and living! You just have to breathe and live.
Banks
#33. You're down now, Jordan, but only for awhile. I think God is giving you a chance to really look at your life and decide just how you want to live it.
That's right, said Kara. You can keep on living it for yourself or invite God to take over.
Melody Carlson
#34. Buck up, baby blowfish. Just puff up bigger than your sadness and scare it right off. That's the only way to live in the awful old ocean.
Catherynne M Valente
#35. I'm not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable.
Queen Latifah
#36. A friend once said his father use to say "I don't want to be a millionaire I just want to live like one" if we could all be so lucky.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#37. What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life then? You had to hand it to Theo Wyre, just carrying on living required a strength and courage that most people didn't have.
Kate Atkinson
#38. Growing up in New York is like living in a horror museum because there are so many strange people walking the streets and riding the subways. You learn to develop a tough front if you live here, just in case you get into any kind of trouble and you need to talk your way out of it.
Christopher Walken
#39. ...to live and to die. Can living just for the sake of living, without having any objectives, be categorized as truely living? Or is it simply another form of death?
Tadashi Kawashima
#40. I think there's always interest in how the other half live - I see myself as a down-to-earth Essex mum who just happens to be living this very glamorous life in Beverly Hills.
Penny Lancaster
#41. I'm going to live until I die and I'm not going to get life and death confused. While I'm on this earth I'm going to LIVE. Why only be half alive? Every minute a person spends worrying about dying is just one minute that fellow might as well have been dead.
David J. Schwartz
#42. Love as if you are living just to love.
Live as if your life depends on love.
Debasish Mridha
#43. Is that what living is for you? Breathing? We' just end up right back where we started. Living isn't about flesh and bone and breathing. It's about faith. Faith that surpasses fear. Faith in something bigger than yourself. That's what we're doing here, showing people how to live!
Rachelle Dekker
#44. Ye've only got to live one day at a time, darlint. One can always be living just one more day.
L.M. Montgomery
#45. We've been told there's a certain way to live ... that this is living ... and we ... we never really questioned it. We just sort of went along. But what if it's not the best way? What if there's another way that's better? What if there's something more?!
Walter Wykes
#46. The thing is, we [celebrities are] all just people living our lives, doing our thing. But, I honestly tend to live in my own little world, and am blissfully unaware of so much.
Chris French
#47. You have trusted Him as your dying Savior; now trust Him as your living Savior. Just as much as He came to deliver you from future punishment did He also come to deliver you from present bondage. Just as truly as He came to bear your stripes for you has He come to live your life for you.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#48. Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
Ice Cube
#49. We don't just live in books awake and dreams asleep. We are living stories, you and I, with dreams inside us undeniable, with love to give and people to walk beside.
Jamie Tworkowski
#50. I am a really quiet person. I just like to be with my children and my family and being home. I live one day at a time, enjoying the best of life, just living.
Miguel Cotto
#51. After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.
Alex Winter
#52. Every living object has to change every moment just to live.
Debasish Mridha
#53. I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.
Kate Voegele
#54. There's too much judgment out there. Really what we need to be doing is just all of us finding our own paths towards living the best lives we can live as clearly and boldly in accordance with our own personal values. And that's what I'm trying to do.
Cory Booker
#55. I want to live my life with no goals anymore, but just completely free, like I did when I was younger.
Jessica Lange
#56. I've never been one to get up on a soapbox and preach. I just live my life the way I live my life.
Ingrid Michaelson
#57. The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.
Adam Baldwin
#58. I had to make her mine, she had to be mine. Now. Yesterday. Tomorrow. Every fucking tomorrow. No games, no more pain. Just me and her, loving and laughing. Living. Really living. Fuck, I could live if I had her. I could really live.
Lucian Bane
#59. Forget living a long life cause I don't see that happening with me living a life of misery, neglect, and pain. So I just want to die happy.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#60. I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer, and pizza are all good enough reasons for living. But living an honest life - for that you need the truth.
Ricky Gervais
#61. Life's like a book: What matters is the hook.
Be it short or long, just live it strong.
Whether it's five stars, or how near or far, just soar!
Ana Claudia Antunes
#62. - But, if life is just that, just being reasonable, then there is nothing in it - nothing worthwhile. So, the yearning that we have to keep dead things living - or to make unreasonable things reasonable. That is why a person should live.
Jesse Ball
#63. To live with fake positive thoughts is suicide, but living with negative all your life is just preparing the trigger for to get shoot!
Deyth Banger
#64. No REGRETS. Just LESSONS learned, BLESSINGS recognized and HUMOR found.
Tanya Masse
#65. Well, I'm somebody who is just living ... living life, and if I get frustrated by something, then I like to try to put it right.
Richard Branson
#66. Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win!
live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Jerry Garcia
#67. I'm living in the moment. I just try to move each of the stories, scripts and projects that I work on forward. And when they're ready and the people are ready to make them, we'll do that.
David Heyman
#69. A theocracy is a government ruled directly by God, and for us it means "Theocracy within". In other words, trying to live by God's principles instead of just living selfishly.
Matt Smith
#70. I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else's version of it.
Sol Luckman
#71. I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor.
Lea Thompson
#72. One of the best things Dr. G. told me was that I didn't have to judge every new situation I encountered. Living alone, for example. She said I didn't have to say that living alone was good or bad, I could just live alone and not make a judgement on it.
Natalie Taylor
#73. Because you can make decisions for yourself even if they're wrong. Mistakes can be corrected. Life is too short to have everyone else tell you how to live. Make a few mistakes, and learn from them. At least they'll be real, and you'll be living, not just existing.
Carolyn Brown
#74. Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.
John Frusciante
#75. Jesus Christ was the original rock'n'roll star. He gave people reasons to live in the rut they were living in. He was the first man to say, "You don't have to have human sacrifices, 'cause human sacrifices hurt somebody, you know?" Just believe in the spirit that is within you.
Ozzy Osbourne
#76. The vision is not to see things just as we have imagined them to be. The vision is the freedom to live deliberately every day and that is a simply a choice.
Colleen Mariotti
#77. And, while I may not live to live them/ Rest assured, ladies and gentlemen/
For I have lived more than most/
By just dreaming..."
- Dreams, Dreams by Mansi Tejpal
Mansi Tejpal
#78. I wasn't really living anywhere ... I was just kinda hanging out. I would live from week to week in places.
Bob Livingston
#79. Living is giving ... If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give.
Timothy Keller
#81. Don't let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are.
Jaeda DeWalt
#82. No matter what stage of illness we are in, whether we've just been diagnosed or we have lived with chronic migraines for decades, there are adjustments we can make to increase joy in our lives and to live more fully.
Sarah Hackley
#83. I've just decided that I have to continue to live my life and do what I do. Hopefully, people love me because of who I am, not who I pretend to be.
Ashley Greene
#84. There are so many great players walking the planet but it is rare to find musicians that can live life together in a way that isn't ego centric. For whatever reason, musicians are just bizarrely composed humans. I think I'm living in the middle of a miracle.
Crowder
#85. I spent a lot of time making music and touring around the country and living the weird life. I was just trying to keep a job and get by. So in a lot of ways, I went through a strange version of film school. So you live through a lot of things, and put them into your work.
Dito Montiel
#86. Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#87. I thought maybe a day was coming when I'd stop constantly worrying about how to live. Maybe at some point I'd just start living, no questions asked.
John Corey Whaley
#88. I have a right to live my life and just be me with whoever I choose. We just do the best we can.
Selena Gomez
#89. We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
Francis Chan
#90. I necessarily fear change except that it's so seldom for the better. It's just that I can live with any number of things going straight to hell as long as these streams continue to hold up. If this amounts to living in a fool's paradise, don't waste your time trying to explain that to the fool.
John Gierach
#91. Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.
Vincent Van Gogh
#92. To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.
Claude Vorilhon
#93. Why am I fighting to live,
If I am just living to fight
Why am I trying to see.
When there aint nothing in sight
Why am I trying to give,
When no one gives me a try
Why am I dying to live,
If I am just living to die?
Tupac Shakur
#94. I don't care how old I live! I just want to be living while I am living!
Jack LaLanne
#95. Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. That is our Fairy Tail!! We don't live like we have already died, like you do!! We live with our lives on the lines, you bastard!! If you don't have the courage to change things then you might as well just die!!!
Hiro Mashima
#97. I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.
Dan Savage
#98. Living through art is a better way to live - not necessarily making art, but being surrounded by art. I think it's just as banal as trying to show my version of the beauty in the world. It's about beauty at the end of the day.
Ragnar Kjartansson
#99. Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives.
Wayne W. Dyer
#100. For you and me, just knowing His presence is all around us can help lift us from the darkest night, embrace us in the loneliest hour, give us strength when we are tempted, and enable us to live confident and secure in His promises.
Diane Moody
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