Living My Life Quotes

#1. I imagine watching Gale volunteering to save Rory in the reaping, having him torn from my life, becoming some strange girl's lover to stay alive, and then coming home with her. Living next to her. Promising to marry her. The

Suzanne Collins

#2. I'm going to live my life. It's nobody else's decision, but mine. I think there are a lot worse things I could be doing with my life than what I choose to do ...

Tony Stewart

#3. I'd definitely found my equal, the woman who made my life a living hell and lived to antagonize me. A woman whose mouth I wanted to tape shut ... every bit as much as I wanted to kiss it.

Christina Lauren

#4. I enjoy living life and I enjoy going to different restaurants and eating my way through a country and going to different museums and learning about different cultures.

Mila Kunis

#5. Plan for the rest of my life, I will travel the world and retire in the himalayas.

Poonam Parihar

#6. I write - and read - for the sake of the story ... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself?

Ayn Rand

#7. My best advice for
you, honey, is to stop if you possibly can! And if you just can't, then get ready to work
like hell. Hang onto your day job. And remember, you may not make a living, but you'll
make a wonderful life.

Doris Betts

#8. I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.

Little Richard

#9. I am inexpressibly grateful that the Lord of my life has granted to me in such abundance these opportunities to take part in the life of his ecclesia and to bear witness to the Living Christ in so many places and in so many ways.

Emil Brunner

#10. My prayer is to learn new things, imbibe fresh insights. You must not take life too seriously. You must enjoy the process of living.

Sonu Nigam

#11. 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

#12. Can you see why I can't stand a lie? People have been lying to me all my life. Even the person I loved the most in the world."
Sometimes people lie for good reasons," Jonah said. "To keep you safe, or to avoid breaking your heart, or to make it possible for you to go on living.

Cinda Williams Chima

#13. There's something really terrible about having your BlackBerry next to your bed or having your laptop in the living room when you're talking to someone. The biggest source of stress in my life is the screen, the blogging.

Jessica Valenti

#14. As you get older and as you experience and go through different things you realize you have to set boundaries. You have to for your life. You have to say this is OK and this is not OK. This is what I do for a living and this is my life. It's the only one I get and so I have to set boundaries.

Jennifer Lopez

#15. When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I 'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.

Plutarch

#16. Bipolar depression really got my life off track, but today I'm proud to say I am living proof that someone can live, love, and be well with bipolar disorder when they get the education, support and treatment they need.

Demi Lovato

#17. I realise I might pass down an incurable illness to my son, but living based on what might go wrong seems like less and less of a life as I get older. The one thing I can try to control is whether I teach my child to be ruled by anxiety, by fear. That's something that gets passed down, too.

Victor LaValle

#18. My idea of working for a living is not going to office and earning a salary. It is to build a log house and catch my own fish and till some soil.

Girish Kohli

#19. I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head.

Sylvia Plath

#20. At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

Andre Gide

#21. I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite

Andy Warhol

#22. I am not upset that you don't love me, I am very happy to know that you are still living in my heart, in my love.

Debasish Mridha

#23. When I ache to live, my mind loves to stay with the peaceful whiteness of a pigeon's care...in boundless amity..

Munia Khan

#24. I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else's version of it.

Sol Luckman

#25. I'm going to keep living my life the way I've been living my life, and nothing is going to change that even if the Olympics are coming up.

Ryan Lochte

#26. When I moved to New York at 22, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I took an improv class, and the first scene I did, I felt like 'I want to do this for the rest of my life.' It was the first time I ever felt like that about anything. I tried to make a living off improv.

Kurt Braunohler

#27. I don't have to kill myself, living my life is just the same.

Aaron Scheerer

#28. It's a funny thing, one day you're living and the next day you're not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don't even know if I would want a warning if it was my time. I think I'd rather be surprised.

Dan Groat

#29. The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I was never confident that I could ever make a full-time living being a musician, but I had to try. Initially, I worked as a jazz musician in pubs or with bands.

Manfred Mann

#30. Love reduces the complexity of living. It amazes me that when Henry walks towards the cafe table where I wait for him, or opens the gate to our house, the sight of him is sufficient to exult me. No letter from anyone, even in praise of my book, can stir me as much as a note from him.

Anais Nin

#31. I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had ... maybe I could even quit renting.

P. J. O'Rourke

#32. And so I've written everything down, too afraid of my demons and what they may say, the doubt that eats at me from the inside. Too afraid that I'll forget and it'll all be a madwoman's dream.

Nadege Richards

#33. I hadn't hold out much hope for myself; if my counterpart existed, he'd be amazingly talented to make up for my shortcoming, and that would condemn me to a life of living in his shadows; or he'd match my feeble powers and be so weak that we'd barely sense each other.

Joss Stirling

#34. I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

Ernest Hemingway,

#35. It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill.

Mickey Rourke

#36. I made a big mistake, and I didn't use it to make my life better. I used it to be okay with a life less lived. I used it to be okay with mediocrity and the mundane. And I didn't make myself any better because of it.
And that's not okay with me.

Dan Pearce

#37. I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what it seem. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
*Fantine

Victor Hugo

#38. It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with their bodies, at once under my roof, and yet we often parted without being aware that we had come very near to one another.

Henry David Thoreau

#39. Seems to me there's not much time to read about other people's lives and live your own while you're at it. If I have to choose, and I reckon I do, I'll choose living my own life over reading summat about someone else's.

Sophie Hannah

#40. The question is not ... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?

Kathleen Battle

#41. My light must shine, so that the darkness will disappear.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#42. My life, like most people's, has been negatively affected by cancer, and the thought of my young children living in an age where this is no longer humanity's No. 1 health fear was simply overpowering.

Shane Smith

#43. They scooped out our insides, Saul. We're not responsible for that. We're not responsible for what happened to us. None of us are. Fred said. But our healing
that's up to us. That's what saved me. Knowing it was my game.

Richard Wagamese

#44. I was beginning to realize that all the food in the world, and all the running shoes, could not make me happy. The material things were worthless. I had lost my family. I wasn't loved, I wasn't free, and I wasn't safe. I was alive, but everything that made life worth living was gone.

Yeonmi Park

#45. When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him.

Anne Graham Lotz

#46. I was putting too much stress on my body and not living a healthy life style, I wasn't taking care of myself. I was able to turn that around by having a belief in myself and trusting God and then doing what it took to get healthy again.

John Assaraf

#47. In the midst of meeting new people and making plans, I forgot that my plan is to walk straight into a battle that could claim my life. Right after I realized that my life was worth living.

Veronica Roth

#48. Why do I even have to say this? Why do I have to say "Get off the unique and probably alien living plinth that zaps the unwary?" What is wrong with my life that I have to say these things out loud ... ?

Warren Ellis

#49. I took up space. I was a collection of cells and memories, awkward limbs and clumsy fashion crimes; I was the repository of my parents' expectations and evidence of their disappointments

Robin Wasserman

#50. I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

Stephenie Meyer

#51. My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice.

Angie Stone

#52. I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

Taylor Momsen

#53. I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

John Mahoney

#54. If anybody had a sense of history, it wasn't me, I'll tell you that. I, I was just enjoying life and, and making a living and, and, you know, listening to all this good music. No, there was never in my mind any kind of sense of history, nothing.

Cosimo Matassa

#55. I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.

Elizabeth Blackwell

#56. I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

David Schwimmer

#57. I'd rather live my life and do what I love and experience it. If I have some issues when I'm older, I mean, that's the cost of living a fantastic life.

Tory Nyhaug

#58. From when I was born, my dad would dance with me in his arms, and I would watch my siblings dancing around in the living room. I just grew up with that. That was just my life.

Julianne Hough

#59. Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.

T.D. Jakes

#60. My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Maine, at the ripe old age of fifty with someone I deeply love and am very happy with. That's part of why I started the blog.

Kate Christensen

#61. I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.

Flea

#62. But now and for the rest of my life, Kai is the living, breathing address that is my home. She's my entire damn zip code. In

Kennedy Ryan

#63. I try my best, but at the same time, I try not to let being out with someone affect my everyday life. Like, if I want to go out and grab a smoothie with a friend who's a male, I'm not gonna let the paparazzi stop me from doing that and living my life and just being a normal person.

Kendall Jenner

#64. People think of my entire image as a kid who lives a straight and narrow life, so I can feel myself not being able to act comfortably. I've been thinking that I want to go through some different life experiences and have been learning a lot while living with my other members.

Seohyun

#65. I do not think you are wrong for living the life you were born in. A dog must be a dog and a wolf must be a wolf, that is the proverb in my county

Chris Cleave

#66. 'Comfort Me with Apples' is a love story, or better, two love stories. And since it deals with a later period in my life, most of the people who appear in it are living.

Ruth Reichl

#67. If my body is a Universe, I have a black hole. I mask it, but it sits at the center of my body. I question it. Am I living up to my potential? Would I lose my creativity if I got help? Isn't life a black hole?

Claudia Turner

#68. Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#69. I realised it was only me who was stopping myself from living my life.

Jennifer Aniston

#70. It's an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that image is just because of the few things that have gone wrong in my life, and also because I grew up living in a trailer.

Tonya Harding

#71. I can only live my life in this way. I don't think I would be living it a different way if I wasn't acting.

Dakota Fanning

#72. IT'S MY CHOICE
I get a gift every morning, the gift of a new day,
It's up to me whether I make it bright, joyful or grey.
I can choose to be Happy, Successful and Content,
Or dishonor it with worry, anger or resent.

Maddy Malhotra

#73. How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?

Rabih Alameddine

#74. What can I say at seventy-five? Thank God for my good life,and for all the love that has been given to me.

Agatha Christie

#75. When I got out of high school I hit the road. I lived like a gypsy. Those were the best times of my life. I was living from club to club not knowing where my next meal was coming from. No credit cards, no apartment, no bills, no managers, just on the road with a truck and five guys.

Rex Smith

#76. I don't know about you, but this whole life thing has been the cause of all my problems.

Bond Bixler

#77. Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.

Snoop Dogg

#78. Living life is my greatest miracle.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#79. I believe that life is written out for you, it maps out your life to make you happy, but what I've been living for the past four years is my unwritten life...

Amy Shannon

#80. My life is an open book; at least this photo album".

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#81. I'm beginning to believe that anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighed by the agony of living it.

Donald Ray Pollock

#82. I build my life with light, love and loyalty.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#83. A guy said to a girl he liked; ' I am scared of loving again'
The girl responded ; ' the only thing that scares me is living a life of regret, in never chasing that things that once took my breath away

Nikki Rowe

#84. My life isn't perfect and it will never be I make mistakes, I learn from them and keep moving forward.

Shellie Palmer

#85. I am also praying for you, my beloved partner. God has a miracle breakthrough for your life.

Mike Evans

#86. I've never been called quiet about anything in my life. However, I'm also not one of those people who thinks that because I have been moderately successful at playing make believe for a living that I am supposed to tell you who to vote for.

Allen Covert

#87. The acting training in school was great, but it was mostly fun being young and in New York. Because my upbringing was so transient, New York ended up being my home. I've been living in New York longer than I have anywhere else in my life.

Pedro Pascal

#88. I want something new. I want something I've never seen or heard or imagined. I want a spark. I want to be ignited. I want my flesh scorched and imagination set ablaze.

Michael Soll

#89. I want to read every book that's written
hear every song that was sung
I want to gaze at every cloud
and hold the zing of each fruit on my tongue.

Sanober Khan

#90. I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.

Steve Martin

#91. People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence.

Abdul Sattar Edhi

#92. I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.

Vera Wang

#93. I am working here (in Amsterdam) on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a more intense life and exhilaration. My God, life is worth living!

Max Beckmann

#94. I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

August Strindberg

#95. I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain, too, and both of us have many friends there.

Asif Ali Zardari

#96. The sky," he wrote on his slate, "is my living room. The woods are my parlor. The lonely lake is my bath. I can't remain behind a fence all my life.

E.B. White

#97. I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns of practical living.

Kim Krizan

#98. It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

Lauren Oliver

#99. When everything around me is crumbling to pieces, all I have to do is look at you and I can keep going, keep living. You're warm, Quinn. The warmest person I've ever known. I never realized just how devoid of warmth my life was until you came into it.

Katie Jennings

#100. Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir.
My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,
And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's.

William Shakespeare