Top 100 Not Living Quotes
#1. If you really want to live your life to the fullest and realize your greatest potential, you must be willing to run the risk of making some people mad. People may not like what you do, people may not like how you do it, but these people are not living your life. You are!
Iyanla Vanzant
#2. Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand
and melting like a snowflake ...
Francis Bacon
#3. The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.
Arnold Bennett
#4. I'm not scared of dying. Not at all. The only thing I'm scared of is not living while I'm still alive.
James L. Rubart
#5. Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
#6. Practice involves putting your consciousness in suspended animation. Practicing is not living. But when you build your skills through an ever-changing sequence of experiences, you're alive.
Scott Adams
#7. A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#8. What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.
Bernie Siegel
#9. A living philosophy entails a conscious act of awareness. Without a living philosophy to guide and support us, we are not living as receptive, thinking, and emotionally responsive human beings; we are merely surviving as people.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#10. Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.
Charles De Lint
#11. You are turning me into what I never have been and never wanted to be, a nag, because you are not living up to your end of a very basic contract. Don't do that, it's not okay to do.
Gillian Flynn
#12. I'm not living off of any taxpayer money. If I am - if it's food stamps, it's a temporary resource.
Nadya Suleman
#13. I am not living my life to impress anyone, not of a big head to degrade anyone, not of negative thoughts to influence anyone. But a positive mind to inspire the people that surrounds me and the world.
Henry Johnson Jr
#14. If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
Eckhart Tolle
#15. Not living for food, but living for the sake of an ideal, that is the goal of education
Sai Baba
#16. All too often, we feel that we are not living the fullness of our lives because we are not expressing the fullness of our gifts.
Elle Luna
#17. Is not living at all not better than living badly?
Critias
#18. We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.
Augusto Boal
#19. If your not living on the edge, your taking up way too much space!
Devin C. Hughes
#20. Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
Macaulay Culkin
#21. If you go to anybody and ask them, what is your dream life? They would say I want to sit by the TV all day. I want to play with my friends all day and they think that is the best way to spend their lives. They do not know that what they have just listed is not living life but wasting life.
Sunday Adelaja
#22. If we are not living IN our bodies, honoring them as our TEMPLE, we are closing off the divine channels (nadis) of energy that run through us. Additionally, when we are not in good physical shape, we limit our enjoyment of our life experience. Thus, yoga is spiritual and physical.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#23. You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.
Anthony De Mello
#24. The mere adding of years to life is not living.
Paul Hoffman
#25. Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky.
Jay-Z
#26. This idealization of clinical perfection prevents us from being in the moment. It stops us from appreciating our experience as beautiful despite the "flaws" because, deep down, we are so ashamed of ourselves for not living up to these expectations of perfection that we can barely breathe. In
Robin Elizabeth
#27. The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when 'should be' gets crushed by what is.
Neal Shusterman
#28. To give power to that which has no bearing on one's life simply means one is not living their true life.
Peprah Boasiako
#29. I know not all people with scars are evil," I snap. "I'm not living in a cartoon.
Ally Carter
#30. Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.
Oscar Wilde
#31. The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.
Jaggi Vasudev
#33. To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
Peter McWilliams
#34. I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love ... there is joy ... there is laughter.
Christopher Reeve
#35. We all know that the un-examined life is not worth living (socrates). But if all you are doing is examining, you are not living.
Adam Leipzig
#36. You're not living if you don't go out and try things for yourself.
Jennifer Hudson
#37. I'm not living my life under the spotlight for anybody.
Annie Lennox
#38. At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting.
Kato Kaelin
#39. What scares me is not living up to be a good enough father to my son and letting down my family - not being there enough and not being able to give enough of yourself.
Morten Tyldum
#40. If you're not living your truth, you're living a lie.
Joseph Curiale
#41. Love isn't safe and life isn't guaranteed. So yeah, I could die and you could lose Levi and your heart could hurt again, but that's just life. The only alternative is living without fully loving anyone else. And that's not living at all.
Chelsea Fine
#42. And Judith, the young girl dreaming, not living, in her complete detachment and imperviousness to actuality almost like physical deafness.
William Faulkner
#43. One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.
Gene Robinson
#45. I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You're not living in their pocket.
Francesca Annis
#46. Most illness is just stress from not living in harmony
Bruce H. Lipton
#47. It's just not enough to do what you love. That's not living. Do what you love, WITH love. That's living.
Gregor Collins
#48. Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.
John Lennon
#49. There is no safe container to store your values while you're at work; not living your deepest values will leak on you
Stan Slap
#50. Regret is not the same as guilt. It is expressed by: 'I can't believe I did that. It's not like me. This is not how I am! How could I do such a thing?' It means to see ourselves as the best we can be, and to be disappointed in not living up to that.
Yael Shahar
#51. You are not living the life you want because you fear to dream big
Steven Aitchison
#52. We've got to do more to ensure that people who work full time are not living in poverty and that the massive gap between rich and poor - which is fundamentally un-American, as far as I'm concerned - is somehow dealt with.
Eric Schneiderman
#53. Parents today are under a lot of stress, sometimes working two jobs just to make ends meet. They're trying to find day care for their kids and elder care for their own parents. The Federal Government shouldn't add to their worries by not living up to its obligations.
Barbara Mikulski
#54. Are you afraid of dying, Ferris?'
'I'm afraid of not living.
Maria McCann
#55. The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.
Jose Iturbi
#57. If you are not thinking correctly, you are not living correctly. What you believe will determine how you behave.
Howard G. Hendricks
#58. I know people who do a lot of drugs, and they keep thinking about things from the past and things ahead. But they're not living right here and now.
Danny Masterson
#59. Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
Alice Sebold
#60. If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.
Tim Robbins
#61. They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.
Johnny Vegas
#62. Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.
Audre Lorde
#63. i'm not worried about death, my biggest concern is not living enough while alive..
R H Sin
#64. Do not feel fear because if you live your life in fear you're not living your hiding.
Salman Aditya
#65. The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
Susan Sontag
#66. If your life is not a love story then you are not living the life meant for you
Bryant McGill
#67. We now realize that we're not living in a piecemeal world, but a world where everything is linked together.
Sam Keen
#68. I am not worried about dying, what I am worried about is not living
Saji Ijiyemi
#69. I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words.
Henri Nouwen
#70. Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.
H.G.Wells
#71. And once you know what it takes to live a better story, you don't have a choice. Not living a better story would be like deciding to die, deciding to walk around numb until you die, and it's not natural to want to die.
Donald Miller
#72. Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.
Peter Eisenman
#73. Life is made up of moments. If you're not in one, then you're not living.
Alison G. Bailey
#74. Most of our life we pass by waiting for tomorrow, but not living for today.
Debasish Mridha
#75. My chest clenched as I looked down at the oil-stained asphalt. Here but not. Existing but not living. I knew that feeling. Lived it for several years. Some days it felt like I was still wearing that feeling like a heavy jacket buttoned up too tightly.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#76. watching TV and playing solitaire is not a proper life. It's not living. It's killing time, and that's hardly the same. You start asking yourself too many questions when your day is reduced to these rote activities that accomplish nothing. You start to wonder
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#77. If you are not living according to the will of God but independent of Him, you will never be happy and experience inner rest
Sunday Adelaja
#78. High in the Tower of Love, the last remaining tower of Tallith, he rests on a bier, not living, not dead. He doesn't age, or change, needs no sustenance. He sleeps. He waits
Melinda Salisbury
#79. Man is always seeking a power, a power to overcome something or destroy something; and therefore he is not living in the awareness of God, because in the realization of the presence of God there is no need to overcome, to destroy, or to do anything.
Joel S. Goldsmith
#80. If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should be silent, we again miss the mark.
Richard J. Foster
#82. Life is short only if you are not living your purpose.
T.F. Hodge
#83. People consider me a success because I'm a good football player and make lots of money. But if my heart's not right, if I'm not living a life pleasing to God, I'm a failure.
Reggie White
#84. If we lived correctly, there would be no need to concern ourselves with the bowel. However, most of us are not living right.
Bernard Jensen
#85. If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.
Kim Campbell
#87. (Even Tucker's way of not living could be described as living, if you had a crush on him.)
Nick Hornby
#88. The only way I could go on living was to believe I was not living.
Russell Banks
#89. I'm not living in the shadows anymore. I want to walk in the sun. But I can't do that without you.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#90. I am not living the American Dream; I am living the American fantasy.
Frank McCourt
#91. A comedian has to live in his head. All this comedy comes from a lonely place. When you're surrounded by an entourage, you're not living in your head.
Chris Rock
#92. I saw that all living things were doomed, to bliss: that's not living; it's just a way to waste what we have, a drain.
Arthur Rimbaud
#93. I never live in the present. I'd do interviews and people will say, 'Isn't this great?' or 'Can you believe?' And I would react, like, 'No, I can't believe it because I'm not living in this moment.'
Katy Perry
#94. If you have not known and experienced God in ways you cannot deny, I would suggest that you are not living in a needy and dependent way.
Francis Chan
#95. If you are not living unto Christ, you are not dying unto Him, either.
Monica Johnson
#96. I try not to live my life worrying about what others think. A core spiritual quality is nonjudgment, which is not just about not judging others, but also not living your life worried about others judging you.
Deepak Chopra
#97. Art is not living. It is the use of living.
Audre Lorde
#98. I don't remember doing anything else; I don't remember not living in the studio. I'm itching for people to hear this album because I'm sick of hearing it myself.
James Hetfield
#99. It is obvious that most people are not living the life they want to live! The easiest solution for this problem is to give up the life you want to live. And the hardest solution is this: Give up everything which prevents you to live the life you want to live!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#100. So, ask yourself: If what you're working on succeeds beyond your wildest dreams, would you have significantly helped other people? If not, then keep searching for something else to work on. Otherwise you're not living up to your full potential.
Andrew Ng
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