Quotes About Living Intensely

#1. Living intensely each present day means letting Christ dwell within you. His words are so clear: Today I would like to enter your home.

Mother Teresa

#2. Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and changing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy.

Le Corbusier

#3. There are younger, stronger swimmers coming up and they are hungry. I can't influence what they do, I only know what I can do and I know how greedy I am to defend my title.

Kirsty Coventry

#4. As the head of a religious party, I am not in favor of civil marriage or the full recognition of non-Orthodox converts in Israel.

Ayelet Shaked

#5. I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.

Martin Seligman

#6. I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.

Michael Zaslow

#7. Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete

Kay Redfield Jamison

#8. You don't ever have to apologize for feeling, Marlin. Life's not worth living if we don't feel intensely.

Amanda Richardson

#9. We develop a sense of self by coming to see ourselves in the reflections of how others see us - what they reflect back about us, how they view us, what kind of person they think we are and so on.

Jacqui Stedmon

#10. I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#11. That which would not yield, nor could forget,
Which, when it least appear'd to melt,
Intensely thought, intensely felt:
The deepest ice which ever froze
Can only o'er the surface close;
The living stream lies quick below,
And flows
and cannot cease to flow.

George Gordon Byron

#12. The creative process is probably closest to problem solving, but it differs from it in a number of ways. In problem solving the immediate goal is a specific one ... in the creative process there is no such clear goal.

Anne Roe

#13. Living life intensely has a momentum and exhilaration of its own. Thinking about events you have experienced, and developing perspective about them, in some way completes, and finding words to express them gives perspective and bring about a sense of closure.

Bill Bradley

#14. Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Jackie Chan

#15. An examined life, an enigmatic investigation of reality, is required in order for a person to realize a transcendent spiritual journey. A contemplative soul is bound to live life more intensely than someone whom is concerned exclusively with living an external existence.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#16. We are only actors and yet we identify so intensely with the part we are playing, that we forget our true Self. Through yoga meditation, Self- inquiry, and living in accord with natural law do we wake up from the dream, or at least realize we are the dreamer.

Richard Fish

#17. The way to live well is to feel intensely.

Marty Rubin

#18. The motto of Harvard isn't 'nice,' it's truth. The motto of Yale isn't
'light and nice,' it's light and truth.

Scott Kenemore

#19. Live as intensely as possible, burn your candle of life from both ends.

Osho

#20. How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!

Nikos Kazantzakis

#21. The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.

Anais Nin

#22. Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.

C. A. Bartol

#23. We are all interludes in history, a drawn breath to make pause in the rush, and when we are gone, those breaths join the chorus of the wind. But who listens to the wind?

Steven Erikson

#24. If you just live totally, you will dissolve lots of karma. Living totally means that you experience anything that comes fully and intensely.

Jaggi Vasudev

#25. And if ever you need encouragement, remember at least two sober facts which nobody can rationally deny: that you are a new and unique living force in nature, and that you can, by taking thought and pursuing it, become more and more intensely alive.

John Steeksma