Quotes About Really Living

#1. It's not like we're all animalistic people trying to become more spiritual. We're really living spirit, trying to find out how to live embodied in this nitty gritty world, these corporeal forms, in these fleeting bodies in the material world where everything's changing and we're not in control.

Surya Das

#2. As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we're really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.

David Levithan

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

Ernest Hemingway,

#4. But the thing was:although I might not have been dying,I wasn't really living,either

Robyn Schneider

#5. I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.

Sufe Bradshaw

#6. It is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually.

Brenda Ueland

#7. She'd shown her that living a life of silence and regret wasn't really living at all,

Lana Hart

#8. There are bumps in everybodys road or else your not really living.

Dorothy Benton Frank

#9. Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

Alvin Dark

#10. All those years thinking I was saved and had said my yes to God, but was really living the no.

Ann Voskamp

#11. 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

#12. I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest.

Hope Solo

#13. After that, we were like flies stuck in honey, alive but not really living.

Martha Hall Kelly

#14. Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

Ann Voskamp

#15. MTV wanted to downplay our lifestyles and pretend we weren't getting the checks that we actually were, so I think that was the blurry line between the lives we were really living and the lives that they wanted us to live, and things like that.

Heidi Montag

#16. When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living.

Maxwell Maltz

#17. What are you really living for? It's crucial to realize that you either glorify God, or you glorify something or someone else. You're always making something look big. If you don't glorify God when you're involved in a conflict, you inevitably show that someone or something else rules your heart.

Ken Sande

#18. Modern culture anesthetizes the mind while mainlining the soul with emotional experiences that keep the worldling believing he is really living.

Jim Berg

#19. If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Anatole France

#20. Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.

Tom Hodgkinson

#21. Dying without really living. Leaving this world knowing that the girl who makes me want to live the most-will have to do it without me

Rachel Van Dyken

#22. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, and be the one who ended up in that accident, completely dead ... but you know what? It wouldn't change anything. All I can do now that they're dead is to go through the actions of living without really living, and hope it improves someday.

Rebecca McNutt

#23. I was alive in the past, and I'm alive now, sitting here talking to you. But what you see here isn't really me. This is just a shadow of who I was. You are really living. But I'm not. Even these words I'm saying right now sound empty, like an echo.

Haruki Murakami

#24. Self worth is not measured by what you have, no matter how full your life is. Rather, it comes from what you are, how authentically you're really living your life, and how much you are willing to give.

Shannon L. Alder

#25. Life is always moving and going, but are you really living?

Debasish Mridha

#26. Everyone deserves one grand adventure, that one time in life that we always get to point back to and say, Then ... then I was really living.

Cora Carmack

#27. When you live for yourself you are merely surviving; when you live for others you are really living.

Debasish Mridha

#28. At the end of every year, I add up the time that I have spent on the phone on hold and subtract it from my age. I don't count that time as really living. I spend more and more time on hold each year. By the time I die, I'm going to be quite young.

Rita Rudner

#29. I wasn't really living anywhere ... I was just kinda hanging out. I would live from week to week in places.

Bob Livingston

#30. Don't give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

Joyce Meyer

#31. We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

John Banville

#32. When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

Andrea Arnold

#33. I believed that letting someone in, caring about them ... it gives them power over you, whether they plan it that way or not. It gives them the power to leave, to hurt you. But living, really living, is messy and sometimes ugly and it hurts.

Eve Silver

#34. If I don't do what feels right to me, what I need and want to do, then am I really living?

Cheryl Rainfield

#35. I looked out into the dead garden. Against the fading light, my shadow hovered in the glass, looking into the dead room. What did she make of us? I wondered. What did she think of our attempts to persuade ourselves that this was life and that we were really living it?

Diane Setterfield

#36. I want to stress again the importance of really living what we claim to believe. That needs to be a priority-not just in our personal and family lives but in our churches, our political choices, our business dealings, our treatment of the poor; in other words, in everything we do.

Charles J. Chaput

#37. Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.

Ada Louise Huxtable

#38. As a kid, I went to the library because, in books, there were people really living lives, and unlike my parents, they talked to me about important things.

Gregory Sherl

#39. I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free.

Sophia Amoruso

#40. Life is full of what-ifs. You can't let it hold you back. If you do, you're not really living at all . . . just kind of going through the motions with no meaning.

Bethany Hamilton

#41. In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you 'should' behave. But what if you're living your life by the 'shoulds' and you're not really living your life?

Chris Noth

#42. If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

Eckhart Tolle

#43. What really drives us to seek help is an equally frightening sensation: that of being alive, yet not really living.

Paul Pearsall

#44. If you are going to doubts, don't dream. If you are going to dream, don't doubt. If you are not dreaming, you are not really living. When we learn how to dream, we learn how to be FREE.

Henry Johnson Jr

#45. when I think of really living, living to the full - all my ideas are just the opening credits of sitcoms.

M T Anderson

#46. Until you find something worth dying for, you're not really living.

Rebecca St. James

#47. When you love yourself, feel the joy of your soul and see the dance of your spirit, you are really living your life.

Debasish Mridha

#48. What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

Joseph Campbell

#49. And if you're just operating by habit, then you're not really living. - MY DINNER WITH ANDRE

Brian Christian

#50. I feel like I'm sleeping when I'm awake, and really living when I'm asleep.

Michael J. White

#51. Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.

Oliver Burkeman

#52. If your life has no problems, you're not really living it.

Ryan Higa

#53. I'm not supposed to live without you. And you're not supposed to live without me. We're in this life together. Without each other, we're not really living.

Rebecca Donovan

#54. It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.

Martin Sheen

#55. I always thought on my own that what is a huge part of being an actor, or what made me a better actor, was just really living life. Not being closed in on life, but being more open to experiences and to people and taking risks and exposing yourself to things.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido

#56. It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

Suzanne Farrell

#57. This is the moment. This is your life. This is the most important moment of your life. This is the moment you are really living. This is the moment you were waiting for your whole life.

Debasish Mridha

#58. 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

#59. Now all of a sudden there was joy, there was struggle, there was pain, there was happiness, there were pleasures, there were women, there was drama. Everything made it feel like now we are really living!

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#60. We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously in fashion.

Tommy Hilfiger

#61. Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.

Haruki Murakami

#62. Life is about making mistakes. If you don't take chances, blindfolded and frightened as you are, you're not really living, are you? Heartache makes you stronger. Misery is the stuff of good poetry. You're denying yourself much more than the bad things in life by listening to Zita's fortunes.

Kimberly Karalius

#63. If you're not living I mean really living, you're dead already.

Martin Niemoller

#64. Fear kills. Protecting yourself backfires eventually. And living in fear of pain isn't really living at all.

Patricia Gaffney

#65. The only difference between people who are really living this way is they have habituated ways of being.

Rhonda Byrne

#66. Directing their narrow little lives by narrow little formulas - herd-creatures, flocking together and patterning their lives by one another's opinions, failing of being individuals and of really living life because of the childlike formulas by which they were enslaved.

Jack London

#67. The only regret I have is that I had to discover I was dying in order to start really living." -Lucio-

Fausto Brizzi

#68. There is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.

Francis Chan

#69. Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

Storm Jameson

#70. If you're not adventurous,, you're not really living, I think ... especially in college.

Spencer Grammer

#71. We were meant to love people, and we need to accept their love in return. Otherwise, we ain't really living.

Lynn Austin

#72. Don't be scared of making mistakes," she said, waiting for me to look at her before continuing. "Be scared of making none. Because if you're not making a healthy number of mistakes along the way, you're not really living life to its fullest.

Nicole Williams

#73. You can't live life waiting for things to go wrong, because then you're not really living. Everyone is going to die. That is part of the journey of living. What matters most is living each day you do have like it might be yout last.

Missy Johnson

#74. I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.

Charles De Lint

#75. I felt that I was really living in the moment. I did not know where my life was going, but right now the future did not trouble me.

Ruth Reichl

#76. If you die while you aren't really living, exactly when did death occur?

Buffi Neal

#77. I've got an air mattress for a bed ... really living the high life.

Clayton Kershaw

#78. As a teenager, my struggle was how do I balance being empathetic and compassionate towards my peers, while also living my life for myself and not basing my decisions on those around me, and really living a life where I receive my happiness from my own experiences rather than from people pleasing.

Shailene Woodley

#79. Life is all we have, and if we can't look at it honestly, are we really living?

Carol Plum-Ucci

#80. No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.

Lana Parrilla

#81. There is pressure that comes with everything being a big deal. I remember thinking, 'I need to survive the Shins. I don't know what I'm going to do to make a living otherwise, but I really don't want to do the Shins right now.'

James Mercer

#82. AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.

Joe Perry

#83. The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.

John Pomfret

#84. If you have a problem with people living their lives and being authentically who they are, you really should go and do some soul-searching.

Laverne Cox

#85. I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

Larry David

#86. I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.

Daniel Bruhl

#87. It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

Clyde Tombaugh

#88. 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

#89. I've told people that I don't see myself living very long. That really upsets them, but I'm just being honest.

Michael Angelakos

#90. 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

#91. Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living.

Andrew Ferguson

#92. What's the rush? Recognise that with the time at our disposal, there is only a limited number of good books you can read, a few really good movies worth seeing, and a finite number of hours, days, years to enjoy them!

Ken Puddicombe

#93. Mastery of yoga is really measured by how it influences our day-to-day living, how it enhances our relationships, how it promotes clarity and peace of mind.

T. K. V. Desikachar

#94. 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

#95. There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.

Gaby Hoffmann

#96. Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.

Dan Auerbach

#97. I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.

Eddie Vedder

#98. That's a really good question - what is it like living with a writer? I guess it depends on the writer. You know what? They live in a fantasy world a lot of the time. My husband lives in a fantasy world.

Rene Russo

#99. Time is precious and should be spent doing things that make you happy, not brushing those very moments aside. That's when you really die, and I plan on living.

Katelin LaMontagne

#100. I really, honest to God, didn't know what to read until I was out of college and living in Boston, and someone said, 'Well, why don't you read Hemingway?' And I thought, 'OK. I guess I'll try this Hemingway fellow.'

Tom Drury