Top 100 Quotes About Well Lived Life
#1. Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.
Mark Batterson
#3. Here, then, is one way in which we would do well to go a little native: backward, or perhaps it is forward, to a time and place where the gathering and preparing and enjoying of food were closer to the center of a well-lived life.
Michael Pollan
#4. A well lived life means weathering a few storms. Our lessons don't come from sunny days on the beach, they come from copping a few waves on the head.
Tony Curl
#5. The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.
Donald E. Williams Jr.
#6. Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.
Chuck Palahniuk
#7. In the Upper Room and on Calvary's hill, Jesus teaches us that the most important aspects of a well-lived life are love, humility and obedience.
Joan Campbell
#8. Never stop hoping for all of the righteous desires of your heart. But don't close your eyes and hearts to the simple and elegant beauties of each day's ordinary moments that make up a rich, well-lived life
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#9. Anxiety and depression are the price you pay for a well-lived life.
George Vaillant
#10. I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's innocent.
Michael Eric Dyson
#11. Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.
Benjamin Whichcote
#12. Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.
Stella Gibbons
#13. Happiness comes as a by-product of the "life well lived." And
Henry Cloud
#14. Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.
Helen Keller
#15. 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
#16. It is always imagined before it is lived. In the world of thought, imaginations are lives, but people kill them before they grow to have life!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#17. Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory of being a man and of conquering the elements. There is an exquisite smoothness of motion and the joy of gliding through space. It is wonderful!
Gabriele D'Annunzio
#18. Tom hunts alone. While shunned by all he sees, he grows aware that, in reality, life is lived alone. When with a hen, there's only an illusion of sharing; a pretence that life's trials are easier to endure. Even sleep is a barrier that can't be shared.
Peter Gray
#19. I lived at Star City for more than a year ahead of my trip to Mir on May 18, 1991 in Soyuz TM-12. My life at Star City was so remote that learning Russian became my greatest priority.
Helen Sharman
#20. Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
David Starr Jordan
#21. Scars are badges of honors. They tell people you've lived a full life
Lizzy Ford
#22. I've never practiced a profession and have lived like a sort of student. I consider this my greatest success, my life hasn't been a failure because I succeeded in doing nothing.
Emil Cioran
#23. As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.
Daniel Morgan
#24. It felt as if I had lived all my life inside a flat painting and only now had I stepped into the real world.
Rosamund Hodge
#25. One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's.
Michael Ignatieff
#26. They lived and laughed and they saw that it was good.
David Arnold
#28. Because I've lived a risky and unconventional life, I don't often struggle for subjects to write about.
Poe Ballantine
#29. As you get older, your metabolism slows down. You've got to admit it. It's nothing to be ashamed of if you have lived your life to the full.
Rod Stewart
#30. I've been a foodie most of my life. I started when I lived for a year in Germany in my early 20s, and here was this new food environment, and I decided I needed to make sense of it. And I found it was the rules of economics that do the best job. Food is a capitalist product of supply and demand.
Tyler Cowen
#31. - and there, on the table under her bedroom window, lies the voice that has set her dreaming again. Fragments of a life lived a long, long time ago. Across a hundred years the woman's voice speaks to her - so clearly that she cannot believe it is not possible to pick up her pen and answer.
Ahdaf Soueif
#32. The ultimate act of heroism shouldn't be death. You're always saying you want to give Baz the stories he deserves ... So you're going to kill him off? Isn't the best revenge supposed to be a life well-lived? The punk-rock way to end it would be to let them live happily ever after.
Rainbow Rowell
#33. Chronocanine Envy:
Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, Life must be lived forward.
Douglas Coupland
#34. Millie told me once that the ability to devastate is what makes a song beautiful. Maybe that's what makes life beautiful too. The ability to devastate. Maybe that's how we know we've lived. How we know we've truly loved.
Amy Harmon
#35. It's funny, when I lived in Ohio, I would read about extraordinary, eccentric characters in books and plays, but I couldn't imagine them in real life. Then I came to New York.
Fiona Davis
#36. A life lived from the back seat, observed as it blured by. An indifferent life.
Khaled Hosseini
#37. I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
Patrick Duffy
#38. I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
Kate Winslet
#39. The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live.
Amanda Lindhout
#40. Therefore, you should fall in love as often as you can. Fall in love with a thing, with a soul, with every person in your life. Fall in love with your very existence. Only then will you know you have lived.
R. YS Perez
#41. She rode at the head of a shining line of black limos like the head raven in a convocation of black birds. Her husband had moved people, and, in so moving, had become their Lancelot Satterwhite, too. Something of him lived in them, was not hers, was now theirs.
Lauren Groff
#42. Ginny who lived her life with hair in the breeze, Stillman who lived his with it under his hat. And he loved her so much the worse for it.
Josh Weil
#43. You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?
Edward Albee
#44. Every day life must always be lived against the backdrop of eternity.
Tim Kimmel
#45. And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.
Hunter S. Thompson
#46. There's something in me that knows of a life I've never lived, the kind of a life no one has ever lived, but should." "You know it? Why don't you live it?
Ayn Rand
#47. The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God.
Matthew West
#49. A life without imagination would not be a life well lived. Colour your thoughts and paint the shared skies with your dreams for all to see.
Truth Devour
#50. In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone.
Tim Willocks
#51. If there was a birthday party or a gathering and I was at training and couldn't make it, then I guess I might have missed out on a few things, but I wouldn't see them as sacrifices because I love what I do so much. I feel I've made the right choices in the way I've lived my life.
Liam Tancock
#52. It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
#53. The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.
Georges Bataille
#54. I can't compare the lives I could have lived. One would have been comfort and security. But the other ... " She sighs. "It was the most love and the most pain and the most wonder I could have ever known.
Carrie Ryan
#55. And it made me hurt inside of my bones with sadness. Because in a life that is long and well lived there are sorrows and darkest doldrums that cannot be understood by those who live day to day like it could be any other.
Brian McGreevy
#56. I have lived most of my life in soldiers' camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk.
Geraldine Brooks
#58. Most writers agree on the fact that Zen is not to be understood but to be lived; and far from being incompatible with the requirements of everyday life, Zen confers on it its own full revealing value.
Robert Linssen
#59. The hours ahead, like all her nights with him, would be added, she thought, to that savings account of one's life where moments of time are stored in the pride of having been lived.
Ayn Rand
#60. I know this is insane, but I somehow wish I had been in Auschwitz with my parents so I could really know what they lived through! I guess it's some kind of guilt about having had an easier life than they did.
Art Spiegelman
#61. Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong.
Paulo Coelho
#62. I moved out of my house at 17 and half, I rented an apartment ... I pulled all the things off. It was pretty amazing and I lived a pretty good life, I had a car and I was making good money.
Eric Hernandez
#63. I've lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points. Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it.
Dominick Dunne
#64. All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.
Mark Doty
#65. When I die, nobody cry at my funeral, in fact let's all have a party; I've lived the life of ten men. I lived all my dreams and more.
Robbin Crosby
#66. Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived - life lived in a blaze of reality.
Dolores LaChapelle
#67. The most futile thing a man can do is to ponder the alternatives, to stew and fret over the life that might have been lived if circumstances had not pointed his future in a certain direction.
William Styron
#68. Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.
Jeanette Lee
#69. Dad was that one person who, no matter what he did in life, he just took it by storm, and he was so passionate and just really lived in the moment. Whatever the opposite of a procrastinator is, that was him ... and I think I kind of inherited a little bit of that.
Bindi Irwin
#70. Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.
Jack Kingston
#71. Several died the day the bomb was dropped. Some lived six months after the explosion but died anyway. They were all lost. It was so long ago, young man. To you it is a history story. To me it is my life.
Joseph G. Peterson
#72. Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
Anthony Hopkins
#73. A life well-lived in the present is all but impossible when you are tethered to your past.
Tucker Elliot
#74. Without 'tis autumn, the wind beats on the pane
With heavy drops, the leaves high upwards sweep.
You take old letters from a crumpled heap,
And in one hour have lived your life again.
Mihai Eminescu
#75. Paradise is being able to say at that (second before our death) moment: I made some mistakes, but I wasn't a coward. I lived life and did what I had to do.
Paulo Coelho
#76. I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side. I am discovering, now, in the late afternoon of the day, that the dead still speak.
Jeanette Winterson
#77. Many times in the Old Testament, God refers to human beings as His beloved. But when God called Jesus His beloved, Jesus did something truly remarkable: He believed Him. And He lived every moment of His life fully convinced of His identity.
Jonathan Martin
#78. It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#79. 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
#80. A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived with delicacy on the earth without doing anyone harm. "We should be dying." the judge almost wept.
Kiran Desai
#82. Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.
Carl Jung
#83. It was hard when I knew I was about to be flooded with memories of a life I hadn't lived yet. Really, two lives I hadn't lived yet.
Kasie West
#84. Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
Jack Kornfield
#85. My memory bank has overflowed out of control forever. I'm surprised my smile hasn't killed me yet. I have lived an indescribable joyful, adventurous, musical dream life and it just gets better every year.
Ted Nugent
#86. Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated.
Rajneesh
#87. I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart.
Robert Wagner
#88. I have always lived my life exactly as I wanted. I've tried to please no one but myself ... but I'm entirely content. I can sit back in my old age and not regret a single moment, not wish to change a single thing. It's what I wish for you ... a life with no regrets.
Katharine Hepburn
#89. I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic.
Owen Wilson
#90. You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life
a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.
Thomas Bernhard
#91. To know one's future is the single most destructive way of ending your life before you've lived it. - Altheon (Betrayal- Fey Court Trilogy)
Cyndi Goodgame
#92. There are questions that are not meant to be answered with words. Some questions take a lifetime to answer. Take action.
J.R. Rim
#93. I had lived a life, I had dreamt of, but I have lost a loved one." Ashwin
Shaikh Ashraf
#94. When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find that you have lived a model human life, after all.
Joseph Campbell
#95. It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it. Like an old man with rheumy eyes watching children play, seeing only transience in their shrill elation and their whole-hearted commitment to life.
Arundhati Roy
#96. Rewards of life lived with principles; bloom, when life is about to end or has departed already.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#97. I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
Oliver Stone
#98. I've got so much wisdom and have lived through so much life that I feel more powerful than I ever have.
Sharon Osbourne
#99. You haven't really lived if you don't wonder how you've lived this long.
D. Clarence Snyder
#100. I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life.
Thom Mayne
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