Top 100 Well Lived Quotes
#1. Happiness comes as a by-product of the "life well lived." And
Henry Cloud
#2. 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
#3. Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.
Mark Batterson
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. A life well-lived in the present is all but impossible when you are tethered to your past.
Tucker Elliot
#8. The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty.
N.D. Wilson
#10. Photos sat on the piano and shelves bulged with books, testament to a life well lived.
Louise Penny
#12. A lot of people might define a life well lived by how much is in the bank. I feel like it's how much you laugh.
Jill Kargman
#13. True wealth does not glitter. It is revealed by the beauty of a life well lived.
Debasish Mridha
#14. At times like this There's not a lot that words can do To help ease your pain and sense of loss And though it may be hard to believe right now Know that the pain will ease with time And you will look back at the memories of your dear one And smile and remember a life well lived and loved.
Margaret Jones
#15. Happiness is not a goal ... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#16. Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.
Lysa TerKeurst
#17. Experiences are the currency of a life well lived.
Mark Batterson
#18. The silence of death, of the cemetery, was no punishment, but a reward for a life well lived.
Caitlin Doughty
#19. The best revenge is a life well lived.
Chloe Neill
#21. A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.
Erwin McManus
#23. One of the hallmarks of a life well lived, a life worthy to return to God's presence and receive a fulness of the Father, is to be "valiant in the testimony of Jesus". Paul was valiant, and we can be valiant as well. To be "valiant in the testimony of Jesus" is to be faithful.
Lawrence E. Corbridge
#24. Real security only comes when we are comfortable with who we are, real happiness is a byproduct of a life well lived.
Daniel Gottlieb
#25. You need to remember the best legacy you can give your kids is an example of a life well lived. They may listen to what you say, but they will do what you do. If you tell them to take care of yourself but you don't do it yourself, what kind of message are you sending?
Brooke Castillo
#26. Happiness is the result of a life well lived
Danny Dover
#27. The best possible preparation for the future is a well lived present.
George H. Brimhall
#28. 'How much longer will I live?' ... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.
Henri Nouwen
#30. ...this was what she had been taught: To choose marriage and babies over a glamorous career would be an unthinkable failure. Love was supposed to be the by-product of a life well lived not the goal. And this is what she realized: Everything she had been taught was wrong.
Jade Chang
#31. 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
#32. A life is well lived when you are content with your condition and gracious for your possessions.
Debasish Mridha
#33. Yesterday is but a dream,
Tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Kalidasa
#34. Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.
Mollie Marti
#35. Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day. - Francis
Marie Force
#36. Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.
Alan Sakowitz
#37. Imagination and the journey-quest is at the heart of every life well-lived
Azar Nafisi
#38. To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark - in a way that you think is important and lasting - that's a life well-lived.
Laurene Powell Jobs
#39. A life well-lived or a life lived well? The placement of words really does change the connotation.
Carol Morgan
#40. 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
#41. The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.
Donald E. Williams Jr.
#42. Indeed, the big decisions in life are hardly ever clear - except for one. And that one is piercingly clear: life is a series of dilemmas, of options, of conundrums, of possibilities taken and not taken. Negotiating these moments well is of the essence of the life well lived.
Joan D. Chittister
#43. Is love partnership for everyone? Is it essential to a life well lived, or is that just a cultural myth?
Jeff Brown
#44. There is a distinct feeling of contentment that engulfs your entire being after a day well lived, a battle well fought, and a purpose tirelessly pursued.
Steve Maraboli
#45. You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.
Erwin McManus
#46. Looking at my patients and their families, I have a remarkable view not just of lives well lived, but of deep commitment and love. I wouldn't trade that for the world. Sure, sometimes I'm caring for people at their worst, but I'm also blessed to be with them at their best.
David Dosa
#47. 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
#48. Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.
Dean Karnazes
#49. 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
#50. Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.
Francis Gray
#51. I've always been salaried; I've never owned anything. I've done very well, lived very well.
Joan Rivers
#52. A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.
Cate Blanchett
#53. The measure of a life well lived is how many good dogs you can fit into it.
[or cats]
Marion Lennox
#54. 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
#55. Anxiety and depression are the price you pay for a well-lived life.
George Vaillant
#57. Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?
Jennifer Garner
#58. Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.
- Sanskrit poem
Robin Craig Clark
#59. Do not plan to die, do not plan for the death of your name or your influence - rather, plan for the resting of a life well lived. Make an eternal mark.
Archibald Marwizi
#60. 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
#61. I think my writing was certainly shaped from having lived in a place like Niverville as well as by the family that I came from, the religion that I had, that type of thing.
David Bergen
#63. I was raised in the old way, a way that the young folk see as worn and backwards, today. But if it had not been for our way, they would never have lived to make their own way, so it served them as well as it served us.
Billy Roper
#64. Treville understood admirably well the warfare of that period, when, if you did not live at the enemy's expense, you lived at the expense of your compatriots: his soldiers formed a legion of daredevils, undisciplined for anyone else but him.
Alexandre Dumas
#65. It's a store full of books, which are objects that can be thrown as well as read," Monty replied blandly. The Crow cocked his head. "I had no idea you humans lived with so much danger." Monty
Anne Bishop
#66. At the end of my life on that day I want the Lord to look at me and say, "Well done Tonia, you lived a life of purpose and used all of the gifts and talents I bestowed upon you to bring me glory
Tonia Shalel
#67. I'll tell you what my mother always said. 'When it comes to marriage, if both don't win, nobody wins.' The longer I lived with your dad, the more I saw the truth in that. In the end, nobody won." "Well,
Terrie Todd
#68. Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.
Robert A. Heinlein
#69. I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart
Khaled Hosseini
#70. Once upon a time there were three little sisters,' the Dormouse began in a great hurry; 'and their names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well
' 'What did they live on?' said Alice, who always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking.
Lewis Carroll
#71. I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.
Ahmet Ertegun
#72. The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#73. Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.
Sidney Sheldon
#74. I live in a small country in Europe - Finland - and I don't speak English well and I had nothing to do with publishing houses in the West. I lived in complete isolation.
Hassan Blasim
#75. Nostalgia has nothing to do with aesthetics, it's not even connected to happy memories. We feel nostalgia for a place simply because we've lived there; whether we lived well or badly scarcely matters.
Michel Houellebecq
#76. A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn't. (356)
Victoria Moran
#77. A life lived well embraces death by feeling open, from heart to all, in every moment. Wide open, you can offer without holding back, you can receive without pushing away.
David Deida
#78. There'll be guys who were in wars hearing what we did and thinking, 'Whoa.' You and me, we can say, 'You got yourself some medals solider? Yeah, well, I lived through the FAYZ.
Michael Grant
#79. When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants.
Jupiter Hammon
#80. A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.
Charles Baudelaire
#81. If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful.
Andrew Motion
#82. Only the passionate were immortal, it seemed. If you fought, screwed, screamed, laughed, or otherwise experienced life intensely, for better or worse, you left a record. Those who lived a quiet, well-behaved, well-tempered life? Gone without a trace.
Magnus Flyte
#83. Well, unfortunately, my father passed away before my first book was published, so he never lived to see me as an author. But I think my mum was suitably pleased because she was mad about words. If she ever came across a word that she didn't know, she would always look it up in the dictionary.
Geraldine McCaughrean
#84. unspoken bond existed between the residents of Chapel Isle. The island was the same as the nets its fishermen cast at sea, a tight lattice of people tied by lives lived closely, knotted by friendship. Being here meant Abigail could become a part of that net as well, which was
Ellen Block
#85. How much of my fever-induced dream was real? I felt safe assuming that my time as a bee was fiction, as well as a few mythological animals that I swear I'd seen. Then I'd lived on the sun with aliens.
Cora Carmack
#86. What makes us brave isn't lacking the good sence to be afraid; it's looking back at what we've lived through and seeing if we've faced it well.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#87. Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.
Catherynne M Valente
#88. I was born and raised in Pawnee City, Nebraska. I lived right next to the sale barn and I raised pigs. My dad was a guidance counselor at Wymore High School. He was also a preacher and did farming as well. We leased out our crop land but had cattle and horses.
Larry The Cable Guy
#89. The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
#90. I want to die living. And I want to be remembered as one who lived with purpose, joy and feeling. I want to spend my time learning what goes into a whole and happy life, then building that life the best I can.
Steve Goodier
#91. Left to themselves, humans have always managed their own affairs creatively and well. Indeed, for most of human evolution and history people have lived peaceful, co-operative lives without rulers, leaders, politicians, soldiers, policemen and taxmen.
Peter Marshall
#92. Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#93. I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there was Huck Finn and "Spin And Marty." The boys characters were interesting and you lived through them when you're watching it.
Meryl Streep
#94. With each breath, you take into your body 10 sextillion atoms, and - owing to the wind's ceaseless circulation - over a year's time you have intimate relations with oxygen molecules exhaled by every person alive, as well as by everyone who ever lived.
Guy Murchie
#95. Well damn him. I was not dead yet, and so long as I lived I would fight for Aethelflaed.
Bernard Cornwell
#96. Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.
Ovid
#97. HARV, can you help at all here?" I asked, spinning downward.
"I am writing your obituary. Well, not so much writing it as updating it," HARV told me.
If I lived, I was going to kill HARV.
John Zakour
#98. The point wasn't that you tried to live forever; the point was that you lived, and did everything you could to live well. The point was the choices you made and the people you loved.
Cassandra Clare
#99. All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.
John Woolman
#100. In fact, the resistance to such claims may well come from the constant impulse to resist the Lordship of Jesus, the one through whom it is accomplished. Paul lived in a world where other 'lords' reigned supreme, and resented alternative candidates for their position. So do we. ROMANS
N. T. Wright
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