Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brendon Burchard

Freedom requires responsibility to choose who we are above and beyond our immediate impulses, needs, and social pressures, so that we can genuinely express the type of person we want to be, live the life we truly want to live, leave the legacy we desire.

Arthur Smith

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Life is the game that must be played.

Elizabeth Strout

Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.

Ann Curry

Rare is the book that can actually transform us into better, more fulfilled people. Having combed through the research and documented case studies all over the world, Kristof and WuDunn present the clearest view I have ever seen of the human soul. A Path Appears tells us whether we are intrinsically good, why specific ways we parent our newborns help predict their chances for success, and how we can live lives of greater significance. This book, full of rich and riveting true stories, reminds us that human greatness is all around us, and even within us, if we dare to look.

Andy Andrews

Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.

Joan Anderson

...many of us inhibit our capacity for growth because the culture encourages us to live lives of uniformity. We stall, deny, ignore the ensuing crisis because of confusion, malaise, and yes, even propriety.

Drew Barrymore

There are a lot of us little gypsies out there that need to go and find another place you know. A safer, healthier or just a different venue in order to develop and find ourselves. I am so lucky to live the life that I do.

Colleen Hoover

If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die.

Dalai Lama

It is my fundamental belief that all human beings share the same basic aspirations: that we all want hapiness and that we all share suffering. Asians, just like Americans, Europeans, and the rest of the world, share a desire to live life to its fullest, to better ourselves and the lives of our loved ones.

Desmond Tutu

Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity

Dean Karnazes

A lot of ultramarathoners are soloists. They're single and live lives off the grid.

Andy Warhol

I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite

Ann Patchett

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.

Chuck Palahniuk

I'm living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what I wanted.

Craig Scott

From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived."

Daniel Craig

It doesn't matter if you look a million dollars but everybody has their flaws. So that's why it had to be that way. He was living the life, he would stay out for three days probably, get drunk and do whatever he was doing and then hit the gym for two days. But that's the craziness of that lifestyle - you're damaging yourselves in more ways than one.

Cory Booker

Never let your soul be silenced. Live life out loud. Every day tell your truth not with words but with actions from your heart.

Douglas Coupland

It's not healthy to live life as a succession of isolated little cool moments.

Amos Oz

Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.

Angela Johnson

If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end...

Anthony Hopkins

I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

Edgar Mitchell

The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in altered states of consciousness. The previous fear of death is typically quelled. If the individual generally remains thereafter in the existential state of awareness, the deep internal feeling of eternity is quite profound and unshakable.

Democritus

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Bobby Womack

I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.

Billy Corgan

Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.

Orson Scott Card

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

David Carradine

I think it may have been Tom Wolfe (if it wasn't, my apologies, Tom, and my apologies to whoever it was) who said in print once, 'David Carradine lives the life that Hunter Thompson only writes about.'

Dave Matthews

If you live life, then you become what are.

Orson Scott Card

Perhaps I'm hiding from myself. Perhaps I don't want to be what I'm supposed to be. Or perhaps I don't want to keep living the life I already started to live.

Ram Dass

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

Miguel

I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.