Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved.
We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.
I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process.
As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.
No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.
When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did I sweat, push, pull, rip, fall, hit, crash, explode?...My dream is to be so well-used that in my last-half second, I just burst into dust.
Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.
You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.
Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.
I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.
What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
If you don’t take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you’re trying to accomplish, then you’re forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present.
I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.
Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.
Before I take my last breath, before my last flower withers, I wish to live, I wish to make love, I wish to be in this world close to those who need me, those who I need, in order to learn, comprehend and rediscover that I can be and I want to be better at every moment.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Life is not a dress rehearsal - wake up every day excited to live out your purpose.
It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life.
Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.
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