Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Eldredge

To find God, you must look with all your heart. To remain present to God, you must remain present to your heart. To hear his voice, you must listen with all your heart. To love him, you must love with all your heart. You cannot be the person God meant you to be, and you cannot live the life he meant you to live, unless you live from the heart.

John Oliver

It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.

John O'Donohue

If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in and around us derives from the fact that we are not living the life we love; rather, we are living the life that is expected of us. We have fallen out of rhythm with the secret signature and light of our own nature.

Garrett Hedlund

When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.

Edward Albee

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions.

Kerry Washington

You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell. And the world needs your story because the world needs your voice.

Napoleon Bonaparte

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Octavia Spencer

At 21, you can live life with reckless abandon, as reckless as your abandon is. Then, at 30, there's something there are the supposed to be's. You're like, "I'm supposed to be doing this. I'm supposed to be doing that." You start measuring your life by what you think you're supposed to be doing. Having recently turned 40, it's like, "What the hell?! Why am I worried about what I'm supposed to be doing? What do I want to do?" You become fine with wherever the road takes you.

Epictetus

Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.

Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that you desire.

Whatever you do, just don't stand still. Make the changes you need today, so you can live the life you want, tomorrow.

Joe Rogan

The quicker we all realize that we've been taught how to live life by people that were operating on the momentum of an ignorant past the quicker we can move to a global ethic of community that doesn't value invented borders or the monopolization of natural resources, but rather the goal of a happier more loving humanity.

John Mellencamp

When you live life for yourself it's hard on everyone. And that hasn't changed. For me, if anything, it's gotten worse.

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.

Geronimo

Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you.

Henry David Thoreau

Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once.

Henry David Thoreau

Endeavor to live the life you have imagined.

Jerry Garcia

Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!

Ernest Hemingway

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

Fiona Gubelmann

I was raised to pursue my passions and pursue the things that I love, and to just live life to the fullest.

Henry Miller

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

Jamaica Kincaid

I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card - the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it.

Jeremy Irons

I've never been passionate about acting, and I find more and more that I work to live the life I want to live. There's something about the detachment I have, the feeling of the lack of importance about what I do, that is healthy.

Jill Hennessy

I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment.

Jennifer Lopez

I'm living the life I always dreamed of living. From the time I was a youngster I wanted to be a celebrity. It's a great life. The only bad thing is that people are more interested in your personal life than they are in your work and it's freaky

Jacqueline Novogratz

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

Jackson Browne

Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.

Christina Baldwin

in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!

Christine Lavin

Imagine all the people, living life in peace. Well, that's hard to do when you're on this blood stained street.