Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Nilsson

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

Kathy Najimy

When I was heavier, I danced and I jumped out of planes. I've always rejected the idea that there's a certain look or size that makes it acceptable to live life.

Katherine Mansfield

I want so to live that I work with my hands and my feeling and my brain. I want a garden, a small house, grass, animals, books, pictures, music. And out of this, the expression of this, I want to be writing (Though I may write about cabmen. That’s no matter.) But warm, eager, living life — to be rooted in life — to learn, to desire, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.

Keanu Reeves

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Ray Bradbury

At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!

Ray Bradbury

Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.

Shaun Sipos

I like to think of myself as a 'live life to its fullest' type of guy.

Michael Landon

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

Scott Hall

It comes back to what Chief Jay Strongbow told us years ago, 'In this business you can make friends or you can make money'. And I remember lookin at Kev and X-Pac and going, I already got some friends, I'd like the money.

Ray Brown

Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

Rajneesh

Do you think the people who were trying to reach to the Everest were not full of doubts? For a hundred years, how many people tried and how many people lost their lives? Do you know how many people never came back? But, still, people come from all over the world, risking, knowing they may never return. For them it is worth it - because in the very risk something is born inside of them: the center. It is born only in the risk. That's the beauty of risk, the gift of risk.

Rajneesh

Attachment brings misery, unattachment brings blissfulness. So use things, but don't be used by them. Live life but don't be lived by it. Possess things, but don't be possessed by them. Have things - that's not a problem. I am not for renunciation. Enjoy everything that life gives, but always remain free.

Mitch Albom

You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning . Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.

Mike Tyson

Me? I see an old, broke-ass black guy taking care of a bunch of kids, living life, taking them to school, and all that stuff, who's asking himself: What the hell is this? But I wouldn't give it up for the world because I love my wife. I never expected to have a life like this. No chaos... no confusion... no lawsuits... no violence... no going to jail...

Sherry Argov

When you live life with him or without him, that is when he will accept and value you for who you are.

Maxine Hong Kingston

I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.

Maya Angelou

Live life as if it were created just for you.

Plato

What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.

Peter Drucker

If you're not living life on the edge, you're taking up too much space. The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Marianne Williamson

People who have life-challenging experiences who choose to remain invested in a consistent catastrophic interpretation are not the ones I meet. I have met many more people who have recognized how vital it is to their healing and to the quality of their life to interpret their experiences differently. That is why some of the people I've met who have life-challenging illnesses are much happier than some people I've known who are physically quite healthy and yet who live lives of greater desperation and depression.

Michael J. Fox

I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's joy in my life.

Martha Stewart

The subject matter that I am really spending my time on has become an acceptable subject matter. Living, lifestyle, family, is now in the forefront of interest in America, and I've just stuck with it. I mean, I've been doing this for years, and I never got angry. I never said, you know, listen, I'm fighting for this subject. That wasn't my point. My point was to continue working in a subject matter, knowing full well that finally it would be recognized as a viable subject once again.

Marie Dressler

Only a few things are really important.

Mariel Hemingway

I think it’s the misperception of addiction and living life on the edge, as if it’s cool.

Kimora Lee Simmons

Live life on your own path. Everybody's got something different. You can't keep up with all those people, so you better keep up with yourself.

Neale Donald Walsch

If you listen to your soul you will know what is "best" for you, because what is best for you is what is true for you.

Neale Donald Walsch

Do not wonder why things are "taking so long." In fact, everything is rolling out exactly as it needs to, using not a minute more than Perfection requires. Rest easy and be at peace. Life is working its magic even as you take your very next breath.

Mara Wilson

It definitely is something that can get frustrating, because you want to live life on your own terms, and it feels for a while like you can't. But I've come to understand that I got to have all these amazing experiences that other people don't have. So this is the trade-off.

Lisa Rinna

I don't care what you do. We all deal with it if we're living life, trying to find those moments where you can turn off your brain and connect to whatever and just be grounded, live in the moment, which I find really difficult but try to practice on a daily basis.

James Joyce

I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.

Libba Bray

Live life as if today is your last day living. :-)

Harvey Mackay

If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.

Friedrich Schiller

Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.