Best Living Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“He’s dying!’ Doctor Cove, one of the ship’s two medical officers told me, looking at his med-scanner as he kneeled at the broken body of the only living Corsair on the black ship. I remember the look on his face as he told me – which seemed more to be puzzlement than actual concern. The man was a Corsair after all, and had injuries I could see, but he was conscious, and none of them looked fatal. But then, I’m no doctor. I never was any good at healing anything – and my job was doing the opposite, and I admit I’m pretty good at it. Always have been.”

Source: Space Vacation

“You can't do passion halfway. Living your passion means you're all in. You trust your heart and trust your gut wherever that takes you.”

Heart Passion Attitude Trust Living Commitment Living Life Follow Your Heart Living Life To The Fullest Passionate Life

Book:The Power of Being Yourself: A Game Plan for Success--by Putting Passion into Your Life and Work

Source: The Power of Being Yourself: A Game Plan for Success--by Putting Passion into Your Life and Work

“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.”

Source: The Light in the Heart

“... there comes a time when you have to put the dead to rest, Philip. When you have to trust the living instead.”

Life Death Trust Living Dead

Book:The Dead Fathers Club

Source: The Dead Fathers Club

“Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.”

Source: The Light in the Heart

“I trust the divine track. The world has my back.”

World Happiness Faith Destiny Path Divine Trust Living Track Surrender To God

Book:A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

Source: A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“Don't pay attention to people Who tell you can't do it at lenght. Trusting your own instincts Can lead to what's quintessential. Make their limitation be your strenght. You might as well contradict them And then reach your full potential.”

Source: A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“When I consider the teachings, doctrines and what happens generally in the body of Christ both here in Europe, America and in Africa, I sometimes feel that I am living in my own reality. Either the whole world is getting it wrong or I am just running crazy”

Sometimes Body Reality Happens Running America Christ Crazy Living Wrong Africa Feel I Teachings When Consider Both Generally Doctrines

Author:Sunday Adelaja

“My world had for some years been Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.”

World Courage Living

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“At such moments felt my mind wake up with the temptation of life gathering courage for flowering beauty even in the desert of living.”

Life Beauty Courage Living Temptation Desert Walking Disaster

Author:Suman Pokhrel

“It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.”

World Love Life Inspirational Kind Beauty Kindness Courage Grace Living Suicide Brave Fortitude Stewardship Precious

Book:Gilead

Source: Gilead

“Often the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.”

Death Courage Living

Book:Oreste: Tragedia in Cinque Atti

Source: Oreste: Tragedia in Cinque Atti

“I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all the things that you want to buy and meet all the people that you want to meet and learn all the things that you desire to learn and if you do all these things but are not madly in love: you have still not begun to live.”

Love Life Inspirational Inspiration Inspirational Quotes Passion Inspirational Life Living Meaning Of Life Inspirational Love

Author:C. JoyBell C.

“We live thinking that we are scared of dying and avoiding it at all costs. Still, we try to escape from the present moment. This shows that what we are actually afraid of is living and failing at it.”

Death Joy Spirituality Fear Courage Living Mindfulness Self Awareness Connection Presence

Book:Bullshit-Free Mindfulness: An Uncommon Guide for Joy in Everyday Life

Source: Bullshit-Free Mindfulness: An Uncommon Guide for Joy in Everyday Life

“If you run from something you fear, it gives that fear power and that fear will continue to chase and haunt you. But if you turn around and face it, only then can you begin to see it for what it is and only then can you see it in the light, rather than having it lurk in your own shadow.”

Life Inspirational Quotes Fear Change Courage Living Fearless Inspirational Quotes About Life

Book:Moon in Full: A Modern Day Coming-of-Age Story

Source: Moon in Full: A Modern Day Coming-of-Age Story

“With all boldness, brace your the eternity of your existence.”

Life Lessons Courage Living Eternity Encouragement Boldness

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“Funerals aren't scheduled.”

Life Death Destiny Dying Strength Living Adversity Funerals

Book:Barefoot in November

Source: Barefoot in November

“Not everyone could handle the pain of the world. It was like the religious ladies outside her school had written on their placards: WILL SUFFERING END? For some, it just couldn't.”

World Life Pain Suffering Strength Living

Book:Vera, or Faith

Source: Vera, or Faith

“I was coming to the end of a difficult period in my life, though when the end isn't in plain sight, you don't realize how close you are.”

Life Grief Healing Strength Despair Living Moving On

Author:Lang Leav, Sea of Strangers

“It’s important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your mind with positive thoughts: kindness, empathy, compassion, peace, love, joy, humility, generosity, etc. The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.”

Source: The Light in the Heart

“Cancer is never a lethal disease If your strength of mind wants it to freeze Death will arrive, but it loves to wait When living in hope is never too late”

Life Mind Hope Strength Disease Living Cancer Death And Dying Freeze Cancer Quotes

Author:Munia Khan

“You always have to remind yourself that it is not what you have been through but what you overcome that will strengthen you. You will have memories that will forever remind you and push you forward so that you can continuously transform your life and mind.”

Life Lessons Growth Consciousness Strength Living Self Awareness Mindset Healthy Living Life Coaching

Author:Kemi Sogunle

“On May 26th, 2003, Aaron Ralston was hiking, a boulder fell on his right hand, he waited four days, he then amputated his own arm with a pocketknife. On New Year’s Eve, a woman was bungee jumping, the cord broke, she fell into a river and had to swim back to land in crocodile-infested waters with a broken collarbone. Claire Champlin was smashed in the face by a five-pound watermelon being propelled by a slingshot. Mathew Brobst was hit by a javelin. David Striegl was actually punched in the mouth by a kangaroo. The most amazing part of these stories is when asked about the experience they all smiled, shrugged and said “I guess things could’ve been worse.” So go ahead, tell me you’re having a bad day. Tell me about the traffic. Tell me about your boss. Tell me about the job you’ve been trying to quit for the past four years. Tell me the morning is just a townhouse burning to the ground and the snooze button is a fire extinguisher. Tell me the alarm clock stole the keys to your smile, drove it into 7 am and the crash totaled your happiness. Tell me. Tell me how blessed are we to have tragedy so small it can fit on the tips of our tongues. When Evan lost his legs he was speechless. When my cousin was assaulted she didn’t speak for 48 hours. When my uncle was murdered, we had to send out a search party to find my father’s voice. Most people have no idea that tragedy and silence often have the exact same address. When your day is a museum of disappointments, hanging from events that were outside of your control, when you feel like your guardian angel put in his two weeks notice two months ago and just decided not to tell you, when it seems like God is just a babysitter that’s always on the phone, when you get punched in the esophagus by a fistful of life. Remember, every year two million people die of dehydration. So it doesn’t matter if the glass is half full or half empty. There’s water in the cup. Drink it and stop complaining. Muscle is created by lifting things that are designed to weigh us down. When your shoulders are heavy stand up straight and call it exercise. Life is a gym membership with a really complicated cancellation policy. Remember, you will survive, things could be worse, and we are never given anything we can’t handle. When the whole world crumbles, you have to build a new one out of all the pieces that are still here. Remember, you are still here. The human heart beats approximately 4,000 times per hour and each pulse, each throb, each palpitation is a trophy, engraved with the words “You are still alive.” You are still alive. So act like it.”

Life God Strength Living Complaining Glass Half Full Guardian Angels Glass Half Empty

Book:Helium

Source: Helium

“The bad event gave you the strength you needed in your foundation to make possible the next wonderful thing in your life.”

Life Strength Living Foundation

Book:Everything Happens for a Reason: Finding the True Meaning of the Events in Our Lives

Source: Everything Happens for a Reason: Finding the True Meaning of the Events in Our Lives

“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for” -- Henry Home, Lord Kames, Introduction to the Art of Thinking (1761)”

Thinking Love Death Friends Living Good Friendship Sacrifice For Love

Author:Henry Home, Lord Kames

“First we molt, then spin a web, after this we weave, until our food is dead. Next dancing a jig, And waiting for a meal, Then we wrestle a bit Til we sit and eat our fill.” Captain Muntweight”

Life Inspirational Hope Friendship Fantasy Friends Living Spiders Prophets

Book:Of Secrets, Spiders & and the End of the World

Source: Of Secrets, Spiders & and the End of the World

“A gardener is like a prophet looking out on a barren land and saying, ‘I see corn on that hill, and beans beneath the grove, and lavender in the field, and over there some roses by the brick wall.’ Don’t you think that’s what a good friend should be like? A truly good friend is one who can look at our bare lives and see the fruit of what will one day come from deep inside us.”

Life Hope Friendship Fantasy Friends Living Spiders Gardens Prophets Gardeners

Book:Of Secrets, Spiders & and the End of the World

Source: Of Secrets, Spiders & and the End of the World

“Problem solving is an everyday occurrence in life.”

Friends Skills Living Problem Solving Workplace Asa Don Brown Interpersonal Skills

Book:Interpersonal Skills in the Workplace, Finding Solutions that Work

Source: Interpersonal Skills in the Workplace, Finding Solutions that Work

“If we live only for a moment, we must enjoy that moment to the fullest by remembering those who have loved us and those we have loved.”

Love Friendship Memories Family Friends Living Origins

Author:Diamond Mike Watson

“We would never go shopping together or eat an entire cake while we complained about men. He'd never invite me over to his house for dinner or a barbecue. We'd never be lovers. But there was a very good chance that one of us would be the last person the other saw before we died. It wasn't friendship the way most people understood it, but it was friendship. There were several people I'd trust with my life, but there is no one else I'd trust with my death. Jean-Claude and even Richard would try to hold me alive out of love or something that passed for it. Even my family and other friends would fight to keep me alive. If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.”

Death Friendship Friends Living Soulmates Anita Blake Bromance Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Laurell K Hamilton Ted Forrester Edward Forrester Obsidian Butterfly

Book:Obsidian Butterfly

Source: Obsidian Butterfly

“Life starts when you live for someones other than you, and ends when you stop living in others’ hearts! Birth & death are simply incidental.”

Life Heart Death Social Friends Living

Author:Sandeep Sahajpal

“12. There will come a day, much quicker than your parents would wish, when you will no longer be comfortable living at home. You will want to move out and establish a home of your own. After that time, your mother and father will be more like your friends than your parents. And someday, if they live long enough, you will be more like a parent to them than a son or daughter.”

Source: Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“Do not allow your happiness to be controlled by the thoughts of others. People are happy for you one minute and then the next they are looking down their noses at you. You have to find within yourself the kind of happiness that withstands the ups and downs of life. No one should have the power to limit or repress your happiness.”

Source: Heart Crush

“FORKED BRANCHES We grew up on the same street, You and me. We went to the same schools, Rode the same bus, Had the same friends, And even shared spaghetti With each other's families. And though our roots belong to The same tree, Our branches have grown In different directions. Our tree, Now resembles a thousand Other trees In a sea of a trillion Other trees With parallel destinies And similar dreams. You cannot envy the branch That grows bigger From the same seed, And you cannot Blame it on the sun's direction. But you still compare us, As if we're still those two Kids at the park Slurping down slushies and Eating ice cream. Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010)”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Enjoy without injury, live without loss.”

“Wisdom is knowing the right thing to do and doing it at the right time to get the desired result. It is also the correct application of knowledge.”