3,544 Quotes About Living

In the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino put it as simply as possible. The mind, he said, tends to go off on its own so that it seems to have no relevance to the physical world. At the same time, the materialistic life can be so absorbing that we get caught in it and forget about spirituality. What we need, he said, is soul, in the middle, holding together mind and body, ideas and life, spirituality and the world.

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.

My past lives alone. That's why my loneliness wants to live in the past

Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.

Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.

It is better to find your courage to make changes when you can choose to rather than being forced to. If you do not make change, change will make you.

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.

It’s your life; you don’t need someone’s permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart.

A giver's purse can never be paused.