3,544 Quotes About Living

If you’re not growing, you’re not living.

Identifying the purpose of your living is more important than creating a family and having children

People who simply live their life and care only about bearing children are under the influence of a misbelief that they are people

What we forget is that the past is not a place to live. Rather, it is the place that gives us what we need to live more robustly in a present that will become an even more magical past if we let it be so.

Maturity is the ability to live fully and equally in multiple contexts; most especially, the ability, despite our grief and losses, to courageously inhabit the past the present and the future all at once.

The great measure of human maturation is the increasing understanding that we move through life in the blink of an eye; that we are not long with the privilege of having eyes to see, ears to hear, a voice with which to speak and arms to put round a loved one; that we are simply passing through.

When you're in a hurry to live, you have no time to judge others.

I am afraid that is, as they say, impossible. Time moves forwards. We have the luxury of time but we still can’t reverse it. We can’t stop it. We are one-way traffic, just the same as all these mayflies.

I want to show you the world, as it is, all around us, all the time. Only by doing so will I myself be able to glimpse it.