For All The Beautiful Souls That Want To Stop Existing And Start Truly Living

“What is more important - Pretending to live or living your life? Forget about what others think about you and your way of living. Live your life the way you like it.”

— Manoj Arora, amazon.com

“Every part of my body chants it in unison. Live, live, live. I thought that in order to give my life in exchange for Will's, in exchange for my parents', that I needed to die, but I was wrong; I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live.”

— Veronica Roth, amazon.com

“You have to let yourself be fully present in every moment. Just be awake for it, do you know what I mean? Go all in and wring every last drop out of the experience”

— Jenny Han, amazon.com

“I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.”

— Glen Duncan, amazon.com

“I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.”

— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com

“If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day... the here, the now.”

— Simone Elkeles, amazon.com

“To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look.”

— Mandy Hale, amazon.com

“Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri, amazon.com

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”

— Victor Hugo, amazon.com

“Find your passion and live it.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita, amazon.com

“Wake up, live your life and sing the melody of your soul.”

— Amit Ray, amazon.com

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”

— D.H. Lawrence, amazon.com

“The courage to live brings its own rewards.”

— Rachel L. Schade, amazon.com

“Today, just take time to smell the roses, enjoy those little things about your life, your family, spouse, friends, job. Forget about the thorns -the pains and problems they cause you - and enjoy life.”

— Bernard Kelvin Clive, amazon.com

“What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So don't be afraid. Be alive.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

— Hellen Keller, amazon.com

“When you stop existing and you start truly living, each moment of the day comes alive with the wonder and synchronicity.”

— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com

“You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all - the race to the egg. And now that you are a giant, why do you even doubt victory against smaller numbers and wider margins? The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind.…”

— Suzy Kassem, amazon.com

“I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and write raw and ugly about all these things I see and am and could be.”

— Charlotte Eriksson, amazon.com

“You know what’s stupid? Not trying. So just... try.”

— Victoria Scott, amazon.com