“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work – as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for – the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay…”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“I am fascinated by the whole process of what it’s like to be alive, whether it’s unbelievably uncomfortable and horrible or whether it’s quite nice.”— Charlotte Rampling, indexmagazine.com
“Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love ot…”— Eleanor Roosevelt,, amazon.com
“You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.”— Louise Erdrich, amazon.com
“People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com
“I should feel the air move against me and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I’m sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual – we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I’m sure that is entirely wrong.”— D. H. Lawrence, amazon.com
“If you just listen, you never learn. If you just learn, you never do. And the way to DO is to experiment and see what sets your heart on fire.”— James Altucher, thoughtcatalog.com
“My own dreams are deep inside, my secret wishes since I was a little boy. I can tell when I am moving in the right direction. I get a feeling in my upper chest. A warmth and excitement.”— James Altucher, thoughtcatalog.com
“So the odds are on my side. I will live forever. Unless something weird happens. Like dying.”— James Altucher, thoughtcatalog.com
“I try to do this instead: live life like it’s everyone else’s last day. Then you learn to treat everyone with the highest respect. They are dying tomorrow!”— James Altucher, thoughtcatalog.com
“Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.”— Charles Lindbergh, amazon.com
“Live like nature. Explode slowly, day by day, from the center outwards. You won’t notice how brightly you burn or how big you’ve grown until you look back. And then you will be amazed.”— pleasefindthis (Iain Thomas), amazon.com
“We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com