“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, goodreads.com
“Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.”— John Muir, amazon.com
“I don’t dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I’m dreaming for living.”— Steven Spielberg, goodreads.com
“And you’ll return to real life. You need to live it to the fullest. No matter how shallow and dull things might get, this life is worth living. I guarantee it.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”— John Burroughs, amazon.com
“People say that where there’s life, there’s hope, and I have no quarrel with that, but I also believe the reverse. There is hope, therefore I live.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the ability to live on Earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”— Chuck Klosterman, amazon.com
“Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.”— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com
“The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live —moreover, the only one.”— Emil Cioran, amazon.com
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”— Søren Kierkegaard, amazon.com
“regrets of the people that are dying: I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”— Jay Shetty, youtube.com
“And then it was now... it's actually still now... it never stops being now.”— John Green, youtube.com
“If we could forgive, we could allow ourselves to feel the tremor in one another. If we live our stories we could write what we could be.”— Nix Buteo, twitter.com
“Living is painful. Without pain, reality would escape us and the lessons the world has for us will go untaught.”— Jamie Magee, amazon.com
“Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.”— Jim Butcher, amazon.com
“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”— William Goldman, amazon.com