“There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do. It is really that simple. And that hard.”— John Connolly, amazon.com
“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.”— Jack London, amazon.com
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect st…”— Arundhati Roy, amazon.com
“The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.com
“On the one hand there is the real world and on the other there is a whole system of symbols about that world which we have in our minds. These are very very useful symbols, all civilization depends on them, but like all good things they have their disadvantages, and the principle disadvantage of sym…”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it with the world as they think about it and talk about it and describe it.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.”— Alan Watts, books.google.com
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“The little voice that's telling you the story of your life, has to let go of the old chapters to genuinely write new ones.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Critically evaluating your life is supposed to facilitate living it, not the other way around.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“There's no man, alive or dead, who's going to fault you for living.”— Jeffrey Dean Morgan, William, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, imdb.com
“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com