Living Life

What, what am I to do
with all this life?
-Gwendolyn Brooks

You must ask yourself
how is it you want to live your life.
-Tenzin Gyatso, Dalai Lama

Just living is not enough, said the butterfly.
One must have freedom, sunshine and a little flower.
-Hans Christian Andersen

I would love to live like a river flows,
carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.
-John O'Donohue

"Why not?" is a slogan for an interesting life.
-Mason Cooley  

Living is a constant process
of deciding what we are going to do.
-Jose Ortega y Gasset

For most men,
life is a search for the proper manila envelope
in which to get themselves filed.
-Clifton Fadiman

What people really need and demand from life
is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing.
-Thomas Szaz

Life is a game that must be played.
-Edwin Arlington Robinson

Life is a dream for the wise,
a game for the fool,
a comedy for the rich,
a tragedy for the poor.
-Sholom Aleichem

We live the rope of life
by untying its knots.
-Jean Toomer

Life does not want to be "said" or "understood":
life will and must be lived.
-Hans-Ulrich Rieker

How you live today
is how you live your life.
-Tara Brach

Live life as life lives itself.
-Zen Saying

Consider carefully,
what prevents you from living the way you want to live your life?
-Tenzin Gyatso, Dalai Lama

What I am living for and what I am dying for
are the same question.
-Margaret Atwood

The only way to live is to accept each minute
as an unrepeatable miracle,
which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.
-Storm Jameson

If we really want to live,
we must have the courage to recognize
that life is ultimately very short,
and that everything we do counts.
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Life belongs to the living, 
and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The only thing we have in life
are our moment-to-moment experiences.
-David Wolfe

It's a very short trip.
While alive, live!
-Malcolm Forbes

Do your best to turn your life into a festival.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How to get the most out of life...
How to extract its honey
from the flower of the world.
That is my everyday business.
I am busy as a bee about it.
-Henry David Thoreau

I live my life based on two principles.
One, I live as if today was many last day on earth.
Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.
-Chandra Mohan Jain, "Osho"

Live in private
as in public
-The Oculatum

Live your life
as though you will someday be famous
and journalists will publish the details of your life.
-Anonymous

Live as if everything you do
will eventually be known.
-Hugh Prather

If I had to live over again,
I would live as I have lived.
-Michel de Montaigne

Don't go through life,
grow through life.
-Eric Butterworth

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
-Neale Donald Walsche

What matters most
is that we learn from living.
-Doris Lessing

Our great and glorious masterpiece
is to live appropriately.
-Michel de Montaigne

The process of living seems to consist
of coming to realize truths so ancient and simple
that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.
-C. S. Lewis

Life is given us to be lived.
We must live to ourselves
according to our own light
and our own individual needs.
-Christian Larson

Life is in fact nothing
but this triumphing over one's own complexes,
without which the formation of a character and personality
does not happen.
-Italo Calvino

Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves.
Having discovered our own fundamental level
we realize that it conforms to our own destiny
and we find peace.
-Cesare Pavese

Live your own life.
That is to say,
where you are, what you are,
and with who you are.
-Prajnanapad

Live as you would have wished to live
when you come to die.
-Gellert

Live a life
as a monument to your soul.
-Ayn Rand