Exciting Life Quotes

• The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.

  David Hockney

  Thinking, Greedy, Burden

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• Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.

  Bear Grylls

  Blessing, Exciting, Seeing

  Bear Grylls (2012). “To My Sons: Lessons for the Wild Adventure Called Life”, p.6, David C Cook

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• We can live nuanced, complicated, exciting lives with no reason for limitation.

  Michael Skolnik

  Complicated, Reason, Exciting

  "Global Grind Editor Michael Skolnik". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Doors, Exciting, Knows

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• I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that's the price I'm willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life.

  Carl Rogers

  Emotional, Confusion, Pay

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• When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters.

  Martin Yan

  Life, Passing Away, Looks

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• I don't lead a particularly exciting life away from work.

  Sienna Miller

  Exciting

  "Sienna Miller Talks Casanova". Interview, movieweb.com. December 21, 2005.

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• Life hereafter for God's children, will be an extension or an amplification, a multiplication of the joy and thrilling, exciting lives we now lead! Hell is the extension, multiplication, amplification, endless continuation of the same awful lives that the wicked people of the world lead even now! Hell is just the opposite of the ecstasies of life in Heaven for the saved and the blessed!

  David Berg

  Children, Blessed, Opposites

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• Though one may acquire much in wealth, fame, or honor, the real joy of life does not lie there but, rather, in keeping the romance of living going. Nothing gives such complete and profound happiness as the perpetually fresh wonder and mystery of exciting life.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Lying, Real

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• The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive the arrows of his own outrageous fortune and in the two weeks of his carefree youth find a clean smooth place to fix on, the years afterwards are full of stress, passion, and danger.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Stress, Passion, Oysters

  M. F. K. Fisher (2016). “Consider the Oyster”, p.7, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I thought a lot about how the way we perceive Jesus affects the way we live, and how expectantly we face our daily lives. If we have a huge and uncompromising view of Him, it'll lead to adventurous and exciting lives of faith.

  Matt Redman

  Jesus, Views, Way

  "A conversation with worship leader Matt Redman". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. September 21, 2011.

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• Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Mean, Tolls

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• What you are is a human being, sensitive and alive, with genius inside of you. Not only that, but you are one of a kind. There has never been anyone like you before. You see the world in a unique way because you have unique gifts. That's the way nature made you. And it will feel like nothing less than fulfilling your destiny to follow those gifts to a rich and exciting life, full of purpose and meaning and enjoyment.

  Barbara Sher

  Unique, Destiny, Purpose

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• The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

  Roald Dahl

  Reading, Book, People

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.160, Penguin

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• I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.

  Esther Forbes

  Believe, Writing, Worthwhile

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• The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, People, World

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.160, Penguin

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• And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life Is, Exciting, Imaginary

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money – I think that can be a burden – I’m greedy for an exciting life. I want it to be exciting all the time, and I get it, actually. On the other hand, I can find excitement, I admit, in raindrops falling on a puddle and a lot of people wouldn’t. I intend to have it exciting until the day I fall over.

  David Hockney

  Fall, Thinking, Hands

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• I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they did, and mostly I came to the conclusion that either there were no rules, or the rules sucked. Reading science fiction wasn't about imagining myself into some more exciting life filled with adventure, it was about finding a world where things worked the way I wanted them to.

  Robin Wasserman

  Reading, Adventure, Years

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• The thing about happiness is that it doesn't help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.

  Lana Turner

  Grateful, Thinking, Bed Of Roses

  Lana Turner (1982). “Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth”, Dutton Adult

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• An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Oysters, Exciting

  M. F. K. Fisher (2016). “Consider the Oyster”, p.7, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Two, Exciting, Shows

  "Barbara Mandrell: Sweetness Through Suffering". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story

  Oliver North

  Stories, Excitement, Hubris

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• Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Children, Past, Perspective

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