Just Live 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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• Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Self Improvement

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• We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

  Bill Watterson

  Life, Running, Live In The Moment

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• We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

  John Newton

  Life, Attitude, Past

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• We are always getting ready to live but never living.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Carpe Diem, Law Of Attraction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.1, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Graduation, Wise

  "Mark Twain, selected writings of an American skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

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• Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

  Michael Landon

  Motivational, Positive, Death

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

  Mark Twain

  Positive, Death, Spiritual

  "A Voice Crying In The Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.

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  To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

  Mae West

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Mae West: 'YOLO,' Before YOLO Was a Thing", bigthink.com. September 25, 2015.

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• I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

  Alan Watts

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Thanksgiving

  "5 Creative Ways to Deal With Life Transitions" by Kingsley Grant, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2016.

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• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Commitment, Insperational, Carpe Diem

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.395, Yale University Press

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• Good things come to those who wait.

  Jess C Scott

  Inspirational, Funny, Patience

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Porcelain”, p.147, jessINK

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• Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.

  Matt Cameron

  Positive, Live Life, Focus

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  Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

  Walt Whitman

  Happiness, Nature, Carpe Diem

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.97, NYU Press

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• The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

  Gautama Buddha

  Being Happy, Health, Healing

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• We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Powerful, Inspiration

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.170, David C Cook

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• Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

  Goldie Hawn

  Music, Live In The Moment, Mindfulness

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• I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Death: A Comedy in One Act". Book by Woody Allen, 1975.

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• Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Spiritual, Witty

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

  William James

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.80, The Floating Press

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• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Positive

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1844.

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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