Live Well Quotes - Page 2

• Life is not to live merely, but to live well.

  Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury

  Life, Life Is, Wells

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• Living well is a courageous act.

  Alexandra Stoddard

  Healing, Courageous, Wells

  Alexandra Stoddard (2013). “Grace Notes”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Assuming that tomorrow will be the same as today is poor preparation for living. It equips us only for disappointment or, more likely, for shock. To live well, to be mentally healthy, we must learn to realize that life is a work in process.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Disappointment, Healthy, Preparation

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• Live. And Live Well. BREATHE. Breathe in and Breathe deeply. Be PRESENT. Do not be past. Do not be future. Be now. On a crystal clear, breezy 70 degree day, roll down the windows and FEEL the wind against your skin. Feel the warmth of the sun. If you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool Autumn day to FREEZE your lungs and do not just be alarmed, be ALIVE. Get knee-deep in a novel and LOSE track of time. If you bike, pedal HARD

  Kyle Lake

  Running, Autumn, Past

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• If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

  Sophocles

  Watches, Ruins, Trouble

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Knowledge, People, Littles

  Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

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• Food and sex have been bound together for a long time. I guess this is due to the intimate connection between the two most powerful instincts that predominate in life: the instinct to survive and the instinct to multiply. Nourishment and sex give us a great sense of pleasure. Having the wisdom to satisfy both desires—for food and sex—is the art of living well. I truly believe that this wisdom lies within us all.

  Ori Hofmekler

  Art, Sex, Powerful

  Ori Hofmekler (2009). “The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse For High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body”, p.182, North Atlantic Books

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• But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Benefits, Littles, Endeavor

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• You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.

  Nigella Lawson

  Inspirational, Wells

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• The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment.

  Evo Morales

  Believe, Cost, Environment

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• If we don't watch out, the pleasure o be gained from the discriminating enjoyment of food will be lost. It may not be long before the art of fine cooking is viewed as the invention of a handful of snobs. . . . A whole aspect of living well, of civilization itself, is threatened with extinction.

  Benoite Groult

  Life, Art, Civilization

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• I love to live well, I love to eat well, I love to buy beautiful things, and to give a fantastic time to my friends.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Beautiful, Giving, Fantastic

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• Sadly, many individuals don't know where to find God, and exclude him from their lives. When spiritual needs arise, they may look to the left, the right, or round about. But looking to other people on the same level cannot satisfy spiritual shortages. When the immortal spirit is starved, hunger persists for something more filling. Even when material success comes, there is a hollow ache - if living well falls short of living worthily. Inner peace cannot be found in affluence accompanied by spiritual privation.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Spiritual, Fall, People

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• Well, you know what? If that guy can do it, I can be myself too, and if that rapper can be himself and be free and be happy and still hold masculinity and love people and love flowers and just be happy being alive, well then, I can do that too.

  Lil B

  Flower, Rapper, People

  "Rapper Lil B on 'I'm Gay': 'We're all one people'". Interview with Gavin Godfrey, www.cnn.com. May 31, 2011.

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• We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Good Life, Stress, Luxury

  Robert M. Sapolsky (2007). “A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Philosophy, Immortal

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• Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Revenge, Heart, Hands

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• By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science, by way of eminence, of living well and being happy), but all mankind together is making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older. So that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man who never ceases to live and learn.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Race, Progress

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• Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality...an effort to penetrate the illusions of the external world and to name its underlying truth.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Spiritual, Reality, Names

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• It seems that more people today have a greater desire to live long than they do to live well.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Long, People, Excellence

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• If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories, and predators don't mess with you much. What that means is you've got nine hours of free time every day to devote to generating psychological stress toward other animals in your troop. So the baboon is a wonderful model for living well enough and long enough to pay the price for all the social-stressor nonsense that they create for each other. They're just like us: They're not getting done in by predators and famines, they're getting done in by each other.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Stress, Mean, Animal

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• Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.

  William Ames

  Blessing, Faithful, Unions

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Character, Mean, Equality

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• Living well has something to do with the spirituality of wholeheartedness, of seeing life more as a grace than as a penance, as time to be lived with eager expectation of its goodness, not in dread of its challenges.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Expectations, Grace, Challenges

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• Wherever a man lives, he may live well.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, May, Wells

  Marcus Aurelius (2013). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.30, Read Books Ltd

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