Living Fully Quotes - Page 2

• I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be.

  John Shelby Spong

  Religious, Christianity, Eternity

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• I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

  Terry Eagleton

  Mean, Virtue, Enjoy

  "Ideas for modern living: virtue" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2010.

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• A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful. She is less likely to have an agenda than a young woman-no biological clock tick-tocking beside her lover's bed, no campaign to lead him to the altar, no rescue fantasies. The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long a she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second half of her life, despite failures and false starts.

  Gail Sheehy

  Sweet, Women, Wine

  Gail Sheehy (2006). “Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life”, Random House Incorporated

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• Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully.

  Tara Brach

  Self, Years, Roots

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• If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.

  Roy T. Bennett

  Past, Worry, Focus

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• We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.

  Randy Pausch

  Life, Beats, Born

  YouTube Channel "R2Agent"/"Randy Pausch addressing the CMU 2008 graduating class", www.youtube.com. May 19, 2008.

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• To suppress the grief, the pain, is to condemn oneself to a living death. Living fully means feeling fully; it means becoming completely one with what you are experiencing and not holding it at arm's length.

  Philip Kapleau

  Pain, Grief, Mean

  Philip Kapleau (1990). “The Wheel of Life and Death: A Practical and Spiritual Guide”

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• Let go of what you can't control. Channel all that energy into living fully in the now.

  Karen Salmansohn

  Letting Go, Wisdom, Energy

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