Really Living Quotes

• I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Thinking, Life Is, Sun Also Rises

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.6, Hamilton Books

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• Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.

  Storm Jameson

  Regret, Past, Long

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• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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  You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

  Vernon Howard

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

  Gail Sheehy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

  Storm Jameson

  Live In The Present, Tricks, Thousand

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Being Happy, Uplifting

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.

  Gail Sheehy

  Life, Change, Growth

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

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• Don't give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

  Joyce Meyer

  Giving, Excuse

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• ...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Degrees, Needs

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.159, David C Cook

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• As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.

  David Levithan

  Sickness, Moments, Trade

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.161, Egmont UK

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• Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Years, Giving

  Haruki Murakami (2007). “Vintage Murakami”, p.161, Vintage

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• It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.

  Martin Sheen

  Catholic, Enemy, Church

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• I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest.

  Hope Solo

  Live Life, Thinking, People

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• If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Moments, Ifs

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• You can't go on like you're going to start really living one day like all this is some preamble to some great life thats magically going to appear. I'm a firm believer that you have to create your own miracles, don't hold out that there's something better waiting on the other side. It doesn't work that way. When you're gone, you're gone. Don't wait.

  Perry Moore

  Waiting, Miracle, One Day

  Perry Moore (2007). “Hero”, Disney-Hyperion

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• I felt that I was really living in the moment. I did not know where my life was going, but right now the future did not trouble me.

  Ruth Reichl

  Live In The Moment, Trouble, Moments

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• If you're not adventurous, you're not really living, I think... especially in college.

  Spencer Grammer

  College, Thinking, Adventurous

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

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• A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.

  John Dewey

  Past, Men, Littles

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.

  Charles de Lint

  No Excuses, Excuse, Happens

  Charles de Lint (2007). “Tapping the Dream Tree”, p.250, Macmillan

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• At the end of every year, I add up the time that I have spent on the phone on hold and subtract it from my age. I don't count that time as really living. I spend more and more time on hold each year. By the time I die, I'm going to be quite young.

  Rita Rudner

  Phones, Years, Age

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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