Living
consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and
responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the
moment. — Sidney Poitier
Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive. — Serj Tankian
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. — Emily Dickinson
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. — Albert Einstein
The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living. — Eugene O'Neill
Life comes when you have knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, when you can see for real, touch, and feel for real, know for real. Then you are truly living. — RZA
You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now. — Caryl Churchill
If you don't live it, you don't believe it. — Paul Harvey
Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive. — Thich Nhat Hanh
Short Actually Living Quotes
This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full. — Diane Keaton
Only living big will let you experience your true life and work potential. — Gary Keller
We are always getting ready to live, but never living. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is in the here and now.
Either we meet it, we live it-or we miss it. — Vimala Thakar
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. — Oscar Wilde
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity. — Thomas Aquinas
All of life is here and now. So why do most of us live there and then instead? — Mo Gawdat
You can't get old without living. — Jim Brown
True life is lived when tiny changes occur. — Leo Tolstoy
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. — Anatole France
Top 10 Actually Living Quotes
Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening. — Nelson Mandela
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. — Frank Sinatra
True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ. — J. C. Ryle
Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves. — Eugene H. Peterson
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves. — Marilyn Manson
Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor. — Avi Arad
I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble. — Kendrick Lamar
Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination. — James Arthur Ray
We are learning to work with intuition, which actually is Soul giving us gentle guidance to make our life better. — Harold Klemp
I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born. — David Baltimore
Actually Living Image Quotes
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Actually Inspirational Quotes
Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice. — Stephen Curry
We all have to work in our respective spheres with the same dedication, the same zeal and the same determination which inspired and motivated the warrior on the battle front. And this has to be shown not by mere words, but by actual deeds. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good. — Paula Scher
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices. — Zaha Hadid
Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family. — Abraham Maslow
It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another. — Nelson Mandela
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
When you dance with a partner you are close and the dance is very suggestive, but it is not personal … “Close is what the music inspire you to become. The embrace looks personal, but what we are actually embracing is the music. — Carlos Gavito
All know the way, but few actually walk it. — Bodhidharma
Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world. — Pema Chodron
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. — Bill Gates
Actually Good Quotes
When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem. — Abraham Maslow
It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any. — Hugh Laurie
We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again.
Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency. — Abraham Maslow
I am actually as good as everybody else pretends to be. It's scary. — Dean Ambrose
It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the best. — K. Pattabhi Jois
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
I actually think that the most efficacious way of making a difference is to lead by example, and doing random acts of kindness is setting a very good example of how to behave in the world. — Misha Collins
People say that bad memories cause the most pain, but it's actually the good ones that drive you insane. — Kid Cudi
When you're good to yourself, you're actually being good to everyone around you because when you feel good, you'll only react well to other people. At the same time, it's very easy for you to do things for other people when you know that other people are just an extension of yourself. — Anita Moorjani
To live our lives and miss that great purpose we were designed to accomplish is truly a sin. It is inconceivable that we could be bored in a world with so much wrong to tackle, so much ignorance to reach and so much misery we could alleviate — William Wilberforce
The most dangerous thing in the world is to have no purpose. — T. D. Jakes
When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other. — Margaret J. Wheatley
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work. The best work happens when you know that it's not just work, but something that will improve other people's lives. — Satya Nadella
A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until, at last, we are strong enough to stand in our naked truth. — Marion Woodman
My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life. — Jon Foreman
Stress, anxiety, and depression are caused when we are living to please others.
There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that. — Melanie Martinez
It is only when we become aware that our time is limited that we can channel our energy into truly living — Ludovico Einaudi
Are you doing what your heart desires, or living up to society's expectations, what friends and family think?
Because the moment you start doing what you love, what you truly feel in your heart, all your cells start working for you. — Ralph Smart
A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror. — George Gurdjieff
Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I've seen again and again. — Ravi Zacharias
One must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and truth in order to avoid dogmatic extremes, cold scholasticism, or an isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force. — Che Guevara
Often we’re so engrossed in our work that we forget to value, appreciate and recognize those that we’re actually working for. We get so wrapped up in our own lives that we forget the people that make up our life. — Jay Shetty
This measurement of highest oxygen consumption, called VO2 max, is the best gauge of cardiorespiratory fitness. Training the body to breathe less actually increases VO2 max, which can not only boost athletic stamina but also help us live longer and healthier lives. — James Nestor
Actually, we have no problems-we have opportunities for which we should give thanks... An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them. — Edgar Cayce
I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. — Kazuo Ishiguro
Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different. — Damien Hirst
"Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath?" "Actually, I think you misheard," Clary said. "It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath." "As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome," "I knew we should have left you a rat," said Jace. — Cassandra Clare
The people who are constantly striving to apply skepticism to everything in their lives, the ones who actually care enough about truth and [care to try to] avoid being wrong, and biased, and prejudiced, and clueless; those are the people we need, and need to be. — Matt Dillahunty
So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect. — Ellen DeGeneres
It is only through letting our heart break that we discover something unexpected: the heart cannot actually break, it can only break open. When we feel both our love for this world and the pain of this world-together, at the same time-the heart breaks out of its shell. To live with an open heart is to experience life full-strength. — John Welwood
We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history- a change in the actual belief structure of Western society. No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing the world. — Willis Harman
It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated. — Jane Goodall
If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice. — Michael J. Fox
Well a good writer writes, a good musician listens to a lot more than he actually composes, and if you're going to do lyrics - well, there's a Freudian slip. That's not even a slip, that's a Freudian move: I said going to do lyrics. If you really want it to ring true, you'll live it first. Go really get your heart broken! — David Lee Roth
And why do we worship hindsight (as in the news media's constant rehash of the day, the week, the year) and yet distrust foresight, which actually might make a difference in our lives? — Gavin de Becker
Rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest and feel most fortunate to be working with wonderful people in the business I love. — Neil Patrick Harris
Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way. — Will Ferrell
Agency has become a catch word. In a way, this intoxication with ‘agency’ is the product of liberal individualism. The ability of individuals to fashion themselves, to change their live, is given ideological priority over the relation within which they themselves are actually formed, situated, and sustained. — Talal Asad
If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game. — Joe Biden
The fact that healthier lifestyles and advances in medicine mean that we are living longer is actually something to be celebrated. — Nicola Sturgeon
Some people just can’t seem to deal with any uncertainty in their lives, and time and time again they find themselves imprisoned in situations that kill their happiness, push them towards despair, and gradually disintegrate their self-esteem. They don’t realize that in their attempt to avoid uncertainty and the short-term discomfort it might bring, they’re actually inadvertently opting for long-term misery. — Steven Bartlett
For the only therapy is life. The patient must learn to live, to live with his split, his conflict, his ambivalence, which no therapy can take away, for if it could, it would take with it the actual spring of life. — Otto Rank
Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image — Bruce Lee
Heaven and Earth give themselves. Air, water, plants, animals, and humans give themselves to each other. It is in this giving-themselves-to-each-other that we actually live. Whether you appreciate it or not, it is true. — Kodo Sawaki
Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters. — Derek Jacobi
You will find that living in space can actually become a home, in spite of tools floating away. Alien to all you know, you will adapt and you will love it. — Peggy Whitson
I think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it's silly to talk about him not existing. I don't know anyone who is a responsible historian, who is actually trained in the historical method, or anybody who is a biblical scholar who does this for a living, who gives any credence at all to any of this. — Bart D. Ehrman
Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness. — Hermann Hesse
The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life. — Rob Sheffield
God has plans and purposes for each of our lives. But the beauty is that He doesn't call us and leave us on our own. Jesus actually lives in us to pull off the amazing things that He has invited us into. — Louie Giglio
The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking. — James Patterson
I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said life. — Peter Cameron
A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live. — Elizabeth Edwards
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