"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
— Mark Twain

"Live to the point of tears."
— Albert Camus

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could."
— Louise Erdrich (The Painted Drum: A Novel)

"The thing that is most hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most wind up in parentheses."
— John Irving

"A good motto to live by: "Always try not to get killed.""
— George Carlin

"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."
— Anaïs Nin

"God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him"
— John Piper

"How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living."
— Jostein Gaarder (The Solitaire Mystery)

"It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself."
— Betty Friedan

"So many thoughts, so little head!"
— Suka

"Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Feel your emotions,
Live true your passions,
Keep still your mind."
— geoffrey m. gluckman, 1994

"It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old."
— Jules Renard

"Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t."
— Lauren Bacall

""Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not, himself, find peace."

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— Albert Schweitzer (Animals, Nature and Albert Schweitzer)

"I LOVE living, I have some problems with my LIFE, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far."
— Neil Simon

"All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words."
— Deng Ming- Dao

"You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value."--Nimit in "Thailand"
— Haruki Murakami

"Though under earth, and throneless now I be
Yet while I lived all earth was under me."
— C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)

"Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion in continual pretense and overreaching and anticipating other. Virtue has come to consist of doing something in less time that someone else. Hours in which honesty is permitted have become rare, and when they arrive one is tired and does not only want to "let oneself go" but actually wishes to stretch out as long and wide and ungainly as one happens to be... Soon we may well reach the point where people can no longer give in to the desire for a vita contemplativa (that is, taking a walk with ideas and friends) without self-contempt and a bad conscience."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (The Gay Science)

"Tout est question d'équilibre"
— Mireille Guiliano

"I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures."
— Gary Snyder

"Semoga anda memiliki kebijaksanaan untuk memohon kepada Tuhan:

Agar diberi kemampuan melihat yang benar, keberanian memilih yang benar dan keinginan mengikuti yang benar.

Agar membangun iman bukan keraguan.

Agar dengan penuh harapan menyelesaikan yang bisa dilaksanakan dan tidak digentarkan oleh yang tidak bisa dilaksanakan.

Agar melihat pelbagai kemungkinan baru dan tidak dilumpuhkan oleh kesulitan yang menghalangi.

Agar menemukan tujuan hidup yang bermakna, bukan yang membosankan dan sia-sia.

Agar mengukur nilai-nilai dengan pengabdian pada kepentingan sesama, bukan keuntungan diri sendiri."
— Inspiration for Living

"It's so stupid to look for just the small cleverness, because wisdom is bigger and the best.
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— Suka

"Makin lama seseorang menunda pekerjaan yang harus dilakukannya, makin sulit baginya untuk mulai."
— Inspiration for Living

"As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us - but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensual experience."
— Jostein Gaarder (The Solitaire Mystery)

""I have come to see clearly that life is more than self. It is more than doing what I want, striving for what will benefit me, dreaming of all I can be. Life is all about my relationship with God. There is no higher calling, no loftier dream, and no greater goal than to live, breathe, and be poured out for Jesus Christ."
--Jamie in Brother Andrew's "The Calling""
— Brother Andrew (The Narrow Road : Stories of Those Who Walk This Road Together)

""I am a fool for Christ...whose fool are you?""
— Brother Andrew (The Narrow Road : Stories of Those Who Walk This Road Together)

"Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live. "
— Anais Nin.

"Throw a big BOMB to one meeting, and Run Away!
Maybe that's the best way to give my TRUTH."
— Suka

"Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive."
— Howard Thurman

"Ada dua belas hal harus diingat:
1. Nilai waktu.
2. Sukses kegigihan.
3. Kesenangan bekerja.
4. Martabat kesederhanaan.
5. Nilai watak.
6. Kekuatan kebaikan.
7. Pengaruh teladan.
8. Tanggung jawab.
9. Kebijaksanaan untuk berhemat.
10. Nilai kesabaran.
11. Meningkatkan pengembangan bakat.
12. Kegembiraan untuk melahirkan gagasan baru."
— Inspiration for Living

"You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it."
— Lucinda Bassett

"Then she would wander through fields, over simple, poor land, looking carefully and keenly all round her, still getting used to being alive in the world, and feeling glad that everything in it was right for her — for her body, her heart, and her freedom."
— Andrei Platonov (Happy Moscow)

"Create the change you seek in the world.
Be an ecopreneur.
Launch your dream green business."
— John D. Ivanko

"Who knew? Oftentimes , if you purchase many items at once, you'll get great deals. Find a well-stocked store and come bearing a list of things you're in the market for. Bundle purchases, and bargains ensue."
— Nina Willdorf (City Chic: An Urban Girl's Guide to Livin' Large on Less)

"Do what you gotta do, till you can do what you want to do."
— Norman with Contractor's College, N.O. LA