Quotes about Living

How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on. But this is very much the same as if you should be grieved because those who have lived before you did not praise you.

We live in a time when Christians need to be told that they are supposed to live like Christ. That's Weird.

I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death! And that's why I'm so grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop myself and to express all that's inside me!

How alive am I willing to be?

And while everyone has to make a living and show up for family, listening is optional. You have to make a conscious decision to listen harder.

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it. -

I am going to die. But I am going to die in peace because I lived my life as intensely as I could.

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.

God is not a vague abstract principle or force but a living person who fellowships with His people.

My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.