living fully quotes

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

I want to be all used up when I die.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

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

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Life must be lived as play.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.