 I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
– Diane Ackerman (1948-) |
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Quotations about living, feeling alive, and life in general
David Hume – The shortness and uncertainty of life
 When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.
– David Hume (1711-1776) |
Mahatma Gandhi – Live as if you were to die. . .
 Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
– Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
Jim Rohn – Design your own life plan
 If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
– Jim Rohn (1930-2009) |
Carl Jung – It is tragic to see how a man bungles his own life
 It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.
– Carl Jung (1875-1961) |
Horace – Hopes within the shortness of human life
 Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away; enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what tomorrow may produce.
– Horace (65 BC-8 BC) |
Maya Angelou – Love life. Engage in it.
 Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
– Maya Angelou (1928-2014) |
Neil deGrasse Tyson – In life they create their own love
 The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (Oct 5, 1958 -) |
Michel de Montaigne – Life measured by use, not length
 Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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Charles Darwin – The cold death of the sun and planets
 Consider the view now held by most physicists, namely, that the sun with all the planets will in time grow too cold for life, unless indeed some great body dashes into the sun, and thus gives it fresh life. Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress.
– Charles Darwin (1809-1882) |
Bruce Lee – The key to immortality
 The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering
– Bruce Lee (1940-1973) |
Bhartrhari – The endless cycle of sunrise and sunset
| With the endless cycle of sunrise and sunset, life shortens. Engrossed in mundane tasks, man fails to notice the passage of time. Nor anxiety is felt at witnessing birth, advance of years, suffering and finally death. Oh, the world becomes intoxicated after drinking the wine of delusion.
– Bhartrhari (450-510) |
