How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Life
The whole life of man is self-expression… We suffer if we do not express ourselves.
-Anonymous "Perfect Liberty Kyodan"
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Alchemist"
If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
-John Irving
"A Prayer for Owen Meany"
Life only begins to be an adventure when we cease living it for ourselves.
-Joel S. Goldsmith
Not being dead isn't being alive.
-E. E. Cummings
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
However mean your life is, meet it and live it.
-Henry David Thoreau
You live but once; you might as well be amusing.
-Coco Chanel
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
-Katharine Hepburn
"Me: Stories of My Life"
