Lived - Quotes
Too many people lived their lives acting and pretending, wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, Heaven or Hell is born. Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: "I made some mistakes, but I wasn`t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do."
We have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about past or future. Happiness is in the now.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
You are young, and in love. [...] Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.
I`ve lived long enough to know that any promise made beside the word "forever" is no more than a lie agreed upon. There is no forever. Everything moves towards its end. And the closer we get to ours, the louder that clock ticks, the less a sane man would let a promise deprive him of happiness.
God`s word is not just to be heard and repeated, it is to be breathed, lived, and emulated with each action.
Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners going back millions of generations, and those winners were, in every generation, the luckiest of the lucky, one out of a thousand or even a million. So however unlucky you may be on some occasion today, your presence on the planet testifies to the role luck has played in your past.
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Don`t spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.
I have no regrets. I wouldn`t have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
Every man`s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.