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For All The Beautiful Souls That Want To Stop Existing And Start Truly Living

Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. 
Holly Riordan
January 11, 2017
“There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do. It is really that simple. And that hard.”
— John Connolly, The Infernals
Tagged: Living, Passion, surviving
“You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all - the race to the egg. And now that you are a giant, why do you even doubt victory against smaller numbers and wider margins? The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.”
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Tagged: Living, victory, Achievements
“When you stop existing and you start truly living, each moment of the day comes alive with the wonder and synchronicity.”
— Steve Maraboli, Life, The Truth, and Being Free
Tagged: Living, Existing, enjoy life
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
— Hellen Keller, The Open Door
Tagged: Living, Adventure, Nothing, travel, Mottos
“Don't exist. Live. Get out, explore. Thrive. Challenge authority. Challenge yourself. Evolve. Change forever. Become who you say you always will. Keep moving. Don't stop. Start the revolution. Become a freedom fighter. Become a superhero. Just because everyone doesn't know your name doesn't mean you don't matter. Are you happy? Have you ever been happy? What have you done today to matter? Did you exist or did you live? How did you thrive?”
— Brian Krans, A Constant Suicide
Tagged: Living, Existing, Exploring
“What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So don't be afraid. Be alive.”
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Tagged: Living, Truth, Fear
“Today, just take time to smell the roses, enjoy those little things about your life, your family, spouse, friends, job. Forget about the thorns -the pains and problems they cause you - and enjoy life.”
— Bernard Kelvin Clive, Your Dreams Will Not Die
Tagged: Living, enjoy life, little things
“The courage to live brings its own rewards.”
— Rachel L. Schade, Silent Kingdom
Tagged: Living, Courage, rewards
“You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
— Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum
Tagged: Living, Loving, Feelings
“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
— D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
Tagged: Living, Regrets, enjoy life
“Wake up, live your life and sing the melody of your soul.”
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
Tagged: Living, Wake Up, enjoy life
“Find your passion and live it.”
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great, Be Great!:(Beautiful Quotes, Volume 1)
Tagged: Living, Passion, Career
“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
— Victor Hugo, Les Miserables(A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
Tagged: Living, Dying, Death
“Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.”
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Tagged: Living, enjoy life, Art
“To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look.”
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman
Tagged: Living, risks, Adventure
“If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day... the here, the now.”
— Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry(A Perfect Chemistry Novel)
Tagged: Living, enjoy life, enjoy the moment
“I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.”
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Tagged: Living, alive, remember
“Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life.”
— Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
Tagged: Living, Death, Existing
“I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.”
— Glen Duncan, The Last Werewolf
Tagged: Living, Life, enjoy life
“Life is all about chances. You might be safer not taking any. But playing it totally safe means you're only existing. Not living.”
— Ellen Hopkins, Tilt
Tagged: Living, chances, risks
“You have to let yourself be fully present in every moment. Just be awake for it, do you know what I mean? Go all in and wring every last drop out of the experience”
— Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You
Tagged: Living, enjoy the moment, pay attention
“Every part of my body chants it in unison. Live, live, live. I thought that in order to give my life in exchange for Will's, in exchange for my parents', that I needed to die, but I was wrong; I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live.”
— Veronica Roth, Insurgent
Tagged: Living, Death, live
“What is more important - Pretending to live or living your life? Forget about what others think about you and your way of living. Live your life the way you like it.”
— Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
Tagged: Living, pretending, Opinions
“Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known.”
— Osho, Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
Tagged: Living, Loving, Experiencing
“You're still alive. Be thankful for that. You can still walk and talk and think. Yes, you feel like shit most of the time, but it could be worse. So instead of sitting in your room waiting to die, why don't you join in on life until you do die? Dammit! Get off your dead ass and make something of the life you still have left!”
— Deanna Lynn Sletten, Widow, Virgin, Whore
Tagged: Living, alive, Death
“Forget the timeline and just live.”
— Nimita Bhatt, This Is How To Forget What You Thought Your Life Would Be Like, And Just Live
Tagged: Living, Time, plans
“I say we stop this whole taking life for granted thing, and we regain our respect for life. I say we vow to become amazed with life again and I say we do whatever we had been planning to do today rather than waiting for a more perfect day. When you think about what day could be more perfect than today?”
— Jade Sheldon, Today Is Your Day, Do Everything You’ve Been Waiting For
Tagged: Living, Life, Today
“It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world... by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”
— Ken Kesey, Kesey's Garage Sale
Tagged: Living, Existing, Enlightened
“We make our purpose.”
— Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
Tagged: Living, Meaning, purpose
“Live to start. Start to live.”
— Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid
Tagged: Living, Starting, enjoy life