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

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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. 

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Your life should consist of more than commuting, working, eating, surfing the Internet, sleeping and watching TV. Your life should be filled with purpose-driven experiences and projects that bring excitement, passion, energy, and authentic meaning and joy into your life.

— Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid

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    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

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    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

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    Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life.

    — Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

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    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

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    I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

    — Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise (Oxford World's Classics)

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    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

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    What is your talent? What are your interests? What resources do you have at your disposal? What can you do? What would you like to do? What can you do? You could apply your outrage to activism. Get involved. Do something.

    — Christina Engela, Blachart: Galaxii Series Book 1 (Volume 1)

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    When you begin leaning into the awareness... accepting where you are... this is when you begin creating a life you want to live instead of simply existing or reacting.

    — Debra Smouse, Read This If You Want To Stop Tolerating And Start Enjoying Life

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    I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money – I think that can be a burden – I’m greedy for an exciting life. I want it to be exciting all the time, and I get it, actually. On the other hand, I can find excitement, I admit, in raindrops falling on a puddle and a lot of people wouldn’t. I intend to have it exciting until the day I fall over.

    — David Hockney, A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney

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    Choose thoughts that give you the emotions of being alive and excited about life.

    — Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

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    Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it?

    — Juliet Marillier, Son of the Shadows (The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Book 2)

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    Of course you could do more - you can always do more, and you should do more - but still, the important things is to do what you can, whenever you can. You just do your best, and that's all you can do. Too many people use the excuse that they don't think they can do enough, so they decide they don't have to to do anything. There's never a good excuse for not doing anything - even if it's just to sign something, or send a small contribution, or invite a newly settled refugee family over for Thanksgiving.

    — Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club

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    The secret to excitement is discovering new paths, and having the courage to take them.

    — Lawren Leo, Spell to Attract Excitement (The Familiar: A Book of Shadows)

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    Don’t just exist; do something meaningful with your life. Discover a problem and fix it.

    — Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

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    Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want -- you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.

    — Ayn Rand, We Are The Living

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    You’re only wasting your life if you’re too distracted to experience it.

    — Darius Foroux, Read This If You’re Ready To Stop Wasting Your Life

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    Life’s too short to not do the things you love. And do them shamelessly.

    — Tiziana Bardellino, The Truth Is, Life’s Too Short To Give A F*ck

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    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

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    You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.

    — Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

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    Harness the power of today. Seize the blessings of today! Make something happen, enhance your life, make someone laugh, help a friend, love, love, love!

    — Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

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    Live today! Do not allow your spirit to be softened of your happiness to be limited by a day you cannot have back or a day that does not yet exist.

    — Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

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    What's the good of being alive if you don't do anything?

    — Kirsten Hubbard, Like Mandarin

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    Imagine what your life would be like if you were completely uninhibited by fear, pride, or procrastination. What would you be capable of? Anything.

    — Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid

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    Live to start. Start to live.

    — Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid

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    We make our purpose.

    — Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

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    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

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    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

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    Forget the timeline and just live.

    — Nimita Bhatt, This Is How To Forget What You Thought Your Life Would Be Like, And Just Live

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.

    — Glen Duncan, The Last Werewolf

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    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

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    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)

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    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

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    Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.

    — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

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    It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

    — Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)

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    Find your passion and live it.

    — Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great, Be Great!: (Beautiful Quotes, Volume 1)

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    Wake up, live your life and sing the melody of your soul.

    — Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

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    A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

    — D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

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    The courage to live brings its own rewards.

    — Rachel L. Schade, Silent Kingdom

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    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

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    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

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    Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

    — Hellen Keller, The Open Door

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    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

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    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

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    I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and write raw and ugly about all these things I see and am and could be.

    — Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: In search for The Great Perhaps

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    You know what’s stupid? Not trying. So just... try.

    — Victoria Scott, The Collector

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