Quotes about Living

It's a lesson I'm trying to learn from him, this living squarely in the present. I am a planner and a worrier. I torment myself by mentally replaying my past mistakes, wishing I'd been smarter, wishing I'd been stronger, wishing I'd made different choices. I live too often in the realm of what if. I also expend time and mental energy continually trying to anticipate what sort of crouching tiger might be hiding around the next corner.

After all, what good is a life saved if you fail to live it?

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ.

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.

We truly live only one day at a time. It doesn't really help to worry about the future, which we can't control, or the past, which we can't change.

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

the Gospels make clear the connection: God forgives my debts as I forgive my debtors. The reverse is also true: Only by living in the stream of God's grace will I find the strength to respond with grace toward others.

We live in an atmosphere choked with the fumes of ungrace. Grace comes from outside, as a gift and not an achievement.

Realistic hope permits a dying person to confront reality, but at the same time gives strength to go on living.