Life Is About Living And Not Just Existing Quotes & Sayings

A fool is always pleased with what he says, and, besides, he always says more than he needs to. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak? — Isabel Allende

I'm quick," Leo said. "And lucky. Now, am I on this quest, or what?"
Jason scratched his head. "You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, 'festus' means 'happy'? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?"
The dragon twitched and shuddered and flapped his wings.
"That's a yes, bro!" Leo said. — Rick Riordan

What has changed is that nothing has changed ... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else. — Willie Nelson

I've been fortunate enough to travel the world because of my career, but the downside has been spending long spells apart from my daughters. — Sean Bean

When your world's become one person, how do you prepare to let her go? How do you get over someone you know you'll never forget? — Katie Kacvinsky

If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing. — W. H. Auden

Life is all about chances. You might be safer not taking any. But playing it totally safe means you're only existing. Not living. I want to live. — Ellen Hopkins

Let us be perfectly clear here," said Squire Loontwill. "You are willing to marry our Alexia, even though she is ... well ... ," he floundered. Felicity came to his rescue. "Old." Evylin added, "And plain." "And tan," said Felicity. The squire continued. "And so extraordinarily assertive. — Gail Carriger

Living is about capturing the essence of things. I go through my life every day with a vial, a vial wherein can be found precious essential oils of every kind! The priceless, fragrant oils that are the essence of my experiences, my thoughts. I walk inside a different realm from everybody else, in that I am existing in the essence of things; every time there is reason to smile, I hold out my glass vial and capture that drop of oil, that essence, and then I smile. And that is why I have smiled, and so you and I may be smiling at the same time but I am smiling because of that one drop of cherished, treasured oil that I have extracted. When I write, I find no need to memorize an idea, a plot, a sequence of things: no. I must only capture the essence of a feeling or a thought and once I have inhaled that aroma, I know that I have what I need. — C. JoyBell C.