The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
—Benjamin Disraeli
“You’re better equipped for this world than I am,” she said. “I’m always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.”
—Tom Robbins
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
—Robert A. Heinlein
Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that's where safety lives.
—Gayle Forman in Just One Year
Patience is a hard discipline. It is not just waiting until something happens over which we have no control: the arrival of the bus, the end of the rain, the return of a friend, the resolution of a conflict. Patience is not waiting passively until someone else does something. Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are. When we are impatient, we try to get away from where we are. We behave as if the real thing will happen tomorrow, later, and somewhere else. Let's be patient and trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.
—Henri J. M. Nouwen
When, at some point in our lives, we meet a real tragedy—which could happen to any one of us—we can react in two ways. Obviously, we can lose hope, let ourselves slip into discouragement, into alcohol, drugs, and unending sadness. Or else we can wake ourselves up, discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force.
—14th Dalai Lama
It is better to live a holy life than to talk about it. Lighthouses do not ring bells and fire cannons to call attention to their shining; they just shine.
—D. L. Moody
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
—Mark Twain
Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because their emotional thermostat is broken.
—Shannon L. Alder
Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
—Samuel Lover
How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw away a life.
—Unknown
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
—Henry David Thoreau
You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
—Jojo Moyes in Me Before You
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
—Socrates