Viktor Frankl (March 26, 1905–September 2, 1997) Who can weigh the ballast of another’s woe, or another’s love? We live — with our woes and our loves, with our tremendous capacity for beauty and our tremendous capacity for suffering — counterbalancing the weight of existence with the irrepressible force of living. The question, always, is …
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche On Living
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.
Simone de Beauvoir On Living
Simone de Beauvoir (9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) It is the knowledge of the genuine condition of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reason for living.
Walt Whitman On Living Your Life
Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and …
Keith Allen Haring On Fear And Loving
Keith Allen Haring(May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) I guess it’s because I’m afraid. Afraid I’m wrong. And I guess I’m afraid I’m wrong, because I constantly relate myself to other people, other experiences, other ideas. I should be looking at both in perspective, not comparing. I relate my life to an idea or …
Viktor Frankl On Living
Viktor Frankl (March 26, 1905–September 2, 1997) It is not only through our actions that we can give life meaning — insofar as we can answer life’s specific questions responsibly — we can fulfill the demands of existence not only as active agents but also as loving human beings: in our loving dedication to the …
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross On Living
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (July 8, 1926 – August 24, 2004) It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive — to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions …
Albert Einstein On Living
Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Brunello Cucinelli On Living
Brunello Cucinelli (September 03, 1953 If we lose these very important, very beautiful moments of debate, of polemos as Heraclitus called it, we lose the real sense of an encounter — and we’ll lose the joy of living.
Seneca On Living And Dying
Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65) Living is the least important activity of the preoccupied man; yet there is nothing which is harder to learn… Learning how to live takes a whole life, and, which may surprise you more, it takes a whole life to learn how to die.
Richard Dawkins On Living
Richard Dawkins (March 26, 1941 -) The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear. It is an immensely exciting experience to be born in the world, born in the universe, and look around you and realize that before you die, …
Seneca On Living
Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65) You are living as if destined to live for ever; your own frailty never occurs to you; you don’t notice how much time has already passed, but squander it as though you had a full and overflowing supply – though all the while that very day which you are …
Thomas Stoppard On Living
Thomas Stoppard (July 03, 1937 -) The Renaissance teaches us that the book of knowledge is not to be learned by rote but is to be written anew in the ecstasy of living each moment for the moment’s sake. Success in life is to maintain this ecstasy, to burn always with this hard gemlike flame. …
John Cheever On Living
John Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) But I awoke at three, feeling terribly sad, and feeling rebelliously that I didn't want to study sadness, madness, melancholy, and despair. I wanted to study triumphs, the rediscoveries of love, all that I know in the world to be decent, radiant, and clear.
Arthur Koestler On Living Your Life
Arthur Koestler (September 05, 1905 – March 01, 1983) Everybody has a given amount of calories to burn up — you either burn them up by living or by creating. You can't burn the same calories both ways. You make poetry out of your unhappiness, and you might argue that you can also make poetry …
Georgia O’Keeffe On Living Your Life
Georgia O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 - March 06, 1986) I decided to start anew — to strip what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. I was alone and singularly free working on my own, unknown — no one to satisfy …
Henry David Thoreau On Living
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) ...I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not when I come to die discover that I had not lived. …
David Bohm On Living In Harmony
David Joseph Bohm (December 20, 1917 – October 27, 1992) If we are to live in harmony with ourselves and with nature, we need to be able to communicate freely in a creative movement in which no one permanently holds to or otherwise defends his own ideas.
Joan Didion On Living
Joan Didion (December 5, 1934 -) I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in …
László Krasznahorkai On Living
László Krasznahorkai (January 05, 1954 -) I would leave everything here: the valleys, the hills, the paths, and the jaybirds from the gardens, I would leave here the petcocks and the padres, heaven and earth, spring and fall, I would leave here the exit routes, the evenings in the kitchen, the last amorous gaze, and …
Arthur Koestler On Living
Arthur Koestler (September 05, 1905 – March 01, 1983) Everybody has a given amount of calories to burn up — you either burn them up by living or by creating. You can't burn the same calories both ways. You make poetry out of your unhappiness, and you might argue that you can also make poetry …
Oliver Sacks On Living
Oliver Sacks (July 09, 1933 – August 30, 2015) The most we can do is to write — intelligently, creatively, evocatively — about what it is like living in the world at this time.
