40 Inspiring Quotes About Living Life Your Own

Life expects to build you this year. You make errors then you do different ideas, you do new stuff, you know, you work, you improve yourself, you change your life. You do something you never do before, and most specifically, you do something. And that’s my dream … that’s my hope … Don’t hesitate, don’t pause or think about not being good enough, or not being great, irrespective of what it is: art, music, or job, or family or life. Whatever you’re scared of, do it. Give your errors forever next year. Happy in life living? Good in life? 38 inspiring quotes about living a Beautiful Life.

1. “Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

2. “The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.” — Thomas Jefferson

3. “All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.” — Barack Obama

4. “I know war as few other men now living to know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.” — Ernest Hemingway

5. “When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.” — Ernest Hemingway

6. “God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” — Voltaire

7. “The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.” — Will Rogers

8. “Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.” — Steve Jobs

9. “We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.” — Voltaire

10. “While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?” — George Bernard Shaw

11. “Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

12. “Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.” — C. S. Lewis

13. “Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.” — Voltaire

14. “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” — Nelson Mandela

15. “We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all if followed long enough, will, therefore, draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the center: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.” — C. S. Lewis

16. “The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.” — Groucho Marx

17. “You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.” — Khalil Gibran

18. “Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.” — Nelson Mandela

19. “Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.” — Soren Kierkegaard

20. “I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anesthetics.” — Alexander Graham Bell

21. “You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.” — Henry Ford

22. “There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.” — Wayne Dyer

23. “There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.” — Henry Ford

24. “One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.” — Wayne Dyer

25. “The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backward way of assessing and living life.” — Wayne Dyer

26. “If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are the slave.” — Wayne Dyer

27. “Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.” — Wayne Dyer

28. “I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast – which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others – then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.” — Wayne Dyer

29. “Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.” — Audrey Hepburn

30. “I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.” — Wayne Dyer

31. “When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.” — Malcolm X

32. “Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is an only absurdity and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.” — Albert Camus

33. “Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.” — Albert Camus

34. “We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.” — Albert Camus

35. “I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.” — John Muir

36. “Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.” — John Muir

37. “The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men is painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.” — John Muir

38. “The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.” — James Baldwin