Living Fully Quotes

“THE GOOD LIFE requires that we take pleasure in new things; A GOOD LIFE requires that we take pleasure in moments.

To enjoy THE GOOD LIFE we have to get ahead; to enjoy A GOOD LIFE we have to make the trip worthwhile.

THE GOOD LIFE is supported by feeding our pocketbooks; A GOOD LIFE is supported by feeding our souls.”
― Steve Goodier

“It's just...It's just, if I didn't see these windows until today, what else did I miss?”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“I had grown up thinking of life as a series of linear decisions that if made properly would land me on some distant safe shore where I would finally enjoy the fruits of my labor. Now that I was getting a glimpse of that shore I was struck by the inanity of such an equation. My mother was never going to get another chance to do anything else. She did not have the capacity for regrets, nor was she even able to enjoy the comfort of nostalgia or fond memories--her mind had leaked away too imperceptibly to allow for the clarity to look back on her life and wish she had done things differently. As I continued to worry over what sort of future I was setting myself up for, she seemed a painful cautionary tale that life was not a savings plan, accrued now for enjoyment later. I was alive now. My responsibility was to live now as fully as possible.”
― Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

“To reclaim our natural power and this birthright of real magic, we must get naked and face ourselves.

The truth of Who You Really Are is vast. It is genius. It crackles with electricity and sensuality and other forbidden, dangerous things. You have longed for it all your life. You catch glimpses of it from the corner of your eye. A riff of music reminds you, a surge of ecstasy during sex brings you home, a crisp Autumn wind carries some long forgotten scent which thrills you for inexplicable reasons. A thousand tiny hints show up to seduce you awake and lead you back into your true nature, but they flee when you try to grasp them and leave you wondering if you were just imagining things.
You weren’t though.
This quality of richness and balance and home is Who You Really Are. That is the kingdom we seek and it waits for us to find it. It wants us to regain our rightful place.”
― Jacob Nordby

“People interested in change and personal development need larger and larger environments in which to live. Their views expand. Their perspectives broaden. Their interests change. They seek bigger challenges. And they need people in their lives who will make room for their growth.”
― Steve Goodier

“A place . . . a time . . . where a man can live his life full measure.”
― Rod Serling, More Stories from the Twilight Zone

“i love watching what you become when life thinks it has you cornered.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Satan is a liar. He wants to steal our joy and replace it with hopelessness. When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God. Our chains will fall from us.
Meese encouraged me by reminding me of the real reason we have for fully living this life. It's to give everything we have to God--even the heartbreaks and pain. God is our reason to live.”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life

“The gift of deciding to face your mortality without turning away or flinching is the gift of recognizing that because you will die, you must live now. Whether you flounder or flourish is always in your hands—you are the single biggest influence in your life.
Your journey begins with a choice to get up, step out, and live fully.”
― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know for Sure

“People who think before they talk are somewhat adorable in an abhorrent way. They live half of everybody's full life. They kill themselves too soon, but they don’t let themselves be buried soon either. Morally happy rationally disturbed.”
― Rao Umar Javed

“Death is an inevitable part of life. We all know that we will one day leave this world, but we often forget how precious each moment is until it's too late.”
― Sam Izad, Snackable Existentialism: Small Portions, Big Ideas

“Life is not a series of tasks to be completed but a sacred dance to be savored, where every breath, every heartbeat, is an invitation to commune with the mystery of life.”
― Alma Camino

“On a global scale, the soulful path beckons us to expand our circle of compassion, to recognize the deep interconnectedness of all beings. As we grow in awareness of our own soul, we cannot help but feel the presence of other souls—human, animal, plant, and even the earth itself. We begin to see that the pain of the world is our pain, that the joy of others is our joy, and that the well-being of the planet is inextricably linked to our own. This awareness calls us to live with greater care, to honor the sacredness of all life, and to act in ways that nurture and protect the delicate web of life that sustains us all.”
― Alma Camino

“As we reflect on the life/death riddle we may be surprised at how many options it inspires. Rather than our freedom being curtailed by having just a year left, we uncover something quite unsuspected and satisfying. We discover how much more room we have for life and how many possibilities there are to be fully alive.”
― Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

“We cannot be truly alive without maintaining an awareness of death. Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment.”
― Frank Ostaseski, The Five Invitations : What the Living can Learn from the Dying

“In the stillness of your reflection, may you come to cherish the delicate and often unnoticed moments that shape you—the silent struggles, the small victories, the gentle surrender to what is and what will be. For it is in these spaces, where change is slow and almost imperceptible, that the deeper beauty of your spirit is forged. May you find the courage to embrace the uncertainty of these times, trusting that even in the midst of the unknown, you are held in the loving hands of a greater wisdom, guiding you toward the fullness of your being.”
― Alma Camino

“As you journey through the seasons of your life, may you be blessed with the vision to see beyond the immediate, to perceive the profound artistry of your unfolding. Just as the butterfly’s wings are painted with the story of its transformation, so too are you adorned with the beauty of your own becoming—a beauty born not only of the radiant moments of triumph but also of the quiet perseverance through life’s trials.”
― Alma Camino

“May you come to understand that your soul’s journey is a sacred pilgrimage, where every step, every challenge, every joy, and every sorrow is a necessary part of the whole. In this understanding, may you find peace with where you are, knowing that you are exactly where you need to be, and that each day brings you closer to the exquisite fullness of your true self.”
― Alma Camino

“In the midst of your daily life, may you learn to delight not only in the final form of your becoming but in the ongoing dance of transformation itself. May you savor the beauty of each stage, from the first spark of change to the graceful unfolding, knowing that within each moment lies the promise of something new and wondrous.”
― Alma Camino

“And so, as you move through your days, may you be continually reminded of the deep truth that the journey is the destination, and that within every stage of your life, there is a beauty that is both eternal and ever-new. May you be blessed with the grace to see this beauty, to honor it in yourself and others, and to live each day with the gentle wisdom that comes from knowing that you are a work of art in progress, a soul in the midst of its own sacred transformation.”
― Alma Camino

“To be or not to be? Is that really the question? Or should it be: To dance or not to dance?

Dancing is being in this quantum disco we call reality. So what does that make not dancing?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“That’s not how I remember it” is one of the most intimate sentences we can offer each other because it doesn’t argue so much as it exposes, quietly, almost awkwardly, the fact that memory is not a record but a private weather system, shaped by fear, love, shame, desire, by what we needed in order to survive the moment being recalled, and to say it is to step forward without armor and admit that your version of events lives inside your body, not in facts, that it arrives with its own smells and silences and omissions, that it may be inconvenient or unflattering or unbearably tender, and that you are willing to risk the loneliness of being misunderstood for the chance of being seen, because beneath the sentence is a deeper request: don’t correct me yet, don’t reduce this to accuracy, just sit with the knowledge that I was there too, that I felt something you did not, or felt it differently, and that the distance between our memories is not a failure of love but one of its most honest conditions.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker