Lauren Oliver Quotes

If you're not doing something with your life, then it doesn’t matter how long you live. If you're doing something with your life, then it doesn't matter how short your life may be. A life is not measured by years lived, but by its usefulness. If you are giving, loving, serving, helping, encouraging, and adding value to others, then you're living a life that counts!

A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.

When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.

Because of the enormous responsibility, diabetic kids tend to grow up to be the most mature, most realistic people who have a natural desire to reach outside of themselves.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

I choose to live, not just exist.

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

I've always known there's more to life than just racing for a long time.

You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.

Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of person they've made me into. I'm very open, not as judgmental as I was in my twenties, and a lot more compassionate.

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

I intend to live life, not just exist.

We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life.

I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.

Death is promised. So what do you do with your life? How do you make the most of it? How do you make your voice the loudest?

I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

Life is a mission, not a career.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~