Julia Roberts Quotes

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

In life, be a participant, not a spectator.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.

I am a player in life, not an observer. I look at herpes the way you look at a scraped knee.

Life isn't life if you just float through it.

To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.

The thing is I never want to be an observer, it's only in retrospect that I wish I had observed.

Dear young people, please, don’t be observers of life, but get involved. Jesus did not remain an observer, but he immersed himself. Don’t be observers, but immerse yourself in the reality of life, as Jesus did.

Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.

I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.

I just eat life... I engage in life.

The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career.

Live your life to the fullest.

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.

When it's over I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real.

Life is not a spectator sport.

... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or nature a death, but nature will collect anyway, and we certainly owe mediocrity nothing, whatever collectivity it purports to advance or at least represent.

None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.

Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he did be themselves Life. And not merely a delightful exercise of technical skill which man had been able to achieve because he, of all the animals, had a fine thumb. Which is nonsense, for whatever you live is Life.

I love life and people, so I guess I want to help anyone I can live the fullest, most wonderful life possible.

You only live once, and I just don’t want to waste a minute of my life.