Henry David Thoreau Quotes

It takes life to love life.

I'm not afraid to die. But I'm afraid to not live.

If you want to love your life more, you can begin by living and loving more of it - by zestfully living and loving every teeny-tiny, gorgeously-detailed minutiae moment!

Don’t just be yourself. Be all of yourselves. Don’t just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

The celebration of death is not a good thing. Fetishizing death isn't a good thing. You should be celebrating life and enjoying it and all that.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Well, the kind of central question: "Do you want to live - and I don't mean stay alive - do you want to feel your life while you're living it?" You know, there's somewhere to go that was here before we were and is going to be here after us, so get out there in it. It doesn't take somebody who's got some self-important sense of their own attachment to nature to recognise that you're just stupid if you don't go out there.

I pray that we will not wait until we are ready to die before we truly learn to live.

Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.

Being alive is so extraordinary I don’t know why people limit it to riches, pride, security—all of those things life is built on. People miss so much because they want money and comfort and pride, a house and a job to pay for the house. And they have to get a car. You can’t see anything from a car. It’s moving too fast. People take vacations. That’s their reward—the vacation. Why not the life?

Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be?

You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)

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

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

Your life is not a problem to be solved, but an adventure to be enjoyed. You are doing better than you think.

If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die.

I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.

You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives.

I think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it.

I love life, man, and I embrace every minute of it so maybe I bring that on the set. I love people and I want to have a good time.

Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.

It is essential to learn to enjoy life. It really does not make sense to go through the motions of existence if one does not appreciate as much of it as possible.