Alfred de Vigny Quotes

When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.

My trade and art is to live.

I never thought I'd reach 21. I used to feel that was old, but growing old doesn't scare me anymore. I just want to have done something super special and have had someone to do it with.

Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.

Instead of just getting old and giving up and dying, let's learn to make a huge contribution to life.

At this age - I'm 44 - I think life's too short. I want it to mean something to me, if I'm going to spend that much time doing it.

I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, because the road's last turn will be the best.

What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

Being a mother has made my life complete.

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

For the first time in my life I actually feel sorry for Carol. I'm only seventeen years old, and I already know something she doesn't know: I know that life isn't life if you just float through it. I know that the whole point- the only point- is to find things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

Honestly, being a part of any worthy life story is a goal of mine.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

What lasting impact will I make on the world and those around me? What will I live my life for? How will I be remembered? I want to leave the world a better place than it was when I got here. I want to experience as much as I can in this very short life that we have.

Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive pattern upon them.

To have passion, to have a dream, to have a purpose in life. And there are three components to that purpose, one is to find out who you really are, to discover God, the second is to serve other human beings, because we are here to do that and the third is to express your unique talents and when you are expressing your unique talents you lose track of time.

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