Max Stirner Quotes

Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.

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

If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun.

My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice.

It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.

Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? ...If we are not in [this present millisecond of life and conscious experience], we are not alive; we are merely thinking our lives. Yet we have seen so many die, looking back over their shoulders at their lives, shaking their heads and muttering in bewilderment, "What was that all about?"

No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.

It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting for, but some of us sometimes persist in waiting so long that life slips by - finding us still waiting for something that has been going on all the time. . . . This is the life in which the work of this life is to be done. Today is as much a part of eternity as any day a thousand years ago or as will be any day a thousand years hence. This is it, whether we are thrilled or disappointed, busy or bored! This is life, and it is passing.

I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.

I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

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

What ever your doing right now, whatever your thinking, or worrying about. stop. take a huge breathe in, and just enjoy being alive.

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

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.

The purpose of dancing isn't to end up at a particular spot on the floor. The purpose of dancing - and of life - is to enjoy every moment and every step, regardless of where you are when the music ends.

We approach life not just to be able to think about it and talk about it and discover its truths, but also to enjoy it. And so a healthy life really isn't about abstinence or asceticism, it's about enjoying your time on this earth.

Life is so short, so beautiful. Don't be so serious about work. Enjoy the lives.

The truth is I'm not good at enjoying life.

I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.

I do enjoy life, I really do. Especially if I wake up the next day.

What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.

If you spend your life thinking, "I wonder if today is when it ends," you're going to miss out on everything wonderful.