Life Well-Lived Quotes

The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it.

One of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was a safe bet that he felt that way about himself. Like most twice-widowed, Korea-vet, nature-loving, gun-enthusiast, bilingual, weed-connoisseur great grandfathers of five, he'd lived a full life.

[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places.

The dignity to be sought in death is the appreciation by others of what one has been in life,... that proceeds from a life well lived and from the acceptance of one's own death as a necessary process of nature.... It is also the recognition that the real event taking place at the end of our life is our death, not the attempts to prevent it.

i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live

At 99 and after a long stay in a nursing home, the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold was hardly a surprise - though she may have been just a little annoyed to quit a few months short of 100.

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

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

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.

Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.

A life in pursuit of position or power is not a life well-lived or in service to others.

I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I've had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.

I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.'

and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.

What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she lived her life. She moved through the world with unshakable calm, confidence and a fierce grace.