Living Well Quotes

“I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they have to in order to stay alive. The bigger the job, the greater the challenge, the more wonderful they think it is. It would be good to give up that way of thinking and live an easy, comfortable life with plenty of free time. I think that the way animals live in the tropics, stepping outside in the morning and evening to see if there is something to eat, and taking a long nap in the afternoon, must be a wonderful life. For human beings, a life of such simplicity would be possible if one worked to produce directly his daily necessities. In such a life, work is not work as people generally think of it, but simply doing what needs to be done.”
― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

“THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINS


Laugh, I tell you
And you will turn back
The hands of time.

Smile, I tell you
And you will reflect
The face of the divine.

Sing, I tell you
And all the angels will sing with you!

Cry, I tell you
And the reflections found in your pool of tears -
Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterday
To guide you through the fears of tomorrow.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.”
― MONTAIGNE

“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
― Voltaire

“When we understand people;
when we understand situations;
when we understand what matters;
when we understand the why’s, the what’s and the how’s;
when we understand the trigger of actions, we least inflict pain on ourselves and unto others.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“To live well is to live without answers”
― Abhaidev, The Meaninglessness of Meaning

“You start to live when you commit your life to cause higher than yourself. You must learn to depend on divine power for the fulfillment of a higher calling.”
― Lailah GiftyAkita

“You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value."--Nimit in "Thailand”
― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

“Living well is not merely choosing lightness or weightiness but holding them skillfully in tension. Let us sustain what is meaningful, and release what is deadening, and let us walk the tightrope of life with both grace and groundedness. (“The unbearable heaviness of being")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.”
― David Joseph Schwartz

“THE GOOD LIFE requires that we take pleasure in new things; A GOOD LIFE requires that we take pleasure in moments.

To enjoy THE GOOD LIFE we have to get ahead; to enjoy A GOOD LIFE we have to make the trip worthwhile.

THE GOOD LIFE is supported by feeding our pocketbooks; A GOOD LIFE is supported by feeding our souls.”
― Steve Goodier

“If you can't change your mind, you can't change anything.”
― Orna Ross, After The Rising

“You can’t be beaten by something you laugh at.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Freak

“While grief is not fun to deal with, it is a valuable tool to bring about amazing change and growth. The key to this deep level of learning is attitude. How will you respond to the pain you’re feeling?
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― Diamante Lavendar, Finding Hope in the Darkness of Grief: Spiritual Insights Expressed Through Art, Poetry and Prose

“A Brand New Day


Yesterday was beautiful you did
everything at your best.
Yesterday was fair whatever happened
was acceptable.
Yesterday was miserable nothing going your way.
Yesterday was unfortunate
you couldn’t afford to waste another day.
Yesterday was history everything was history,
but you can work on the fate of yours today.


Today is a brand new day,
an opportunity for everything,
another chance to make it better,
another day to live for you and love ones,
another moment to create special moment
making historical moment.


The day you have today is a perfect day,
Living the life with every opportunity,
every chance, every moment to live.
Having today you are free to live.
Living is what you have been given today.
Go live.

by Tina Leung: I Face Forward poem”
― Tina Leung, I Face Forward

“We put terrible pressure on our minds. When we tighten them or harden our views or beliefs, we lose all the softness and flexibility that makes for real shelter, belonging, and protection.”
― John O'Donohue, Anam Cara [Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition]: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

“June: National PTSD Awareness Month

Suicide is an axe to a tree,
a commitment to a delusional freedom,
that you have not yet learned to be freed.

Living is a passage to an endless potential of tomorrow
that your worth is not bounded by the society's narrow values,
but you strike with the principles
that preserve your worthiness
to find your pathway to meet
the ultimate goal of happiness.” June 2023 by Tina Leung”
― Tina Leung, I Face Forward

“The month of June:
National PTSD Awareness Month

Suicide is as an axe to a tree,
a commitment to a delusional freedom,
that you have not yet learned to be freed,
when indeed you can set yourself free
by doing little or as much as needed
to care for you in the state of hopelessness,
and when you are one of the seeds
prematurely fell from the tree
that you need to find your ground
to grow among the forest.

Living is a passage to an endless potential of tomorrow
that your worth is not bounded by the society’s narrow values,
but you strike with the principles that preserve your worthiness
to find your pathway to meet the ultimate goal of happiness.
by Tina Leung June 2023”
― Tina Leung, I Face Forward

“Creating a Safe Space


Surround yourself with all the positive things,
being in the environment that embraces you.
Doing the things to create peace.
Doing the things to allow you to have peace.
Doing the things that are
good for you.
good for others,
good for nature,
good for all.
Being with those who grant you peace.
Being with supportive people who
want you to be safe and well.
A safe space is a free space
to share with all those who care.

by Tina Leung: I Face Forward poem”
― Tina Leung, I Face Forward

“Do you love life? After all, it’s giving you a chance to work and play and gaze at the stars. Be glad. Enjoy! Learn to love it...and let it love you back.”
― Steve Goodier

“I know you'll keep going forward, Quinlan- even if it sucks.'

'What makes you so sure of it?'

His feet were silent as he crossed the kitchen. She tipped back her head to hold his stare. 'Because you pretend to be irreverent and lazy, but deep down, you don't give up. Because you know that if you do, then they win. All the asp-holes, as you called them, win. So living, and living well- it's the greatest fuck you that you can ever give them.'

'That's why you're still fighting.'

He ran a hand ver the tattoo on his brow. 'Yes.'

She let out a hmm, stirring the mixture in the pain again. 'Well then, Athalar. I guess it'll be you and me in the trenches for a while longer.'

He smiled at her, more openly than he'd dared do with anyone in a long while. 'You know,' he said, 'I think I like the sound of that.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“Life comes to us unbridled; shall we hide?
Or will we, through the pleasure and the pain,
embrace the greatest heights we can attain
and smile upon the world with hearts flung wide?”
― Susan Noyes Anderson, His Children

“A bad life is one that begins at the end.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“The task is to live well enough with you.”
― Charif Shanahan

“Avoid living a life where you're dead.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Either you make them kill you or kill themselves, but you don't let them live and I call it as relationship.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“A long time ago in a physics class we did an experiment where you take a small spring and put it on a hook and measure its length. You hang a little weight on it and watch it stretch. Then you take the weight off and the spring returns to where it was before, ready for the next weight, which is heavier. And you repeat this process, the weight a little heavier each time and the spring stretches further, returning each time to its original length until suddenly it doesn’t. And that is its elastic limit… we all have an elastic limit and many of us find it by reaching it… But we can watch for signs in ourselves that we are approaching that limit – bad behaviour or tears, impulsivity or poor sleep, or being overwhelmed by small things… and when we recognise those signs we need to take some weight off that spring. Pg 226-7”
― Lucy Pollock, The Golden Rule: Lessons in living from a doctor of ageing

“I have learned words with which to challenge prejudice without escalating bad behaviour. I have been taught that asking “Did I miss something?” is one way to draw attention to an underhand comment. Even better, it can be a powerful move simply to ask the perpetrator, “Are you OK?” pg236-7”
― Lucy Pollock, The Golden Rule: A Compassionate Guide to Ageing Well, Caring for Loved Ones and Living Later Life with Confidence

“Three things for when you’re feeling down: Do something for yourself. Do something for someone else. Go outside. Pg 279”
― Lucy Pollock, The Golden Rule: Lessons in living from a doctor of ageing