"And the purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. You can do that only if you have curiosity, and unquenchable spirit of adventure."
–– Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), American author, activist, diplomat, political figure, and First Lady. Quote from: You Learn by Living. 1960.
via: Commonplace Book 2024, 2025, p. 48.
"It is better to live rich than die rich."
–– Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English author
via: Commonplace Book 2024, 2025, p. 48.
"To work is to live without dying."
–– Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist
Source: Deborah Levy. Real Estate: A Living Autobiography. Toronto, ON: Hamish Hamilton Canada, 2021; p. 169.
via: Commonplace Book 2022, 2022, p. 96.
"Live your life and forget your age."
–– Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), American writer and minister
via: Sketchbook 33, 2023, p. 6.
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
–– Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD), Roman Emperor and Stoic Philosopher
via Sketchbook 28, 2015, p. 9.
"Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
–– Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist
via: Sketchbook 27, 2015, p. 76.
"Our concern must be to live while we're alive ... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are."
–– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004), Swiss-born American psychiatrist
via: Sketchbook 27, 2015, p. 142.
