“May you live all the days of your life.” ~ Jonathan Swift It’s nice to leave that wiggle room instead of stating that you know all about what life is. There’s also that word maybe that says that he doesn’t really know, and none of us really know we’re all just taking our best guess. Could it really be that simple? There’s just no way to know, but the overall message here is that life is a beautiful thing, short but amazing and full of wonder. Leave it to Kerouac to put life into such pretty terms. “Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” ~ Jack Kerouac Only then will you be able to live the life that you’ve imagined and feel the most fulfilled. What Thoreau is saying here is that you have to boldly go where your dreams are leading you, without being afraid and far from that with a bit of confidence. You have the perfect life already imagined in your head, and surely there have been times when you’ve followed that path, and other times when you haven’t. It’s about daring to follow the direction your dreams have laid out for you. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” ~ Henry David Thoreauįrom the tome Walden comes this quote on living life to the fullest. Thoreau on Living the Life of Your Dreams There’s no standing still, so get busy living! 8. If you’ve been feeling stagnant or haven’t been branching out and evolving, now is the time. You always want to be pushing yourself and growing, moving into new areas, learning new things, and having new experiences. A flower is only growing or dying, and we’re the same way. But Stephen King gets the credit for penning these words years before in the novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. These words were muttered on screen by Andy Dufresne played by Tim Robbins in the film The Shawshank Redemption. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” ~ Stephen King Here Ghandi is pointing out that wherever you see love, you’re seeing life, and that is a very beautiful thing, and something to keep in mind the next time you see a touching scene, or live out a loving moment in your own life. Many books have been written about the power of love and how it is interwoven into life, and some have even stated that love and life are one and the same, they are the same energy. It’s easy to see the strong connection between life and love, and see how where there isn’t any love there isn’t any life. “Where there is love there is life.” ~ Mahatma Ghandi There’s something about the innate wisdom of the quote and the slow drawl delivered by Tom Hanks as Gump that resonates with people. It was just one of several quotes he attributed to his mother, but one of the most poignant, and a quote that spread through mainstream consciousness for years. Forrest offers a woman a chocolate while waiting for a bus, and tells her “My momma always said, ’Life was like a box of chocolates. Perhaps one of the most famous quotes about life came from the 1994 film Forrest Gump. You never know what you’re going to get.” ~ Forrest Gump When you make decisions and live your life out of a state of calm, good things are bound to happen. It does say a lot about life though, and how to simply keep calm and get on with your life rather than freaking out about the state of things. It was actually part of a campaign to keep the spirits of the British people up during wartime. This quote may not have come directly from Winston Churchill, but it’s often attributed to him, and seems like the sort of thing he’d say. “Keep calm and carry on.” ~ Winston Churchill Change the way you perceive what is happening and you can respond better and have better experiences. Don’t get into the mentality that life is against you and is only providing you things that are bad, you have to realize that you’ve gotten into the habit of making neutral things bad in your own mind and responding to them in a negative way. Life presents you with neutral experiences and it’s you that makes them positive and negative. This is an important quote to remember whenever that you think life is against you. “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” ~ Charles Swindoll Try not to make too many plans for the future today and take time to enjoy life. It’s amazing that one person can come up with so many good quotes, and have such a keen view of life that speaks to so many people, whether or not they’re fans of the Beatles. Lennon wrote so many poignant lyrics that he ends up on many of our quote lists here and on other quote sites. Lennon may not have been the first person to ever put these words together, but he’s the one that put the lyric in a song and now it’s one of the most popular quotes on love of all time. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” ~ John Lennon
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