Live Life Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 20, 2024
‘Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.’ – Matt Cameron
‘Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life.’ – Tyler, The Creator
‘Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.’ – Alan Alda
‘The whole point is to live life and be – to use all the colors in the crayon box.’ – RuPaul
‘You only get one shot at life, one life to live, make the most out of it put as many smiles as you can on people’s faces, help as many people as you can, get you some paper. Live life, you and your folks.’ – Young Dolph
‘I intend to live life, not just exist.’ – George Takei
‘Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain!’ – Louis Tomlinson
‘Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.’ – Pope Paul VI
‘I respect all religions, but I’m not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the right way, respecting other people. I wasn’t brought up in a religious way, but I believe there’s something out there that looks after you.’ – David Beckham
‘Life changes on a dime, so live life to the fullest.’ – Max Holloway
‘Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.’ – Hugh Prather
‘Be free, and live life fully.’ – Caroline Shaw
‘Financial independence is paramount. My mom always says that when a woman is financially independent, she has the ability to live life on her own terms. I think that was the soundest advice that I ever got. No matter where you go in life or who you get married to, you have to be financially independent – whether you use it or not.’ – Priyanka Chopra
‘I live life without limits and I will go after anything I want with no hesitation.’ – Liv Morgan
‘Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.’ – Ann Landers
‘Those who want to look more youthful should live life with a young heart.’ – Jin
‘It takes some balls to live life to the fullest.’ – Brock Lesnar
‘I don’t wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.’ – Gene Simmons
‘Live life and enjoy it. That’s the real key to beauty!’ – Michelle Visage
‘As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you!’ – Victoria Osteen
‘Hey, I live life by the moment. I have no regrets. I live it to the fullest. I have made a lot of mistakes in my life and I’m learning from them. I’m ‘The Situation.” – Michael Sorrentino
‘I don’t want a perfect life, I don’t want an easy life, I want to live life to the fullest. To me that feels like conquering as many things as possible.’ – Tobin Heath
‘We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.’ – Les Brown
”Carpe Diem’ is a phrase that I try to embrace. It means seize the day, to make the most of the present and to give little thought to the past or future. In the time that I have here, I want to love and live life to the fullest while being a positive influence on others. And I want a full life for everyone.’ – Matt Czuchry
‘When you realize you’re alive, you can live life!’ – Chad Michael Murray
‘The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.’ – Miriam Defensor-Santiago
‘Prince didn’t want to celebrate birthdays but to live life, to elevate and educate to the next level of enlightenment.’ – Mayte Garcia
‘Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.’ – Nick Carter
‘You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn’t mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that’s what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.’ – Werner Herzog
‘Live life to the fullest no matter what.’ – Victoria Arlen
‘They always say, ‘Time heals.’ But it really doesn’t. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of ‘OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.’ So going forward, anything bad that happens can’t be nearly as bad as what happened before.’ – Paris Jackson
‘I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That’s the only way you can be genuinely happy.’ – Tucker Max
‘It’s in the nature of Italians to live life with a positive tone and to celebrate the invitations that come along in life. Italian food is so conducive to all of that.’ – Lidia Bastianich
‘You have to live life to its full chorizo.’ – Mario Batali
‘Somewhere there’s a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.’ – Bill Murray
‘I’m just going to go live life. I’m going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.’ – Caitlyn Jenner
‘Live life intensely – I’ve always believed in that.’ – Stephen A. Schwarzman
‘We live life in restaurants, its the center of social life, where we celebrate with family and friends, make new friends, travel without traveling, and of course, eat.’ – Philip Rosenthal
”Darkness’ is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.’ – Taylor Momsen
‘For me, keeping it simple is the best way to live life, to not complicate things, to sort of keep things in perspective.’ – Malcolm Brogdon
‘You’ve got to live life to write a book about it.’ – Andy Williams
‘Usually, I’m only sad when something sad happens. I am not a melancholic person. I like to live very much in the present. If I was an animal, I’d be a little cat. They like to live life.’ – Monica Bellucci
‘People will always have an opinion, but you have to live life the way you want to. It’s very easy to tell others what to do, but difficult to implement it on yourself.’ – Preity Zinta
‘I never make a distinction between private life and politics – that’s a petit bourgeois thing. How can you make a stand against Nazi Germany, or in Rwanda, when you live life by making that distinction?’ – Marcel Ophuls
‘I just live life. I grew up in a Christian family, but, you know, the way Mom brought me up is to, you know, do you, to always be yourself.’ – Tyler, The Creator
‘Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me.’ – Willie Mays
‘Of course making money and being able to live life the way one desires is important.’ – Chinmayi
‘You have to live life to the fullest. I don’t want to slow down. I want the giving to be stepped up. So the older I get, the less I will be involved in the business side, the more in the philanthropic side.’ – Jorge M. Perez
‘I don’t think it’s any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and ‘manned up’ in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I’m not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.’ – Jimmy Carr
‘I don’t live life with a ton of regrets.’ – Eric Garcetti
‘I’m undeniably myself, and I think realizing that is the way to live life.’ – Colton Underwood
‘I used to choose friends based on similarity in age and life stage, but I’ve learned that those were the wrong criteria. Trying to live life exclusively alongside others our own age is like attempting to climb Mt. Everest without a Sherpa. It’s a little dangerous.’ – Glennon Doyle Melton
‘To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.’ – Gaston Bachelard
‘The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.’ – James Heckman
‘I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I live, therefore I make home movies.’ – Jonas Mekas
‘I’m the kind of person who just can’t wait to get on a train and not know where I’m going. I definitely want to live life to the fullest. And that’s the type of man I’m attracted to – somebody with that spontaneous spirit.’ – Summer Altice
‘I have to take care of myself in order to live life the way I want to. It’s important to have rest days. But in the long run, if I don’t work out for, like, three days, I feel worse, not better.’ – Kerry Washington
‘Even as we get older, we get in these routines – and routines are nice and comfortable – but I think that it’s important to live life to its fullest and try different things. Because you never know what you’re going to learn. You might not like it, you might like it.’ – Masi Oka
‘There’s people who live life authentically and there’s people who live a life of fabrication. And it begins with the question of how you’re gonna do your time. And these are observations I made about Folsom when I was there with Dustin Hoffman when he was directing ‘Straight Time.” – Michael Mann
‘I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don’t live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.’ – Criss Angel
‘The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me – and I love to live life at full throttle.’ – Janice Dickinson
‘I live life like it’s a role-playing game.’ – Brock Pierce
‘I do want to live life king size, yes. But I also want to spend a lot on my children and give them happiness and security.’ – Suniel Shetty
‘Being a runner means you are now ‘free’ to win and lose and live life to its fullest.’ – Bill Rodgers
‘And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something.’ – John Frusciante
‘We’re actually doing something scripted that’s totally, you know, we kind of know what’s going on, however, we’re having to live life and death as the art.’ – Josh Holloway
‘I’m making the statement that we should all live life and have a laugh. Nakedness is a thing where people take notice. If you do it in the right way, people laugh.’ – Mark Roberts
‘Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do – every 24 frames of a second.’ – Darren Aronofsky
‘You can stay in therapy your whole life, but you’ve got to live life and not talk about life.’ – Tracey Gold
‘How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing.’ – Christian Slater
‘I’ve never seen the Osbournes, I’ve never seen Paris Hilton. I’d rather read than watch reality TV. I’d rather live life than watch somebody else living it.’ – Al Jourgensen
‘We explore astronomical life through medicate experience, and we live life through love and ardvarks.’ – Isabel Yosito
‘I think my mother… made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.’ – Caroline Kennedy
‘If you don’t take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?’ – Naveen Andrews
‘I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.’ – Jeff Daniels
‘I’ve always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I’ve had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.’ – Jeremy Paxman
‘When I was heavier, I danced and I jumped out of planes. I’ve always rejected the idea that there’s a certain look or size that makes it acceptable to live life.’ – Kathy Najimy
‘You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there’s no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you’ve got.’ – David Miliband
‘I’m going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I’m a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can’t live life that way, man!’ – Donny Osmond
‘See, the ‘On the Road’ that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – ‘You must live life this way’ – and these guys were bored.’ – Garrett Hedlund
‘I didn’t understand how you could be an actor if you didn’t also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.’ – Brit Marling
‘If I’m dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.’ – Lacey Schwimmer
‘You can’t write about stuff you don’t know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.’ – Dierks Bentley
‘I live life what I consider to be normal.’ – Vijay Mallya
‘Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.’ – Will Self
‘You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don’t work out in life, they work out on stage.’ – Gabriel Iglesias
‘There are times when I have to take, I call it a ‘silence bath,’ where I shut off all of the external gadgets. I go walk around, talk to people, and just live life for a while.’ – Patton Oswalt
‘It’s not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.’ – Jada Pinkett Smith
‘Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?’ – Zainab Salbi
‘I’m not a model, I’m an artist. In one of my videos, I’m doing this shot of me with no make-up on where I’ve just woken up, and I don’t think a lot of people would be comfortable enough to do that. But that’s the way I look. This is who I am. Let’s enjoy it. Let’s just live life to the full while we’re all here.’ – Jessie J
‘I want young people to know that they can belong – whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality – that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are.’ – Jessie J
‘We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?’ – Rita Mae Brown
‘I don’t believe in a personal god. It’s good to give thanks, whether or not there’s a god. There’s no reason not to live life to the fullest. Morality is all the more important for people who don’t expect to get a piece of celestial candy after they die.’ – William T. Vollmann
‘Just live life. That’s the best way to learn how to act. Just live.’ – Rory Culkin
‘I don’t want to live life too cautiously. I mean, you can step off a curb and twist your ankle.’ – Rickie Fowler
‘We had idyllic summer holidays, building sandcastles with my father on the beach at Bridlington. It might sound strange, but I think that secure cocoon of familial love was so nourishing, it gave me the strength to live life on my own.’ – Kiki Dee
‘I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life’s terms.’ – Robert Downey, Jr.
‘People who are scared don’t live life.’ – ASAP Ferg
‘My work is therapeutic: ‘Monster’s Ball,’ ‘Woodsman’ and ‘Shadowboxer,’ because I don’t go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films.’ – Lee Daniels
‘I try to think of it not as writer’s block, but a time where you just need to live life and experience things so you have something to write about.’ – Kaui Hart Hemmings
‘I like to stay happy, and I like to live life light and make the best of life.’ – Ciara
‘I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you’re going to mess around and touch somebody’s heart, and they’ll relate to you and what you’re singing about.’ – R. Kelly
‘Do you want to live life, or do you want to escape life?’ – Macklemore
‘I won’t play past 30. Why? I want to – I don’t know – start a family, live life.’ – Eugenie Bouchard
‘People look at my tattoos, and the majority of them are religious images, so people think, ‘Oh, he must be very religious’. I respect all religions, but I’m not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the right way, respecting other people.’ – David Beckham
‘It stayed with me – the Bible has stayed with me. I’ve grown out of it because, obviously, you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.’ – Benjamin Clementine
‘Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.’ – Daniel Barenboim
‘My father is a genuinely nice guy and very generous to anybody and everybody. He likes to live life kingsize, and he doesn’t know any other way, and I love that about him.’ – Arjun Kapoor
‘If you look at the beginning of children’s entertainment in literature, the first books that were written for kids were cautionary tales. They were books that were there to teach kids about growing up and how to live life.’ – Lee Unkrich
‘I like to live life and not work every second of the day, and spend time with my family and stuff like that. Balance is very important for me.’ – Greg Kurstin
‘The most important and common thing is to be able to connect with your fans. If you can’t live life, then you can’t connect with the fans.’ – BJ the Chicago Kid
‘God invented love, and it is therefore perfect, and dogs are better at celebrating this perfection than we are. When in doubt as to how we should feel, we could do far worse than trying to live life like the dogs.’ – W. Bruce Cameron
‘You need to live life to be able to have something to draw from.’ – Sissy Spacek
‘When you live life like The Nature Boy, there are some monumental highs and, sadly, some unbelievable lows. No matter what happens in his life, he always comes back bigger and better than any of us can even imagine.’ – Dolph Ziggler
‘I always do what makes me happy – it doesn’t make sense to live life unhappily.’ – Bibi Bourelly
‘More choice doesn’t make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life.’ – Naomi Alderman
‘We can all tend to get caught up in the complications of life that we create; we live life for other people. It’s a harrowing moment when you’re confronted with an end, and you have to make the choice to live your life for you.’ – Elliot Knight
‘There are some people who don’t want to deal with the fact that we are not forever. Some people decide to live life to the fullest.’ – Tessa Thompson
‘I think I’ve been lucky enough not to have to do movie after movie after movie for financial reasons, so I’ve been able to live life and also make movies. I didn’t have to grind them out. I could go long periods where I was living life rather than tripping over cables.’ – Warren Beatty
‘I achieved my personal dream and completed my transition to be able to live life as a woman.’ – Andreja Pejic
‘I function, I live life as a Christian, and me living life as a Christian doesn’t mean I’m a sanitized person. It means that I readily admit I’m a jacked up person, and I need a savior.’ – Lecrae
‘I want to record, tour, and just live life.’ – Lizz Wright
‘You have to live life for today and for this moment.’ – Kurt Warner
‘All the family gatherings, I’m too tired, or I can’t because it conflicts with work… I have seven grandkids. I’ve been missing recitals and graduations. To me, it’s just not worth it. There is a better way to live life.’ – Damon Wayans
‘I’m not sitting around, waiting for something to run across the Internet so I can go, ‘Oh, that’s what I’mma write about.’ I just go around, live life, make music, and it’s epic.’ – Russ
‘For me, I try to live life every day by getting to know people for who they are and learning from them.’ – Abby Huntsman
‘I felt this during the first few months of my motherhood. You lose who you are – you lose your identity – because when your baby comes, you give, give, give, and no one gives back, and you just wonder, ‘Who am I?’ ‘What am I?’ ‘How do I live life now?’ It’s all for this baby.’ – Brie Bella
‘It’s kind of an unwritten law, I think, being – carrying the name – George Bush. At times I ask myself, ‘Am I going to be able to live life the way I want to?’ I’m cautious about doing certain things.’ – George P. Bush
‘When I was younger, I had a different disposition as far as how I wanted to live life.’ – Stephon Marbury
‘Acting is kind of an escape. You get to live life as someone else, and when you’re living this life as someone else, you don’t really have time to think about your own life.’ – Diana Silvers
‘You have just got to live life and let others live.’ – Sourav Ganguly
‘I like to live life in a way that I understand, it’s satisfying. I understand you have to reach a mark where everyone likes you but in reality they don’t like you, they like your work.’ – Raftaar
‘Islam really brought a discipline to my life that I didn’t really have before. My old mindset was if they ain’t helping me, I ain’t helping them, but you can’t live life that way.’ – Dave East
‘I think I live life really spontaneously. That drives people crazy.’ – Rosanna Arquette
‘Our democratic culture does not prioritise protecting an individual’s right to live life her way, especially if that is not our way or the way of the community.’ – Abhijit Banerjee
‘I’m here to make people feel like they can release stress, have a good time, be positive and live life.’ – Lil Jon
‘I’m trying to live life like a normal person.’ – Nick Diaz
‘I just live life and I do not think about what will happen.’ – Teemu Pukki
‘Well, for me, I grew up in the Carolinas, and it’s our mythology. Those are the characters that we learn about how to live life and moral lessons. It wasn’t Zeus and Athena. It was Job and Jesus.’ – Samuel Ervin Beam
‘We live life in the present.’ – Ravi Shastri
‘When suddenly your focus changes, you see the years going by and it’s an extra reminder that you don’t want to live life with any regrets.’ – Ben Fogle
‘Live life to make an honest difference.’ – Ivory
‘I would like to give one message: Live life light with a smile.’ – Suhasini Maniratnam
‘If you want to be happy you need to think of yourself as a container of energy. There is a universal energy, yes of course, it embraces us. When you appreciate this, life becomes a lot more exciting. You don’t live life, life lives you.’ – Noel Edmonds
‘Listen – we party, we have fun, we live life to the fullest. But we’re also professional, we also wake up every day and stay on time for our meetings and we also have a structure and a certain structure and a certain substance behind the brand. It’s not just luck.’ – Ray J
‘Live life before making movies, because you cannot make films about life, without having lived one.’ – Takashi Miike
‘I live life to the fullest each and everyday.’ – Kim Zolciak-Biermann
‘One thing I can tell you: with the threat of death hanging over you, you live life to the fullest.’ – Bill Browder
‘Don’t spend your time dreaming, live life now.’ – Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
‘For me, normal means freedom to live life as we choose, from cramming into packed planes to go on holiday to crowding into pubs for birthday parties.’ – Claire Fox
‘I want to live life, not just spend it.’ – Saba Qamar
‘I pray for everybody throughout the game, even my opponents. Outside of the game, we still have to live life, still have to lead normal lives, and we still need our bodies.’ – Marquise Goodwin
‘Temoya is a place that’s isolated from everyone. You can only concentrate on your training there. There are no distractions. You live life in a very different way. There, you learn to value life, to appreciate the things you have.’ – Julio Cesar Chavez Sr.
‘My philosophy is live life so you won’t mind talking about it.’ – Pooja Bedi
‘I just love country. It just felt like that’s the place to go and live life.’ – Aaron Pedersen
‘Old people can make me cry. I worry about getting old, and old people inspire me to live life to the full.’ – Gethin Jones
‘If I was to live life again, I wouldnt make any changes.’ – Robson Green
‘I don’t think I’ve ever been just like, happy with life. I live life as a realist.’ – Too Short
‘I am 75, but I’m younger than he was when he died because I didn’t live life as hard as he did.’ – Jack Hemingway
‘You got to live life.’ – Chase Elliott
‘If you sit in a box all the time and don’t do anything fun and don’t live life, you’re probably not going to do yourself any good. I refuse to be that way.’ – Chase Elliott
‘I’m trying to live life and drive racecars and be good at what I can be good at.’ – Chase Elliott
‘I want to be healthy and live life as best as I can.’ – Sammi Giancola
‘I’ve always eaten out a lot as I live life on the road, so I never conceived of eating anything healthy.’ – Gregg Wallace
‘I certainly do like to live life on my own terms. It would be great to live in a world where women get the respect and support that my family has given me to make my own choices.’ – Lisa Haydon
‘For me, it has always been a case of live life as it comes.’ – KK
‘I think what we have to do, I firmly believe as a man of faith that we’re meant to live life in community.’ – Matthew Slater
‘I live life. I experience things. I go through ups and downs, and so I express them creatively and artistically.’ – Sky Blu