1055 – “There are two basic motivating forces: Fear and Love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”

-John Lennon [Attributed]

1024 – “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.”

-Robin Sharma

906 – “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

-Edward Abbey

881 – “Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I shd. say, ‘sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.'”

–C S Lewis

879 – “My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.”

–Cary Grant

830 – “The United States can not hope to make a prosperous living without a strong manufacturing sector. The broader point, however, is that a nation must deliberately and constantly invest in its means of making a living. Nations that ‘[let] the free market decide’ what they should do for a living decline to the bottom of the economic food chain.”

–Demond Drummer

818 – “An Individual has not started living fully until they can rise above the narrow confines of individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of humanity. Every person must decide at some point, whether they will walk in light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment: Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?'”

–Martin Luther King, Jr

739 – “We have a genetic kinship with all life on Earth, an atomic kinship to all matter in the cosmos. So when I look at the Universe, I feel large, because I remind myself that not only are we living in this Universe, the Universe is living within us.”

–Neil deGrasse Tyson

489 – “I’ve learned the making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life. I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.”

–Maya Angelou

434 – “I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.”

–Anaïs Nin [Significant Paraphrasing, See Source Notes]