best quotations about
Enjoy Life |
and Joie de Vie
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Quotations
 | I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. — Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Austrian philosopher 9 likes |
 | Remember to live. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 8 likes |
 | Judge your success by the degree that you're enjoying peace, health, and love. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 8 likes |
 | All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living. — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 7 likes |
 | The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 6 likes |
 | The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much. — William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic 6 likes |
 | You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough. — Frank Sinatra, 1915-1998, American singer 6 likes |
 | Life begins on the other side of despair. — Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, French philosopher 5 likes |
 | If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 5 likes |
 | But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer 5 likes |
 | That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. — Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish writer 5 likes |
 | Either get busy living or get busy dying. — Stephen King, 1947-, American author of horror & fantasy fiction 5 likes |
 | There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 4 likes |
 | When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pretty poor life. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
 | To be able to look back upon one’s life in satisfaction, is to live twice. — Khalil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese-American poet & philosopher 4 likes |
 | I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 3 likes |
 | The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. — Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist 3 likes |
 | The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. — Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, French writer 3 likes |
 | To live will be an awfully big adventure. — James Barrie, 1860-1937, English writer 3 likes |
 | In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 2 likes |
| The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 2 likes |
 | The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. |
 | Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs. |
 | The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. |
 | He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived. |
 | There are certain people to whom one must advise craziness. |
 | Death tugs at my ear and says, “Live. I am coming”. |
 | Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness. |
 | The spendthrift robs his heirs, the miser robs himself. |
 | You live but once; you might as well have fun. |
 | I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. |
 | Life becomes a delicious thing, as soon as you decide not to take it seriously anymore. |
 | The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses. |
 | Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. |
| A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it. |
 | The frantic desire to Live, to live at any cost, is not a result of the life rhythm in us, but of the death rhythm. |
| The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer (Tropic of Capricorn, 1939) |
 | It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret. |
 | Always expecting this and expecting that. May I recommend serenity to you? A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment. Learn to be one with the joy of the moment. |
 | The world is filled with interesting things to do. Don't lead a dull life in such a thrilling world. |
 | The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived. |
 | Believe me, the world won't give you any gifts. If you want to have a life, steal it. — Lou Andreas-Salomé, 1861-1937, Russian-German writer & psychoanalyst |
 | Seize the day, then let it go. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
| Drink freely the wine life offers you and don’t worry how much you spill. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
| Don't stare out the window; run through the fields. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun. |
| It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money. |
 | We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets. |
 | He that gains well and spends well needs no count book. |
 | Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive. |
| Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others. |
| I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. |
 | I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
 | The question is not how to get cured, but how to live. |
| We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. |
Latin Quotes
 | Remember to live. Vivere memento. — Sundial motto 176 likes |
 | While we live, let us live! Dum vivimus, vivamus! 78 likes |
| He lives twice who lives well. Bis vivit qui bene vivit. 34 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Enjoy the present smiling hour, And put it out of Fortune's power. 4 likes |
 | I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 2 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Fools live without enjoying life. Ανοήμονες βιούσι ού τερπόμενοι βιούν. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 29 likes |
| Fools desire longevity without enjoying longevity. Ανοήμονες δηναιότητος ορέγονται ου τερπόμενοι δηναιότητι. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 9 likes |
 | Indulge yourself, drink, consider the day-to-day life and leave the rest to chance. Εύφραινε σαυτόν, πίνε, τον καθ’ ημέραν βίον λογίζου σον, τα δ’ άλλα της τύχης. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Alcestis 8 likes |
 | If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. Ει εθέλοι κατεσπουδάσθαι αιεί μηδέ ες παιγνίην το μέρος εωυτόν ανιέναι, λάθοι αν ήτοι μανείς ή ό γε απόπληκτος γενόμενος. — Herodotus, 480-420 BC, Ancient Greek historian, the “ father of History” 7 likes |
