Life Quote by Epictetus

No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother,…

— Epictetus

I consider that all which lives must feed itself and nourish itself in a manner suitable to the way in which it lives.

— Giordano Bruno

Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but rather through…

— Anonymous

Life cannot be sustained if held on to: It must be given freely.

— John Bevere

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.”

— D.H. Lawrence

To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something [the Reality] beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it. In order…

— Frederic Bastiat

Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.

— Richard Wagner

To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living.

— Prudentius

Living is having and following a purpose. That's all.

— L. Ron Hubbard

While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it…

— John Dewey