#living

Our fictions move us to do great things, things worth doing for no better reason than there's poetry in us. We dream before we do. ↗

— Bill Willingham

#dreams

A good motto to live by: "Always try not to get killed. ↗

— George Carlin

#kill

It is not about knowing, but about living. ↗

— Victor Manuel Rivera

#freedom #leadership #freedom

It's like I get into a roller coaster, and sit there while it goes up and down and upside down and sometimes I get thrown out and I hit my head, but I crawl back in again and the moment I'm back in, it just keeps on going and going again...all of this, so I can find things out and then I write about the things I find out so you can find them out from me. All the bruises, all the wounds, all the bumps on the head, all the scars, just so I can take that and I can write all these things, and sometimes I say "God, I don't want to be in this roller coaster anymore." But when I think about it, if I'm not right here, then where the hell would I be? On the sidewalk? I wasn't born to stand on the sidewalk, I was born to fly around crazy in the sky! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#life #life-and-living #life-experience #my-life #roller-coaster

Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Instead, shake things up today! Live through today. Don’t just exist through it - LIVE through it! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#choice #existing #inspirational #living #motivational

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#believe #concerns #give #i #influences

Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#everything #great #how #knees #legs

...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths... ↗

— John Geddes

#poetry #reflection #sleep #truth-of-life #truths

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already? ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#the-present #life

The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#living-in-the-present #transcience #beauty