I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.
Go back. Go back in time. Everyone's life is a chain of memories. In each chain there are shining links, happenings where this element of wonder. . . was very strong. Why don't you reach out and relive some of those memories? If you work at it, remembering the wonder can revive your ability to live life as it should be lived.
I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Italy is still very much the same place it was 2,000 years ago. Italians are still the same. . there's a sense of beauty and a sense of dignity and a sense of living life to the full that infects everyone.
Attachment brings misery, unattachment brings blissfulness. So use things, but don't be used by them. Live life but don't be lived by it. Possess things, but don't be possessed by them. Have things - that's not a problem. I am not for renunciation. Enjoy everything that life gives, but always remain free.
You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.
If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't mind being completely insane.
The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it.
Because the life that I live - the life that we all live - is filtered through [one's own] experience. It isn't necessarily optimistic when you look at the political phenomena, the different things that are going on in the world.
I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card - the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it.
Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully.
It is important that you get clear for yourself that your only access to impacting life is action. The world does not care what you intend, how committed you are, how you feel or what you think, and certainly it has no interest in what you want and don't want. Take a look at life as it is lived and see for yourself that the world only moves for you when you act.
Live the life you're living and try and stay who you are
The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
We do not live so that we can eat, nor do we just eat so that we can live. Life is worth living in and of itself. Life cannot be satisfied when it is lived out as a consuming entity. When it is filled by that which satisfies a hunger that is both physical and spiritual in a mutuality that sustains both without violation of either, only then can life be truly fulfilling.
If young people do see me as an example (I'm very flattered if they do!) I hope it is as someone who will go out there and live life to the full.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
I'm always doing things that scare me, because I feel like that's how you should live life. If I'm terrified - and I'm often terrified - then I should be doing that. Like trapeze class, or singing in front of 5,000 people.
Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved.