Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life - a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy.
Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.
To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.
If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning
You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
She was a remarkable person and the love of my life. We were married for almost 70 years. She encouraged and sustained me and our four children, their families and many other people in a life full of engagement with Australians from all walks of life.
No matter how huge your loss, as long as you remain engaged with your life, the best days of your life may still be ahead of you. Don't misunderstand me: the pain of your loss will remain with you for the rest of your life. But great joy will be there right beside it. Deep sorrow and deep joy can exist within you, side by side. At every moment. And it's not confusing. And it's not a conflict.
In life, be a participant, not a spectator.
The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.
Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.
You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or you'll become empty.
Never bored, so I'll never get old
I just eat life... I engage in life.
I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.
After heart surgery you can go two ways, you can kind of get scared, shrink on to your sofa and keep yourself safe, or you can engage with life again. I probably was in danger of taking the first option.
I live and breathe every element in life.
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
Retiring from writing is not to retire from life.
I guess when all is said and done, if there is one last commentary on me, I would want it to be said that I participated in my life. I was a full participant.
I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.
I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank
People are either driven to action or complacency, mission or rust. You're either participating in the Game of Life or you're watching it from the grandstands.
I am a player in life, not an observer. I look at herpes the way you look at a scraped knee.
If you become more of a witness to the way you're engaging in life, you can catch yourself really screwing up some days!
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
