living passionately Quotes

Only if I am going to die, I should prefer to die as I have lived, drunkenly.

Life should be lived to the point of tears

A witnessing consciousness lives in life but with tremendous non-attachment, with great non-possessiveness; it possesses nothing. It lives totally, it lives passionately, but still knowing that I don't possess anything.

The man who has lived his life totally, intensely, passionately, without any fear - without any fear that has been created in you by the priests for centuries and centuries - if a person lives his life without any fear, authentically, spontaneously, death will not create any fear in him, not at all. In fact, death will come as a great rest. Death will come as the ultimate flowering of life. He will be able to enjoy death too; he will be able to celebrate death too.

Life is given us as a passion.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?

What the world need is people who have come alive.

We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.

We’re not always going to be here. Live life to the full, with purpose & passion, pursuing your dreams.

I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.

To taste fully is to live fully. And to live fully is to be awake and responsive to complexities and truths - good and terrible, overwhelming and miniscule. To eat passionately is to allow the world in; there can be no hiding or sublimation when you're chewing a mouthful of food so good it makes you swoon.

One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

Those who live passionately teach us how to love. Those who love passionately teach us how to live.

If you choose to do things that you are passionate about, you will not only do them better, but most importantly, you'll be a significantly happier person.

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize that we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is...