These full life quotes will inspire you. A full life involves enjoyment, building distinctive strengths, and finding meaning by applying this strength in the service of the common good. Those who live life to the full savor life’s pleasures and live in the present moment, yet are deeply committed to life’s goals and ambitions.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging full life quotes, full life sayings, and full life proverbs.
Famous Full Life Quotes
- “Live your life to the fullest.” ~ Shakira
- “Where there is love there is life.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.” ~ Sophia Loren
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“Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.” ~ Tallulah Bankhead
- “I’ve been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only have three close friends. I guess that’s all anyone can expect.” ~ Hedy Lamarr
- “If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.” ~ Tom Stoppard , Enjoy full life quotes
- “I want to live a full life – period.” ~ Regina King
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“I’ve been fortunate to work with Alfre Woodard and Jeffrey Wright; people who are artists, have careers, longevity, and full lives. That looks good to me.” ~ Nicole Beharie
- “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.” ~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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“After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” ~ Sophia Loren
- “Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
- “Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift of God. The energy and the power which was so very evident in Jesus will be exhibited in us by an act of the absolute sovereign grace of God, once we have made that complete and effective decision about sin. We have to keep letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us, penetrating every part.” ~ Oswald Chambers
- “I had a very full life, with pains and losses, of course. I lost all the people I was closest to: my partner, my father, and my best friends, but I can’t complain. I am 91 years old and I am still here at my desk.” ~ Giovanna Cau
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“I think older women still have a full life. Maybe the writers don’t address it these days, but it doesn’t change the fact.” ~ Betty White
- “By ‘coming to terms with life’ I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life has, so to speak, been extended by death, by my looking death in the eye and accepting it, by accepting destruction as part of life and no longer wasting my energies on fear of death or the refusal to acknowledge its inevitability. It sounds paradoxical: by excluding death from our life we cannot live a full life, and by admitting death into our life we enlarge and enrich it.” ~ Etty Hillesum
- “It’s almost weirder sometimes when you don’t have a full life experience with someone’s ups and downs, knowing what they’ve been through. Sometimes a loss that just comes out of left field rings in a very weird way when you have actually sort of relied on this small moment with this or that person, as a moment that actually has defined something for you in your life.” ~ Ted Leo
- “I was always looking to be entertained. We lead such full lives and a lot of us don’t lead very pleasant lives and don’t like what we do… My dad worked his whole life as a salesman and that wasn’t what he really wanted to do. He looked forward to two weeks vacation every year and he used to say to me, ‘Whatever you do, make sure you do something you really like so you don’t just have your vacation to look forward to.’ And I love movies.” ~ Jerry Bruckheimer
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“It’s hard to live a full life without love.” ~ Jon Jones
- “The 6 elements of life are to laugh, give, share, enjoy, care, and live a strong and full life.” ~ Indrani
- “Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the activities of another world. And they draw the interest of delight and refreshment according to the measure of their investment. These are usually quaint folk, other-worldly in their manner, but capable of comprehending the idiosyncrasies of Nature as she displays them in a tree and bush and passing season, across the skyline and in the infinite zenith. These, moreover, are the successful gardeners.” ~ Richardson Wright
- “I look down the farthest side of the mountain, fulfilled and understanding all, and truly content that I lived a full life and one that was my own choice” ~ James Elroy Flecker
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“It’s a neat experience to go from the blank page to an actor elevating it to the audience understanding it – the full life of that is why I became a writer.” ~ Bryan Fuller
- “You are Hannah, a lover of life, a strength to those who shared in your friendships. You are a dream, a creator of happiness, an artist who has touched a thousand souls. You’ve led a full life and wanted for nothing, because your needs are spiritual and you have only to look inside you. You are kind and loyal, and you are able to see the beauty where others do not. You are a teacher of wonderful lessons, a dreamer of better things.” ~ Nicholas Sparks
- “To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.” ~ Margaret Fuller
- “Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking – the strain would be too great – but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest.” ~ Charlotte Mason
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“I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that’s plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.” ~ Sarah McLachlan
- “Having a messy coat closet should not be a big deal in a full life, and yet there’s something about getting control of that coat closet that’s surprisingly satisfying.” ~ Gretchen Rubin
- “It is propaganda that people, who had lived a full life of heterosexuality, were married and had children, were denying their real sexuality all that time. There is historic evidence that entire populations can convert to homosexuality under certain conditions.” ~ Ali Sina
- “You feel as if you’re not living a full life. Which, of course, is why – it’s my theory about why so many people who are heavily into computers are also into extreme sports and S&M. It’s because their bodies are crying out for some kind of action.” ~ Brian Eno
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“I work all over the world. I have a very, very full life.” ~ George Stephanopoulos
- “The truth is if you are a woman saving 10% of your income for retirement, and you put it in the bank account, your chances of retiring well – living on 90% of your pre-retirement income for your full life – is 0%.” ~ Sallie Krawcheck
- “The Greek tragedies and comedies are like a roadmap to all the ways in which trying to live this rich, full life can go wrong. You could get into a war. You could find that you have members of your family on the wrong side of a political crisis. You could be raped. You could find that your child has gone crazy because of some horrible experience she’s had.” ~ Martha C. Nussbaum
- “I wanted Bow’s hair and makeup and clothing to look like a woman who has four children, a career, and a full life. For example, she won’t wear eyeshadow unless she’s going out. Because it takes a lot of time to put eyeshadow on. She’s a woman who has style, but it’s all about functionality – she grabs stuff from her closet.” ~ Tracee Ellis Ross
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“The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.” ~ Virginia Satir
- “This woman [Bow] was not simply a reflection of who her husband was. She was her own whole self. And even if we weren’t exploring life through her eyes, when we did see her it was clear that she had a full life.” ~ Tracee Ellis Ross
- “If I can get you to a point where you can lead a full life, sustain a job, earn money for your family – you can be completely engaged as a citizen.” ~ Newt Gingrich
- “I’ve met many young women who are HIV positive and courageously fighting the disease. Their determination to live a full life and see their children live in a better world is deeply inspiring to me.” ~ Alicia Keys
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“For me, it’s about having a full life wherever I come to set my hat for a while; so I like to be in a place that offers me a base that’s rich and full of people. New York certainly has that at the moment.” ~ Sean Mahon
- “She [Eleanor Roosevelt]wants a life of her own. Her grandmother could have been a painter. Her grandmother could have done so much more than she did with her life. And Eleanor Roosevelt decides she is going to do everything possible with her life. She’s going to live a full life.” ~ Blanche Wiesen Cook
- “I find that a lot of actors who are good and open to challenges have lived a full life. When you walk into an audition, you have more to say for yourself because you come from the real world. It’s more enticing for directors, I think.” ~ Idris Elba
- “We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.” ~ Seneca the Younger
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“One’s capacity for metaphor is one’s capacity for a full life.” ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce
- “We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart.” ~ Philip K. Dick
- “Maybe “having enough” has a second meaning beyond the basic economic security a family needs. Maybe it means accepting that a rich full life with a job and family will be rewarding, but it certainly won’t be perfect. As many of us who have combined kids and careers know all too well, some days it’s really pretty messy. And that’s OK.” ~ Willow Bay
- “I would be killed by an atheistic government which was trying to force me to renounce my God-fearing government. I was convinced that the next day would be my last on earth, and I felt no bitterness. God had given me a full life.” ~ Jeremiah Denton
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“If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life” ~ O. Henry
- “We can’t have close to 90 percent of those prenatally diagnosed with an intellectual disability being aborted; 90 percent not going to school; more than 90 percent reporting discrimination in the healthcare system; and 90 percent unemployed, and tell ourselves that we’re doing a good job. The obstacles to leading a full life for the vast majority of people with intellectual disabilities are far beyond what they should be, and far beyond what we should tolerate. So yeah, I want change.” ~ Timothy Shriver
- “…some people might think our lives dull and uneventful, but it does not seem so to us. …it is not travel and adventure that make a full life. There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need ever be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.” ~ D.E. Stevenson
- “The person I am now, compared with the person in the dream, has been baffled and defeated and only supposes he enjoys a full life. In the dreams, I see what a full life really consists of, and it is not what I really have.” ~ Philip K. Dick
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“I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.” ~ Bonnie Raitt
- “Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love? That Satan’s way is more powerful, more practical, more fulfilling in my daily life than Jesus’ way? WHy else get angry? Isn’t it because I think complaining, exasperation, resentment will pound me up into the full life I really want? When I choose-and it is a choice-to crush joy with bitterness, am I not purposefully choosing to take the way of the Prince of Darkness? Choosing the angry way of Lucifer because I think it is more effective-more expedient-than giving thanks?” ~ Ann Voskamp , Joy full life quotes
- “There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the soul. No one of these is better or holier than the other; all are alike desirable, and no one of the three—body, mind, or soul—can live fully if either of the others is cut short of full life and expression.” ~ Wallace D. Wattles
- “Last but not least, I would say you should have big dreams, full dreams, not half dreams. You know, it’s very simple. You can’t put a large box in a small box. Well, you cannot put a full life in a small dream box.” ~ Elias Zerhouni
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“Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.” ~ Anthony Hopkins
- “The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you believe in and fight for it. If you lose, don’t give up. If you win, raise the bar, and then rare back and do something else. And remember that, with the accumulation of years, our responsibilities to the future grow greater, not less.” ~ William J. Clinton
- “Meditation is a technique to integrate one’s personality, to be able to live and enjoy full life of all glories – worldly and divine.” ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- “You dont have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them … One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild … they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV.” ~ Ingrid Newkirk
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“Every parent’s deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.” ~ Peter Block
- “The notion of following your passion is worth indulging. Your passion is your source of power. To live really a full life, you need to follow where it leads…in defiance of all things conventional perhaps. And of course it has its price. You have to know that going in. But the price you pay, in my opinion, is not worth the time of day to think about. It is so important not to knee pad around the world. You should never bow down to anything but those you love and respect. Ever for anything.” ~ Doug Peacock
- “I actually may do a musical next year… not one that I’ve written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people’s work and all of a sudden you’ve got a very full life.” ~ Harvey Fierstein
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“I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.” ~ Jack Canfield
- “The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was a safe bet that he felt that way about himself. Like most twice-widowed, Korea-vet, nature-loving, gun-enthusiast, bilingual, weed-connoisseur great grandfathers of five, he’d lived a full life.” ~ Lisa Lutz
- “When you’re in the position I’m in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage.” ~ Daniel Radcliffe
