Live More in 2024

Living well for me means spending lots of time in nature. In this photo
 I am hiking in the snowy woods behind our home.

Just because the world is going sideways doesn't mean our lives have to do the same. 

We can live well, and rise above it.

But what is the secret of living well?

“The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure”.

— Tibetan Proverb

“The purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well” 

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When I’m taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did I sweat, push, pull, rip, fall, hit, crash, explode? My dream is to be so well-used that in my last-half second, I just burst into dust” 

– Elizabeth Streb

Life is not about winning the race. Life is about finishing the race, and how many people we can all help finish this race. 

We can start by being kinder to each other.

— Marc Mero

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

— Charles Bukowski

“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death” 

– Leonardo da Vinci

“Strive for a life well lived. Each one with their own aims, preferences, and meaning. Always, of course, without harming other persons or preventing others from being able to form a good life for themselves” 

– Jose Gonzalez

“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live” 

– Lao Tzu

“Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds” 

— Buddha

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments but what is woven into the lives of others” 

– Thucydides

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

— Diane Ackerman

“Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying;

but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times”.

— Saint Augustine

May we all live more in 2024, whatever that means for each and every one of us wherever we may be.

Peace and happiness for all living beings is my wish for the world in this new year.