The Living Quotes
We are terrible for each other, and, yes, we are a disaster. But tell me your heart doesn't race for a hurricane or a burning building. I'd rather die terrified than live forever.
Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.
A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.
Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.
If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which cannot be changed, the courage to change that which should be changed, no matter what it takes, and the wisdom to know the difference.
The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.
I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.
My favorite room in the house is the living room. We have two big couches, six recliners and over 20 pillows. It's a really comfortable place to hang out with my family.
Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.
Happiness blooms naturally in the hearts of those who are inwardly free. It flows spontaneously, like a mountain spring after April showers, in minds that are contented with simple living.
Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.
In general I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock and outside of touring I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.
The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.
Together we have given the world the possibility of one day living on a truly mine-free planet.
I try to really understand every aspect of the most high; for me, the most high is Allah... I live my life by Islam.
Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.
I have a little brother. He's actually living at my house right now. He's going to be 18.
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.
Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.
Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.
We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.
All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.
In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.
The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve.
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
The greatest moments in life are the ones right in front of you.
I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.
Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.