The Living Quotes

When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.

The most welcome and painful moments of the life is within marriage.

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.

I always strive to keep a balance with my fears. I don't like to be ruled by them. At the same time, I don't like the idea of living my life totally free of any fears. I like having that moderation.

Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.

Without love we are not truly living.

Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.

The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves.

I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.

A car hit a Jewish man. The paramedic says, "Are you comfortable?" The man says, "I make a good living."

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

The first step to truly living a good and fearless life, is accepting responsibility for your actions. Accepting what part you had in any situation. Difficult, to say the least, but liberating.

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

Living in Manchester was like living on the moon... wherever that might be

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

The greatest of all the arts is the art of living together!

I'm not living in the past, I don't want to go back - I don't want to "Make America Great Again." No, no, no.

The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living

The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

Focus on all four of your net worth factors: increasing your income, increasing your savings, increasing your investment returns, and decreasing your cost of living by simplifying your lifestyle.

I don't like to see teenage men wearing very tight jeans. The sight of an erection belongs in the privacy of the bedroom, living room, or kitchen floor.

I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.

How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse differs not from self-communion?

A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.

Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.

The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.

People feel like they know you when you're in their living room, weekly, for five years. But I always get uncomfortable when people know more about me than I know about them.

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

The love of Christ always helps us see beyond the faults of others.

Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are.

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

You don't decide what your purpose is in life you discover it. Your purpose is your reason for living.

When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.

One who has hope lives differently.

The path of your life can change in an instant.

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.