The Living Quotes
Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.
If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'
A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.
We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.
If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.
I want to live my life with no goals anymore, but just completely free, like I did when I was younger.
The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.
Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another and hold one another responsible for consistent Christian living.
Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.
I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest.
Let's be honest: it's not like I'm not making a good living that the whole family benefits from. No one talks about my foul mouth when we're all in Aspen for Christmas.
The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.
I was literally living on the edge of life, to the point where I didn't know what was going to happen, not caring, taking chances and finally landing in prison and once there, all my lines were cut.
A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.
Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.
How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.
I always believe in living in the country, because that's where what I eat is what I can put back in the dirt.
As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to crumble.
Wherever you are, be there. Lifestyle is not something we do; it is something we experience. And until we learn to be there, we will never master the art of living well.
If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.
I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.
All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.
Living on purpose is a lifestyle, a way of being and a lifelong spiritual practice that will refine your Soul. This isn't a 10-day or 30-day plan. This is a lifelong adventure!
I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
In your spare time, google the ingredients in all the foods you are eating. If you care about yourself, you may change your menu
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.
