The Living Quotes

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

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.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.

As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.

As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven's list.

Knowing God is like listening to beautiful music. His words have power. He lifts me up & soothes my soul. He makes me dance. He gives me joy.

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.

Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.

Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.

My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

Let your customers and prospects recommend you to each other and let you competition wish they were you. That is our mission.

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

I think my life will always be worth living, though I don't imagine it being very easy.

The only thing better than living on a Mac is living in Hogwarts.

For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.

How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart?

The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption. It is the Gospel in my living room.

If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.

They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room.

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.

Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment."

Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.

It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.

That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.

I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living.

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you're just living from day to day and you don't have any real sense of yourself or where you are.

Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.

It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of our globe.

Living more intensely, more lovingly, with more camaraderie, that is in itself resistance.

It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.

I felt for a long time that this is what I want to do so I'm happy at this point to just take my time and work on projects that I feel strongly about, and the rest of the time just live my life