The Living Quotes
The important thing about Paris is not so much that one sees exciting work, but one meets people who feel that art is worth living completely for. This whole atmosphere is very good for work.
Let's see what's going on over in Iraq. A Burger King has opened up and prostitutes are back on the street of Baghdad after 20 years. Fast food and hookers - they are truly living the American Dream.
... do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.
I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
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.
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.
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.
We're never going to scare people into living more sustainably! We have to be able to demonstrate just how dynamic and aspirational such a world could be
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
Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.
To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion.
When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.
Why can't we have fine black restaurants with fine service by black people who always gave good service? Because we thought that is demeaning and it's not, it's a good living.
Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.
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.
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.
I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living.
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.
It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
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.
Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment."
I think my life will always be worth living, though I don't imagine it being very easy.
Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake
Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.
It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.
Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.
They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.
Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch. We experience his care.
The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.
If you honestly know how you help people, then you should become passionate about sharing it, spread the good news, give everyone a chance to share in the solutions that you can provide.
