The Living Quotes

I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.

It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge.

Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things.

To enjoy each breathing day, you have to set time aside to play.

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature

Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.

The future is a fabulous place to bury your success.

Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different degrees of light and density.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn't happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done.

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.

Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death.

Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love.

I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.

God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do" (101) - "The Pursuit of God

I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

In the end, all disguises must drop.

In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail.

Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.

We live and breathe words.

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

Let’s not only take great photos, but let’s make great photos with our lives.

Letting yesterday affect today will only destroy the excitement of tomorrow.

You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble.

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.

We're all running away. Some of us just don't get very far.

You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.

In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

People are living books. The real library of life is community.

It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin.

Music is not my life. My life is music.

All of us need to be constantly reminded it takes a heap of living and loving to make a house a home.

The key to a wonderful life is to never stop wandering into wonder.

Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we’re looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow

Take what the Lightbearer sends and be thankful.

I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.

It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen.

We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.

The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

The outcome is not up to you. The outlook is.

Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.