The Living Quotes

I do know that living in the past only messes up your present

I can't speak for others, but I find the fundamental idea that a life worth living is one during which one strives every day to become a better person to be compelling.

The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.

he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living...

Teach the art of living well.

The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.

I just live my life and try to be present.

I try and live my life in bite-size chunks.

You know, I'm fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon. Of course, mine come out all dark and twisted and weird.

I see myself working, making a living and doing projects that I'm passionate about, regardless of the medium.

Life isn’t worth living if you’re scared all the time.

I just live my life and try to be present. When I'm present in the moment and something comes, I can capture it, because it doesn't come from me, it's out there.

Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.

I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.

we made love on the living room floor with the noise in the background of a televised war and in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone say if we walk away they'll walk away

I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life.

Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.

..Advantage of the Bible is that it is profitable for training in righteous living.

Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.

It is my belief that books are living things.

There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

Converting liberals is always a great thing. It makes every day worth living.

Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.

As long as you're living right, then you don't have to worry about what people see.

I don't let negative attitudes and meanness from other people keep me from living my life.

At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.

I never imagined that I would be the kind of person who is recognized when I am out and about just living my life.

You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.

It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.

God knows just the place where you'll be placed. He has a barren living room in desperate need of warmth and joy. A corner of the world needs some color. He selected you with that place in mind.

Don't let life pass you by before you realise that it was worth living.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at it. It is something you are, and not something you do.

Let go of what you can't control. Channel all that energy into living fully in the now.

I don't want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes.

Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control.

Living organisms are distinguished by their specified complexity

I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.

Living in fear is not living at all.

I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.

An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things.

Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you.

A life without criticism is not worth living.

The spiritual journey is what the soul is up to while we attend to daily living.

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.

I don't really ever live my life in fear. I really live my life in gratitude and feeling positive for the most part.

Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures.