The Living Quotes

It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work

I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

leaders don't watch things but make things happen-initiate change

Oh, let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations.

For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.

A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?

True leaders demonstrate initiatives-They lead the way for others to follow

The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.

The salvation of man is through love and in love

He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, "I have lived.

The Joseph in you must rise to the challenges of life and turn them into gold

The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it.

They got to live before they can afford to die.

One must have one's delusions to live. If you look at life too honestly and clearly, life becomes unbearable because it's a pretty grim enterprise, you will admit.

How many things can I do without?

My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead it's alive and living in the White House.

I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you’re ready or not, to put it into action.

Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.

In Buddhism we also interprete Dharma to mean 'cessation, ' as in the end of dissatisfaction, the end of dukkha. This is the purpose of Buddha's teachings.

If you never been rabid, you ain't never lived.

There's nothing like a good, long sleep to allow unpleasantness to recede into the past.

People are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?

Get busy living or get busy dying.”― Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption

We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.

When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find that you have lived a model human life, after all.

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood

when u have concepts(revelation) the way u live changes

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made ...

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

there are so many dayswhen living stops and pulls up and sitsand waits like a train on the rails.

Living exists when life lives through us … life is a living now!

All I want now is to look at life.

I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

I thought there would be time, but we always think stuff like that, don't we? We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

If someone likes you when you are living a lie, remember - he likes the lie, not you.

It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.

There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way.

So you're giving up? That's it? Okay, okay. We'll leave you alone, Quasimodo. We just thought, maybe you're made up of something much stronger.