The Living Quotes

You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.

I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

You ask, 'How to live my life?' But with the question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity.

A life worth living is a life worth recording.

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one.

I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, "Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

If living on fruits and water is of superior merit, monkeys and fish will go to heaven before men.

I love living my life in flip-flops. I met a guy in the islands a while ago who told me he hadn't worn a pair of shoes in three years! I thought, 'Man, that's the life!'

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

I must say, I am trying to live my life with a sharpie marker approach. You can't erase the strokes you've made, but each step is much bolder and more deliberate.

The fact that you are even here, alive, on this planet is a mathematical miracle, and you should not spend the time that you have being busy being miserable.

The prettiest people do the ugliest things.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.

The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

The Bushwhackers are living proof that the Three Stooges had children

The living room should be a place where we feel totally at ease - temple of the soul.

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

You cannot buy your health; you must earn it through healthy living.

A good half of the art of living is resilience.

I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.

I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.

I would rather burn out than rust out.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life.

Patience is important, and also, if you don't want to do it, don't do it. But if you do, do. That's a general rule in how I live my life.

I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

Be positive. Stay happy and don't let the negativity of the world get you down.

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

I got my best foot forward onto greener grass, cause there ain't no future living in the past.

I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations.

Former lefties can make a good living in the media by attacking their ex-comrades - I'd do it myself if the price was right.

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.