The Living Quotes

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.

When people go within and connect with themselves, they realize they are connected to the universe and they are connected to all living things.

All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Every individual was put on this earth to accomplish some purpose bigger than just making a living.

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.

I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.

Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.

I am living proof that no matter how bad life gets, it gets better.

We should be in the business of living, not making a living.

Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.

I try to live my life to the best, but I just always preach that you should just work hard and do your best.

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

Respectable men and women content with the good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.

And love … love was worth dying for. Worth living for, too.

To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door, trailing all the windy, feral outdoors into your living room.

In the end, what affects your life most deeply are things too simple to talk about.

Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

Worrying is arrogant because God knows what He's doing.

The dirtier your Bible, the cleaner your heart!

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.

Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus.

Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.

It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.

If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?

Love for children is the enormous untapped power that can wake us up to the profound changes we need to make if we’re to have a future worth living.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

I've never considered myself to be working for a living; I've enjoyed myself for a living instead.

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

Happiness is a condition of the soul. This joyous state comes as a result of righteous living.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

It is ignorance or at least lack of consideration of heavenly things that make the temporal things of this world, whether good or evil, greater than they really are.

Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.

Honor all living things, for we are of the stag, and the salmon, and the bee; so destroy not life, save it be to preserve your own.