The Living Quotes
Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for.
The greatest mistake we can make is to stay on the ground after falling.
Trust Me. Life is not worth living feeling sad and down and lonely. Always be true to who you are.
Life is about more than earning a living, and if you're not in the habit of thinking about it, you can end up middle-aged or even older and shocked to realize that your life seems empty.
Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.
A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously.
I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.
The way to accomplish the assignment of truly living is to engage fully, richly, and deeply in the living of your dreams. We are made to dream and to live those dreams.
Mickey Cohen: New York, its like being a rat in a maze, everyone living on top of each other, but out here, I can breathe. I love Los Angeles.
I'm going to live my life. It's nobody else's decision, but mine. I think there are a lot worse things I could be doing with my life than what I choose to do.
I'm interested in living more of a life that's invisible to everybody and more vibrant to a fewer people that are in my life.
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.
Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.
People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums.
Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do.
Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.
Good things happen in your life when you surround yourself with positive people.
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.
I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.
I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.
We've been living on a high, they've been talking on the low. But it's cool, know you heard it all before.
One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.
One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'
A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.
Any wrong decision you have ever made will become unimportant when your attention has shifted from it to a creative reason for living right here and now.
Down to my last dime and coming apart at the seams. I'm messed up in Mexico, living on refried dreams.
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.
