The Living Quotes

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

It's easy to win. Anybody can win.

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.

No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.

I'm a keep running through the red light living my life.

One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player for life and living it.

I think people who come into my home feel comfortable and welcome and loved. And the biggest thing in my living room (the fireplace) is in and of itself an expression of love.

And right now, you two jackwagons are right in the middle of my living room and I'm coming to take out the trash.

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.

Life was good, one had only to live it.

Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

There are so many things we do not appreciate in our life until we recognize God's love for us in them.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.

Not only must a warrior be strong with his bow, but he must have a heart full of pity for all living creatures.

Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.

There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans.

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up.

The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.

part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.

Im living proof you can excel regardless of where you come from.

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

My daughter, dad where do homeless people come from? My answer, everywhere.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There's life in a nutshell.

I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met 'em before, 'cause they heard I lived there.

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

Just let me live my life.

If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war.

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.

I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.

There is but one Earth, tiny and fragile, and one must get 100,000 miles away to appreciate fully one's good fortune in living on it.

We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?

To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive.

You can make a good living while serving a greater good.

Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.

I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.

First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.