Living Quotes

The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressur...

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, g...

An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

As the connections have been broken by the fragmentation and isolation of work, they can be restored...

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered-- about her teeth, for instance. I know so ...

It seems to me that we do live in two worlds... there is this physical one, which is coherant, and t...

Ralph chose the firm strip as a path because he needed to think, and only here could he allow his fe...

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

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

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persist...

How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to ...

The longer I go about living, I see it's the relationship that is most meaningful.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

We live longerbut less preciselyand in shorter sentences.

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

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate...

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

To-day I shall be strong,No more shall yield to wrong,Shall squander life no more;Days lost, I know ...

What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?

Was it worth while to lay— with infinite exertion—a roof I can't live under? —All those blueprints, ...

We are living in a very complex society. It puts me in a complex frame of thinking.

A good half of the art of living is resilience.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the ...

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let ...

Live to the point of tears.

Yes, one can wager war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’...

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how ...

If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its ...

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

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

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am li...

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast ...

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want...

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is not...

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to sit...

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living i...

The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is ...

Mindfulness is not the path of chasing. It is the path of beautification. When flowers blossom, the ...

Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of ...

I would rather burn out than rust out.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up...

I am not always just living, just following all my fantasies; I come up for air, for understanding.

The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will ...

Love reduces the complexity of living. It amazes me that when Henry walks towards the cafe table whe...

I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the c...

But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deser...

Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul ...

Had we but world enough, and time

Had we but world enough, and time...

Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think wh...

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day...

Let us answer the terrorists by living our values with courage.

I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teac...

This cruel age has deflected me,like a river from this course.Strayed from its familiar shores,my ch...

Now every mortal has painand sweat is constant,but if there is anything dearer than being alive,it's...

How alive am I willing to be?

I'll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can--until I die.

To die or not to die, that is the question; it is nobler to live in torment and rage than not to liv...

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that...

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one...

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, endu...

The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect...

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

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I ha...

I'm living out my dreams and I love what I do.

You haven’t lived till you’ve played Scrabble in a psych ward.

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die o...

From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and gro...

I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently ...

Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each y...

The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. W...

Most accounts of mystical experiences... insist that the Other in the encounter appears to be "livin...

..think about the contradictions and complexities that beset people.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned ...

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

All human activity is prompted by desire.

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easi...

All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is....

Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious,...

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Chris...

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.

This is what I think aboutwhen I shovel compostinto a wheelbarrow,and when I fill the long flower bo...

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as ...