Quotes about living

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“I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)”

“Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.”

“One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly."
~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.”

“I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.”

“We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.”

“She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…”

“I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.”

“People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why.”

“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.”

“You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.”

“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”

“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”

“Man can not live by bread alone… he must have peanut butter.”

“Every moment there are a million miracles happening around you: a flower blossoming, a bird tweeting, a bee humming, a raindrop falling, a snowflake wafting along the clear evening air. There is magic everywhere. If you learn how to live it, life is nothing short of a daily miracle.”

“Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.”

“Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.”

“That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.”

“Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.”

“… Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.”

“If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.”

“The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.”

“We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.”

“It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.”

“The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to.”

“There is only one dream worth having…to live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead.”

“Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.”

“All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by.”

“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.”

“Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.”

“We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.”

“To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.”

“… she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.”

“My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.”

“A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?”

“Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live.”

“I was born when he kissed me, I died when he left me, I lived a few weeks while he loved me”

“No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.”

“Give into love or live in fear”

“People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”

“Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.”

“We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do some dreaming. Have yourself a very good Sunday, my dear readers.”

“Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved”

“Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.”

“Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.'
-Marielle”

“Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”

“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.”

“You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.”

“… I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.”

“And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

“They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.”

“Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.”

“In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living.”

“Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.”

“When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute.”

“The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”

“I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.”

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”

“The heart will break, but broken live on.”

“We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.”

“What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".”

“Life is to be lived, not controlled.”

“Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.”

“And though you study medicine for a score of lifetimes, there will come to you people whose illnesses are mysteries, for the anguish of which you speak is part and parcel of the profession of healing and must be lived with.”

“Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.”

“For all the accomplishments of molecular biology, we still can't tell a live cat from a dead cat.”

“Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”

“Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing.
Visions born of hope give birth to our success.
What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.”

“Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.”

“You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.”

“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”

“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”

“We don’t do what we do for the glory or the fame or the credit; we do it for the quiet satisfaction of making the world a better place, saving the lives of innocents, and being better than you are.”

“You may not like what's happening, but just accept it, and let's try to live together. Even if you feel angry, let's be patient and endure, let's try to live together. I've realized that this is the only way forward.”

“You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.”

“To live alone one must be an animal or a god - says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both - a philosopher.”

“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.”

“Live as if you have faith,” she said, “and faith shall be
given to you.”

“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”

“I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy
eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.”

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

“The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.”

“People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.”

“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees
and changing leaves.”

“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize”

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

“If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it.”

“You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.”

“How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.”

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right — stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.”

“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”

“We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.”

“Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”

“Life is too short to be lived badly.”

“Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.”

“When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead. we should find consolation in an object that reminds you of them, something… I don't know… even an earring”

“We lose a great deal, I think, when we lose this sense and feeling for the sun. When all has been said, the adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on natures's sustaining and poetic spirit.”

“I live in a crazy time.”

“An authentically powered person lives in love. Love is the energy of the soul. Love is what heals the personality. There is nothing that cannot be healed by love. There is nothing but love.”