Quotes about living

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“I’d chosen the regret I could live with best, that’s all.”

“Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can
inhabit”

“It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety.”

“In Seattle we live among the trees and the waterways, and we feel we are rocked gently in the cradle of life. Our winters are not cold and our summers are not hot and we congratulate ourselves for choosing such a spectacular place to rest our heads.”

“Fortitude…. It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.”

“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”

“Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.”

“To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.”

“I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.”

“All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.”

“It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.”

“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”

“You must choose to live by enouragement rather than by expectations.”

“He touched her face, gently, with the back of his hand. 'you disappear so completely into your head sometimes.' he said. 'i wish i could follow you.'
you do, she wanted to say, you live in my head all the time”

“Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.”

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.”

“Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.”

“Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.”

“Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.”

“Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.”

“Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually see LOVE - not words, not an emotion, not an abstract concept or a subjective state of mind, but a living, breathing thing.”

“I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.”

“No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they?

No.

It's never like what you expected.

Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?”

“What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.”

“Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys.
Make your lives extraordinary”

“I'll never understand how a man can live his life
With his finger on the self-destruct button,
Holding it there day after day,
Blinded by an obsession to press it
But lacking the conviction to do even that.”

“She remembered no one at all. She remembered one day thinking: I am alone. There is no I but I. She lived in the dark. She taught herself to walk in the light, though it was not easy.”

“The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.”

“The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know… Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.”

“Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.”

“Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.”

“Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.”

“… just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.”

“It's not enough to be born free; I have to live my freedom!”

“There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”

“But the question that everyone wanted answered was whether I would have the nerve and the strength to start the whole process from scratch. I said yes; otherwise I would be someone who had no dream left, and without dreams I would not want to live.”

“Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.”

“I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.”

“D'ye think I don't know?" he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for you-then I'm asking you to tear out your heart and live without it.”

“we’re allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us”

“I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.”

“And I knew that it was better to live out one's own absurdity than to die for that of others.”

“The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.”

“Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.”

“Unless you're not pushing yourself, you're not living to the fullest. You can't be afraid to fail, but unless you fail, you haven't pushed hard enough.”

“This problem - it is age old. To do what is right and save the day without destroying the very thing the day is lived for.”

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”

“What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?”

“Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.”

“What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.”

“I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.”

“Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.”

“No matter how quiet and conformist a person’s life seems, there’s always a time in the past when they reached an impasse. A time when they went a little crazy. I guess people need that sort of stage in their lives.”

“you will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”

“If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.”

“We live in all we seek.”

“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly.”

“Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator… writing was the mirror to life.”

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.”

“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”

“There was a man once who said that mothers carry the key of our souls with them all our lives. But you threw mine away”

“In this totally dark world, you can't live unless you're needed by someone.”

“Live your life and forget your age.”

“If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.”

“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”

“Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!”

“Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all
Him whom to love is to obey, and keep
His great command!”

“It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.”

“If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.”

“Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself.”

“The dead always outnumber the living. These spirits have waited centuries, unable to express their anger. Now I have given them bodies of earth.”

“Sometimes I looked at her sleeping face, the living flesh of it, and was overwhelmed by how precarious it was to love a living thing. She could die simply from lack of water. It hardly seemed safer than falling in love with a plant.”

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”

“Do radioactive cats have eighteen half-lives?”

“Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.”

“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstacies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude.”

“The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.”

“When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.”

“Monsters,' her dad said, a tear tracing his cheek. 'I live in a world of monsters.”

“Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass."
Like somehow we're running out of time.”

“There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.
It is really that simple.
And that hard.”

“They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.”

“Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making”

“To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.”

“I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.”

“I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.”

“The wolf is living for the earth.”

“Hadn't one of my all-time favorite reveries been to become a cranky hermit, live unperturbed in my house, and have things brought to me like a monarch or tribal lord?”

“Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.”

“I could have. What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.”

“if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.”

“The Angels don’t like to be called losers, but they have learned to live with it. “Yeah, I guess I am,” said one. “But you’re looking at one loser who’s going to make a hell of a scene on the way out.”

“I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.”

“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”

“If you could only tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing! But it's no good. If only they were educated toinstead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily…”

“You can live a lifetime in two years.”

“And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.”

“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.”