Quotes about living

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“I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.”

“Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara”

“I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.”

“Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land, where justice is a game.”

“Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.”

“Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.”

“What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?”

“Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.”

“Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.”

“Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. … Why can’t they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?”

“If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?”

“The greatest thrill is not to kill but to let live.”

“Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.”

“We are not Human Beings experiencing spiritual lives, we are spiritual beings experiencing human lives.”

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”

“What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.”

“The way I see it, living in New Jersey is a challenge, what with the toxic waste and the eighteen wheelers and the armed schizophrenics."
Connie Rosolli”

“No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.”

“I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.”

“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.”

“My ambition was to live like music.”

“If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful.”

“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.”

“What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.”

“How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!”

“One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”

“There's nothing I can't live with. Only things I won't live without.”

“Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.”

“When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.”

“Let me tell you something straight off. This is a love story, but not like any you've ever heard. The boy and the girl are far from innocent. Dear lives are lost. And good doesn't win.”

“But its not funny. Not to people who've been told they're losers their whole lives and believe they will never be anything else.”

“Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?”

“Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break.”

“Tania, last time in Morozovo, I let you go, but not this time. This time we live together or we die together.”

“I offered them Utopia, but they fought for the right to live in Hell.”

“Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.”

“Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out?”

“And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love.”

“Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn't live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel. The world was simply grander back then, somehow more civilized, and nicer to look at.”

“The roles we play in each other's lives are only as powerful as the trust and connection between us--the protection, safety, and caring we are willing to share.”

“To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard”

“Though we may not be able to see His purpose or His plan, the Lord of heaven is on His throne and in firm control of the universe and our lives.”

“We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revolution lives.”

“At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.”

“Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.”

“To live your best life now, you must learn to trust God’s timing, you may not think He’s working, but you can be sure that right now, behind the scenes, God is arranging all the pieces to come together to work out His plan for your life.”

“No," mom says, looking at me in the eyes. "What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.”

“We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.”

“Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I'd like to visit there one day.”

“It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.”

“A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.”

“She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so… I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.”

“Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.”

“I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become.”

“Unfinished Poem
I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”

“We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.”

“Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers.”

“Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?”

“There are generations yet unborn,
whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.”

“Do you live each day as if it's your first or your last? Either way you should probably have a diaper on.”

“Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they’re killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart, let’s make up. Have this deceased squirrel.”

“The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould”

“People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.”

“She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.”

“But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start.”

“Eerily, the coronation was kind of a reverse of Tatianaʹs funeral. What was the old saying? The queen is dead. Long live the queen”

“It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.”

“Even if lives did hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were.”

“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.”

“When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.”

“Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.”

“Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.”

“You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.”

“I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.”

“Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.”

“I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.”

“Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.”

“I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying
the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I
now enjoy.”

“Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.”

“I have permission to live off campus.” She didn’t say from whom, because it was primarily herself.”

“Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.”

“The best revenge is living well without you.”

“Where we live in the world
is never one place. Our hearts,
those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us
moons before we are ready for them.”

“But what is life if you don't live it?”

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”

“Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dyin’s as natural as livin’; man who’s afraid to die is too afraid to live, far as I’ve ever seen. So there’s nothing to do but forget it, that’s all. Seems to me”

“Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change.”

“I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.”

“Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended with vigilance, else it dies out.”

“This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.”

“We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.”

“Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.”

“I lived for the night, because I could go over to your house. It was the only thing that kept me going. You were the only thing, actually. It was… you.”

“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.”

“I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.”

“Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena. To make myself put a name to the thing I've lost. But what's the use? It's gone. He's gone. Whatever existed between us is gone. All that's left is my promise to kill Snow. I tell myself this ten times a day.”

“Where men can't live gods fare no better.”

“If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It's a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees.”

“A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest. A bear must have his secrets, after all; they make him seem attractive and mysterious.”