Quotes about living

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“I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart”

“This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.”

“And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.”

“It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.”

“And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories.”

“If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.”

“Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.”

“Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.”

“Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.”

“I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.”

“I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.”

“I think infatuation is like a garden. If tended and cared for, it grows into love. If neglected or abused it dies. The only way to have eternal love is to never let your heart forget what it's like to live without it.
-Vane”

“Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.”

“That’s it?” Jason asked. “You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?”
No, not dying, Son. Living.”

“Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends.”

“All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.”

“I think that when you live in a world with limits… when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life”

“Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.”

“There is no moment more precious than the exact moment they are living. And that exact moment has a lot to do with how future moments play out.”

“We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.”

“It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else.”

“That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.”

“To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.”

“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”

“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.”

“He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending, wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.”

“Women. Can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em.”

“Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.”

“Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.”

“But on paper, things can live forever.
On paper, a butterfly
never dies.”

“One of the very first things I figured out about life… is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.”

“To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.”

“We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.”

“If by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way. His whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.”

“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”

“I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me: and to me
High mountains are a feeling, but the hum
of human cities torture.”

“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.”

“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.”

“Because I live in the real world where vampires burn in the sun.”

“I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty… This is my highest and best use as a human.”

“Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.”

“Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.”

“Our lives are one masked ball.”

“My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.”

“Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.”

“You can choose to die. You can choose to run… but dying alone won't change a thing. Trust me on that one. If you really want things to change… you're going to have to live.”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

“I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.”

“It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.”

“I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.”

“Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there”

“Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.”

“You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death.”

“The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.”

“All right, two dozen house specials. Any chance one of you might want to live dangerously and try a vegetable? (Aimee)
Do we look like rabbits to you? (Fury)”

“Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.”

“Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.”

“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”

“I lived in the royal library, among all the books."
"You resided in a… library?"
"Theresuites inside and great balconies that overlooked the city, but yes. I was most content among those shelves, so one night, I simply never left.”

“Stronger than iron
crueler than death
sweeter than springtime
it lives beyond breath”

“She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with a chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.”

“Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.”

“A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”

“I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely "normal" life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more--much, much more.”

“Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?”

“It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.”

“Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.”

“To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;
To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold,
Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold:
For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.”

“Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don’t matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.”

“I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love… there is joy… there is laughter.”

“how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?”

“It isn't ever delicate to live.”

“We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood.”

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”

“She was the living, breathing proof that the hard things in life didn't have to defeat you - or even define you.”

“bitter is a bad way to live!”

“They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!”

“Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.”

“As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.”

“What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.”

“To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.”

“I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.”

“And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.”

“A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.”

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.”

“Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone too much. And there's always sadness in our lives. It's that sad feeling that keeps us going. - Usagi/Sailor Moon”

“There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.”

“Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.”

“I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts
me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.”

“Everyone has crap in their background, everyone has things they wish they could undo. But most people don't go around doing their best to screw up their present lives because of it.”

“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

“And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.”

“I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?”

“Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.”

“The best revenge is living well.”

“Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.”

“There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone.”

“A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?”

“Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”