Quotes about living

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“Let his name be cleared and everyone else adjust their thinking. He had put in time, now they must do the work. His business was simple. Find Cecilia and love her, marry her and live without shame.”

“If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.”

“The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.”

“If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.”

“The dead are way more organized than the living.”

“We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to thinking of ourselves as a size eight or a size fourteen, as a capricorn or a taurus, as single or in love.”

“Prancing around with marshmallowss on your nipples does *not* constitute living your life fully!”

“Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.”

“I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.”

“From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.”

“Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.”

“I liked you better when you were this timid little kid. What happened?”
“I started living with you guys.”
“Oh, right.”

“When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.”

“I’ve heard people say that the hardest thing in the world is to live with someone you don’t love. But I’ve always thought it would be far more difficult to live with someone who doesn’t love you.”

“The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time”

“I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings.”

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”

“You live out the confusions until they become clear.”

“Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible.”

“A paradox: The things you don’t need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.”

“I can’t believe this night. I was supposed to be applauded and instead, I’m ruined. I swear to God in heaven if I ever see that man again, I will commit murder. (Tory)
Well, if you need help moving the body, you know where Kim and I live. (Pam)”

“The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.”

“Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.”

“Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God.”

“I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.”

“All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.”

“Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican." She shook her head. "Where are the values I raised you with?”

“They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.”

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

“You only have one life, but if you live it well, that’s enough. The only reality is now, today. What are you waiting for to be happy?”

“No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.”

“Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo.
"Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.”

“The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.”

“Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live.”

“Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we're never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?”

“Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.”

“some men never
die
and some men never
live

but we're all alive
tonight.”

“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.”

“Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.”

“I want to live till I die. No more, no less.”

“I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.”

“You are safe," he said firmly. "You have my name and my family, my clan, and if necessary, the protection of my body as well. The man willna lay hands on ye again, while I live.”

“Shut up. Asshole. (Shahara)
I live for your endearments. (Syn)”

“There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for
life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises….
If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest,
not what pays”

“Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.”

“Happiness is the experience of living every moment with love, grace and gratitude.”

“having
someone think of me that way was like discovering
a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.”

“Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?”

“The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.”

“Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory —
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.”

“I like living, breathing better than working… my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.”

“I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.”

“We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.”

“As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.”

“And he has to live like this on the edge of destruction, alone, with nobody at all to understand or pity him”

“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.”

“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the globe . . . The sea is only a receptacle for all the prodigious, supernatural things that exist inside it. It is only movement and love; it is the living infinite.”

“Sometimes a b. f. f makes you go W. T. F but without them we'd all be a little less richer in our lives.”

“Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.”

“I have not lived, but only dreamed about living.”

“She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.”

“Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.”

“Where's Amy?" Ian put in. "Will you please get her to call that Evan character? He rings here twenty times a day. He's either the most mule-headed person who ever lived, or he really likes your sister. She has to have mercy on him–on all of us!”

“I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.”

“I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss the pounce. One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires.”

“I think most people live in fiction… That's how you keep your fragile body intact.”

“God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.”

“Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.”

“If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”

“It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”

“Oh, no-" They weren't even on the runway, and Jonah's father was already immersed in his BlackBerry. "Remember those 'Live Large with the Wiz Generation' posters? Well, guess how that translates into Chinese- 'Jonah Wizard Makes Your Ancestors Fat'.”

“How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between.”

“To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself.”

“Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies”

“He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.”

“For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also.”

“This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.”

“America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.”

“You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.”

“For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.”

“The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather.”

“Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH…”

“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”

“Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.”

“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient”

“Only by being prepared for your death can you ever truly live.”

“While you live, the revolution lives”

“While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.”

“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”

“I figured we'd be too busy running for our lives than for him to make a move anyway. (Dana)”

“Stay.
Fight.
Live.
Take it.
Cry.
Cry.
Cry.”

“If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.”

“There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.”

“When shall we live if not now?”

“If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.”

“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”

“He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.”

“Rapists do not deserve to live.”

“All of us have our own inner fears, beliefs, opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and of itself. its power arises from the fact that you accept it mentally.”