Quotes about living

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“Heaven is for thee too high
To know what passes there; be lowly wise.
Think only what concerns thee and thy being;
Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there
Live, in what state, condition, or degree,
Contented that thus far hath been revealed.”

“We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.”

“I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.”

“And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but… alive.”

“Remember me with joy, for this is how I always thought of you. That is what I want, more than anything. I want you to smile when you think of me. And in your smile, I will live forever”

“The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.”

“Feast, and your halls are crowded
Fast, and the world goes by
Succeed and give, and it helps you live
But no man can help you die”

“At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.”

“I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.”

“All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.”

“As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished.”

“We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.”

“You will tell me what you know now," he said.

"Or?"

He said nothing, so I elaborated. "See, this kind of threat usually has an 'or' attached to it. Or an 'and'. 'Tell me and I'll allow you to live' or something like that.”

“But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?”

“That’s what you taught me - we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.”

“This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own.”

“Getting fired,’ Tyler says, ‘is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives.”

“If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.”

“Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.”

“open your eyes^_^
and look within….
are you satisfied with the life,
…….. U are liVing?????????”

“According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.”

“To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.”

“People grow up by living.”

“We are always getting ready to live, but never living.”

“We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said.

Ender stopped. "Not from them.”

“There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.”

“O may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence; live
In pulses stirred to generosity,
In deeds of daring rectitude…”

“Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life.”

“We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.”

“Every man dies, not every man really lives”

“Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.”

“If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives,
then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls.
You think their ways are wrong.
They think you are dinner.”

“Then I let the stories live
inside my head, again and again
until the real world fades back
into cricket lullabies
and my own dreams.”

“Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.”

“Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?”

“I’ve lived a long time,” Magnus said. “So many years, and no, it doesn’t feel like enough. I won’t lie and say it does. I want to live on—partly because of you, Alec. I have never wanted to live so much as I have these past few months, with you.”

“We live in a time of fear," Skulduggery said, "where we're too scared of upsetting the status quo to ask the questions we need to be asking.”

“A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.”

“I close my eyes and ride the mindless bliss. It's all I can do. Be. Feel. Live.
I'magain.
I always will be with this man.”

“And although Margarita lived in a world that predated Technicolor, she always dreamed of the boy in rich pastels.”

“Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.”

“Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?”

“Always knowing you're going to die
And until then knowing you've got to live.”

“Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.”

“I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose or passion]- has turned himself into a slave.”

“Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.”

“The right woman is the one you can live with, not the one in your head.”

“Life is for the living. Don't let the fear of striking out let you from keep you from playing the game.”

“… Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.”

“It’s entirely up to you, Artie. He lives or dies by your word. (Acheron)
No, akri! Don’t ask her that. She never let me have no fun. She a mean goddess! (Simi)”

“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”

“Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.”

“If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.”

“He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.”

“May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.”

“Did they live happily ever after?
HAHAHAHAHA. No.”

“Date etiquette lesson number two: Don't die. Go on living.”

“I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.”

“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

“I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of civil society, to believe or not believe whatever they like.”

“Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.”

“Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.”

“Change
is the one unavoidable,
irresistible,
ongoing reality of the universe.
To us,
that makes it the most powerful reality,
and just another word for
God.

Earthseed: The Books of the Living
Lauren Oya Olamina”

“For a moment, staring down and realizing what I'd just done, I wanted to throw myself in after him, because surely there was no way I could go on living now.”

“Ask me not where I live or what I like to eat… Ask me what I am living for and what I think is keeping me from living fully that.”

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live”

“Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.”

“How much longer will I live? (Urian)
You’re immortal, barring death. (Acheron)
That doesn’t make sense. (Urian)
Most of life doesn’t. (Acheron)”

“… [A]nything worth dying for… is certainly worth living for.”

“And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.”

“There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors”

“As I walk back to the school on my own, I realise I'm crying. So I go back to the stories I've read about the five and I try to make sense of their lives because in making sense of theirs, I may understand mine.”

“Home is not where you live but where they understand you.”

“Wage war on death. Live for love.”

“There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world was real. Illusion was no substitute. I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.”

“That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.”

“Living was okay, but it wasn't the breaths people took that measured a life. It was the moments that took those breaths away that mattered the most. And Dev did that every time he looked at her. Naked or not.”

“Clark," she said softly, "I wouldn't change you for the world.
You're sweet the way you are. The things that'll make you fail
I'll love always-- the living in the past, the lazy days and
nights you have, and all your carelessness and generosity.”

“Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.”

“An old man dies, a little girl lives. Fair trade.”

“Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.”

“Parents, teachers, government - they all teach you how to live the dreary, deadening life of a slave, but nobody teaches you how to live normally.”

“You will find a way to live without me. You will find a way to live for both of us,' Alexander said to Tatiana as the swelling Kama River flowed from the Ural Mountains through a pine village named Lazarevo, once when they were in love, and young.”

“How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?”

“There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.”

“We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.”

“Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.”

“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”

“In the world we live in, what weand what weare like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.”

“Just once I want it to be easy and neat. But no, there is never a good decision. I pick what I can live with.”

“You will not live through this if she does not”

“Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.”

“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure…. you are above everything distressing.”

“The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing., nothing but mutations.”

“I live in fear of being alive.”

“We are Sinclairs. Beautiful. Privileged. Damaged. Liar. We live, least in the summertime, on a private island off the coast of Massachusetts. Perhaps that is all you need to know.”

“How we remember changes how we have lived.
Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.”

“Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.”

“This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world.”
“Michael Jackson lived here?”
“No, dummy,” Carter said. “Elvis Presley.”