Quotes about living

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“She [Melanie] is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality.”

“But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.”

“And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.”

“it’s not conditions but decisions that determine our lives.”

“We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.”

“Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.”

“Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.”

“I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.”

“They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them.”

“One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.”

“twice I have lived forever in a smile”

“I don’t want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I’m learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.”

“Live and learn and pass it on.”

“Max-Dogs, dogs, go away, let me live another day.”

“I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.”

“Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound.
~Slater”

“Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.”

“Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.”

“the price of creation
is never
too high.

the price of living
with other people
always
is.”

“Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.”

“A fight is like a fire. You think you have it under control, you think you can stop it whenever you want, but before you know it, it’s living, breathing thing and there’s no controlling it and you were a fool to think you could.”

“We no longer live life. We consume it.”

“Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.”

“My art and profession is to live.”

“He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it.”

“Isn't there something in living dangerously?”

“This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.”

“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.”

“The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without”

“What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?”

“As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.”

“Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.”

“They can pump whatever they want into my arm, but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live.”

“A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.”

“When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.”

“Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?”
“I’ve lived a long time, kid, and I’ve never heard anyone mutilate the English language quite like you.”

“I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.”

“We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.”

“Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.”

“I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives.”

“Some kisses are worth living for”

“We could do it, you know."
"What?"
"Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.”

“One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.”

“If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about the country with her sword drawn, rescuing and defending everyone in distress. She always wants to fight when she sees people in trouble.”

“Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.”

“The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last.”

“there are robots among us. There are also Magicians among us. I think we take turns playing each role, as a matter of fact. The Magician defines a reality-mesh and the robot lives in it. Grok?”

“It is on a day like this one,
a little later a little earlier
that you descover without surprise
that something is wrong
that you don't know how to live
and you will never know”

“I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.”

“He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.”

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”
Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum est posita.

“I want to live happily in a world I don't understand.”

“Live by your own rules Move to your rhythm, instead of dancing to the beat of someone else’s drum Decide how you want to be treated Choose what you will or will not tolerate Leave if you don’t get what you want.”

“When they die no one will ever know that once they lived.”

“The many men, so beautiful!
And they all dead did lie:
And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.”

“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.”

“If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.”

“Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.”

“My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.”

“I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man / just a mortal with potential of a superman / I'm living on.”

“This Forest eats itself and lives forever.”

“And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them…”

“I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.”

“Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this.”

“She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love.”

“We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.”

“Where is the Life we lost in living?”

“Cross-country skiing is fine as long as you live in a small country.”

“There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.”

“Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted."
Charlie Bucket: "What happened?"
Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.”

“If you don’t live though and drop dead from it, can the Simi eat you? Akri says the Simi can’t eat no living people, but he never said no doubt them newly dead people. Maybe that’s why he don’t let me near them fresh dead. (Simi)”

“I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen”

“Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.”

“I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.”

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

“You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.”

“Offended people still may experience miracles, words of utterance, strong preaching, and healing in their lives. But these are gifts of the Spirit, not fruits. We will be judged according to fruit, not gifting. A gift is given. Fruit is cultivated.”

“I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.”

“You sit at a desk twelve hours a day and you have nothing to show for it except some numbers that won't exist or be remembered in a week. You're leaving no evidence you lived. There's no proof.”

“Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.”

“We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.”

“Every relationship is an education. Each new person we welcome into our hearts is a chance to evolve into something radically different than we used to be. But what happens when those people disappear from our lives?”

“I am nothing if not gracious," Will said. His eyes searched Jem's face, that face as familiar to him as his own. "And determined. You will not leave me. Not while I live.”

“Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving
ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing
each other out. We set this house
on fire, forgetting that we live within.

(from "To a Meadowlark," for M. L. Smoker)”

“I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.”

“Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead. Most of these people are very immature. They lead "still" lives, waiting.”

“So the freshness lives on
in a lemon,
in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,
the proportions, arcane and acerb.”

“You're too young to decide to live forever.”

“There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.”

“Most dancers I know, especially the talented and successful ones, seem to possess [my dog's] knack for living moment to moment. You see, their idea of time is related to those infinitely short moments when they are onstage being their superselves.”

“We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.”

“It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.”

“We live in a pretty apathetic age, yet we’re surrounded by an enormous amount of information about other people. If you feel like it, you can easily gather that information about them. Having said that, we still hardly know anything about people.”

“We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.”

“Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.”

“Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!”

“Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.”

“A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.”

“We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us”