Quotes About Living

The force is an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together. Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars

Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I'll keep that in mind. I'll be of good cheer.

These Manes were present in the house through the images of the ancestors, or in the tutelary powers of the Lares. They mysteriously survived in order to help the living, provided that on their death they had received the justa, or ritual honours that were their due;

It is known that beans were the subject of an orphicopythagorean prohibition, because of certain 'sacred reasons concerning souls' (Jambl., VP, 109). They were believed to be imbued with life, and to give them as food to the dead was to spare the living who were threatened by the Lemuria.

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.

No tengo mucho tiempo, estoy viviendo.

Uno nunca termina de leer, aunque los libros se acaben, de la misma manera que uno nunca termina de vivir, aunque la muerte sea un hecho cierto.

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

But a living is not a life.

All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence by the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day living.

Do not agonize about yesterday. Do not borrow tomorrow's trouble. Let your heart hunt. Rest in the now.

finally realizing that life was to be lived, rather than hoarded against an unseen tomorrow.

The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgement.

There were times when taking vengeance for the dead seemed too high a price for abandoning the living. I

Jek is too busy living. She won't waste time on regrets.

Ahora lo entiendo. Tenía que decírmelo para espolearme. Tengo que dejar de comportarme como si hubiera un mañana donde enmendar las cosas. Todo debe hacerse ahora, de inmediato, sin pensar en el futuro. Sin creer en el futuro. Sin temer el futuro.

If only we fully lived in the present, all the tomorrows would take care of themselves

There were times when taking vengeance for the dead seemed too high a price for abandoning the living.

Is it the nature of the world that all things seek a rhythm, and in that rhythm a sort of peace? Certainly it has always seemed so to me. All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence by the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day living. Men walking a battlefield to search for wounded among the dead will still stop to cough, to blow their noses, still lift their eyes to watch a V of geese in flight.

When death finds you, may it find you alive.

If we don't exhibit a basic respect for the sacred in all living things, including our enemies (which is the real definition of "pro-life"), then we have done more than change the DNA structure of what it means to be an American. We have mangled it when it comes to being a Christian.

caring is not abstract. The circle of ecological compassion we feel is enlarged by direct experience of the living world, and shrunken by its lack.

I love my country too, and its hopes for freedom and justice. But the boundaries of what I honor are bigger than the republic. Let us pledge reciprocity with the living world.

Ceremonies large and small have the power to focus attention to a way of living awake in the world. The visible became invisible, merging with the soil.