Quotes About Living

Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us?

I commend your patience," he said. "The black beast spurs Ellidyr cruelly." "I think he'll feel better once we find the cauldron," Taran said. "There will be glory enough for all to share." Adaon smiled gravely. "Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.

Didn't life consist of the things you did each day?

Dying's easy. Illyan's drawn features grew distant. How much did he remember of his agonized pleading to Miles for an easy death, so few weeks ago? Living's hard. Let the son of a bitch stand his court-martial. Every last eternal minute of it.

Those five days we were locked up together at Vasa Luigi's, that wasn't an effect of the imprisonment, was it? That's the way you really are, when you're well? Pretty much, he admitted. I've always wondered what adult hyperactives did for a living.

Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge? Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge.

Every day was a gift, each year a miracle. She was living her whole life as a smash-and-grab, and he heartily approved.

You're the man who used to rescue hostages for a living. You are not allowed to not get out of this one. So stop worrying about me and start paying attention to what you are doing. Are you listening to me, Miles Vorkosigan? Don't you dare die! I won't have it!" That seemed definitive. Despite everything, he grinned. "Yes, dear," he sang back meekly, heartened.

Conversely, symbols in visions are actually living things in that plane. Let's say I am faced, in a vision, by a terrible fire demon (a symbol of something I need to confront). I need only protect myself with a symbol—perhaps the banishing pentagram of fire, a symbol to me of the mastery of spirit over the elements, but a living thing to the demon who is forced by all the laws of its own existence to submit and obey.

Hoping meant you had something to live for, and living for something or someone else was asking for pain.

Even though the Voices were far more intense in the hospital than before, in some ways they were less frightening. When I was in high school and college, they had sneaked up on me, blasting out of the airwaves almost without warning. By now, they had become almost familiar. I hated them. I suffered from them. But they seemed almost a normal part of living. I knew them. I understood them and they understood me.

You only live at once. Which seemed to her all the more reason to be careful, to take it easy, to have an ordinary life.

To survive? What is that? A mouse lives, a fly lives; one flees in terror, another lives in filth. They exist, they are, but do they live?

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

Each day is a day to live and in which to keep from dying, and a man's energies are directed out from himself and his thoughts as well.

There are many Beth's in the world, who and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully, that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.

You don't really think I am such a mercenary creature as I tried to be once, do you? It would break my heart, if you didn't believe that I'd gladly pull in the same boat with you, even if you had to get your living by rowing the lake.

It is only familiarity, [Bonnard] seems to say, that can elicit such a profound relationship to our living spaces, but only if we see these places as if for the first time.

The first rule of a bureaucracy is to protect the bureaucracy. If the people running the welfare program had let their clientele find other ways of making a living, that would have reduced their importance and their budget.

I hope when you are my age, you'll be able to say - as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. Our lives were a statement, not an apology.

Os deseo un año de salud, de satisfacciones, de buen trabajo, un año durante el cual tengáis cada día el gusto de vivir, sin esperar que los días que hayan tenido que pasar para encontrar su satisfacción y sin tener necesidad de poner esperanzas de felicidad en los días que hayan de venir.

Morir es parte de la vida, no de la muerte: hay que vivir la muerte. Iona Heath

Morir es parte de la vida, no de la muerte: hay que vivir la muerte. Doctora Iona Heath

I am not in search of friends and confidences. I'm concentrating on being. I live each hour, one by one. My mind is quiet and still. I am no longer waiting for time to pass