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Quotes About Living

If Catholics would simply live the Sacrament of Matrimony for one generation, we would witness a transformation of society and have a Christian culture.
~ Scott Hahn
Time is the only constant. For the living it never stops... For the dead it doesn't matter... And for the undead? For the undead, time is a joke to be laughed at!
~ Scott Snyder
The deep-cover team had chosen the apartment building because it was the biggest along Feaver's route to and from the office. Large was better, more an ominous. Living undercover, she was supposed to avoid making new acquaintances, since even the friendliest inquiries my trip you up
~ Scott Turow
Spirit: In floods of being, in action's storm, Up and down I wave, To and fro I flee, Birth and the grave, An infinite sea, A changeful weaving, An ardent living; The ringing loom of Time is my care, And I weave God's living garment there
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ich gestehe dir gern, dass diejenigen die Glücklichsten sind, die gleich den Kindern in den Tag hineinleben.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And still you wonder why your heart is anxious and your breast constricted, why a pain you cannot account for inhibits your vitality completely! You are surrounded, not by the living world in which God placed mankind, but, amid smoke and mustiness, only by bones of beasts and of the dead.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Život je naljepši pronalazak prirode, a smrt njena vještina, da što bolje iskoristimo život.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
~ John Adams
Just keep playing, mastering as you do the step Into disorder this one meant. Don't you see It's all we can do? Meanwhile, great fires Arise, as of haystacks aflame. The dial has been set And that's ominous, but all your graciousness in living Conspires with it, now that this is our home: A place to be from, and have people ask about.
~ John Ashbery
All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.
~ John Banville
All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.
~ John Banville
Freedom all solace to man gives;He lives at ease that freely lives.
~ JOHN BARBOUR
The sciences paint an impersonal and objective account of the world, deliberately devoid of "meaning", telling us about origins and mechanics of life, by revealing nothing of the joys and sorrows of living.
~ John Barrow
an intriguing puzzle that diverted him from the unbearable burden of living. HIJMS
~ John Birmingham
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
~ John Brown
The best way to prepare for death is to live life to its fullest.
~ John Bytheway
Some men wrest a living from those who wrest a living from nature and with their hands; this is called trade. Some men wrest a living from those who wrest a living from those who wrest a living from nature and with their hands; this is called finance.
~ John C. Bogle
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
~ John C. Maxwell
There was a very cautious man Who never laughed or played He never risked, he never tried, He never sang or prayed. And when he on day passed away, His insurance was denied, For since he never really lived, They claimed he never really died. (Anonymous poem)
~ John C. Maxwell
Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
~ John Cage
Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
~ John Calvin
This far, indeed, we differ from each other, in that everyone appropriates to himself some peculiar error; but we are all alike in this, that we substitute monstrous fictions for the one living and true God—
~ John Calvin
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
~ John Calvin
Prayer is learning to live, without expecting to see results; it is learning to love, without hoping to see return; it is learning to be, without demanding to have. We cannot live and love and simply be, unless we are consumed by a total commitment to detachment.
~ John Chryssavgis