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Quotes About Living

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.
~ Ambrose Bierce
All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.
~ Anna Quindlen
Are you living just a little and calling that life?
~ Annie Dillard
I believe that companies, doing business in a responsible and sustainable way, can help raise the quality of life and standards of living in some of the poorest parts of the world
~ Antony Burgmans
Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.
~ Arda Collins
Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
~ Arnold Bennett
Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
~ Ben Stein
Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .
~ Benjamin Franklin
No matter what we predict for our futures, we're always wrong anyway. The only sensible thing to do is to live this life as it is right now. Leave what happens after you die till after you die.
~ Brad Warner
I'm not trying to say that people don't have the right opinion but I have to live my life. And I'm living it and I'm loving it.
~ Brandon Jennings
Life is all we have, and if we can't look at it honestly, are we really living?
~ Carol Plum-Ucci
Life is the one thing you cannot get out of alive.
~ Casey Wilson
How dare you, unless you can hold up your own life as a model of rectitude, achievement, and halcyon happiness, open your mouth about the stubborn secrets of living?
~ Celestine Sibley
I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.
~ Charles de Lint
Life is too short not to live it up a little!
~ Charles M. Schulz
There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.
~ Charlie Kaufman
Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well.
~ Charlotte Moss
The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living."
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I'd rather have a go at life, so there's something to talk about once we're gone.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
What is man? Storyteller, mythmaker, and destroyer of the living world. Thinking
~ Edward O. Wilson
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festive gathering, 23 to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven,
~ Edward William Fudge
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
~ Edward Young