Quotes About Living

How we experience life is in direct relationship to our inner condition: to our psychological health and maturity and our understanding of the purpose for living, and what we are willing to do to live our lives successfully.

Consider living to be a great adventure. Be interested in the possibilities of learning, doing, and accomplishing. Enthusiasm is evidence of your appreciation for life and living. Apathy and disinterest indicate an inclination toward death.

One demonstration of the power of the State is the fact that it has so colonized our imaginations as to make itself seem natural, leaving us unable to think of a different way. Yet for the majority of human existence we have lived without the State.

Qual é o princípio ético?". De repente, como um relâmpago, apareceu na sua cabeça a expressão: "reverência pela vida". Tudo o que é vivo deseja viver. Tudo o que é vivo tem o direito de viver. Nenhum sofrimento pode ser imposto sobre as coisas vivas, para satisfazer o desejo dos homens.

A vida é bela. Pare de namorar a morte! Beba a taça até o fim!

You could go through a whole lifetime in your head dreaming of another life, instead of living your own. Steve

Little is accomplished if one tries to understand these words theoretically. Much more can be gained when one creates sacred moments in life when one is willing to energetically fill one's soul with the living content of such words.

Our human dependence on the living processes of the earth was largely forgotten with the growth of industrial civilization. Now we are being forced to remember that Gaia is greater than we are and that the human economy is embedded within the ecology of the biosphere. So, in what sense is Gaia alive? And what difference does it make if we think of her as a living organism, as opposed to an inanimate physical system?

This would have once been a place for contemplation. He looked up at the towers surrounding him. Many of the dead bodies had been removed. Their places had been taken by the living.

Until death comes, all is life.

When it comes to loving and living and dying, there is no such thing as being modern and fashionable. Some things will never change. For it isn't time that's passing by, my friend; it is you and I.

There is much to celebrate – just being alive, to begin with.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

It's a way of living with tragedy, I guess, to claim after it happens that you saw it coming, as if somehow you had already made the necessary adjustments beforehand.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

Live. For Now. For the time being.

I felt that I was really living in the moment. I did not know where my life was going, but right now the future did not trouble me.

selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

I thought of neither the future or the past; I lived only in the present."- Madonna in A Fur Coat

The best way to honor the dead was by making their passing useful to the living.

Living totally does not mean just having a good time. It means experiencing anything that comes your way fully and intensely. The very process of life is the dissolution of karma. If you live every moment of your life totally, you dissolve an enormous volume of karma.

Unless you do the right things, the right things will not happen to you. Principles and philosophies are only of social consequence. It is time to wake up to yourself as an existential being, a living being, rather than a psychological case. Then your destiny will be your own. One hundred percent your own. This is not an idle promise. It is a guarantee.

To be peaceful and joyful is not the end of life; it is the beginning of life. If you are not even peaceful, if you are caught up in your mental nonsense, you have not started living yet. Being peaceful or joyful is the most basic requirement.