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Quotes About Living

Art is not living. It is the use of living.
~ Audre Lorde
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present, and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
~ Audrey Hepburn
Frustrations are the privilege of the living and transcending them is a privilege of the wise.
~ Augusto Cury
So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.
~ Author Unknown
He envied her, sensing that she lived each day as if it was her last.
~ B.J. Daniels
I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too.
~ Paul Muldoon
I think the sound of 'The Infamous' came naturally from our lifestyle and some of the criminal things we were doing. We always rap about what we're living, and to put a beat to lyrics like those is hard.
~ Prodigy
I just think that we're living in a world where the technology is advancing so rapidly. You're having cameras that are capable of more and more - the resolution on cameras is jumping up.
~ Peter Jackson
Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.
~ Tom Shales
My father was a bad boy, a rascal. That's what him do for a living. He just go around and have a million and one children!
~ Peter Tosh
The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
~ Victor Francis Hess
Poets are supposed to be underappreciated, don't you know? There is always a strange reaction to those who become successful in their own lifetime, and so I always felt lucky that I made the living I did out of it.
~ John Cooper Clarke
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.
~ Nicole Krauss
I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either.
~ Thomas Perry
Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.
~ Rachel Kushner
Looking back over the years, I realize the Bible isn't magic, but it is corrective; it isn't an answer book, it is a living book; it isn't a fix-it book, it is relationship book. When I confront God's word, I am confronted; when I read God's word, it reads me; when I seek God's presence, He seeks me.
~ Mike Yaconelli
We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.
~ Chrystia Freeland
The only real inspiration or muse that I have is just the life that I live.
~ Andy Biersack
I'm in a fortunate position where real estate isn't my full-time job, but I have an extreme passion in the field, so as far as picking projects, we don't have as much pressure in having to pick one in order to make a living.
~ Pat Connaughton
If I want to stay at home watching movies, I do that. If I want to take my bike out and go on a one-month holiday, I do that. To do all these things, it's first of all important for me to realise that I need to live my life.
~ Sudeep
Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.
~ Studs Terkel
I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.
~ Jack O'Connell
For me, the high street is a key part of how we live, what sort of community we are, how we get our news, and how we get our gossip.
~ Theo Paphitis
You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
~ Daniel Craig