Quotes About Living

It is this courage to be authentic that keeps us strong enough to withstand the heartbreak through which enlightenment can occur. And it is by honoring how life comes through us that we get the most out of living, not by keeping ourselves out of the way. The goal is to mix our hands in the earth, not to stay clean.

a living symbol that can call into my moment of sadness a deeper sense of plenitude and generosity that is always there, but not always accessible.

Practicing As a man in his last breath drops all he is carrying each breath is a little death that can set us free. Breathing is the fundamental unit of risk, the atom of inner courage that leads us into authentic living. With each breath, we practice opening, taking in, and releasing. Literally, the teacher is under our nose. When anxious, we simply have to remember to breathe. So often we make a commitment to change our ways, but stall in the face of

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

she reads book as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. ?

I have to acknowledge that the sea is a cup of death, and the land is a stained altar stone. We the living are survivors huddled on flotsam, living on jetsam. We are escapees. We wake in terror, eat in hunger, sleep with a mouth full of blood.

She teaches me that the world is made to be pounced on and enjoyed, and that there is absolutely no reason at all to hold back.

James could do all this because he had made a bargain with himself: he wouldn't try to get killed, nor would he try to survive. He could do all this because he felt terribly sorry for the men he rescued. They harbored the saddest and most foolish desire of all. The desire to go on living.

To those familiar with the rhythm of living there are few surprises in this world.

My father will be filled with frank astonishment that I should be proving myself capable of earning a living in any capacity whatsoever.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live." —BORIS PASTERNAK

Live life fully while you're here.

like you, I am busy making a living and taking care of my family. I didn't have the time to sit down and read 50 pages of disclosures.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. —MARK TWAIN

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dyin's as natural as livin'; man who's afraid to die is too afraid to live, far as I've ever seen. So there's nothing to do but forget it, that's all. Seems to me

I doubt whether an old man should ever live in England if he can help it.

For a poor man I think that it is, in this country. A man of fortune may be independent; and because he has the power of independence those who are higher than he will not expect him to be subservient. A man who takes to parliamentary office for a living may live by it, but he will have but a dog's life of it.

Why not grab life by the shoulders and not give too much of a damn about it?

Ninguna enfermedad te enseña a morir. Te enseña a vivir. A amar la vida con toda la fuerza que tengas. A mí el SIDA no me quita, me da ganas de vivir

A flame started on the stained fabric of the seat, then began to inch up the back. It felt like magic. He had just created it out of nothing. Now it danced and moved like a living thing.

f it be a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God,It is a more terrible thing to fall out of them.

one difference between him and other animals being that he is the most imitative of living creatures, and through imitation learns his earliest lessons; and no less universal is the pleasure felt in things imitated.

Life is a gift of nature but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom.

State comes into being for the sake of living, but it exists for the sake of living well.