Quotes About Living

I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it!

Anyone who tells you that the core issue is the needs of those living here illegally has simply spent too much time in Washington.

I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.

It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

Mastery means responsibility, ability to respond in real time to the need of the moment. Intuitive or inspired living means not just passively hearing the voice, but acting on it.

That maybe you should make the most of what time you have? That you shouldlive while you're alive?

When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.

I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.

In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.

I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.

It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.

You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it.

Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain.

I see Death as the part of us that knows all the time that we're going to die, reminding us to live properly.

There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.

Man must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise what a great privilege and what an enormous joy to be living here!

All say, 'how hard it is that we have to die' -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!

To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the what is next of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways;

Without dreams and goals there is no living, merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

Start living right here, in each present moment. When we stop dwelling on the past or worrying about the future, we're open to rich sources of information we've been missing out on—information that can keep us out of the downward spiral and poised for a richer life.

There is something eerie about the odd stillness that settles on the living room then . . . It is as if this scene has been impossibly fixed and will never change again.