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Quotes About Living

Someone fond of paradoxes and sufficiently stubborn could go on doubting that the ocean was a living being. But it was impossible to deny the existence of its mind, whatever could be understood by the term. It had become quite clear that it was only too aware of our presence above it…
~ Stanis?aw Lem
È Natale ogni mattino che vivi. Scarta con cura il pacco dei giorni. Ringrazia, ricambia, sorridi.
~ Stefano Benni
and it all comes down to this a gospel written in the living an incantation we pass hand to hand soul to soul it's this if you do nothing other than run run in the direction of you
~ Stephanie Greene
Are you, are you happy? I am today, she said. Maybe that's what really mattered? Living in the now, and all that crap about the past being over? The future hasn't happened, and today is forever? These aren't the kinds of statements that belonged beside question marks.
~ Stephanie Klein
For me, Buddhism is like a living organism. If it is to flourish outside self-enclosed ghettos of believers, it will have to meet the challenge of understanding, interacting with, and adapting to an environment that is strikingly different from those in which it has evolved.
~ Stephen Batchelor
Some essence of tie dead Navi survive within Eywa, and the living can communicate with them by plugging a queue into a natural porta such as the Tree of Voices. This is why the amputation of Tsu'tey's queue was so cruel; worse even than murder, denies him immortality among his ancestors.
~ Stephen Baxter
Like a sewing machine, the Dakota would offer convenience, a short-cut route to opulent living with none of the problems of upkeep, and at a fraction of the expense that went with owning a private house.
~ Stephen Birmingham
I think you of all people are alive and appreciates what that means.
~ Stephen Chbosky
people are alive and appreciate what that means. At least I hope you do because other
~ Stephen Chbosky
If you're reading these words, you won today. You are here. You are alive. You have options. You can wait out a bad situation. Move on, fight back, get out, break up, call, ask her or him out, write that book, write that song, listen to the music, take the drive, take the chance, and live. Whatever strategy you choose, you win.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Live live to the fullest! Or else...you won't.
~ Stephen Colbert
You see?' said Prometheus. 'It is your fate to be Heracles the hero, burdened with labours, yet it is also your choice. You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept that we have no will.
~ Stephen Fry
he had read and absorbed more than he could understand, so he lived by pastiche and pretence.
~ Stephen Fry
You see?" said Prometheus. "It is your fate to be Heracles the hero, burdened with labors, yet it is also your choice. You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept that we have no will.
~ Stephen Fry
James Hillman so eloquently put it, "It was only when science convinced us that nature was dead that it could begin its autopsy in earnest." A living, aware, and soul-filled world does not respond well to autopsy.
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
When you're faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realize that life is worth living and there are a lots of things you want to do.
~ Stephen Hawking
For example, a computer virus is a program that will make copies of itself in the memory of a computer, and will transfer itself to other computers. Thus it fits the definition of a living system that I have given. Like a biological virus, it is a rather degenerate form, because it contains only instructions or genes, and doesn't have any metabolism of its own. Instead, it reprograms the metabolism of the host computer, or cell.
~ Stephen Hawking
A living being like you or me usually has two elements: a set of instructions that tell the system how to keep going and how to reproduce itself, and a mechanism to carry out the instructions.
~ Stephen Hawking
A living being like you or me usually has two elements: a set of instructions that tell the system how to keep going and how to reproduce itself, and a mechanism to carry out the instructions. In biology, these two parts are called genes and metabolism.
~ Stephen Hawking
It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
~ Stephen King
Time is a keyhole, he thought as he looked up at the stars. Yes, I think so. We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do - the wind that blows through the keyhole- is the breath of all the living universe.
~ Stephen King
Do the day and let the day do you.
~ Stephen King
The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain — although it may think it can — the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite.
~ Stephen King
Actually, I think living's the worst habit.
~ Stephen King