Quotes About Living

Life loves the liver of it.

As I ate she began the first of what we later called "my lessons in living." She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors. She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations.

Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible.

Hadn't I, always, but ever and ever, thought that life was just one great risk for the living?

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

She lived life as if it had been created just for her

The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

Ma vie a été longue, et sachant que la vie chérit ceux qui la vivent, j'ai osé tout tenter, tremblante parfois, mais osant, néamoins

Life seems to love the liver of it.

Momma could not take the smallest achievement for granted. People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Hadn't I always, forever and ever, thought that life was just one great big risk for the living?

It's no way to live, in fear of living in case of pain

Aaron, in order to die you have to live a little first.

Father Dominic, however is a way better mediator than I am. Well, maybe not better. But different, certainly. See, he really feels that ghosts are best handled with gentle guidance and earnest advice-same as the living. I'm more in favor of a sort of get-to-the-point approach that tends to involve my fists.

You gotta take chances in this life or you're already dead.

If there is anything else you desire, Your—" "I desire"—the king interrupted in a level voice—"never again to see your living face.

Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead but about the ways in which the dead drag us along into their shadowy realm because we cannot let them go. So we follow them into the Underworld, descending, descending, until one day we turn and make our way back.

Instead of fearing the future, I should live and enjoy the present, she told herself.

I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this.

Detachment involves "present moment living"—living in the here and now. We allow life to happen instead of forcing and trying to control it. We relinquish regrets over the past and fears about the future. We make the most of each day. Detachment

Detachment involves "present moment living"—living in the here and now. We allow life to happen instead of forcing and trying to control it. We relinquish regrets over the past and fears about the future. We make the most of each day.

Fun is a normal part of being alive. Fun is taking time to celebrate being alive.

Detachment involves "present moment living"—living in the here and now. We allow life to happen instead of forcing and trying to control it.