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Quotes About Living

beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.
~ Bob Marley
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
~ Bob Proctor
We need to challenge the hierarchy in our own lives, and begin living in a way that promotes mutuality. If we take this point seriously, it only makes sense that we begin systematically examining and extirpating hierarchical thinking and actions from our lives. Only in this way, will we begin to reconceptualize our relations with each other and with the natural world as complementary rather than dominant and conquering.
~ Bob Torres
My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.
~ Bobby Darin
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.
~ Bodhidharma
I don't believe in riches, but you should see where I live.
~ bono quotes iii
There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
~ Booker T. Washington
I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
~ Booker T. Washington
I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant, unexpected encouragements of this kind (surprises) if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day of his life -- that is, tries to make each day reach as nearly as possible the high-water mark of pure, unselfish, useful living. I pity the man, black or white, who has never experienced the joy and satisfaction that come to one by reason of an effort to assist in making someone else more useful and more happy.
~ Booker T. Washington
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
~ Boris Pasternak
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
~ Boris Pasternak
I never look back darling. It distracts from the now.
~ Brad Bird
Every raw-milk cheese is an artifact of the land; it carries the imprint of the earth from which it came. A cheese—even a fresh chèvre—is never just a thing to put in your mouth. It's a living piece of geography. A sense of place.
~ Brad Kessler
Possibly the only dismaying aspect of excellence is that it makes living in a world of mediocrity an ongoing prospect of living hell.
~ Harlan Ellison
Style, like taste, is resistant to lucid definition; however, both, as living things should be, are subject to constant change.
~ Harlan Ellison
We are great fools. "He has spent his life in idleness," we say; "I have done nothing today." What, have you not lived? That is not only the most fundamental but the most illustrious of your occupations. . . . To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
~ Harold Bloom
para poder vivir con otras personas tengo que poder vivir conmigo mismo. La única cosa que no se rige por la regla de la mayoría es la conciencia de uno. Cuando
~ Harper Lee
God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things.
~ Harper Lee
But to die – actually to die – that's an honour only ever granted to the living. The cost of admission.
~ Harry Bingham
DIS ... DIS ... DIS ... it was a word it was a planet and the word thundered like a drum a drum the sound of its thunder surrounded and was a wasteland a planet of death a planet where living was dying and dying was very better than living DIS
~ Harry Harrison
They are living symbols of the state of decay of our culture, just as this wasteland is a vastly more important symbol, that is why I am here.
~ Harry Harrison
As I see it, you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside. Something heavy. I felt it from the first time I met you. You have a strong gaze, as if you have made up your mind about something. To tell you the truth, I myself carry such things around inside. Heavy things. That is how I can see it in you.
~ Haruki Murakami
I've never once thought about how I was going to die," she said. "I can't think about it. I don't even know how I'm going to live.
~ Haruki Murakami
We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.
~ Haruki Murakami