Quotes About Living

The truth is we're all dying, the lie is we're all living.

Living beautifully and justly are the source of all joy and happiness.

Service to the humanity is the source of joy and happiness. It is the rent you pay for living on this beautiful planet.

There is no style in dieting but we become beautiful when we change our style of living.

I can't imagine a duller fate than being the best-dressed woman in reality. When I want to do something, I don't pause to contemplate whether I'm exquisitely gowned. I want to live, not pose!

I think the meaning of life is life itself. We don't necessarily want to know what it is, but we want to live it. Hopefully, we'll go out fast without knowing it.

I don't care how old I live! I just want to be living while I am living!

You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: 'Played it Safe.'

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: "I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live."

I'm alive and I want to keep living.

But it [crony capitalism] erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.

You don't have to find out you're dying to start living. I want to be remembered as a kid who went down fighting, and didn't really lose.

Everyone makes choices in life. Some bad, some good. It's called living, and if you want to bow out, then go right ahead. But don't do it halfway. Don't linger in whiner's limbo.

Regret-free living isn't found by continuing to do flawed things, then simply "working through" the regret they cause and moving on.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

At the close of the nineteenth century, most biologists thought life consisted solely of matter and energy. But after Watson and Crick, biologists came to recognize the importance of a third fundamental entity in living things: information.

People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things - where they left their keys, or the name of an acquaintance - but no one ever talks about how much effort we put into forgetting. I am exhausted from the effort to forget... There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

A carnal worshipper is taken with the beauty and magnificence of the temple; a spiritual worshipper desires to see the glory of God in the sanctuary (Psalm lxiii. 2), he pants after God: as he came to worship, to find God, he boils up in desires for God, and is loth to go from it without God, "the living God" (Psalm xlii. 2).

One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.

Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.

Damn the future, right? It's right now that matters. When you don't have a fu- ture, it's always right now that means everything.

Steven Projan of Wyeth Research puts it, bacteria "are the oldest of living organisms and thus have been subject to three billion years of evolution in harsh environments and therefore have been selected to withstand chemical assault.

The foundational problem with that view is that all living organisms, it turns out, are self-organized and all of them show emergent behaviors.

Lewontin goes on to say, "The characteristic of a living object is that it reacts to external stimuli rather than being passively propelled by them. An organism's life consists of constant mid-course corrections."11