Quotes About Living

I live loving life.

For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.

Forget the Past. Doubt the Future. Love the Present.

Better live than dead.

His love is like an unquenchable fire and He refreshes with living waters. I thirst daily and go to the well to drink and be consumed

A very different meaning of equality has emerged in the United States in recent decades—equality of outcome. Everyone should have the same level of living or of income, should finish the race at the same time. Equality of outcome is in clear conflict with liberty. The attempt to promote it has been a major source of bigger and bigger government, and of government-imposed restrictions on our liberty.

Without conscious rituals of loss and renewal, individuals and societies lose the capacity to experience the sorrows and joy that are essential for feeling fully human. Without them life flattens out, and meaning drains from both living and dying. Soon there is a death of meaning and an increase in meaningless deaths.

By accelerating the process of the growth of metals, the metallurgist was precipitating temporal growth: geological tempo was by him changed to living tempo. This bold conception, whereby man defends his full responsibility vis-a-vis Nature, already gives us a glimpse of something of the work of the alchemist.

Taking just makes me feel like I'm dying. Giving makes me feel like I'm living.

If we know, in the end, that we can ultimately have that peace with dying, then we can finally do the really hard thing. Which is? Make peace with living.

He was invested in something else: giving himself away. At some point, during his dying, it became his immortality. Giving is living.

Yes. But there's a better approach. To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.

What a waste," he said. "All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it." Morrie had a better idea. He made some calls. He chose a date. And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for a "living funeral.

People are slowly dying everywhere, he said. They are also continuously living. Every moment they draw breath. they can find the glory I put here on Earth, if they look for it.

That's what we're all looking for. A certain peace with the idea of dying. If we know, in the end, that we can ultimately have that peace with dying, then we can finally do the really hard thing." Which is? "Make peace with living.

To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time... That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.

Not aging is not the same as living, and without human contact, his soul dried up.

Living without love was something he knew more about than any soul on Earth. The more Sarah spoke of loneliness, the clearer it became why he was there.

When you are measuring life, you are not living it...

When you are measuring life, you are not living it. I know.

Without being too blunt—you are a bachelor who lived with another bachelor for many years." "Purely platonic, I assure you." "If you say so.

When I failed again and again to reproduce life in some satisfactory and perfect form, I was the more imprisoned, for all my carefree living, within my craving for this satisfaction.

But beauty is more, after all, than bones, for, while bones belong to death and endure after decay, beauty is a living thing.

Madame de Pompadour excelled at an art which the majority of human beings thoroughly despise because it is unprofitable and ephemeral: the art of living. Change is the greatest aphrodisiac of all.