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Quotes About Living

A guru might say that spiritual deepening involves a journey toward the unselfconscious living of life as it unfolds, rather than toward a willful determination to make it happen.
~ John Fortunato
It is not death that a man should fear, he should fear never beginning to live.
~ Marcus Aurelius
He who fears death cannot enjoy life.
~ Spanish proverb
To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.
~ Malcolm Forbes
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.
~ LaoTzu
A house is a machine for living.
~ Buckminster Fuller
A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living colour.
~ WILLIAM BOLITHO
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, on the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
~ Maxwell Maltz
Is life worth living? That depends on the liver.
~ Anonymous
Life is worth being lived, but not worth being discussed all the time.
~ Isabelle Adfani
Let us live, while we are alive!
~ Johann von Goethe
Life's objective is life itself.
~ Johann von Goethe
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of things that are to be.
~ Adlai Stevenson
The way of the world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.
~ Nathaniel Howe
There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.
~ George Santayana
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
~ Harold MacMillan
To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine Love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart-this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
If you observe a really happy man, you will find ... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of each day.
~ W. Beran Wolfe
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
~ Thornton Wilder
That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of a life.
~ Euripides
Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
~ Shirley Chisholm
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.
~ Brian Greene