Quotes About Living

Our charge is not to 'save the world' after all," (activist Courtney Martin)'s written. "It is to live in it, flawed and fierce, loving and humble.

The mystery and art of living are as grand as the sweep of a lifetime and the lifetime of a species. And they are as close as beginning, quietly, to mine whatever grace and beauty, whatever healing and attentiveness, are possible in this moment and the next and the next one after that.

proudly living in a refrigerator-sized apartment with three other students.

No one acknowledged that she was the one who supported them because a teacher's salary would not cover the cost of living in California

Leo the piano teacher taught out of a garden apartment and lived upstairs with his girlfriend, Jenny.

It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind to say goodbye.

Don't worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living. Be brave." - Grandpa Wolcott

afternoons I remember still: how the light seemed a bell; how it seemed I'd been living inside it, waiting— I'd heard all about that one clear note it gives.

The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.

These realities must be sanctified; we must not think that a person is holy just because he has made vows. One with this outlook thinks of the hour of spiritual reading or prayer as the only time for the spiritual life and ignores the longer time dedicated to work and everyday living. The result is at best an anemic and unreliable religious personality.

This is the greatest responsibility of literature: to find in our struggle that which has a future. Literature is a living and growing thing. We must destroy that which is dying, because it does not die by itself.

La filosofía no fue sólo una disciplina escolar, sino también un arte de vivir, una ascética para la felicidad en tiempos revueltos.

Within all things, all living beings, the words of the gods lie hidden, awaiting revelation.

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.

If you will allow Jesus to fill your mind with His power and presence, you will be a living, breathing demonstration of His knowledge and wisdom while you live on planet earth.

Many efforts on behalf of animals will qualitatively improve humans' living conditions as well, which is likely to be the case.

We only have now. nobody really has more than that. The difference is, we know it.

Ruth. If I die tomorrow, I'll be dead. But while I'm here, I want to be alive. One or the other. Not the state you're in.

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, screaming, "WOO HOO What a Ride!

Being alive is nothing without being able to live.

I live for living

you are too young to feel like the only living you have left to do is vicarious.

Somehow however just knowing that I could fully expect unhappiness to return – if not predictably then nevertheless reliably – was strangely liberating. The point was that even chaos had a structure a beginning and eventually an end. It was possible to live through it. I'd been doing as much for twenty years.

Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!