Quotes About Living

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

I believe, in fact I am certain, that many men never give out the whole of themselves, their deepest truth. They live on the surface, and yet, so rich is the soil of humanity that even this thin outer layer is able to yield a kind of meager harvest which gives the illusion of real living.

There's only one true identity—to be a living creature among living creatures. To be ephemeral and to value the Other, because he is ephemeral as well.

Man has been driven eternally at a primal level within the core of his being to find the intersection of finite matter and infinity, which energy represents in its most un-manifested form. The energy that animates all matter, in particular living matter, is accepted as either representative of, or a subset of, the infinite creation.

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now.

Almond Blossom. if you don't look closely at the rings of the branches, it could be by anyone. well, anyone who was among the greatest painters of the century: matisse, perhaps. anyone who had studied prints from the japanese. anyone who loved light, and living things. anyone who believed in the rebirth of nature, the seasons of existence, the blossoming of the creative.

Ne'er of the living can the living judge - too blind the affection, or too fresh the grudge.

Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

If we could learn how to balance rest against effort, calmness against strain, quiet against turmoil, we would assure ourselves of joy in living and psychological health for life.

Laughing deeply is living deeply.

Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers, fears, or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled, the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated, the spark and brilliance are also gone.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

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

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.

If you observe a really happy man, you will find ... that he is happy in tiie course of living life twenty-four crowded hours each day.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing-here is perfection of character.

Every day is a little life ... live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.

The minds of people are so cluttered up with every-day living these days that they don't, or won't, take time out for a little prayer-for mental cleansing, just as they take a bath for physical, outer cleansing. Both are necessary.

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.