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Quotes About Living

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.
~ Rajneesh
It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.
~ Adoniram Judson Gordon
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.
~ George Herbert Mead
Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.
~ Catherine Opie
A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.
~ Thorstein Veblen
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
~ E. O. Wilson
Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
~ John Henry Newman
The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living.
~ Wayne Muller
What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?
~ Thomas Carlyle
God is the fountain of all living waters.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Who is the spring of living water? The Sovereign Lord.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I believe in living healthily and sustainably, and looking to nature for renewal and inspiration.
~ Jay Woodman
Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.
~ Gary Paulsen, Hatchet
My driving career is low, but musically, it's all pretty high. It's a test of patience, takes forever, but I guess that's the nature of the thing of life. I'm glad to be living the musical life.
~ Steve Kimock
Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein
Find joy and peace in this very moment.
~ Nhat Hanh
But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.
~ Hermann Hesse
As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in.So, I'm concerned about peace.I'm concerned about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.
~ Herbie Hancock
Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.
~ Andrew Jackson
Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.
~ David O. McKay
Today let's give thanks for life. For life itself. For simply being born!
~ Daphne Rose Kingma
Tomorrow has not invited you yet, so LIVE for today! Tomorrow is near, yet so far away. Choose this day to smile, laugh, love unconditionally, and be happy within.
~ Stephanie Lahart