Quotes About Living

The need for exercise is one of the numerous sensations which lead living beings to perform actions necessary for the preservation of life or of health.

I only get one life, and I will not let fibromyalgia take the joy from living it.

...the question isn't whether you're happy or unhappy but alive or dead.

The desire to do it was strong, but stronger still was the imperative command of his nature not to do it. In spite of himself he was still faithful to Love. The old days of license and easy living were gone. He could not bring them back, nor could he go back to them. He was changed---how changed he had not realized until now.

it. The man with the high standard of living will always do more work and better than the man with the low standard of living.

La obligación real del hombre es vivir, no existir

You should embrace your freedom, my lady. Lay down your long burden. You belong to the world of the living. Return to it.

only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.

In your mercy, Lord, give them rest. When you come to judge the living and the dead, give them rest. Eternal rest grant to them, O Lord, And let perpetual light shine upon them; in your mercy, Lord. Give them rest.

We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

O quizá no venimos tampoco para eso. La cuestión se reduce a estar vivo un instante, aunque sea un instante no más, a estar vivo

Other things being roughly equal, that man lives most keenly who lives in closest harmony with nature. To be wholly alive a man must know storms, he must feel the ocean as his home or the air as his habitation. He must smell the things of earth, hear the sounds of living things and taste the rich abundance of the soil and sea.

I think the idea of simply enduring to the end is a terrible philosophy and an awful way to live one's life. How you spend your days is how you live your life, and if you're spending them enduring anything then you're doing it wrong.

To live in thoughts of what you might have done, or in dreams of what you mean to do, this is folly: but to put away regret, to anchor anticipation, and to do and to work now, this is wisdom. Whilst a man is dwelling upon the past or future he is missing the present; he is forgetting to live now. All things are possible now, and only now.

You can find the tools to be happy right now. I still don't know what my purpose is. I'm afraid I will never know. That makes me very happy. Maybe I can have lots of adventures between today and the day I die. Maybe I can do lots of different things. And if I don't—if I die even tomorrow—that's fine also. What does purpose mean when we are dead? We might as well choose to be happy now.

Most people obsess on regrets in their past or anxieties in their future. I call this "time-travelling". The past and future don't exist. They are memories and speculation, neither of which you have any control over. You don't need to time travel anymore. You can live right now.

As of January of 2013 almost half the world lived on less than $2.5 a day, and 80% of the world lived on less than $10 a day

I felt in her marvellously living body the possibility of legitimate surrender.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Now, but these three, cried Jurgen, are the glory of Philistia: and of all that Philistia has produced, it is these three alone, whom living ye made least of, that today are honored wherever art is honored, and where nobody bothers one way or the other about Philistia.

that all-seeing eye which reads the heart, could not fail to discriminate between the living and the dead, and the gentle soul of the unfortunate girl was already far removed beyond the errors, or deceptions, of any human ritual.

It was always chaos with Mom, Dad, uncles, you know; we all lived in the same building. Dinner parties with 25 people every night.

It must be extremely uncomfortable to live with a writer - all that preoccupation and brooding.

I'm good at cold reading; I've made a living doing this, and most of the time I do audition, but it's very tough. It's a very uncomfortable, awkward process. You never get used to it, really.