Quotes About Living

Philosophie bedeutet, sein Leben zu denken und sein Denken zu leben. Besser denken um besser zu leben.

The knowledge that she was needed by something living, that she could benefit another creature, produce happiness, or contentment, or just a feeling of security--somehow it filled a part of her as nothing else had.

any case, Oakeshott found he could enjoy the world, in spite of living 'after Auschwitz' and in the midst of 'the crisis of modernity.

The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon the ground before them and they watched the fire which does contain within it something of men themselves inasmuch as they are less without it and are divided from their origins and are exiles. For each fire is all fires, and the first fire and the last ever to be.

How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.

He said that even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering and he thought that he'd guessed out likewise for the living a nominal grief like a grange from which disaster and ruin are proportioned by laws of equity too subtle for divining.

The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon the ground before them and they watched the fire which does contain within it something of men themselves inasmuch as they are less without it and are divided from their origins and are exiles. For each fire is all fires, the first fire and the last ever to be.

Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I dont want to confront him.

If I could plan my life I wouldnt want to live it.

Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.

You have to have a habitual vision of greatness … you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity … believe in fact that living is connected to giving.

What terrible human presumption it is to catch other living creatures and hold them captive!

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest; the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. Sir David Attenborough

The difference between reading a story and studying a story is the difference between living the story and killing the story and looking at its guts.

He mulled that over. Sheriff Connally woulda let us shoot 'em. I reached over and took his coffee away from him. Yep. Lucian probably would have done the job himself, but we're living in more enlightened times. I drained his cup and handed it back with a smile. Ain't it grand?

The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME~ Old Wrinkly

The past haunts the present in mores ways than we realize. It certainly scares the living daylights out of me.

What more do you need? Poetry? Poetry is in the living. Little Sister, in the dreaming. Nobody in the world can teach you that.

What Jesus is saying here, powerfully and clearly, is that if you do the work of transforming your being, moving beyond the egoic mind, then you become a living spirit.

But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive. from 'The Fallen Kings.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. Cyril Connolly (English critic and editor, 1903-1974)

Esa es la única forma de solucionar el problema industrial: enseñar a la gente a que sepa vivir y viva en la belleza sin necesidad de comprar.

If you could only tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing! But it's no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily...