Quotes About Living

practice living without limits by gathering virtue and modeling it.

Seize the present moment as the only one you have. And remember, wishing, hoping, and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.

When you live in the now, you allow yourself the freedom to enjoy a moment, rather than postponing that gratification or joy because you've got something more pressing to do.

Later is never going to come, because it is always now, now, now, now, now. Now alignment or not. Now alignment or not. Now alignment or not. And when you show yourself that you can have now alignment, now alignment, now alignment, now you're living the way you intended to live.

When you see the world as full of opportunities to help, one thought and one action at a time, you'll be living by your inner light. The great

It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.

As I did not know then but know now, the surface of the river is like a living soul, which is easy to disturb, is often disturbed, but, growing calm, shows what it was, is, and will be.

And having returned from the woods, we remember with regret its restfulness. For all creatures there are in place, hence at rest.   In their most strenuous striving, sleeping and waking, dead and living, they are at rest.   In the circle of the human we are weary with striving, and are without rest.

Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came.

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

Some day, we will all die, Snoopy. True, but on all the other days, we will not.

I think this is irresponsible preaching and very dangerous, and especially when it is slanted toward children, I think it's totally irresponsible, because I see nothing biblical that points up to our being in the last days, and I just think it's an outrageous thing to do, and a lot of people are making a living—they've been making a living for 2,000 years—preaching that we're in the last days.

It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now – this day – this hour.

My coffee had grown cold. I looked down and saw a half cut of cold coffee staring back at me. That meant, in my haste, I had not sucked it down so fast that I hadn't truly tasted it. Working with Marshall, I learned how to find and brew great coffee, but living with Hack, I learned how to taste it. Big difference.

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live. —Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

living in low-density sprawl puts residents at greater risk of arthritis, chronic lung disease, digestive problems, headaches, and urinary tract infections.

Life was not something we did not know about. We were right in it. (page 4)

As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.

Remembering becomes a power in the present because the God who once acted for me is the living God who today makes me sure of what he has done." —MEDITATING ON THE WORD

But just as the capacity to forget is a gift of grace, so memory, the recalling of the lessons we have learnt, is an essential element in responsible living." —LETTERS AND PAPERS FROM PRISON

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Making money takes time, so when we shop, we're really spending time. The real cost of living isn't measured in dollars and cents but in the hours and minutes we must work to live."1