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Quotes About Living

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
~ Henry Nouwen
Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live.
~ Henry Rollins
Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.
~ Henry Rollins
Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.
~ Henry Van Dyke
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
~ Henry Van Dyke
But live while you live, tomorrow you die...
~ Leo Tolstoy
Who is right and who is wrong? No one! But if you are alive—live: tomorrow you'll die as I might have died an hour ago. And is it worth tormenting oneself, when one has only a moment of life in comparison with eternity?
~ Leo Tolstoy
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
~ Leo Tolstoy
To live in the needs of the day, find forgetfulness.
~ Leo Tolstoy
One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.' 'But what makes you live? With such thoughts, you'll sit without moving, without undertaking anything...' 'Life won't leave one alone as it is.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Let the dead bury their dead; but, while we are alive, let us live.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Let the dead bury their dead, but while one has life one must live and be happy!
~ Leo Tolstoy
one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and now I do believe in it. Let the dead bury their dead, but while one has life one must live and be happy!
~ Leo Tolstoy
It is generally supposed the Conservatives are usually old people, and that those in favour of change are the young. That is not quite correct. Usually Conservatives are young people: those who want to live but who do not think about how to live, and have not time to think, and therefore take as a model for themselves a way of life that they have seen.
~ Leo Tolstoy
On the contrary one must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive, that's not my fault, so I must live out my live the best I can, without hurting others.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He could find no answer, except life's usual answer to the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: live in the needs of the day, that is, find forgetfulness. He
~ Leo Tolstoy
Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation
~ Leo Tolstoy
I don't want to play at life" I said, "But to live.
~ Leo Tolstoy
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
~ Leon Battista Alberti
Yearly we use mountains of paper and rivers of ink reprinting dead men's brains, while the living Holy Ghost is seeking for men to trample underfoot their own learning, deflate their inflated ego,
~ Leonard Ravenhill
What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.
~ Leonard Sweet
The kingdom of God is not a geographic domain with set boundaries and settled decrees, but a set of relationships in which Christ is sovereign. At the table, Jesus moves us from ideas about life and love to actual living and loving.
~ Leonard Sweet
How could I write this when I don't even dare think about it? I am terribly anguished, yet I cannot continue living alone with such a memory...I know that once this has been written down, I shall be delivered. You must know, otherwise I shall be persecuted to the end of my living days. But shall I be able to express with mere words the horror of that day?
~ Leonora Carrington