Quotes About Living

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

According to Epictetus, the primary concern of philosophy should be the art of living: Just as wood is the medium of the carpenter and bronze is the medium of the sculptor, your life is the medium on which you practice the art of living.

They tell us to live each day as if it were our last. They tell us to practice Stoicism in part so we will not fear death.

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

There is a war between the living and the dead, and the Irish stories keep harping upon it. ("The Queen And The Fool")

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

The dream of an unworked natural landscape is very much the fantasy of people who have never themselves had to work the land to make a living.

Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

In a community where the standard of living is high, and the conditions of production are favorable, there is a wide margin within which an individual may practise self-denial and win capital without suffering, if he has not the charge of a family. That

We were late among the living, and by the time God got to us ice was already slipping from the poles as if from an imperfectly decorated cake.

Always. BATTLETECH ERAS The BattleTech universe is a living, vibrant entity that grows each year as more sourcebooks and fiction are published.

It is precisely Battuta's lack of interest in peoples outside Dar-al- Islam—the world of Islam—that testifies to Muslim dominance of medieval Asian trade. In the fourteenth century, Battuta could travel 74,000 miles through Morocco, East Africa, India, central Asia, Southeast Asia, and China and remain entirely within the Muslim cultural envelope, never having to interact in a meaningful manner with those outside it in order to survive, to travel, or even to make a living.

When stocks perform poorly, in order to raise living expenses you will be selling bonds, since their allocation will rise. Just do not forget to replenish the bond bucket with the proceeds of stock sales and to also take your living expenses from the stock bucket as well when times are flush.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it, from the moral point of view.

The dead are} "somewhere else. Beyond pain. Beyond fear. Beyond anger. Beyond caring. These are the burdens of the living. From Heaven's Keep

This is the best thing about men's friendships: most any awkwardness can be ignored by mutual agreement and, true connection being unimaginable, you can get on with the easier business of parallel living.

But things were racing too fast to linger over the past or future. There was only now.

detraction. He made his living by slander and

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

For Love is the one only Blessing and Goodness, and God of Nature; and you have no true Religion, are no Worshiper of the one true God, but in and by that Spirit of Love, which is God himself living and working in you.

We dont study philosophy, we rather do it.

urban deprivation, the condition of being so sophisticated that you plumb the nature of most other people's experience out of your life like waste. Your attitudes are so glib and self-assured and automatic, you lose the necessary naivety that is living. That way, you eat everything and taste nothing.

Laidlaw was reminded that he didn't want the heaven of the holy or the Utopia of the idealists. He wanted the scuffle of living now every day as well as he could manage without the exclusive air-conditioning of creeds and, after it, just the right to lie down with all those others who had settled for the same. It seemed to him the hardest thing to do.