Quotes About Living

You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.

In this period, almost equal to that which separates us from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, well-to-do persons in Britain lived better than they ever did until late Victorian times. From the year 400 till the year 1900 no one had central heating and very few had hot baths.

Homeland is not a blot on a map but the living essence of man

El hombre inconsistente Estamos aquí sin saber el porqué. Y antes de darnos cuenta de cómo ha sido, todo se ha acabado. El quid está en disfrutar de cada momento. Estar vivos ya es un motivo de felicidad.

What passion today with Lee. She's a volcano. It was a totally fulfilling experience... Just as I dreamed it would be. (nodding slightly as he takes off his slippers) That's what it was. It was like living out a dream...a great dream.

He wrote the definitive book on How to Achieve Orgasm in a Rent-Controlled Apartment.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. - Xenophon

That I was a swimmer made no waves; it seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain climbers.

Living on the edge wasn't about danger, he realized. It was about curiosity; audacious curiosity, like

live to the fullest or die; and die you will anyway, so start living!

I live in the present because the future is always chancy. When it comes to being with you, I'm willing to take the risk.

This is businesslike stuff, but he also lets us feel how his own awareness of the importance of the day through which he is living expands and permeates everything as the hours go by:

A whim did not provide a living.

Right now, at this moment in time, life was just right. He'd discovered this before. If you don't look forward and you don't look back, you can fix yourself in now and enjoy it.

I have always believed in living in the present; not only to-day, but the very present instant. News that is a day or two days old has lost its interest for me.

Nada existe de mais difícil do que entregar-se ao instante. Esta dificuldade é dor humana.

But this is not eternity, it is condemnation. How opulent this silence is. It is the accumulation of centuries. It is the silence of a cockroach looking. The world looks at itself in me. Everything looks at everything, everything experiences the other; in this desert things know things. Things know things as much as this… this something that I shall call pardon, if I wish to save myself within the human plan. It is pardon in itself. Pardon is one of the attributes of living matter.

Entonces se defendía de la muerte viviendo menos, gastando poco de su vida para que no se le acabara.

Como se explica que o meu maior medo seja exatamente o de ir vivendo o que for sendo?

The eroticism inherent in living things is scattered through the air, in the sea, in the plants, in us, scattered in the vehemence of my voice, I'm writing you with my voice...

I am going to create what happened to me. Only because living isn't tellable. Living isn't livable. I shall have to create upon life. And without lying. Yes to creation, no to lying. Creation isn't imagination, it's running the huge risk of coming face to face with reality.

Why is a dog free? Because it is the living mystery that doesn't wonder about itself.

The time to live, my love, was being so right now that I leaned my mouth on living matter.

Pues prescidir de la esperanza significa que tengo que pasar a vivir y no solo a prometerme la vida. Y este es el mayor miedo que puedo tener.