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Quotes About Living

Totul se redusese la a bea ast?zi, pentru c? s-ar putea s? nu mai existe ziua de mâine.
~ Ian Kershaw
My father was a real interesting cat. He fixed conveyor belts for a living. He was a blue-collar worker, but at night he dressed like a player.
~ Unknown
People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.
~ Idries Shah
The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living.
~ Idries Shah
Sufism," according to the Sufi, "is an adventure in living, necessary adventure.
~ Idries Shah
El Sufismo – según el Sufi – es una aventura viviente, una aventura necesaria.
~ Idries Shah
La importancia de la morada está en el morador.
~ Idries Shah
La gente mantiene conversaciones enteras basadas en proverbios. Pero no están VIVIENDO los proverbios.
~ Idries Shah
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
~ Ignazio Silone
Truth is truth, not the explanations of Truth. Truth is a living, moving process. Truth is constantly undulating and vibrating. You can become one with the Truth, but you cannot adequately explain it.
~ Ilchi Lee
We have an innate sensibility for being content,feeling joyful, and living in happiness without conditions. Happiness is a natural condition of existence.
~ Ilchi Lee
That, combined with the look of absolute rage on their faces, gave them the likeness of furies released from the depths to wage chaos on the living world
~ Colin Meloy
We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
~ Unknown
Both areas are relatively closed populations with low standards of living and both contain Native American reservations. In this context, if one were going to conduct a program of testing new technological toys on an unwitting population
~ Unknown
Never looking back, or too far in front of me. The present is a gift, and I just wanna to be.
~ Common
It was not that authority came without crushing weight, just that the alternative was living at another's whim.
~ Conn Iggulden
Naked then my soul shall feel primal darkness softly steal closer, closer, all about, blotting all the light of living out.
~ Conrad Aiken
In the circle of successful living, prayer is the hub that holds the wheel together. Without our contact with God we are nothing. With it, we are 'a little lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor.
~ Conrad Hilton
The funny thing about life is that it's slowly ending, every second of every day, but it's the fear of ending that drives us the most to live.
~ Unknown
New York. The world's most dramatic city. Like a permanent short circuit, sputtering and sparking up into the night sky all night long. No place like it for living. And probably no place like it for dying. ("New York Blues")
~ Cornell Woolrich
It was a brave city, she decided, eyeing them. Brave in its other sense; not courageous, so much as outstanding, commanding. It was too nice a town to die in. Though it had no honeysuckle vines and no balconies and no guitars, it was meant for love. For living and for love, and the two were inseparable; one didn't come without the other. ("Too Nice A Day To Die")
~ Cornell Woolrich
Having a bottom is living with the enemy. Not only do they spend their lives slowly inflating, they flirt with men while we're looking the other way.
~ Unknown
This is not wilderness for designation or for a park. Not a scenic wilderness and not one good for fishing or the viewing of wildlife. It is wilderness that gets into your nostrils, that runs with your sweat. It is the core of everything living, wilderness like molten iron.
~ Craig Childs
I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me.
~ Craig Ferguson