Quotes About Living

If it's ever within your power to do so, she considered saying aloud to Brian (but didn't), you have to bear witness to your dead. You simply have to. You have to step into the energy field of whatever remains of their spirit, their soul, their essence and let it pass through your body. And in the passing, maybe a wisp of it adheres to you, grafts itself to your cells. And in this communion, the dead continue to live. Or strive to.

All living things are looking to gain an advantage for themselves, but the process also imposes a burden on them. Generally speaking, the potential gain right in front of you causes you to forget the potential disaster right behind you. The two are connected." Chuang Tzu

I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'll take up attacking women - it's a bloody hard way to make a living.

Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue, and insisted that they liked the stuff.

I wasn't used to living crowded cheek by jowl with numbers of other people, as was customary here. People ate, slept, and frequently copulated, crammed into tiny, stifling cottages, lit and warmed by smoky peat fires. The only thing they didn't do together was bathe - largely because they didn't bathe.

accept the notion of one's own mortality, and yet live fully, was a paradox worthy of Socrates.

She pulled my hair, he said reflectively. Took a clump of it out by the roots. I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'll take up attacking women -- it's a bloody hard way to make a living.

But whoever said funerals were for the benefit of the living had had the right of it.

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

Street food has always made life and living in Calcutta so much more easy and attractive.

Authors do this for a living, and if you take their work for nothing, you are depriving them of a living.

You dwell too much on the past, you forget that you've got to take care of the present.

I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death.

I write about living, not dying.

Don't live in fear of dying.

I'm very much about living in the moment and taking each day as it comes.

I just try to enjoy each day.

The dance form has been a lifestyle that I was initiated to at an early age. It has been the only constant in my life, like a friend bringing happiness and pain. I cannot imagine living without it.

There are more important ways of earning a living, aren't there? Like being a neurosurgeon. But some plays are very important, aren't they?

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

If it's a choice between doing a film and not doing a film, I'd rather not. But then, you remember that you're supposed to be earning a living and that it's your career.

I don't miss what has passed. I am enjoying the present. I am not one of those people who live in the past.

I live and work for the pure enjoyment of being alive.

Vlogging is something that's pretty entertaining. But like with a lot of social media, I just feel it's so easy to stop living your life, even though you're creating all these moments.