Quotes About Living

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.

It is the wholeness of living things, the dynamic energy moving from sun to plant to animal, a ceaseless flow that in the long scheme of things is far more important than mineral deposits to our future existence.

Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?

The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand or fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consist in being completely sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive - Allan Watts

wisdom? As the Zen texts explain, "To live in trusting

The art of living ... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past ... on the other. It consists in being completely sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

O Nobly Born, now there is born in you exceeding compassion for all those living creatures who have forgotten their true nature. —Mahamudra text of Tibetan yogi Longchenpa

If you don't lose that fear of death, then you can never appreciate life or take the chances life gives you.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Ernie's past friendship. Your debt is to the living.

But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.

The richness of human life is that we have many lives; we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do; and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay for living a thousand lives.

I want to live my life, not record it.

she said she was going to live-that tomorrow wasn't guaranteed.

But sometimes living pulls back the skin of another life. A possibility.

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

A first order of conclusions will likely appear even more abstract and difficult! It is that Christians must not judge, act, or live according to principles, but according to the reality of the eschaton, lived out here and now. This is exactly the opposite of a moralism.

Înainte de a combate moartea, trebuie s? înve?i s? tr?ie?ti.

Si SOBREVIVES, si persistes, canta, sueña, emborráchate. Es el tiempo del frío: ama, apresúrate. El viento de las horas barre las calles, los caminos. Los árboles esperan: tú no esperes, éste es el tiempo de vivir, el único.

Los árboles esperan: tú no esperes, éste es el tiempo de vivir, el único.