Quotes About Living

They're all sitcom openers." "What?" "Everything I think of when I think of really living, living to the full – all my ideas are just the opening credits of sitcoms. See what I mean? My idea of life, it's what happens when they're rolling the credits. My god. What am I, without the feed? It's all from the feed credits. My idea of real life.

He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.

He was not so easy and even as he pretended. Living with him was like standing beside the sea. Each day a different color, a different foam-capped height, but always the same restless intensity pulling towards the horizon.

Exile might satisfy the anger of the living, but it did not appease the dead.

Exile might satisfy the anger of the living but it did nothing to appease the dead.

In the sense of movement a boat is a living thing. It is a companion in the night. Each boat has its own manner and character." Travis McGee, 1985

Guilt is the most merciless disease of man. It stains all the other areas of living. It darkens all skies.

But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain.

All of us are partly living our story line the enemy offers us. Most of us, perhaps, live in not a terribly evil place in the moralistic sense of the word. We simply live where busyness, or apathy, or struggle with circumstances that won't change occupies most of our energy. And the enemy is perfectly happy to leave us in such a place practicing our religion.

And so the great battle begins in earnest: the battle for your heart, the battle to find a life worth living, the battle not to lose heart as you find a life worth living.

Jesus said nothing about pillows and comfortable retirement. He launched the invasion of the kingdom of God into a world held by darkness. He invites you to join him in living in that startling, dangerous, and beautiful Story.

Life is a wonderful, precious thing – a tiny realm of order in the vast chaos of the unliving universe around – and all living things need protection. A cell has its cytoplasm. Fish have their scales. Humans have skin. Bark is a tree's.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

The only thing that really matters is feeling and living what you believe - so long as it's something more than belief in your own comfort.

If Rome, a city of the vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse.

If Rome, was a city of vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse.

The only thing that really matters is feeling and living what you believe—so long as it's something more than belief in your own comfort.

Viva. Pero viva a la manera en que está viva la muerte.

Of course I looked sad. But I didn't really feel sad. Or it wasn't a sadness that hurt, not an all-through one. I rather enjoyed it. Beastly, but I did. I sang on the way home. The romance, the mystery of it. Living.

Qual è la vostra ricetta per conservare la giovinezza, Irene?» «Quando non si vive ci si conserva meravigliosamente».

I believe in God," he said, truthfully but weakly. "It's easy to say that," she said, her words still slow and soft. "And I don't doubt you. But saying is one thing, living is another matter.

He was not the nostalgic type. You live life today, not tomorrow, certainly not yesterday, he always said.

Perhaps the most colorful courthouse regular in Ada was Barney Ward, a blind lawyer known for his snappy dressing, hard living

Some of us worry, though, about living a life that's so grounded on handouts. Idleness leads to trouble. We're seeing more alcohol. Our kids are using more drugs." Hugo