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Quotes About Living

I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.
~ Larry Moss
As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.
~ Matt Damon
Converting liberals is always a great thing. It makes every day worth living.
~ Rush Limbaugh
It is given to us to live for the most part under the guidance of mathematics ... It is impossible to distinguish from other living creatures anyone who does not understand how to quantify.
~ Cassiodorus
Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
~ Earl Nightingale
People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.
~ Alan Watts
Happiness is not a future event.
~ Joe Fortenberry
Don't postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
~ Euripides
I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.
~ Nigella Lawson
Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.
~ Ram Dass
The single fact of existing is already a true happiness.
~ Blaise Cendrars
I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions.
~ Benjamin Graham
we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today
~ Sydney Smith
We can live as we were meant to live - simply, joyously, of and on the earth. We can live with all our effort and with pure happiness.
~ Scott Jurek
Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.
~ Eileen Caddy
To fill the hour??that is happiness.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is present time, it has nothing to do with the future.
~ Robert Holden
If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.
~ Paulo Coelho
Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.
~ Pierre de Beaumarchais
Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.
~ Ruth Gordon
What matters most is that we learn from living.
~ Doris Lessing
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.
~ Benjamin Hoff