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Quotes About Living

The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.
~ Morrie Schwartz
The best preparation for living fully and well is to be prepared to die at any time, because impending death inspires clarity of purpose, a homing in on what really matters to you.
~ Morrie Schwartz
I've experienced waves of hopelessness and despair, alternating with determination and enthusiasm for living.
~ Morrie Schwartz
I don't like making pacts with tomorrow. I want today—just as it is, good and bad. I feel safe that way. I don't want to face the great perhaps.
~ Unknown
One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.
~ Unknown
Spread love everywhere you go First of all in your own house...let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
~ Mother Teresa
We spend more time learning how to make a living than we do learning to make a life.
~ Muhammad Ali
There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.
~ Murray Bookchin
Survival from the world of the living And I see how people in the ocean, someone knows how to swim (survive), and someone uses a friend, relative, loved one or a loved one as a lifeline, that is, he drowns him so as not to drown and breathe air ...
~ Unknown
Buddha and Jesus meditated on love, which is the lowest or the base of humanity. Nietzsche and Machiavelli meditated on Power as the true virtue of living. Socrates, Plato and his descendants meditated on Knowledge or Wisdom as the truest virtue to be sought in life.
~ Unknown
First we nourish our enemies, then they nourish us with their continued competition. Because without them, we would end up losing hope of living.
~ Unknown
On Noah's Ark, there were three kinds of beings. The Ark itself which is the plant mind, the animal mind and the human mind. All are living beings, therefore also having a soul.
~ Unknown
The dead rest in peace while the living rest in freedom.
~ Unknown
The fame and name of Jesus is still above most of the living people today, considering that, he died two thousand years ago.
~ Unknown
The truest conquest must be carried in the mind and not in causing more pain to another living being.
~ Unknown
The truth is that, we are born only once; but we must live daily.
~ Unknown
The weak-minded or the innocent will never enjoy the blessings of the Creator in this world. Maybe in heaven, but that's not guaranteed to any living being yet.
~ Unknown
The heart's seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon some golden day when the little creatures of the air and meadow were life incarnate, from sheer joy of living? Who among us has not come home, singing, when the streets were almost impassable with snow, or met a friend with a happy, smiling face, in the midst of a pouring rain?
~ Myrtle Reed
Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the Christian pilgrimage.
~ Unknown
What the Gospels offer is not a philosophical explanation of evil—what it is or why it's there—but the story of an event in which the living God deals with it
~ Unknown
The good news that Jesus announced, like the good news that his first followers announced about him, was not a piece of advice, however good. It was about something that had happened, about something that would happen as a result, and about the new moment between those two, the moment in which people were in fact living, whether they realized it or not.
~ Unknown
Jesus is a walking, living, breathing Temple, he is also the walking, celebrating, victorious sabbath.
~ Unknown
When Jesus gave his disciples this prayer, he was giving them part of his own breath, his own life, his own prayer. The prayer is actually a distillation of his own sense of vocation, his own understanding of his Father's purposes. If we are truly to enter into it and make it our own, it can only be if we first understand how he set about living the Kingdom himself.
~ Unknown
As C. S. Lewis said in a famous lecture, next to the sacrament itself your Christian neighbor is the holiest object ever presented to your sight, because in him or her the living Christ is truly present.3
~ Unknown