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Quotes About Living

I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
~ Sam Waterston
I'm a Sagittarius and I love adventure and new beginnings, new experiences, because it makes me feel like I'm living.
~ Maria Brink
I don't think about tomorrow because I want to enjoy today and practice being the best me today.
~ Michel'le
I'm a Christian man that lives it every day, believing somebody will look and live by example.
~ Ronnie Milsap
Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it over again, I'd have more of them. In fact, I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day. —NADINE STAIR, EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS OLD, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don't need to worry about me; I have a college education. I'm not destitute. I'm living like this by choice.
~ Jon Krakauer
though he found that if you are stupid enough to bury a camera underground you won't be taking many pictures with it afterwards. Thus the story has no picture book for the period May 10, 1991 - January 7, 1992. But this is not important. It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you.
~ Jon Krakauer
The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.
~ Jon Krakauer
It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found.
~ Jon Krakauer
It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you.
~ Jon Krakauer
At times in its history, Christianity has been an instrument of repression. In our living memory, however, it has also been deployed as a means of liberation and progress.
~ Jon Meacham
There must be the keenest sense of duty, and with it must go the joy of living; there must be shame at the thought of shirking the hard work of the world. —THEODORE ROOSEVELT, The Rough Riders and An Autobiography
~ Jon Meacham
We have long proved ourselves quite capable of living with this contradiction, using Hamiltonian means (centralized decision-making) while speaking in Jeffersonian rhetorical terms (that government is best which governs least).
~ Jon Meacham
On the communist regime of Ceau?escu) Romania, said Eugene, was twenty million people living inside the imagination of a madman.
~ Jon Ronson
Race is there. You're tire of hearing about it? Imagine how fucking exhausting it is living it.
~ Jon Stewart
Of course these minimum life requirements don't fully address what it means to be alive. For even beyond all the metabolic processes, there was also an intangible essence separating the living from the not. Call it a soul, or just a need we had. Every living thing possessed a certain energy or life-force that infused even the unicellular among us.
~ Jon Stewart
Live life as it was meant to be lived. Half asleep, preferably. [...] She preferred [...] to go to sleep at once, sleep now being one of the very few aspects of existence for which she felt any degree of enthusiasm [...]
~ Jonathan Coe
This is the crazed, manic energy of the bull at the end of the fight, fatally wounded but ploughing ahead, driven only by pain and anger and the mindless will to go on living.
~ Jonathan Coe
The house felt more like a body—softer, more mortal and organic—than like a building
~ Jonathan Franzen
El dolor se presenta como producto e indicador naturales de estar vivo en un mundo que opone resistencia. Pasar por la vida indoloramente es no haber vivido.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Destroy the traces. I'd never tried to do that. Instead I'd lived in their midst for thirty years, oblivious, a blind man fancying himself invisible.
~ Jonathan Lethem
It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer