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Quotes About Living

Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Too much time is wasted listening to the noise of the mind - and too little is spent living from the love and power of the heart.
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
The person of creatures is living, the purpose of living is service, a service that implants legacy.
~ Samuel Gyekye Mensah
When you live for every second, tomorrow doesn't matter!
~ Stephen Richards
The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.
~ Emil Brunner
God is not only a divine person who we can address in prayer, but also a wide living space We human beings are giving each other space for living when we meet each other in love and friendship.
~ Jurgen Moltmann
The Living God alone can make us living men; the mighty God alone can make us mighty men; the loving God alone can make us consecrated men.
~ Peter Forsyth
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
In freely choosing to serve as the agents of divine purpose, angels are the living expression of the prayer 'Thy will be done.'
~ David Connolly
Practice unfettered living from the heart, abandoning all self-imposed limitations to emerge a new, creativity unleashed, giving of yourself like never before.
~ Pooja Ruprell
I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
~ Alain de Botton
I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't.
~ Steve Harvey
There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.
~ Francis Schaeffer
I don't like dating or just living with a woman. I like to create a relationship, a marriage. And almost all of my marriages have involved children, so I'm really a family man as well.
~ Neil Simon
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
~ William Morris
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
~ William Osler
The average person in William Shakespeare's time lived no better than his counterpart in Homer's time.
~ William Rosen
Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, And when you laugh, laugh like hell, And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
~ William Saroyan
When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
~ William Saroyan
The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
~ William Saroyan
The other schools get along with this as a performance art, as a method of making a living, as a colorful decoration, or as a means of forcing flowers to bloom. Yet, can it be the True Way if it has been made into a saleable item?
~ William Scott Wilson
To bring in—God shield us!—a lion among ladies, is a most dreadful thing; for there is not a more fearful wild-fowl than your lion living.
~ William Shakespeare
The only people who stay the same are minuscule talents who earn their livings writing about other people who are busy living real lives
~ William Shatner