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Quotes About Living

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
~ William Sloane Coffin Jr.
We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories. This is not true. The materials of science are the materials of life itself. Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience. It is impossible to understand man without understanding his environment and the forces that have molded him physically and mentally.
~ William Souder
Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
~ William Wordsworth
There isOne great society alone on earth:The noble Living and the noble Dead.
~ William Wordsworth
Plain living and high thinking are no more:The homely beauty of the good old causeIs gone; our peace, our fearful innocence,And pure religion breathing household laws.
~ William Wordsworth
Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness; that he, who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used; that thought with him Is in its infancy...
~ William Wordsworth
Their deepest desire—believe me about this—is to change our way of living. Their deepest desire is to make us like them. I swear it." Tasunke
~ Win Blevins
It's not death people are afraid of. It's life.
~ Win Blevins
Our walk is for the fulfillment of God's purpose, our living is for the satisfaction of Christ, and our fighting is for the defeat of God's enemy.
~ Witness Lee
Many of us pray often, but we do not get the nourishment from our praying. This should not be so. We are not praying to an idol; we pray to the living God. He is the very God who is now in our spirit. When we speak to Him, He responds in our spirit. When we exercise our spirit, we realize Him within our spirit. If we merely exercise our mind and pray from our mouth, the Triune God within us has no way. He is not in our mind. but in our spirit. We must exercise our spirit (1 Tim. 4:7).
~ Witness Lee
The two persons of this couple were of one source, of one nature, and had the same one life. Without doubt, they also had one living.
~ Witness Lee
The will of God for us is that we know the all-inclusive Christ, experience Him, and live Him as our life. To know Christ in this way is to have the full knowledge of God's will.
~ Witness Lee
The tent was for Abraham's living. Abraham did not take care of his living first. That was secondary. With Abraham, the primary matter [560] was to consecrate everything to God, to worship and serve God, and to have fellowship with God. Only then did Abraham pitch a tent for his living.
~ Witness Lee
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
~ Woodrow Wilson
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
~ Wynonna Judd
Si la sustancia durable del hombre no es otra sino el miedo; y si la vida es un inaplazable mortal miedo a la muerte, puesto que ya no puede sentir miedo, puesto que ya no puede morir, sólo un muerto, profunda y valerosamente, puede disponerse a vivir.
~ Xavier Villaurrutia
Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
~ Xenophon
There were no bookshelves in the little apartment where we lived, so the Professor's study, with its stacks of volumes lining the walls, seemed magical to him.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
The supple line of his jaw and the fixed plane of his collarbone functioned together like a precisely calibrated instrument that seemed to become a separate living thing as we watched.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
The here and now. What contentment it held! Why spoil it by thinking?
~ David Michie
Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that?
~ David Nicholls
Vivi ogni giorno come se fosse l'ultimo", di solito il consiglio era questo, ma chi aveva l'energia sufficiente per farlo? E se pioveva o eri di cattivo umore? Era poco pratico. Molto meglio cercare di essere coraggiosi e audaci e cambiare le cose in meglio. Non proprio il mondo, ma il pezzettino intorno a te. Coltiva le amicizia, non tradire i tuoi principi, vivi intensamente, appassionatamente. Un giorno
~ David Nicholls
Where can we live but days?
~ David Nicholls
But the trouble with living in the moment is that the moment passes. Impulse and spontaneity take no account of the longer term, of responsibilities and obligations, debts to be paid, promises to fulfil. I
~ David Nicholls