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Quotes About Living

I'm sure you've read For Whom The Bell Tolls. Well, Robert Jordan knows he's going to die. 'There is only now,' he says, 'and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion.' None of us know how long we have, maybe another month, maybe another fifty years – I like living as if I have that two days.
~ Jennifer Niven
None of us knows how long we have, maybe another month, maybe another fifty years _ I like living as if I only have that two days.
~ Jennifer Niven
I'm a very ordinary man who's worked and fed like everyone else. I'm no longer afraid of dying, but death doesn't seem to want anything to do with me, now that I can see no point in living. I'm afraid he's forgotten me.
~ Émile Zola
What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
~ Emily Bronte
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
~ Emily Bronte
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet. Dwell in possibility. Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
~ Emily Dickenson
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
~ Emily Dickinson
To be alive??is Power.
~ Emily Dickinson
Life is but life, and death but death! Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath!
~ Emily Dickinson
but i am content to live in the moment, and allow myself the daily pleasure of obsessing. nothing lasts forever, i tell myself. especially the good stuff. although typically you aren't faced with a hard deadline
~ Emily Giffin
So there the two of us were. Frozen in time, living in the moment, focused only on our immediate desires. Which of course included sex. Lots and lots of it.
~ Emily Giffin
Houses are like lots of Rooms stuck together, TV persons stay in them mostly but sometimes they go in their outsides and weather happens to them.
~ Emma Donoghue
You can't be a little bit dead. If you're not in the ground yet, you're one hundred per cent alive.
~ Emma Donoghue
Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.
~ Epictetus
Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.
~ Epictetus
He who is discontented with what he has, and with what has been granted to him by fortune, is one who is ignorant of the art of living, but he who bears that in a noble spirit, and makes reasonable use of all that comes from it, deserves to be regarded as a good man.
~ Epictetus
What makes for freedom and fluency in the practice of writing? Knowledge of how to write. The same goes for the practice of playing an instrument. It follows that, in the conduct of life, there must be a science to living well.
~ Epictetus
Anyone who's dissatisfied with the circumstances assigned him by fortune is unskilled in the art of living, while anyone who nobly endures his circumstances and makes reasonable use of what they have to offer deserves to be called a good person.
~ Epictetus
even the righteous man is just a sinner livin in between sins!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Today, more than 50 percent of American adults are single, and 31 million—roughly one out of every seven adults—live alone.
~ Eric Klinenberg
In the early days of the project, Teller was concerned that the intense heat of a nuclear explosion would set fire to the atmosphere and kill every living thing on earth. A
~ Eric Schlosser
Denounce useless guilt. Don't make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
~ Erica Jong
es gibt gar keine Erklärung fürs Leben, man muß es einfach leben.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Celem nie jest koniec drogi, tylko posuwanie siÄ™ naprzód. - WÅ'aÅ›nie. Nie chcÄ™ triumfowa?, chcÄ™ ?y?. - Jasne. Å»ycie nie jest ani grÄ…, ani meczem, bo gdyby tak byÅ'o, byliby tacy, co wygrali.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt