Quotes About Living

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

Don't get bogged down with the have-to's. Otherwise, there's no point in being alive. Life becomes a matter of survival.

well, the future is always changing. If we had no choices, there'd be no point in living.

The fact that we're alive means we should live,

haven't had to come up with some dreamy escape plan in a while." Sydney trailed her fingers down the side of my face. "That's because we're living it, Adrian. This is the only escape plan we need.

So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.

The moral climate is dramatically shifting, as Scripture prophesied it would at the conclusion of the age. But we who refuse to make room for compromise in our faith must hold our position with confidence, understanding that we have been ordained by God to live in this hour. We were chosen for this moment to demonstrate victorious living in Jesus Christ — by His all-sufficient grace — in a world that has run amuck.

Travel is intensified living … and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.

Too afraid of dying to really live.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.

Finally, I spread my arms even wider and announced, "It's a good day to die!" "Well," Mom chirped in, "it's not a bad day to live either." She had a point. So now I end my blessings like this: "It's a good day to die!" I say. And then, with gusto, "It's a good day to live!

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

The place was out in Jersey . . . Newark. And while that made living with yourself harder, it did make parking somewhat easier.

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.

when i wake up mornings alone it is more disturbing, when i imagine it could be the living things, that are going out of my life.

The source of all life warms the living for a moment, holding them briefly before they go back to wasting their lives.

Do you recall a time when the income of a single schoolteacher or baker or salesman or mechanic was enough to buy a home, have two cars, and raise a family?

Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a single nail, like this one, fulfills a function. Drive it into a crucial place and you can depend on it to do a job, keep on doing it for a hundred years to come. Long after we're dead and gone, both of us.

A death-warrant requires a royal signature. And I signed my own. And if your Great and Virgin Queen should wonder why I signed it, you are to tell her this: There is more living in a death that is embraced than in a life that is avoided across three-score years and ten. And I embrace it-thus!

You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness?

Still, it seemed to us that the main reason we were hated must be that we always lived by stealing. From the earliest times, rats lived around the edges of human cities and farms, stowed away on men's ships, gnawed holes in their floors and stole their food. Sometimes we were accused of biting human children; I didn't believe that, nor did any of us?unless it was some kind of a subnormal rat, bred in the worst of city slums. And that, of course, can happen to people, too.