Quotes About Living

Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.

I believe in the unity of all living things. God is in us and in all that exists." "So, when you eat a carrot, aren't you eating God?

The same grace that brings salvation teaches us to renounce ungodly living.

Every desire to read the Bible and to do God's will, every manifestation of the fruit of the Spirit, be it ever so small, was the living result of my being in Christ.

If I've learned anything about youth it's that they feel a bond with anyone who shows a passion for living.

I've been living in this apartment for years, and every time I paint it, it's a little bit smaller. The thickness of the paint keeps coming in closer. I don't even know where the wall outlets are anymore. I look for a lump with two slots in it. Looks like a pig is trying to push his way through from the other side. That's where I plug in.

We can't live together," I remember screeching. "We're married. It's too corny!

Para vivir hay que aprender a mirar la muerte con cierta indiferencia. No hay que dedicar a los muertos demasiados sentimientos ni pensar en ellos en exceso. No lo necesitan. No necesitan nada. No existen. Sólo los vivos existen.

He lived where he was, began to enjoy the moment he was in, instead of fuming about the moment of departure which should have, and had not, arrived. These were his life's beatitudes, times when his own nature did not separate him from his life; when the needle of his being held steady at the very moment and place of his existence. It was his ambition to live his whole life in this way; though he had schemes and plans for everything else, he knew no way to scheme himself into such moments.

You aren't the thing that needs to change. It's that you are overcome by your situation, by the way the world has descended on you. There is much in you that is young and new – and not just in you. In any person, even the oldest conceivable person. That's what it means to be living – to engage with the cacophony of objects.

But, if life is just that, just being reasonable, then there is nothing in it--nothing worthwhile. So, the yearning that we have to keep dead things living--or to make unreasonable things reasonable. That is why a person should live.

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.

I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.

The most insistently reductive, device-like models of living creatures, models that left their unmistakable mark on Darwinism,relied upon a theology, a supernatural power to provide meaning and purpose.

What was it like to live amidst such machines, to be familiar with them, to have them shape one's earliest intuitions about machinery: how it works, what it does, how it compares to living creatures?

I believe the best revenge is to live.

He made writing look easy and critics hate that. They like evidence of a struggle, of creative agony, wringing the masterpiece out of one's guts. After all, most critics think of themselves as writers, or had attempted to become writers. This leads to the bizarre situation in which failed writers pass judgment on writers who actually write for a living.

In the Eastern religions and in mysticism, the love of God is an intense feeling experience of oneness, inseparably linked with the expression of this love in every act of living.

Ficar concentrado significa viver plenamente no presente, agora, aqui, e não pensar na coisa seguinte a ser feita enquanto estou fazendo outra coisa neste instante.

Nature is the great power we have to submit to, but living beings are the ones we should dominate.

How beautiful it is when one lives completely and not with just a part of oneself. When one is full to the rim and calm because there is nothing more to get in.

a new phrase was making the rounds in Berlin, to be deployed upon encountering a friend or acquaintance on the street, ideally with a sardonic lift of one eyebrow: "Lebst du noch?" Which meant, "Are you still among the living?

Samuel Gompers, standing at the back of speaker's wagon No. 5, ask, "Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets and the idle loafers who hoard the gold only to spend it in riotous living are rolling about in fine carriages from which they look out on peaceful meetings and call them riots?" For

You hear a lot about people who are afraid to die. Well, they're nothing compared to the ones who are afraid to live—people who go through life just making motions—and conventional motions at that.