Living Quotes

I’m obsessed with nature and living in the wild, which I just think is crazy. Imagine if a bear attacked you! That’s an actual possible way you could die.

The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means, today, not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it’s great to be alive!

Everyone has a right to their own opinion about me, and that’s fine. I’m just going to keep being myself and living my life. That’s all I can do.

People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can’t sustain them.

I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It’s because I’m freelance, and I’ve never had a proper job. I don’t have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

If you’re a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don’t make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That’s not possible on $1 a day.

Everyone has a right to their own opinion about me, and that’s fine. I’m just going to keep being myself and living my life. That’s all I can do.

I prefer living in color.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I’m just living my life, and I’m not gonna live my life for other people.

What kind of business world are we living in?

The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.

Faith means living with uncertainty – feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

We are living in the beginning of a mass extinction and our climate is breaking down.

Taking joy in living is a woman‘s best cosmetic.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody‘s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

What you get is a living, what you give is a life.

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

I did nothing to deserve God’s love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God’s family.

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don’t care about fame, I don’t care about being a celebrity. I know that’s part of the job, but I don’t feed into anyone’s idea of who I should be.

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven‘s sake.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.

I’m happy living in the countryside. We are 30 minutes away from Milan, so I can drive in for dinner and drive out. It’s not a question of living in the country or in the city, it’s really a question of living in a tight, close-knit clan that makes the difference.

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

I’m living a very different life than the one I thought I’d be living.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.