Top 100 For Living Quotes
#1. The Things That Matter convincingly lays out Nate Berkus's philosophy that things do matter. Our homes tell our stories, they reflect the places we've been and the people we've loved along the way - and there can be no more beautiful design for living than that.
Nate Berkus
#2. Many believe that they must discover their purpose for living, that life is about purpose. But, in truth, life is purpose. Meaning is found in the fact of life itself. So many people try to find fulfillment in what they do, instead of who they are and who I am.
Dale Fife
#4. Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure.
Giacomo Leopardi
#5. A true education prepares you not only for living but also for life.
Debasish Mridha
#6. Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.
Peter McWilliams
#7. It's simple. Mankind is a sorry excuse for living creatures. They are cruel, cold, merciless, selfish, heartless, wasteful, greedy, and destructive. But the list goes on. I can spend all night telling you what's wrong with them, but why bother?
Charles Lee
#8. Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.
Maria Montessori
#9. WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #15: AN OPEN DOOR IS EITHER A GREETING OR A TRAP. BEST TO DECIDE WHICH BEFORE YOU ENTER.
Mark Frost
#11. It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
Simone De Beauvoir
#12. For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it, no wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can't paint in Paris, you'd better give up and marry the boss's daughter.
Alan Jay Lerner
#13. Learning is essential for living the life you love.
A.D. Posey
#14. Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.
Judith Viorst
#15. One of the essential tasks for living a wise life is letting go. Letting go is the path to freedom. It is only by letting go of the hopes, the fears, the pain, the past, the stories that have a hold on us that we can quiet our mind and open our heart.
Jack Kornfield
#17. I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#18. So many people live life without knowing the life they are living. We must get a reasonable reason for living
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#19. One of my reasons for living in California is its close proximity to Mexico. The Latin influence is in every corner of the community. My love of Spanish music hasn't wavered since the '50s. I could hear the blues voicing from the Flamanco families and I always dig for inspiration in Latin music.
Eric Burdon
#20. But there is a compelling reason to develop a personal strategy for living. Rejecting issues, which often feels liberating, is actually enslavement. Those who do not produce their own solutions must be using someone else's. As Nietzsche warned 'he who cannot obey himself will be commanded'.
Michael Foley
#21. Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
Cyril Connolly
#22. Being sworn at by random people was the price you paid for living in London,
Robert Galbraith
#23. Daily grace and power of the Holy Spirit must be desired for living rightly and humbly.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#24. We do not hunt them because we want to save humanity. We hunt them because we like killing them. More than a calling, this is everything to us, our only true reason for living. The hollow place in our hearts are filled with each of their deaths.
We will never stop.
Menton3
#25. Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city ...
Samuel R. Delany
#26. Schooling will give you knowledge to make your living, but education is for living a life.
Debasish Mridha
#27. Why do we live out every day as if there is no hope to overcome our chaos and no possibility for living a stressed-less life when Scripture repeatedly reassures us that God has the power and the peace to make that happen?
Tracie Miles
#28. The Good News is that when we trust God's grace to save us through what Jesus did, our sins are forgiven, we get a purpose for living, and we are promised a future home in heaven.
Rick Warren
#30. Assuming that tomorrow will be the same as today is poor preparation for living. It equips us only for disappointment or, more likely, for shock. To live well, to be mentally healthy, we must learn to realize that life is a work in process.
Joan D. Chittister
#31. If one were to protest all the injustices of life," says Sigrud, "great and small, one would have no time for living.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#32. A person must move beyond guilt and unexamined thoughts and motives in order to discover a purpose for living vibrantly.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#33. Grandma Redbird: Honey, you have to move past this.
Zoey: How Grandma?
Grandma Redbird: By living the life she'd be proud of you for living.
Kristin Cast
#34. Public space is for living, doing business, kissing, and playing. Its value can't be measured with economics or mathematics; it must be felt with the soul.
Enrique Penalosa
#35. Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky.
Jay-Z
#36. You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!
Mikhail Gorbachev
#37. To look for truth in all the wrong and all the right places is the only excuse for living.
Frederick Lenz
#38. It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.
V.S. Pritchett
#39. I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.
Vincent Nichols
#40. Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.
Compay Segundo
#41. The Khoton people are a small minority group of Mongolians renowned for living a traditional nomad life in the remote slopes and valleys of the Kharkhiraa-Turgen mountain range.
Tim Cope
#42. Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.
Jane Goodall
#43. Man is homo religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for living.
Will Herberg
#44. This wasn't a hunger for a bigger house of a faster car. This was a far deeper hunger: a hunger for living with more meaning, with more festivity and more satisfaction.
Robin S. Sharma
#45. People will not remember what you did for living,
they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving.
Debasish Mridha
#46. Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.
Robert Casey
#47. My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
Gaby Hoffmann
#48. He said that some people can live from birth to death and have no more thoughts in their heads about the reasons for living than a beetle. But that we were different, he and I. We needed more than a clod of dirt to make our rising up and lying down worth something.
Kathleen Kent
#49. Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable.
Tim Field
#50. Any wrong decision you have ever made will become unimportant when your attention has shifted from it to a creative reason for living right here and now.
Raymond Charles Barker
#51. We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA ... This is exactly what we are for. We are machines for propagating DNA, and the propagation of DNA is a self-sustaining process. It is every living object's sole reason for living.
Richard Dawkins
#52. I woke up one day to the fact that the earth's surface was made for living plants, not industrial plants,
Malcolm Wells
#53. It's better to risk being disliked for living your truth than to be loved for what you are pretending to be.
Dawn Gluskin
#54. Understanding is important for studying,
knowledge is important for teaching,
and wisdom is important for living.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#55. So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.
Paulo Coelho
#56. To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.
Albert Camus
#57. This is, of course, an easy Berlinian riposte. Start with some graceful hand waving about incommensurability; declare that nothing could reconcile these great goods; and (with a tip of trilby) commend liberal pluralism for living with the contradictions.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#58. As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw
#59. The Greek word for abide used in John 8:31-32 and John 15:4-5 is the same word that's used for living in a house. The idea is that we don't just visit the Word for 10 minutes a day. We live in the Word. Meditate on it. Chew on it as we walk through the day.
Barb Raveling
#60. Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.
Michael Pollan
#61. People do kill themselves, you know, Miranda, when they think their whole reason for living is being taken away from them. Even the fact that other people think their suffering is a joke isn't enough to shake them out of it.
Robert Galbraith
#62. Durer would have seen a reason for living
in a town like this
Marianne Moore
#63. Life must not be spent always hoping, always waiting. Life is for living. -Kensuke
Michael Morpurgo
#64. If you're a leader, your whole reason for living is to help human beings develop - to really develop people and make work a place that's energetic and exciting and a growth opportunity, whether you're running a Housekeeping Department or Google. I mean, this is not rocket science.
Tom Peters
#65. Without the interplay of human against human, the chief interest in life is gone; most of the intellectual values are gone; most of the reason for living is gone.
Isaac Asimov
#66. Christianity doesn't answer all my questions or make me comfortable and happy. What it does do is give me a context for living.
James Bryan Smith
#67. Speed is simply the rite that initiates us into
emptiness: a nostalgic desire for forms to revert to immobility, concealed beneath the very intensification of their mobility. Akin to the nostalgia for living forms that haunts geometry.
Jean Baudrillard
#68. When people lose their way and lack a real purpose for living they often fall back on certain forms of escapism as a form of self-soothing ...
John Geddes
#70. In the moment I faced dying, I finally knew my reason for living.
Brodi Ashton
#71. Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
Agatha Christie
#72. Still, it is surely true of all animals, and all conscious people, that the pain we inflict on each other is in some ways due process for living in the world.
Liz Stephens
#75. Education fails unless the Three R's at one end of the school spectrum lead ultimately to the Four P's at the other-Preparati on for Earning, Preparation for Living, Preparation for Understanding, Preparation for Participation in the problems involved in the making of a better world.
Norman Cousins
#76. Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.
Sydney J. Harris
#77. Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.
Tom O'Connor
#79. Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living.
Gao Xingjian
#80. I don't care if someone remembered me. Life is for living and memories for those who we leave behind.
Jared Leto
#81. I would say that clothes are an excuse for living in the world.
Miuccia Prada
#82. Speech is the resuscitation breath for living corpses and the water of life for those who want to live forever.
M. Fethullah Gulen
#83. Life is not about for living ourself,
It's about living for others
Amresh Kumar
#84. They were inculcated with a firm sense of noblesse oblige, as with a respect for hierarchy; the Slonim girls knew well how to decode a social situation, and what they could rightfully expect from one. In part these seemed to be survival tactics for living in an uncertain time.
Stacy Schiff
#85. Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
Alan Bennett
#86. A house is not a machine! It's something else for living - but not a machine.
Moshe Safdie
#87. Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.
Hannah More
#88. My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with.
David Lee
#89. The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.
Chris Hedges
#90. One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.
Oscar Wilde
#91. Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet.
Joseph Murray
#92. Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living.
Phil Hine
#93. Gender is a natural necessity for living things. Show me a species that doesn't have gender roles and I'll show you a rock. But saying no to cultural Marxism can be punishable by impoverishment and even death.
Greg Deane
#94. Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.
Walter Lang
#95. The bottom line is, life is for living, sweetie. It's for taking chances and trying to grab up every little piece of happiness you can latch on to.
Katie MacAlister
#96. We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.
Seneca The Younger
#97. God is not only a divine person who we can address in prayer, but also a wide living space We human beings are giving each other space for living when we meet each other in love and friendship.
Jurgen Moltmann
#98. The wonder and awe of Christmas is just a beginning. Christmas reminds us that the babe born in Bethlehem has given us purpose for living, and what happens next to us largely depends on how we embrace our Savior, Jesus Christ, and follow Him.
Rosemary M. Wixom
#99. It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact.
Marcel Duchamp
#100. The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
Ban Ki-moon
