Top 100 Living Is Quotes
#1. The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when 'should be' gets crushed by what is.
Neal Shusterman
#2. Warning: Before beginning an program of physical inactivity, consult your doctor. Sedentary living is abnormal and dangerous to your health.
Frank Forencich
#3. The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.
Rick Warren
#5. Living is not merely a matter of staying alive, is it? It is what you do with your life and the fact of your survival that counts.
Mary Balogh
#6. You can't learn about living unless you live. You can't live unless you take a chance; and your living is limited by the chances you take.
Lisa See
#7. Is that what living is for you? Breathing? We' just end up right back where we started. Living isn't about flesh and bone and breathing. It's about faith. Faith that surpasses fear. Faith in something bigger than yourself. That's what we're doing here, showing people how to live!
Rachelle Dekker
#8. Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.
Audre Lorde
#9. All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
James Madison
#10. 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.
Ben Shapiro
#11. He who was living is now dead.
We who were living are now dying.
T. S. Eliot
#12. My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.
Louis Adamic
#13. The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
#14. It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.
Henry David Thoreau
#15. Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound.
~Slater
Ted Dekker
#16. The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.
Li Bai
#17. Unfortunately, the only recognized relics of yesterday's farmers are obsolete curiosities when the greatest relic, their philosophy of living, is seldom considered.
Eric Sloane
#18. My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready; and such as will be content to partake of them are always welcome. Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it.
George Washington
#19. 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
#20. I'm not offended, but the implication that all improper behavior is the result of what I do for a living is rather absurd. As if a chatty five-year-old with a librarian mom would be a red flag. We expected your child to just sit behind her desk and shush people. Maybe she needs Ritalin.
Jim Gaffigan
#21. To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the foot of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.
Joe Biden
#22. Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.
Zig Ziglar
#24. Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.
John Updike
#26. Following a process is being programmed, living is doing it in other way.
Abdul Mueed
#27. 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
#28. Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
Aldous Huxley
#29. Living is not enough; we must live an illuminated life.
Debasish Mridha
#30. In my opinion the hectic and almost frantic pace of modern living is a clear sign of the fear we have of being and of life. And as long as this fear exists in a person's unconscious, he will run faster and do more so as not to feel his fear.
Alexander Lowen
#31. Living is too hard right now. Dying is easy. Let me die.
Kristin Cashore
#32. The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovery that makes life worth the effort.
Vijay Krishna
#33. 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
#34. Man, fountains pen are a pain to use, drawing backgrounds is a also a pain ... Drawing manga really is a pain. In short living is a pain ... I want to become a cheesburger
Hideaki Sorachi
#35. There is no fix for this. She has to endure it, and somewhere along the line she has to learn to live again. Surviving isn't the goal. Living is. This is a battle between me and her grief, and I'm going to be the last man standing.
Anne Calhoun
#36. One's manner of living, is a matter of life
Elio Melo
#37. The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
Eric Hoffer
#38. The process of living is the process of reacting to stress.
Stanley Sarnoff
#39. And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the times when an enormous amount of living is going on, one can't.
May Sarton
#40. The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again.
Mark Nepo
#41. Explain to me what the point of living is if you aren't willing to fight for the truths in your heart, to risk getting hurt.
Estelle Laure
#42. Laughter and books and wine are holy things; and living is good; and death is a breathlessness with the whole adventure of finding everywhere the traces of one great beauty...
Henry Rago
#43. A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#44. Isn't that the point of living? To find the one person in all the world who's your perfect match?" "Actually, Taylor, the point of living is not dying. Romeo and Juliet failed at that part.
Leisa Rayven
#45. Among the many things that religious tradition holds in store for us is a legacy of wonder. The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted. Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin. Modern
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#46. The purpose of minimalist living is to get us to a point where every single thing we have in our homes is something that brings us ongoing joy or provides usefulness regularly.
Genevieve Parker Hill
#47. It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.
Donald Miller
#48. If living is to end in pain, incompleteness, and nothingness, it seems a cruel and futile experience for beings who are born to reason, hope, create, and love.
Alan W. Watts
#49. To make a living is no longer enough. Work also has to make a life.
Peter Drucker
#50. Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
John Cage
#51. Better to be the hireling of a stranger, and serve a man of mean estate whose living is but small, than be the ruler over all these dead and gone.
Homer
#52. This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, you can't get fresh fruit in the shops.
Geoff Ryman
#53. The supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well.
Wilferd Peterson
#54. Living is hard. And every day our feet get heavier and we pick up more baggage. So, we stop and take a breath, close our eyes, reset our minds. It's natural. As lond as you open your eyes and keep going.
Cora Carmack
#55. The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.
Barbara Kingsolver
#56. The first key to a purposeful living is to accept the responsibility of your mission. When you agree "yes" to the calling, then you ask God "why?".
Israelmore Ayivor
#57. The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
Gertrude Stein
#58. If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.
Jane Smiley
#59. Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends.
Trey Parker
#60. Ghetto living is more than just a feeling of confinement; it is a sense of suffocation too.
Susan Nathan
#61. Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new.
Thomas Merton
#62. We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.
Chuck Klosterman
#64. Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#65. The essence of right living is to do good to others.
Shri Radhe Maa
#66. Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it's adhering to our scripts or not.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#67. Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
Simone De Beauvoir
#68. The real challenge of Christian living is not to eliminate every uncomfortable circumstance from our lives, but to trust our sovereign, wise, good, and powerful God in the midst of every situation.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#69. Living is more often than not, existing.
I want to be alive, with love, joy, and be exciting.
Debasish Mridha
#70. Dreaming is what you do when your eyes are closed ... living is what you do with that dream once you open your eyes!
Nathan Parks
#71. Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.
Paul A.M. Dirac
#72. Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.
Jimmy Buffett
#73. Vicarious living is only slightly less impossible than vicarious eating.
Mason Cooley
#74. Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called 'Living' is conquered at last.
Edgar Allan Poe
#75. Existing is not quite enough. Passionate living is the best revenge.
Arlaina Tibensky
#76. Wholehearted living is not like trying to reach a destination. It's like walking toward a star in the sky. We never really 'arrive,' but we certainly know that we're heading in the right direction.
Brene Brown
#77. What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of living high.
Doug Larson
#78. We are not blood and gristle and hair and spit. We are ideas, if we are anything at all. That part of us that was never truly living is the only part of us that cannot die.
Robert V.S. Redick
#79. When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?
Seth Godin
#81. Living is the least important activity of the preoccupied man;
Seneca.
#82. ...to think biblically rather than conventionally, to be part of a body where radical living is becoming the norm.
Francis Chan
#83. Then they start going on about cancer and how organic living is the way forward, totally ignoring how expensive it is to be organic and that there are a lot of people out there grateful if they can afford regular living.
Lisa O'Donnell
#84. Take a look at all the third-world countries that are increasing the so called standard of living. One aspect of this rise in standard of living is the increased consumption of animal products, which directly correlates with the rise in heart disease.
William McNamara
#85. The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.
Lin Yutang
#86. Oh, yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone.
Rainbow Rowell
#87. 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
#88. The chorus of "Jack and Diane" is: Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone. Are you kidding me? The thrill of living was high school? Come on, Mr. Cougar Mellencamp. Get a life.
Mindy Kaling
#89. Living is the purpose of life,
And meaning can be found therein.
I finds thou.
Thou becomes it.
And it begins again.
Ken Kesey
#90. The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.
Marcus Aurelius
#92. Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being a bag of skin full of biomolecules that are interacting according to some laws.
Rodney Brooks
#93. Existing is going through the motions of life with no zeal and feeling you have no control; living means embracing all that this large world has to offer and not being afraid to take chances. The beauty of living is knowing you can always start over and there's always a chance for something better.
J'son M. Lee
#94. That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.
Georg Brandes
#96. Part of living is understanding where the fringes are. Once you know how far people go, you can say, "Well, here's how I choose to represent myself."
Morgan Spurlock
#97. I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
Thornton Wilder
#98. Maturity implies otherness ... The art of living is the art of living with.
Julius Gordon
#99. Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.
E.B. White
#100. Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.
Haruki Murakami
