Top 100 Point In Living Quotes
#1. The future is always changing. If we had no choices, there'd be no point in living.
Richelle Mead
#2. Saracen The Knight: There will be a cost.
Saint-Germain: Anything. I will pay anything to get my wife back.
Saracen: Even your immortality?
Saint-Germain: Even that. What's the point in living forever, when it is not with the woman I love?
Michael Scott
#3. There was no point in living in fear of death, or questioning the reason for my existence because as far as I knew, I was not in complete control of my life, nor can any other person be.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#4. If the past can't be changed, and the future's already written; what's the point in living?
Douglas Self
#5. No point in living a life less ordinary if you don't know what the other side looks like.
Adi Alsaid
#6. I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living
Reinaldo Arenas
#7. Surviving is one thing," he said quietly, his voice suddenly calmer, "but you've got to have a reason to do it. There's no point in living if you don't have anything worth living for.
David Moody
#8. I must believe that it is easier when it isn't a struggle to take every breath, when it isn't torture to live every day, when it doesn't hurt to see the new sun rise. I must believe these things or there is no point in living anymore.
Taylor Schake
#9. If I can't read, if I can't make a simple Indian pudding, then I don't see the point in living much more, really. Because aside from a good book, and perhaps, a fresh morning in a dew-covered garden, few things in life give me as much pleasure as magic of making a truly spectacular dessert.
Sarah Strohmeyer
#10. Become successful, not just because you want to but because you have to!
What's the point in living a mediocre life, if the human race can learn to become successful?
SuccessCoach Nilesh
#11. Even that. What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?
Michael Scott
#12. Ideals, my girl," she says. "Always easier to believe in than live."
"But if you don't at least try to live them," Bradley says, "then there's no point in living at all.
Patrick Ness
#13. It was the lowest point of my life. I just kept thinking, 'What have I done to deserve this?' I didn't see the point in living.
Alesha Dixon
#14. There's no point in living in an alternate reality.
Jessica Cutler
#15. What was the point in living if I was only going to travel the same roads again and again?
Cora Carmack
#16. What's the point in living if you're not really going to live? Time's limited - choose to enjoy yourself.
Karen E. Quinones Miller
#17. If you please the world and die miserable, what was point in living.
A.B. Smith
#18. My delusion outweighs my talent by far and it always will, because if it doesn't, then there's no point in living.
Willis Earl Beal
#19. I'm a very ordinary man who's worked and fed like everyone else. I'm no longer afraid of dying, but death doesn't seem to want anything to do with me, now that I can see no point in living. I'm afraid he's forgotten me.
Emile Zola
#20. If she can't achieve that, something truly brilliant, then what's the point in living at all? Because in her family, being mediocre, ordinary, run-of-the-mill, simply isn't allowed.
Menna Van Praag
#21. The point of simple living, for me has got to be:
A soft place to land
A wide margin of error
Room to breathe
Lots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day
Leo Babauta
#22. For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#23. My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I got better at living in that point of light, making the world into that point. I paid close attention to it. I loved it very much.
Sarah Manguso
#24. Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes.
Mike Epps
#25. There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.
Bill Pullman
#26. Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.
Francis Schaeffer
#27. You're living in the present. It's a reminder that you can see the future if you just point the glass in the right direction.
Maria V. Snyder
#28. but I was past the point of caring, the night stoking a foolish, confused sense that I had somehow returned to the world after a period of absence, had taken up residence again in the realm of the living.
Emma Cline
#29. In life, when one gets to the point of a deeper sense of understanding about himself and his purpose, he least explains himself much to people who fail to understand him and his purpose. That must not be interpreted as neither pride nor an uncaring attitude but a great respect for purposefulness
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#30. Showing aggression is the simplest way to assert patriarchal manhood. Men of all classes know this. As a consequence, all men living in a culture of violence must demonstrate at some point in their lives that they are capable of being violent.
Bell Hooks
#31. We all have pasts and we all have futures. All we can do is choose to live in one or the other. It doesn't seem to me that there's much point living in the past.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#32. We are so used to looking at the world from the point of view of living things that we cannot understand what it means not to be alive, and yet most of the time the world had nothing alive on it. And in most places in the universe today there probably is nothing alive.
Richard Feynman
#33. What use are experiences if we're not allowed to remember them? If we forget in order to avoid the pain of loss? What is the point of living if we have to always insulate ourselves?
Carrie Ryan
#34. At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family.
Jack Bowman
#35. I was immersed in comfortable Christianity. Years ago, I found myself living what seemed like the American church dream - pastoring a large church, living in a large house, and surrounded by all the comforts this world has to offer. But inside I had a sinking feeling that I was missing the point.
David Platt
#36. Sure all life's highways at some point must end,
so I plan to ride it in style and plummet in a swan dive
when the pavement runs out ...
And hopefully leave behind artistically
that which may make other roads
an even better ride ...
Tom Althouse
#37. Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point.
Wallace Stevens
#38. It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it - gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.
Ann Packer
#39. But the main point is that he still had swimmers in his sacks."
"Excuse me?"
"You know, luv. Sperm, if you want to be all technical about it. He still had living sperm in his juice."
Cat and Bones
Jeaniene Frost
#40. The point of living in the world is just to stay interested.
Kathleen Rooney
#41. From the point in life when a man/woman is responsible for his/her choices, he/she starts to live a story brought to life by the dreams that have been consciously or subconsciously conceived.
Ufuoma Apoki
#42. In a few hours, I'm going to be banished to the surface, my belongings raffled off as novelty items and my living space given to someone else - my reputation destroyed. I'd rather have your head than your soul at this point in my illustrious career. - Al
Kim Harrison
#43. Maurice Nicoll says all history is a living today. We are not enjoying one spark of life in a huge, dead waste. We are, instead, existing at one point in a vast process of the living who still think and feel but are invisible to us.
Richard Matheson
#44. Living your life 40 floors up, looking out every day on ocean and skies, you see the world from a different point of view. It's like living in a very interesting fishbowl, but since no one can see up here, it's like a fishbowl with a limo tint.
Pharrell Williams
#45. I've lived in New York City for over twenty years now, and every single day is like a new adventure. At this point, there are many places I'd love to visit, but I can't imagine living anywhere else on the planet.
Kevin Kwan
#46. Gays (homosexuals) usually bring up the argument about all the straight couples living in 'sham' marriages, but I see no point in dragging the Clintons into this
Ann Coulter
#47. The truth is, I can choose to view tough times as growing times, I can choose to see aging as seasoning and I can choose to focus on whatever good there is to be found in living. I choose. After all, it's my point of view.
Steve Goodier
#48. Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.
Pico Iyer
#49. Work is living for me. The point is whether we live in our work.
Joseph P. Lash
#50. I have to start living for me at some point and to hell with what's best for everyone else. They can figure that out on their own. I'm the only person in control of my destiny.
Georgia Cates
#51. You might think that's an exaggeration but believe me, if you leave twin two-year-olds alone in your living room, at some point a cow will be airborne.
Ray Romano
#52. I've always had a little bit of darkness, and I've always been someone who was grieving. I had kind of had a tumultuous upbringing living in an abusive home, so for me, writing has always been a point of catharsis.
Mary Lambert
#53. Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better ... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction.
Gore Vidal
#54. The real point is this: We don't know where to go because we don't know what we are. Do you want to go back to living in a sewer-pipe? And eating other people's garbage? Because that's what rats do. But the fact is, we aren't rats anymore. We are something Dr. Schultz has made. Something new.
Robert C. O'Brien
#55. He is the wise man who has by perfect living gained the instinct of rightness by which he guides himself, whether in thought or action, who has found that centre of balance which is always over his point of contact with circumstances. He is the man whom Nature pours the riches of all her instincts.
Nilakanta Sri Ram
#56. ...there are often many things we feel we should do that, in fact, we don't really have to do. Getting to the point where we can tell the difference is a major milestone in the simplification process.
Elaine St. James
#57. Everyone deserves one grand adventure, that one time in life that we always get to point back to and say, Then ... then I was really living.
Cora Carmack
#58. If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.
Paul Bowles
#59. At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things.
Carl Jung
#60. For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions ... until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.
Anouk Aimee
#61. The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over.
Paul Singer
#62. He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.
Theodor Reik
#63. From my point of view, humanity is one living being. Male-female - we complement each other in a sacred communion. But once again, respect is the key. Respect is what makes the sacred communion possible.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#64. It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.
Ben Shahn
#65. I believe, I truly believe, that humans will be living off of this planet, at some point in the future. It's inevitable for us, and it seems like a reasonable and realistic progression for us as a human race. We won't last on this planet - not forever.
Andrew J. Feustel
#66. In the history of a soul's evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.
Virchand Gandhi
#67. Facing poverty is better than living in poverty and by facing poverty you can overcome it at one point.
Auliq Ice
#68. Honestly, to tell you the truth, being trapped in any video game sounds like a living nightmare to me. In most video games, the point is it's a fight for survival, so I think it would be a terrifying place to live.
John C. Reilly
#69. I'd been living out of a suitcase since I was 17 years old, and it just got to the point where it was ridiculous. Besides, it was really hurting everything I was trying to do in music; to feel so consistently homeless was no way to endure touring and stress.
Zach Condon
#70. All known living bodies are sharply divided into two special kingdoms, based upon the essential differences which distinguish animals from plants, and in spite of what has been said, I am convinced that these two kingdoms do not really merge into one another at any point.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
#71. There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.
Dalai Lama
#72. The point of simplicity is not efficiency, increased productivity or even living a healthier, more relaxed life. The point is making space for treasuring God's own self.
Jan Johnson
#73. If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?
Kay Redfield Jamison
#74. What good news regularly does, then, is to put a new event into an old story, point to a wonderful future hitherto out of reach, and so introduce a new period in which, instead of living a hopeless life, people are now waiting with excitement for what they know is on the way.
N. T. Wright
#75. Christ was on display early in my childhood. Both my mother and father were living examples of what it meant to live for Christ and have Him be the focal point of decisions, actions, thoughts and words. It was a blessing but not entirely unexpected when very young I also came to the faith.
Aaron Kampman
#76. There comes a point where you need to lose your religion in order to restore your relationship.
Jared Brock
#77. Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over.
Eric Brown
#78. Life and situations will never improve to the point when living a dream becomes most conducive...honestly; it will never happen.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#79. We live on a world where if you run straight away, without turning, you return to your point of origin. So much energy can be saved and time, by dealing with the point, at its origin, that would make us run.
Tom Althouse
#80. At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
Alan Hirsch
#81. Then, all of a sudden, he stopped and nobody heard from him or got a response to orders. At this point Rod Walker looked him up and found he was living in a commune and seemed to be dropping out of the hobby.
Fred Davis
#82. The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.
Scott Jurek
#83. Being happy requires that you define your life in your own terms and then throw your whole heart into living your life to the fullest. In a way, happiness requires that you be perfectly selfish in order to develop yourself to a point where you can be unselfish for the rest of your life.
Brian Tracy
#84. The point is to read in a way that leads to better thinking, and to think in a way that leads to better living.
Eric Greitens
#85. So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.
Brit Marling
#86. Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.
Charles De Lint
#88. Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the focus of your life, you miss the point of living. You've really got to get the grounding of family and the things that are important in your life and make that your focus.
R.A. Salvatore
#89. That's the way it is at some point in life. An inevitable consequence of living. A lot of things begin falling away.
Charles Frazier
#90. One of my greatest times of inspiration is when I'm traveling or living in a new country - there's a tremendous freedom that comes from being unfettered by your own, familiar culture, and by seeing the world from a different point of view.
Kim Edwards
#91. I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?'
Arianna Huffington
#92. There is no point in lingering on the fallacies of the revolutionaries of unrepression; one could go on and on, but everything would come back to the same basic thing: the impossibility of living without repression.
Ernest Becker
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. Rod's a great singer. He's got a great voice, but there's no point to put a 30-piece orchestra behind him. I'm not going to knock anybody's right to make a living but you can always tell if somebody's heart and soul is into something, and I didn't think Rod was into it in that way.
Bob Dylan
#97. Police are people too, and deserve the same respect due all living things. The point is not that they deserve to suffer or that we should bring them to justice. The point is that, in purely pragmatic terms, they must not be allowed to brutalize people or impose an unjust social order.
Anonymous
#98. What was the point of finding something worth living for if my life was no longer in my own hands?
Brodi Ashton
#99. Keep a vigil on those who push you down always and leave them alone. Stay away from them so that you don't waste your precious time refuting them, trying to impress them or proving your point to them. Let them not occupy any free space in your mind.
Sanchita Pandey
#100. What point was there in living if you didn't at least try to be as cool as your heroes?
p. 6, Double Duce
Aaron Cometbus
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