Top 100 Quotes About Living
#1. I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.
Moshe Dayan
#2. I was a gypsy, living a carefree life of ponies and tennis.
Lilly Pulitzer
#3. We can learn personal humility from episodes that generate shame and guilt. After retiring from worldly affairs and drawing useful lessons from personal disgrace, we must resume living an expedient life devoted to appreciating truth, beauty, and love.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#4. Even here, even as we suffer, life is still worth living ...
Nando Parrado
#5. Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.
Mahavira
#6. You have to have something to love. Something to fight for to make living a goal instead of a job.
Penelope Douglas
#7. I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.
Harry Houdini
#8. For many, living a Christlike life every day may be even more difficult than laying down one's life.
James E. Faust
#10. If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.
Roy Bennett
#11. I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important.
Tom Hanks
#12. My life was like living Love's dream, until he betrayed me. That's when I realized that I wasn't as important to him as I thought I was.
Sparkling Amethyst
#13. At my age, I'm just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
Joe DiMaggio
#14. I saw that all living things were doomed, to bliss: that's not living; it's just a way to waste what we have, a drain.
Arthur Rimbaud
#15. The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
Byron Katie
#17. It was never too late, she said, to turn a living thing around, and a garden was the most living of things.
Katherine Rundell
#18. One did not turn down an invitation from Saint Cloud. At least, one didn't if one wanted to continue living contentedly in Paris. Vampires took offense so easily - and Parisian vampires were the worst of all.
Cassandra Clare
#19. [On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.
Margot Asquith
#20. God sees the secret springs of human action, and knows the hearts of all living.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#21. The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed ...
John Of The Cross
#22. The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double - sometimes a triple - living. Pleasure multiplied in the mirrors of words, and pain siphoned off in words.
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#23. As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a limited world. When you take a conscious part in life and its multitudes of choices, you won't let life happen to you - you will make life happen for you.
James Van Praagh
#24. Survival here means simply an incomplete death, not a partial life
to be trapped in a gap between the living and the dead. If I had a thousand tongues, I would not try to describe the agony!
Matthew Pearl
#25. You are living in a blessed time now, Reuben, and you will be until all those you love here are gone, until your generation is in the earth. Then immortality will begin for you.
Anne Rice
#26. I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in creative writing, I've published two critically successful books, and I get paid to replenish the shelves of my local food co-op with pet food, sponges and toilet paper. Nine days out of 10, I do it quite happily.
Ali Liebegott
#27. It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.
Nevil Shute
#28. Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
Seneca The Younger
#29. Ask me not where I live or what I like to eat ... Ask me what I am living for and what I think is keeping me from living fully that.
Thomas Merton
#30. The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#31. I've stolen a shirt to wear since my clothing has gone missing. You may as well get used to living without it because there is no way I'm giving up a tee that says 'To unleash the Kraken is to unzip my pants.
Nikki Winter
#32. All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively ... and then living it.
Criss Jami
#33. The soul is hidden in God's creating hand: 'In his hand is the soul of every living thing' " (Job 12:10).
John Ortberg
#34. The empathy and compassion we feel for our own kind is sometimes extended to the rest of the living things on the earth. If we allowed it to keep us from killing a deer, or other animals, we would not live long. The
Jean M. Auel
#35. If we really are spiritual beings living a physical existence, then we have incredible power.
Sue Fitzmaurice
#36. A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.
Malcolm Gladwell
#37. You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do; you are not immune to the challenges, the trials, the difficulty. And that fact that I happen to be a coach and a minister and a spiritual teacher doesn't mean anything. I'm still human.
Iyanla Vanzant
#38. When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.
Dodie Smith
#39. You better not be touched by love; you are living peacefully. But if you do, you better not be left by it. Because The Wounded in love is only shreds of heart scattered. Even if you manage to regain your heart, you will never be that peaceful person again. Such is the curse of love.
Heenashree Khandelwal
#40. Riding it [a roller coaster] is like living your whole life in five minutes.
Raeder Lomax
#41. Living threads more numerous than stars frame the universe of my mind.
Daniel P. Kimble
#42. The insights we receive when going silent, it's our gift to ourselves. Returning and living them, sharing them, that is our gift to the world.
Kamal Ravikant
#43. CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.
John Piper
#44. Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.
Dean Koontz
#45. ....The chemists' ingenuity in devising insecticides has long ago outrun biological knowledge of the way these poisons affect the living organism.
Rachel Carson
#46. Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.
Simon Hoggart
#47. I never live in the present. I'd do interviews and people will say, 'Isn't this great?' or 'Can you believe?' And I would react, like, 'No, I can't believe it because I'm not living in this moment.'
Katy Perry
#48. It is necessary for the average citizen, if he wishes to make a living, to avoid incurring the hostility of certain big men. And these big men have an outlook - religious, moral, and political - with which they expect their employees to agree, at least outwardly.
Bertrand Russell
#49. There was a time I believed I was worthy of true love. But now, living in a hell littered with reminders of broken promises, I know what we have is anything but love.
Gia Riley
#50. I could go on and on and on about how we use the word 'place' in so many different ways. About how somebody might ask you 'Where you at?' And they're not asking where are you sitting, where are you living, they're asking: 'How are you doing?
Justin Vernon
#51. I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.
Ioan Gruffudd
#52. Mr Pinch accordingly, after turning over the leaves of his book with as much care as if they were living and highly cherished creatures, made his own selection, and began to read.
Charles Dickens
#54. Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.
Howard Zinn
#55. As a teenager, my struggle was how do I balance being empathetic and compassionate towards my peers, while also living my life for myself and not basing my decisions on those around me, and really living a life where I receive my happiness from my own experiences rather than from people pleasing.
Shailene Woodley
#56. The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#57. Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.
Gregory Benford
#58. He mentioned Beethoven. She had read in the library about that musician - his name was pronounced with an a and spelled with a double e. He was a German fellow like Mozart. When he was living he spoke in a foreign language and lived in a foreign place - like she wanted to do.
Carson McCullers
#60. People who say things like 'may all your dreams come true' should try living in one for five minutes.
Terry Pratchett
#61. We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it.
Nick Cassavetes
#62. First of all, these lenders are not babies. These are total killers. These are not the nice, sweet little people you think. You're living in a world of make-believe.
Donald Trump
#63. I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.
LeAnn Rimes
#64. The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
Bill Watterson
#65. The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.
D.H. Lawrence
#66. And what I like best in you is this particular enthusiasm, which is not at all practical or sensible, which is downright Quixotic. You are not altogether what you seem, and you have your reservations. Living among the wolves, you have not become one.
Willa Cather
#67. I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#68. I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of this desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighboring woods:-in all these I am practicing Zen, I am living Zen. No worldly discussion is necessary, or any explanation.
D.T. Suzuki
#70. Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature
Albert Einstein
#71. Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
Kate Winslet
#72. THE PATH OF PEACE is exceedingly vast, reflecting the grand design of the hidden and manifest worlds. A warrior is a living shrine of the divine, one who serves that grand purpose.
Morihei Ueshiba
#73. You could bury people one hundred floors down, and a whole dead world could be underneath the living one.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#74. Life is worth celebrating and worth living even though we're all headed to the same hole at the end of the day.
Wayne Coyne
#75. We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#76. Every living thing requires love to survive for without it, we die.
Sanjo Jendayi
#78. My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in.
Rufus Wainwright
#79. Our physical body knows it cannot function without physical water. So, too, our spiritual life should realize that it can't function without the "living water" of Gods Word.
Jim George
#80. The Hittites believed that evil spirits lurked around every corner and sought to pollute the living spiritually and physically, and that death carried the greatest risk of pollution to those who touched the corpse
Charles River Editors
#81. Though not a natural world by any means, more like a collection of living dioramas, a zoo exists in its own time zone, somewhere between the seasonal sense of animals and our madly ticking watch time.
Diane Ackerman
#83. The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying.
Marya Hornbacher
#84. Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.
Nick Nolte
#85. You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?
Paramahansa Yogananda
#86. I had spent so much of life being afraid or living the memory of being afraid.
Maggie Stiefvater
#87. I love playing a role, anything that's dramatic. I'm enjoying living that kind of life: being someone else, getting to die, being a temptress. I enjoy being someone else on stage.
Sarah Hay
#88. What I like about South Florida is there's a good quality of life here; the cost of living is much lower than Silicon Valley.
Rony Abovitz
#89. Close your eyes. Remember what we talked about that night after your concert? Living is hard. It was hard when you were thirteen, it's hard today, and it will be hard again in the future. So, you close your eyes and you breathe. Breathe with me.
Cora Carmack
#90. Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#92. Have I not indeed been living in a dream? And am I not now dying a victim to the horror and the mystery of the wildest of all sublunary visions?
Oscar Wilde
#93. I have serious things to do now. I have a living to give away.
George Eliot
#94. The gospel doesn't erase our past, but it drastically changes our future with a living hope. The gospel gives us the opportunity to be healed and to know God as our Abba Father. With our adoption into God's family comes a radically new life.
Johnny Carr
#95. Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity, the sense of aliveness that came from writing fiction. I'm still that way. My life is worth living when I've completed a good paragraph.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
#96. May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.
Emily Bronte
#97. Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.
Plutarch
#98. Living in London has become incredible. I suppose it's easy to love where you live if you love what you're doing. But this is not just a visit: it's my home.
Kevin Spacey
#99. We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
R. Buckminster Fuller
