Quotes About Way Of Living

#1. I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.

Hugo Chavez

#2. There's never a better way of living than just improving our quality of life.

Adrian Grenier

#3. One finds a way of living for the sake of someone else's future. And it wasn't as if Ove also died when Sonja left him. He just stopped living.

Fredrik Backman

#4. I think Detroit is already providing a model for change in the world. I think that Detroit - I mean, people come from all over the world come to see what we're doing. People are looking for a new way of living.

Grace Lee Boggs

#5. What is more important - Pretending to live OR living your life? Forget about what others think about you and your way of living. Live your life the way you like it.

Manoj Arora

#6. I always think of it like this: Rather than be the sun to someone and light up everything around them, I want to be the moon and light the way just a little in front of them when they are lost or uncertain in the darkness, and always be there with them when they look up. That's my way of living.

Gackt

#7. What I want to get out of my college course is some knowledge of the best way of living life and doing the most and best with it. I want to learn to understand and help other people and myself.

L.M. Montgomery

#8. One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Wayne Dyer

#9. Pretend those around you are deaf to your words. Let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions. This way of living ensures the potency of your message is delivered and serves as a gauge against our verbal nonsense.

Steve Maraboli

#10. Live today to the fullest, and forget about the past. Today you can create a new way of living. You can change all the rules.

Louise Hay

#11. Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It's about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us, a hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That's what I want my life to be all about - full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.

Bob Goff

#12. History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

Lawrence Durrell

#13. I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.

Vincent Van Gogh

#14. Hating people isn't a productive way of living. So what's the point in hating anyone? There's enough hate in the world as it is, without me adding to it.

Ozzy Osbourne

#15. Devotion is not drama. Devotion is a way of living. Devotion is the way you walk, the way you breathe, and the way your heart beats.

Jaggi Vasudev

#16. Career isn't about making money as everyone makes something. Rather it's a way of living that would create memorable memories to look back and smile

Santosh Avvannavar

#17. On every dishonest man, there are two watchmen, his possessions, and his way of living.

Umar

#18. Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha N. Beck

#19. We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.

Mary Parker Follett

#20. To be a mirror of God's love is to show Jesus by one's way of living

Sunday Adelaja

#21. I've been an outsider all my life. It's been kind of hard, but I like that way of living.

Haruki Murakami

#22. Everyone in this world acknowledges as truth only
what is convenient for them. They have no other
way of living.

Tite Kubo

#23. In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.

Derrick Jensen

#24. People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.

Thomas Kincade

#25. Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. In the day I would be reminded of those men and women, Brave, setting up signals across vast distances, considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values.

Muriel Rukeyser

#26. You don't think your way to a new way of living. You live your way to a new way of thinking.

David Schnarch

#27. It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.

Bertrand Russell

#28. Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

Charles Bukowski

#29. I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.

Thomas Hardy

#30. In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.

Karen Armstrong

#31. The Quantum Age takes us far beyond the Information Age to a way of living in which we delight in uncertainty, thrive in entanglement, and flourish with an awareness of many possibilities.

Cynthia Sue Larson

#32. The girl was not specifically religious; [...] yet although her faith was nameless her way of living was somehow an affirmation of life rather than a negation of it.

R.D. Laing

#33. Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives.

Melvyn Bragg

#34. Office life is very, very strange. It's like no other way of living. You have an intimacy with people who you work with in the office, yet if you meet them on the streets, you both look the other way because you're embarrassed.

John Banville

#35. As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Kenzaburo Oe

#36. can we find a way of living in which we don't use another, psychologically, emotionally, not depend on another, not use another as a means of escape from our own tortures, from our own despairs, from our own loneliness? To

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#37. It's a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.

Agnes Varda

#38. I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new way of living.

Carnie Wilson

#39. Being on the road, I think, is the most organised part of my life. You know where you have to be every day; you know what your job is every day. I crave that tiny bit of stability, which anyone else would think is the most unstable way of living, ever.

Alison Mosshart

#40. ...you need to assess what you love right now and what is authntic to your way of living in this season of life.

Melissa Michaels

#41. Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being.

Mamie Van Doren

#42. Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it just means that you're hungry for life. There are so many things you want to do.

Etgar Keret

#43. Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced.

Steve Maraboli

#44. We'd lived our lives thinking that there was a special way of living for people who had been discarded.

Tetsuo Miura

#45. Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replaced normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.

Albert Camus

#46. We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.

Felix Adler

#47. Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

Claire Messud

#48. There's nothing that everyone likes in the world. People have different opinions. It's just the way of living. I know that there will be differences.

Miyavi

#49. Acceptance doesn't mean that life gets better; it just means that my way of living life on life's terms improves.

Sharon E. Rainey

#50. The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.

Frederick Buechner

#51. There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

George Santayana

#52. The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money

Paul Farmer

#53. If I am what I have and if what I have is lost, who then am I?
Nobody but a defeated, deflated, pathetic testimony to a wrong way of living.

Erich Fromm

#54. For me, love is not about froufrou New Age-ism. It's about a way of living and honoring the interconnectedness of life and accepting our responsibility and our power to change the world for the better.

Julia Butterfly Hill

#55. I want to use every second of my life, every time that I have in my life, to make me a better fighter. That's why I'm a martial artist. For me, it's more than a job - it's a way of living

Georges St-Pierre

#56. But I, you know, if I could choose a period to go back to, I think I would like to live through the Blitz. 'Cause you do read so many accounts of people saying they're living their lives at such an intense pitch that it was a completely different way of living.

Kate Atkinson

#57. How pleasant to float along the stream of providence! There is no more blessed way of living than a life of dependence upon a covenant keeping God.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#58. He had missed the deepest of all companionships, a relation with the earth itself, with a countryside and a people. That relationship he knew cannot be gone after and found; it must be long and deliberate, unconscious. It must, indeed, be a way of living.

Willa Cather

#59. The world of the flapper - live free, wild and young - that energy is intoxicating. It's nice to inject that into the more controlled 'Downton' way of living.

Lily James

#60. I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living.

Bobby Womack

#61. There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.

Shane Claiborne

#62. Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon ... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in such a way as to depress and to discourage other people.

William Barclay

#63. Rather than being confined to a separate dimension, martial arts should be an extension of our way of living, of our philosophies, of the way we educate our children, of the job we devote so much of our time to, of the relationships we cultivate, and of the choices we make every day.

Daniele Bolelli

#64. They give us access to another world, they give us access to dreams. It's our way of living in a different realm for a short period of time - and how beautiful is that?

Nicole Kidman

#65. Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.

Cherrie Moraga

#66. If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them.

Robert Ruark

#67. Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

Isabelle Huppert

#68. It's not love for music, it's a passion, and it goes beyond liking, and beyond a hobby, it's about a way of living ... Music is essential for my life.

Armin Van Buuren

#69. You have a peace about you. You have a wisdom. You have a way of living life that kicks my butt and pushes me around, and it beats me out of my idiocy and narrow-mindness. You, Addy, you, have shown me what life is all about

Heath Sommer

#70. From the moment we are born, people tell us that the world is like this and like that, this way, that way. It is natural that - for a certain period of time - we end up believing what we are told. But we must soon push these ideas aside and discover our own way of living reality.

Paulo Coelho

#71. Whether it succeeded or not was of secondary importance; first, I had to do it. Then I would experience the fullness of life as I went along. That was my only possible way of living.

Tetsuo Miura

#72. I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.

Ruth Reichl

#73. At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.

Alan Hirsch

#74. I think we should love sinners, and welcome them, and open our arms to them, and then we don't totally accept them into our fellowship as believers and as Christians until they have repented their sins and changed their way of living.

Billy Graham

#75. Love is a way of living, and not something that you give.

Deepak Chopra

#76. Whether you want to lose 20 pounds or 200, what the contestants on 'The Biggest Loser' have learned - and taught me - holds true: You've got to make a break. You've got to divorce yourself from the past and find a different way of living. And you can never go back.

Bob Harper

#77. All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.

John Banville

#78. Nobody likes to throw stuff away. It's just antithetical to our sense of being a person. But we're all habituated to that way of living today.

Peter Senge

#79. Posh is a way of living that can often be quite miserly and not about money.

Kate Reardon

#80. There's a difference between freedom of worship and freedom of religion. Worship is an event that happens inside the house of worship. Religion is a lifestyle. It is a way of living.

Rick Warren

#81. Tis easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue
'Tis the natural way of living.

James Russell Lowell

#82. Stop allowing your outdated ideas to hinder your progress. How would your life be different if you became open to new information that can refine, improve, enhance your way of thinking, and empower your way of living?

Steve Maraboli

#83. We don't think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into a new way of thinking.

Richard Rohr

#84. Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.

Natascha McElhone

#85. Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.

Rachel Kushner

#86. Rock 'n' roll is an attitude, it's not a musical form of a strict sort. It's a way of doing things, of approaching things. Writing can be rock 'n' roll, or a movie can be rock 'n' roll. It's a way of living your life.

Lester Bangs

#87. But there's such a thing as a way of living that's guided by the way a person's going to die.

Haruki Murakami

#88. It's necessary for you to work out a way of living that's very strong and very tight and very powerful, otherwise you will not be able to deal with the unknown.

Frederick Lenz

#89. Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

Eve Curie

#90. We cannot embrace the New Mind by just sitting around and talking about it. It demands that we alter not just our thinking, but our way of living down to the smallest details.

Jean Houston

#91. The attitude of gratitude is the highest way of living, and is the biggest truth, the highest truth. You cannot live with applied consciousness until you understand that you have to be grateful for what you have. If you are grateful for what you have, then Mother Nature will give you more.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#92. When you're a dreamer, heart break and failure come with the territory, but I can tell you it's worth it, because it's a way of living that is both moving and memorable.

Lauren Fleshman

#93. To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

Viggo Mortensen

#94. Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

Slobodan Milosevic

#95. Procrastination is a way of living in the past instead of the present moment.

Debasish Mridha

#96. Because obstacles will always present themselves, the hardest obstacle of all is developing a way of living, a way of practicing your approach to life that allows you to keep a healthy perspective on things.

Adam Rodriguez

#97. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Eric Butterworth

#98. I often think about, 'How do we return to a simpler way of living? Is there some way that we can start to think of each other as human beings again, instead of worshiping money, instead of worshiping electronics, instead of worshiping getting ahead just for me?'

Giancarlo Esposito

#99. In this life, the proper way of living is to make use of both joy and suffering. They are both merely stimuli that the world presents to us. So by blending them skillfully within you, you can use them in a completely different way. If you want to be steeped in evil, you mustn't forget good.

Fuminori Nakamura

#100. Her eyes wandered back to the campus again, and she suddenly grew sober as the thought swept over her that in a few weeks more it would be hers no longer. This happy, irresponsible community life, which had come to be the only natural way of living, was suddenly at an end.

Jean Webster