Living Quotes

If you are a finger, your honesty is the hand to make your existence worth living.

~ Munia Khan

The most annoying pain is perceived when a man is living without a purpose.

~ Amit Kalantri

It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.

~ George W. Bush

A child falls many times in attempt to walk. But never quit trying and eventually, the child is able to walk.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A child thinks and acts like a child. But when you are grown, you act and think like an adult. Too many people are still childish and immature and fail to realize it's a setback in their lives.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

If we throw blankets over our children's dreams, we darken their world and extinguish their desire to live. I'd rather my kid die with a wild fire in his/her heart than with a malfunctioning or drained out fuse. Always allow your kids to keep humming with dreams and ideas that fuel their passions. Never tell them something is impossible. If you have a really strong determined kid, they'll go out there killing themselves trying to do the unachievable just to prove you wrong. And if you have a weak kid, they'll give up on life and settle for bagging Cokes and potato chips at your local grocery store.

~ Suzy Kassem

Both tears and sweat are salty. but none of them are faulty. the tears can get you somewhere, the sweat will make you only wet.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.

~ Marisha Pessl

Who did she know in Raleigh who took time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, thoughts of the spirit? Or hunted dawn from the bow of a canoe? These weren't the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldn't be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile.

~ Nicholas Sparks

I may be someone who was always destined to spend my life wandering aimlessly. I can’t settle down. The cruel part is, I want to settle down and the world won’t let me. So what choice do I have but to become a fugitive?

~ Sōseki Natsume

People may make fun of me because I’m wearing something odd, but it’s still good to be alive.

~ Sōseki Natsume

My touchstone for following a line of wisdom is; ‘living the philosophy should bring freedom to the individual, and love, wisdom and compassion to society, to our relationships’.

~ Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney

Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

~ Edmund Burke

Depending on each other and facing the difficulties that go with it takes a lot more effort than living on your own, separated from the rest of the world. Loving each other, hurting each other, over and over, until our death. All those things that seem so normal are actually incredibly difficult. To accomplish a normal life might be an achievement as great as writing a book that goes down in history!

~ Naoyuki Ochiai

All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature.

~ Paul Gauguin

Speak only that which will bring you honor.

~ Guru Nanak

the price of creationis nevertoo high.the price of livingwith other peoplealwaysis.

~ Charles Bukowski

The new dumb, is now wisdom.

~ Anthony Liccione

Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.

~ Osamu Dazai

I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought.I want money. Unless I have it....In my sleep, a natural death!

~ Osamu Dazai

I swear that I will never cause trouble for anybody, as long as I live!! So please! Nobody cause any trouble for me, either!!

~ Minoru Furuya

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

~ John Lennon

Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each yellow rectangle that climbs, one over another, to the sky - under each bulb - down to there, see that spark over the river which is not a star? - there are people whom you will never see and who are your masters. At the supper tables, in the drawing rooms, in their beds and in their cellars, in their studies and in their bathrooms. Speeding in the subways under your feet. Crawling up in elevators through vertical cracks around you. Jolting past you in every bus. Your masters, Gail Wynand. There is a net - longer than the cables that coil through the walls of this city, larger than the mesh of pipes that carry water, gas and refuse - there is another hidden net around you; it is strapped to you, and the wires lead to every hand in the city. They jerked the wires and you moved. You were a ruler of men. You held a leash. A leash is only a rope with a noose at both ends.

~ Ayn Rand

You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

May God grant your a great grace to live the fullness of life in the coming year.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When we rest, our energy is restored.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We don’t exist to survive. We live to strive.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Rise in mighty strength and live your dream.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When desire meets desire, the stronger one survives. Fulfill your desires! The predator will eat the prey. Our world is a cruel and dirty place...but that's what makes it so beautiful! Hell is the true paradise!

~ Naoyuki Ochiai

I always thought it was disgusting and ugly, how the weak live their lives depending on each other shamefully licking each other's wounds. A way of life that no one could truly want. I was certain that no greatness could ever come from that. That's what I thought until I met you.

~ Mark Haddon

Let out your heat!Unleash your imaginationLet the burning fragrance of your unimpeachable imaginationsparkle through the morning’s you.At night, let the stoical sweat of your day ease your musclesRelax your feet.You will need them to walk again tomorrow

~ Priscilla Koranteng

Bad habits are like comfort zones; easier to get into, but harder to get out of.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Being a part of the world in a healthy, mindful, present sense means learning to have complete faith that things will work out. Living in this world means that instead of cowering away, or giving up when the going gets a bit tough, get up and keep going. You’re not here merely to survive or fight your way through the world.

~ Leigh Hershkovich

At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.

~ Osamu Dazai

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm done with those, regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

~ Ned Vizzini

One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.

~ Edward Abbey

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.

~ John Irving

Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem

~ Paulo Coelho

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

~ Leonard Cohen