Living Quotes

Let me live my final days whole.Let my memory remain that I might know love's face.Life don't unwrap me to be fed to scavengers.I want to escape into light - not exist in darkness.

~ Susie Clevenger

And what cats have to tellon each return from hellis this: that dying is what the living do, that dying is what the loving do, and that dead dogs are those who do not knowthat dying is what, to live, each has to do.

~ Alastair Reid

Paraphrasing Yeats: It was as the Irish poet had written, a waste of breath, the years that had gone past, the years to come. There was only the present moment to live and die in. [ref. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death ...The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death. W.B. Yeats

~ Tan Twan Eng

I don't know it is that I always feel that other people can create things but that I can't. I imagine it's simpler living in remote tribes or communities where one is obliged to have a go or else you have to do without. I suppose it is fear of failure in an age where political correctness is trying to erase the word 'failure' from the language. It's OK to fail isn't it, but only if you've tried? What is so bizarre is that when one does try, one rarely falls short. Obviously some people do things better than others but if it gives you pleasure, then so what? As my grandmother used to say, 'patience and perseverance made a bishop of his reverence!' So don't say you can't make candles or soap or that you can't spin or weave until you've tried it. As for mending, well, if you're not throwing everything away, then you have no option but to make do and mend. After all, the only way to get rid of shopping malls and supermarkets with their food miles is for people not to shop in those places and the way to cure this mercenary mercantile world is to make your own things.

~ Clarissa Dickson Wright

This would have once been a place for contemplation. He looked up at the towers surrounding him. Many of the dead bodies had been removed. Their places had been taken by the living.

~ Rupert Thomson

I eat you, life; you make me living eat.

~ William Kean Seymour

You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There's life in a nutshell.

~ Bear Grylls

Do You think it matters if they're tiny or deep? he asked. Well, if they're not tiny breaths and they're not deep breaths, then they're just ... breaths. Then you're just breathing for the sake of ... breathing. ... Seize them. Feel them. Love them ...

~ K.a. Tucker

Ah, lust. It makes us forget anything we want to. The greatest relaxant, the greatest stimulant.

~ James Lusarde

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.

~ Natalie Goldberg

I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover--and practice--the art of acceptance. When I started to accept life for what it was and I started to accept whatever situation I was in as the way things were, I started to see that my happiness depended on my own attitude. When I started focusing on getting the most out of my life the way it was rather than trying to turn it into what I thought it should be, I started to realize that I was, indeed, becoming a much happier person.

~ Tom Walsh

Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

~ Olive Schreiner

I firmly disbelieve in death. A spirit never dies. Where it wanders when it leaves the flesh, is a cognitive proposition.

~ Kellie Elmore

See the world anew and write down the bones of it.

~ A.d. Sams

I want my life to be about LIVING, not leaving --which is why I'm LEAVING nothing behind.

~ Shelley K. Wall

The best standard of living will be attained when your house will be filled with God's blessings.

~ Moazzam Shaikh

It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not in the room when a man is dead in it.

~ Ray Bradbury

The difference between the one who remembers Allah and the one who doesn’t is like the living and the dead.

~ Habib Kadhim Al-Saqqaf

I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.

~ Abigail Padgett

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).

~ John Piper

He was pale as only one state on Bhast dictated—not lacking color necessarily or vitality, certainly. Fey white was more comparable to a pearl; the color subtle and the luster soft, but still vibrant. In spite of the tragedy that could come with it, it was not a dying state. It was a state of living…sometimes much more brilliantly than people could cope with, including the Fey individuals themselves.

~ T.a. Miles

All who are born are always dying.

~ Mitch Albom

I make a new discovery that totally blows, dying is the easy part. It's coming back to life that sucks.

~ Karen Marie Moning

In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending it. There are many things to do. There are books to write and naps to take. There are movies to see and scrambled eggs to eat. Life is essentially trivial. You either decide you will take the trite business of life and give yourself the option of doing something really cool, or you decide you will opt for the Grand Epic of eating disorders and dedicate your life to being seriously trivial.

~ Marya Hornbacher

That’s the thing about living vicariously, it’s so much faster than actual living.

~ Audrey Niffenegger

Seemingly suicidal, it's not. I never wanted to live. I wanted to be happy. Living was always accidental.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Stop complaining and start living.

~ Habeeb Akande

Scars are an affirmation of living.

~ Joshua Wisenbaker

Dream sets us on fire.Dream gives us direction.Dream betters our potential.Dream helps us prioritize.Dream adds value to our work andlife.Dream colors our future.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

~ Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family's life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

~ Arthur Hailey

Living erotically is opening oneself up to nature-- externally and within.

~ Kristie Levangie

Everyone has their own New York in the heart, place where there is hope for everybody.

~ T.a

I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns of practical living.

~ Kim Krizan

Once upon a time she had liked to dance. When she had been about the same age as the little brunette out there who kept lifting her dress up over her head. Now that was living. Just lift your dress if you wanted to get down and don't worry what anyone thought.

~ Erin Mccarthy

A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.

~ Deanna Vasquez

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

~ John Geddes

The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it.

~ Theodore Roosevelt