Living Quotes

Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.

~ Travis Barker

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

~ Swami Vivekananda

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

~ Charles Darwin

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

~ George Jackson

I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.

~ N. Scott Momaday

Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way.

~ Caroline Knapp

My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.

~ John Denver

If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.

~ Marion Cotillard

During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets.

~ Ken Jennings

I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

~ Moby

Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love.

~ Brennan Manning

What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear - and we must learn how to overcome fear.

~ Brian Weiss

The leadership of the Palestinian Authority is not held in high regard by most of the population of the West Bank. They're seen as living relatively high off the hog and certainly not accomplishing anything vis-a-vis the Israelis.

~ Ian Lustick

I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.

~ Gene Tierney

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

~ Jim Hightower

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

~ Alan Cohen

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

~ Thomas À Kempis

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

~ Herman Melville

Let us answer the terrorists by living our values with courage.

~ Angela Merkel

Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line.

~ Hugh Grant

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.

~ Nazim Hikmet

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

~ Soren Kierkegaard

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.

~ Samuel Smiles

Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn't pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging?

~ Peter Diamandis

I have nightmares that I'm going to wake up, and everyone's driving a Prius and living in a condo, and we're all getting health insurance.

~ Kid Rock

I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.

~ Lexa Doig

I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.

~ Eva Green

I lost all my investments after everything crashed in 2001. Prior to that, I'd been living off the interest on my investments, which was very healthy because it allowed frequent travel, and I had a lovely apartment.

~ Marie Helvin

I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

~ Dominic Monaghan

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

~ Bobby Mcferrin

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

~ James Joyce

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.

~ Thomas S. Monson

For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.

~ John Ortberg

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

~ Charlie Byrd

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

~ Marc Newson

Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.

~ Ellen Degeneres

There is a design behind the world that we are living in, which is veiled to most of us most of the time, but every once in a while, you catch a glimpse of it.

~ Mark Frost

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

~ Harry Bertoia

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

~ Raymond Hull