Living Quotes

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
Morrie Schwartz

Sad, Else, Dying

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Hannah Arendt

Death, Try, Order

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
E. O. Wilson

America, Wonderful, Cost

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.
E. O. Wilson

Dream, Makes, Mine

Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
E. O. Wilson

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
Peace Pilgrim

Great, Freedom, Care

I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually.
Robert Mondavi

Good, Wine, Wanted

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
Carl Sandburg

Words, Remember, Strange

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.
P. J. O'Rourke

All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.
Deepak Chopra

Accept, Soon, Truths

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

Love, Work, Design

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.
Les Dawson

Used, Trouble, Sell

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
Lady Gaga

Life, Reality, Between

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
David Bowie

Potential, Superman, Stone

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
Clara Schumann

Happiness, Art, Picture

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.
Joan Rivers

God, Country, Sky

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.
Javier Bardem

Technology, Selfish, Live

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
Mattie Stepanek

Life, Work, History

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.
Suzanne Farrell

Ungrateful, Moment, Else

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
Norman Mailer

Moment, Less, Dying

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life, Faith, Makes

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
W. Somerset Maugham

Death, Dead, Happened

King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.
Cornel West

Life, Power, Crisis

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.
Bo Bennett

Life, Best, Human

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
Peter McWilliams

Dreams, Control, Ourselves

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
John D. Rockefeller

Essential, Thrift

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
Denis Diderot

Faith, Good, Hurt

Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played with.
Chuck Norris

Played, Document

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
Earl Nightingale

Mind, Used, Expression

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

Life, Worth, Thank

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