I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
William Shakespeare

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Henry David Thoreau

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Henry David Thoreau

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
W. Clement Stone

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
Ogden Nash

We are always getting ready to live but never living.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin

People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
Anais Nin

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Anais Nin

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Anais Nin

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Bob Dylan

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
Ernest Hemingway

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway