History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Karl Marx

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Alexander the Great

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Emily Dickinson

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
Leo Buscaglia

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Voltaire

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
Voltaire

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Voltaire

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
Leo Tolstoy

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Saint Augustine

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
Thomas Merton

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
Thomas Merton

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

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Thomas A. Edison

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
John D. Rockefeller

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

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus Aurelius