Living Quotes

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

Down, Off, Risk

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
Groucho Marx

Life, Time, Mind

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

Life, Person, Find

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

Writing, Ideas, Desk

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

Men, History, Fight

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

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.
Elizabeth Taylor

Through, Survive, Example

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
Bertrand Russell

Time, Good, Food

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
Wayne Dyer

Sense, Slave, Obligation

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
Erich Fromm

Life, Act, Meaning

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
Ray Bradbury

Enjoy, Sense, Keep

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.
Polly Toynbee

Pain, Depression, Enough

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Best, Gratitude, Important

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
John Wooden

Life, Making, Prevent

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
Annie Lennox

Death, Easy, Dying

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

Life, Find, Enough

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
John C. Maxwell

Fear, Greatest, Mistake

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
Charles R. Swindoll

Family, Place, Everyday

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.
Johnny Depp

Life, Simple, Different

Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer

Compassion, Ethics, Full

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
William James

Life, Worth, Depends

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

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

Life, Art, Past

Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Stephen King

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.
Anne Frank

Good, Heart, Bad

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell

Else, Freely, Nobly

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.
Rick Warren

Home, Past, Jesus

Life is wasted on the living.
Douglas Adams

I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.
Joel Osteen

Life, Trying, Stuff

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