Living Quotes

I CHOOSE to live by choice not by chance, to be motivated not manipulated, to be useful not used, to make change not excuses, to excel not compete. I CHOOSE self-esteem not self pity. I choose to listen to my inner voice, NOT TO LISTEN TO THE RANDOM OPINIONS OF OTHERS.

Auliq-Ice

We gave the woman for her trouble a generous fee, with which she was highly pleased, and proceeded to put it in the bed under her sleeping husband's head. We laughingly told her not to put it there as he might get it, and it was money she had earned herself. She appreciated the joke, though it was told mostly by gestures, but seemed to have true ideas of the matrimonial relation, and was nothing loath to trust her all with him. page. 116

Helen Josephine Sanborn

Entire lives aren’t lessons, but there are lessons in lives.

Live a courageous life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It takes time, or does time take it?

Anthony Liccione

Passionate embrace your sacred existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Our dreams define our sacred destiny.

Lailah Gifty Akita

In politics no permanent friends, no permanent enemies but permanent interest.

Patience Johnson

Past, I am letting you go; future, I will see you tomorrow; present, I love you, live in you, use you and never let you go.

Debasish Mridha

The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself?

you got one life so dont stop living it!

Hedley

We're always on breath away from something--living or dying--, sometimes it just can't be helped.

Heather Gudenkauf

It seems to me that we do live in two worlds... there is this physical one, which is coherant, and there is the spiritual one, which to the average man with his flashes of religious experience, is very often incoherant. This experience of having two worlds to live in all the time, or not all the time, is a vital one, and is what living is like.

William Golding

Life is sweet or bitter depending on where your attention is, at that moment.

Things were good. He had things to look forward to. That, for now, was to be his definition of living - to always have a thing to look forward to.

I find that I am most happy and healthy when I am living in alignment with my goals, dreams, and principles.

I know my time will come soon enough, but I will not dwell on it. What is the purpose? We might as well dwell on the work of our teeth or on the mechanics of our walk. It is there, it will always be there, and I don't intend to spend my glorious hours looking over my shoulder to see death's icy face.

Alberto Manguel

Everything was so much sharper without the Link fogging me--sights, sounds, smells. It was exhilarating and shocking and terrifying. I knew my emotions had grown too strong. They were dangerous to the Community. They were dangerous to me.But still, I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live. And that meant that I couldn't give the glitching up. At least not yet. Just a little bit longer.

Heather Anastasiu

Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution.

Grigoris Deoudis

She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.

Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young man - all present still, preserved like fossils on superimposed layers, and, like fossils, dead. Their message to this live dying creature is: Look at us - we have died - what is there to be afraid of?It answers them: But that happened so gradually, so easily. I'm afraid of being rushed.

Christopher Isherwood

None but ourselves will put the concrete on our road to success.

T.A

Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

And the fact was that he remembered once thinking that he was fine with dying anywhere at any time… but now, gazing at each corpse in turn, he thought with all his heart, I’m glad I didn’t die there. I have to go home. I’ve still got things to do.

If you are not careful you will end up living the illusions that others have created for you.

People don't buy Moet & Dom because they love the taste, the buy it because they need "Livin' Large" photo on Facebook!

T.A

Ignore what you don't like. Insist what u need.

T.A

You only know of existence, once you rebel. You only know of life, once you die.

Start living by taking back the control of your life now! Create a life more in tune with your true desires.

One life, One story. Make it a fairytale.

T.A

The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is more to life than just living.

Ashok Kallarakkal

Don't become a prisoner of your own reality, set yourself free by creating a life worth living.

Once upon a time she had liked to dance. When she had been about the same age as the little brunette out there who kept lifting her dress up over her head. Now that was living. Just lift your dress if you wanted to get down and don't worry what anyone thought.

A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

Living erotically is opening oneself up to nature-- externally and within.

Kristie LeVangie

Everyone has their own New York in the heart, place where there is hope for everybody.

T.A

I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns of practical living.

Dream sets us on fire.Dream gives us direction.Dream betters our potential.Dream helps us prioritize.Dream adds value to our work andlife.Dream colors our future.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family's life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

Seemingly suicidal, it's not. I never wanted to live. I wanted to be happy. Living was always accidental.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Stop complaining and start living.

Scars are an affirmation of living.

Joshua Wisenbaker

architecture is a way of life

Barwa

All who are born are always dying.

In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending it. There are many things to do. There are books to write and naps to take. There are movies to see and scrambled eggs to eat. Life is essentially trivial. You either decide you will take the trite business of life and give yourself the option of doing something really cool, or you decide you will opt for the Grand Epic of eating disorders and dedicate your life to being seriously trivial.

Marya Hornbacher

I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.

Abigail Padgett

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).

He was pale as only one state on Bhast dictated—not lacking color necessarily or vitality, certainly. Fey white was more comparable to a pearl; the color subtle and the luster soft, but still vibrant. In spite of the tragedy that could come with it, it was not a dying state. It was a state of living…sometimes much more brilliantly than people could cope with, including the Fey individuals themselves.

The best standard of living will be attained when your house will be filled with God's blessings.

It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not in the room when a man is dead in it.

The difference between the one who remembers Allah and the one who doesn’t is like the living and the dead.

Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf

I firmly disbelieve in death. A spirit never dies. Where it wanders when it leaves the flesh, is a cognitive proposition.

See the world anew and write down the bones of it.

A.D. Sams

I want my life to be about LIVING, not leaving --which is why I'm LEAVING nothing behind.

Shelley K. Wall

Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Olive Schreiner

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