Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Living Quotes from famous persons: Steven Wright, Mark Twain, Dorothea Lange, Janet McTeer, Lord Byron. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Living Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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I’m not perfect. I’m never going to be. And that’s the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you’re trying to get better every day. You’re trying to improve.
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I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.
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I don’t think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live, y’know what I mean?
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What kind of business world are we living in?
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I am learning the importance of living in the moment.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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I hope that basketball gains momentum and kids understand that you can actually make a living from it. Not just the N.B.A. You can get a scholarship, a free degree – like, no student loan you have to pay off. That’s huge in life. Once they realize that in New Zealand, I hope they get inspired.
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I was so intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn’t living an interesting life myself.
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That’s easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.
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Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are – these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
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Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.
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We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.
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Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.
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I’m living with every step. I can’t live with regret. The past is the past. I’m not worried about it. I can’t change it. I can’t fix it. It is what it is. I’m just living.
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I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it’s really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.
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I’m alive and I want to keep living.
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Life got very good – we went from living in a one-bedroom apartment to a five-bedroom mansion by the time I was in high school. I had everything I wanted growing up, though all I wanted was music stuff – drums, a PC, turntables.
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My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: ‘Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.’
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My liberty is about living. It’s about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful, loving individual, my music sometimes didn’t reflect that. But now it’s different. My music is reflecting the way I feel.
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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.
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Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you’re living for an audience of one. I’m not here for anyone else‘s approval.
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You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it’s hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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You can’t really start living until you can live with yourself.
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I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.
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I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in, where money is a little harder to come by, things continue to get expensive; gas prices are not too far from people’s heads. There are more and more people. Human society’s going to have real problems.
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The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
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Everybody aspires to an affordable home, a secure job, better living standards, reliable healthcare and a decent pension. My generation took those things for granted, and so should future generations.
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What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.
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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.
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For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.
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I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don’t. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.
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I would like to leave the world a better place than when I entered it. I would hope that by the time I die I could have learned from the years of living and hand something down.
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You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
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Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they’ve got into being their own boss.
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Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology – looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.
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The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
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Kids don’t care what you did wrong – they’re just up every day living, forgiving, loving, having fun.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.
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Real success is not, like, materialistic. It’s being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it.
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Living, breathing, and being present is the practice that can lead us to having a full and authentic in-the-body experience. If we can shift our perspective from being separate to being part of it all, psychological hang-ups, insecurities, fears, and disorders dissolve.
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I’m very intelligent. I’m capable of doing everything put to me. I’ve launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I’m living proof blondes are not stupid.
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While living I want to live well.
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The beauty standards had nothing to do with me in Mexico. It was such a bizarre, dire time for my hair. I was living in a small town where there was not any semblance of an African community. I’d have to take the bus to Mexico City to find a woman who could braid my hair. That was two and a half hours away.
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The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
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I’m just living my life, and I’m not gonna live my life for other people.
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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.
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Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
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What the canons of beauty transmit is an idea of taking care of yourself. Eating well, living healthily, doing sports. It’s a way to highlight the natural beauty in each of us. The natural body that all of us are born with.
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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
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I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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In real life we don’t know what’s going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next – if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.
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A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard-core unemployed.
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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.
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You don’t have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.
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Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul ‘prays in us with unspeakable groanings’.
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I love the Country Music Hall of Fame. I don’t think it’s just a hall of fame and it’s not just a museum. It’s a schoolhouse. It’s a place where people from all across the world can come and learn about this great genre that we’re making a living out of.
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I don’t care how people treat me. I care about my message living on through other people.
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Life is wasted on the living.
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I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
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Wellness is not a ‘medical fix’ but a way of living – a lifestyle sensitive and responsive to all the dimensions of body, mind, and spirit, an approach to life we each design to achieve our highest potential for well-being now and forever.
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Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.
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I’m not completely sure we aren’t all living in a hallucination now.
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Being homeless is like living in a post-apocalyptic world. You’re on the outskirts of society.
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Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
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I love my living room: it’s the heart of my home where I get to chill and spend time with family and friends.
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The goal of reanimation research is not to make perfect living copies of extinct organisms, nor is it meant to be a one-off stunt in a laboratory or zoo. Reanimation is about leveraging the best of ancient and synthetic DNA.
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I asked myself, ‘What are you going to do with your life? Are you going to be like everyone else or are you going to do what’s right?’ I just made a decision. I said, ‘It’s time to grow up. It’s time to start living for the Lord, do things the right way.’ I accepted the Lord, and it changed my life.
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Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
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Don’t waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living.
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I sometimes still feel I am living in a goldfish bowl, but I now manage it better. I still have a naughty streak, too, which I enjoy and is how I relate to those individuals who have got themselves into trouble.
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Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.
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There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
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I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine.
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A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.
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Whoever wants to be caught up in my life, first of all, you should be living yours because I’m damn sure not worried about your life.
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I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
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Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world.
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I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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I always tell everybody that I feel I am living my dream.
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Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living.
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We cannot put off living until we are ready.
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Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.
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The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
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We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.
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My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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I think of myself as a living cartoon.
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I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment.
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Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.
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You do have to follow your heart, otherwise you’re living a false life.
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Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace – the way of non-violence – the way of love – the way of life as the way of living.
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I’m delighted. I don’t know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It’s a great feeling.
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Everyone wants drama. Everyone is living for drama.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
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Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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Living in a jungle is not something easy; it’s not something that you just adapt yourself to. And I think that in my case, I didn’t want to adapt.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.
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How wonderful to know that Christianity is more than a padded pew or a dim cathedral, but that it is a real, living, daily experience which goes on from grace to grace.
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And that’s the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you’re trying to get better every day. You’re trying to improve.
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Sometimes you’re trying your best and you still can’t find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place.
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If you’re at a restaurant and someone asks, ‘Fresh pepper?,’ the answer is yes. When people shake off the fresh pepper, they clearly have no interest in living a full life. Same thing goes for grated Parmesan. Why would you turn that down?
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I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
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I’m just delighted to be living, to be able to have a simple conversation, to feel a ray of sunlight on my skin and listen to the breeze move through the leaves of a tree.
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People say satire is dead. It’s not dead; it’s alive and living in the White House.
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I’ve been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It’s boring.
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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
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The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
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My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.
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Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn’t exist, but it does. I can’t imagine living anywhere else.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.
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We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
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What a blessing it is to throw a baseball for a living!
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When I worked in the city, it was about survival. Now when I work in the countryside, I feel like I’m truly living.
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We really have the most beautiful planet in our solar system. None other can sustain life like we know it. None other has blue water and white clouds covering colorful landmasses filled with thriving, beautiful, living things like human beings.
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I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
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You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
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It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread – the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.
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As long as you’re having fun and being positive and progressive, I’m going to say you’re living a Zumbao lifestyle.
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It’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.
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The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.
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Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It’s very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don’t view myself as a political person. I’m just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
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You don’t stop living because bad things happen. You keep going.
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Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating – or if it is floating at all.
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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
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I’m most passionate about anything to do with nature and the simple things. I love taking walks with my family or my friends and seeing nature. And that’s why I love living where I live because I live up in the desert area in the mountains.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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We want to make our own Netherlands, to close our borders and to keep all that money that we give to the foreigners, there is billions, to Africa for development, to Brussels, to Greece, to asylum seekers in the Netherlands, we will stop that and give all that money to the Dutch people living in the Netherlands.
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I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.
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I’m living life as best I can – but I’m not exempt from failure and making bad choices.
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If you are in a beautiful place where you can enjoy sunrise and sunset, then you are living like a lord.
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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
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The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
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I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.
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The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
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Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
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Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.
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I’m realizing for the first time, your life goes on while you’re trying to pursue this career. I saw my career as everything. But you have this life, too. Living your life fully, you come to know yourself better. You’ll find the place for it.
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Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.
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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
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I don’t have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I’m alive and I’m living and I’m experiencing different things every day, the show will always change.
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At Microsoft, we’re aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it’s seen as empowering.
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In every living thing there is the desire for love.
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Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.
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Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That’s not possible on $1 a day.
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Children born with Down Syndrome are not vegetables, nor are their lives demonstrably not worth living.
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Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.
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One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
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My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
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If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living.
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Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.
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Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.
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Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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I don’t compare shows. It’s very simple. I don’t live in the past. If there’s any secret to my longevity, it’s living in the future. And a little bit in the present.
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I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.
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I used to think, ‘How can I write my life story? I’m still living it.’
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I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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There’s fear or faith. If you’re living by fear, then you’re always looking for security. If you’re living by faith, then you’re always looking for freedom.
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It is vital to speak up in a democracy. Otherwise we are living in dictatorships.
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
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The research I have been doing – studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells – does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.
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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
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Monuments are for the living, not the dead.
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For me, personally, marriage is a man and a woman living together.
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I’m one of the luckiest people in the world that I was able to do what I fell in love with and be able to make a living doing it.
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In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.
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You can always get better. The day you stop getting better is the day you shouldn’t be living. Gotta constantly improve and continue to grow within yourself.
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If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
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There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
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Maturity implies otherness… The art of living is the art of living with.
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To feel today what one felt yesterday isn’t to feel – it’s to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today’s living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.
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Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes – at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.
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Most of us are imprisoned by something. We’re living in darkness until something flips on the switch.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
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Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother – so I wouldn’t be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally.
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We are living in dystopia, in a world that is dominated by technology and disconnect, alienation, loneliness, and dysfunction.
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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future.
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The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
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Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning… Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.
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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
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I don’t read blogs. I’m living the life they’re writing about. So why read about it?
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Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
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I don’t even draw on my life experiences when I’m acting. I just try and make it feel like I’m living through that person’s skin.
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If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you’re free – however free one can be on this planet.
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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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‘Supermodel‘ was a hard record for me; it was an emotional record to write. I was purging a lot of stuff with that album, and I think the one thing I didn’t really consider, that I’d be supporting it for two years and living in that state of mind every night.
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
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There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
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I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn’t have much living in North Carolina.
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The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
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Everyone has a right to their own opinion about me, and that’s fine. I’m just going to keep being myself and living my life. That’s all I can do.
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Mumbai‘s infectious. Once you start living in Mumbai, working in Mumbai, I don’t think you can live anywhere else.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
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I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.
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I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.
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We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.
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I’m really living my dream so if I were to change anything up, I probably wouldn’t be where I am.
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Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.
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Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.
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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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I’ll probably be punished for hard living.
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I’m living proof that Hepatitis C can be contained and that ZZ Top cannot.
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I’m doing my best to be mindful about how I’m living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.
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I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
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In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.
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Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.
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Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.
418
My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I’d be right back living on the Upper West Side.
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When I walk around my neighborhood, the grocery store, or the farmers market, I don’t see Democrats or Republicans, Progressives or Conservatives. I see my brothers and sisters – living, breathing human beings with diverse and complicated stories, views, and desires that can’t be packaged neatly in a box.
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Get busy living, or get busy dying.
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I’ve always been interested in art and making things, but I chose not to go to art school because I thought I needed to do something else. Art was a tough way to make a living.
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I think my mom and dad both wanted to get across to me that… I obviously grew up with great privilege and was very lucky and was able to afford college and not have student loans, and they would pay for college, but beyond that, it would be up to me to make a living.
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Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn’t it, to alert us to the fact that we’re hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we’re living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.
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And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.
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I’m from Dagestan, I’m born in Dagestan, and Dagestan is a different level for people living a tough life, people living in the mountains.
429
Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.
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The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?
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We know that we are often judged by the company we keep. We know how influential classmates, friends, and other peer groups can be. If any of our companions are prone to be unrighteous in their living, we are better off seeking new associations immediately.
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It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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I’m living the life of liberty, happiness and pursuit.
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Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.
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If you make your living writing, and you can’t write anything, it’s over. It’s very frightening.
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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.
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My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
443
You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
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A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
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Living well is the best revenge.
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Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that’s not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you’re not careful.
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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
452
Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.
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The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
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So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
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For people living with HIV, the knowledge that undetectable equals untransmittable is huge news, not only as a means of preventing transmission, but in breaking down the stigma that many people still experience.
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We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they’re called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.
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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
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When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
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The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with samples from our laboratory, while my husband was living.
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Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.
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A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.
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Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
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A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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Make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You push for colour-blind casting; you draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are, not what colour your parents happen to be.
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.
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After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means – and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
480
Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.
481
Living well is the best revenge.
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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.
483
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?
484
We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism, or the system of neighbourly common sense.
485
I’m living proof you can excel regardless of where you come from.
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If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you’ll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.
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I’ve never felt like I was living in anyone’s shadow. My life was what it was.
489
We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell’s Angels in this flat. They were always around.
490
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day’s time they will have turned it into a Hell.
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Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It’s fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.
492
It’s fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you’ve got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman’s beauty secret: joy in living.
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Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.
495
My favourite kind of comedy comes from the awkwardness of living, the stuff that makes you cringe but borders on tragic – that is more interesting to me. It resonates; it comes from emotional truth.
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People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that’s not true. You’re always better off living.
499
I have to read something positive every single day. I have to have faith that the day is unfolding in a way that is going to be useful to somebody else… For me, living every day in gratitude has been profound for me.
500
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
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What you get is a living, what you give is a life.
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A house is a machine for living in.
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Do what you do and mean it every second of the day. If you don’t, you’re living someone else’s life.
509
Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example – I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
512
I’m living a very different life than the one I thought I’d be living.
513
I love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who’s living them? You don’t play characters that are celebrities – you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank‘s blocked.
514
If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
515
We don’t beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.
516
Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet.
517
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.
518
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
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I dream for a living.
521
If you’re living in a dystopia, you don’t necessarily want to look at another one.
522
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
523
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it!
524
Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
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You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.
527
That’s the miracle of music. No one can reinterpret a Picasso, but a song can be remixed and covered and interpreted in an infinite number of ways. It’s a living thing.
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Just because my dad is Clint Eastwood doesn’t mean I don’t have to work for a living.
530
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present – deja vu.
531
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
532
Everything is possible through God, and I’m living proof of that.
533
Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.
534
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
535
I’m tired of living the vanilla, non-offensive life. I think that’s a really sad way to spend my life, and I lived it like that because that’s what I was brought up in, taught to not rock the ship.
536
There is a lot of suffering and injustice in the world, and there is also a great deal of hope. When you step forward and start speaking about what you see and what you want to change, you can begin living in that hope instead of despair.
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
539
They’re trying to tell us that we’re not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can’t know who you are if you don’t spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.
540
Your life is always worth living.
541
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream.
542
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
543
I am living my dream because I get to work with my kids and watch them find their happiness. It’s so rewarding – we brainstorm around a conference table and have a really great time doing it.
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
547
If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
548
You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
549
Storytelling is not what I do for a living – it is how I do all that I do while I am living.
550
You got one life to live. So I’m living it the way I want to live it.
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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
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There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
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To tell you the truth, while I do enjoy the grand-scale elements, it’s the personal scenes, the character moments that I really find satisfying. That’s where I get to delve into the characters’ minds and hearts. That’s where they become living, breathing beings to me.
559
I don’t want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.
560
Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
561
Cancer taught my family that my mom is much stronger than we ever thought. Faced with a devastating diagnosis, she just kept going and living – never complaining.
562
The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It’s worth being bashed against. It’s worth getting scarred by. It’s worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.
563
Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.
564
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
565
I don’t mourn the dead. I mourn the living.
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Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.
568
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
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Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living.
571
Culture is a thousand things, a thousand times. It’s living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.
572
I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!
573
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
577
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
578
I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
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Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.
583
Our Party maintains the improvement of the people’s living conditions as the most important of the numerous state affairs.
584
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
585
I’m not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: ‘live-acy.’ I’m more interested in living.
586
The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
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I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
591
Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.
592
As a parent, it’s my responsibility to equip my child to do this – to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don’t know what happens after death.
593
No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.
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My dad was always there, even though he wasn’t living in our house. He was always on the phone, always just a car ride away. Whenever he had a new recording, we would be the first to get the acetate. And it would say, in Dad’s handwriting, ‘Play it loud.’
596
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
597
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
598
I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.
599
One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.
600
You can’t please everyone. When you’re too focused on living up to other people’s standards, you aren’t spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it’s all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems!
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Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
603
You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.
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College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.
606
Life is an affirmation, not a defamation. Life means living. Life means taking that one tiny or giant leap beyond what you know you can do, or simply beyond what you know. It is in these moments that we live.
607
Writing is a dog’s life, but the only life worth living.
608
This is what I have learned: Any white person living in the United States will develop opinions about race simply by swimming in the water of our culture. But mainstream sources – schools, textbooks, media – don’t provide us with the multiple perspectives we need.
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Fortunately art is a community effort – a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
611
Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
612
Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.
613
Success is not a destination, but the road that you’re on. Being successful means that you’re working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That’s living your dream.
614
We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself because it is fear, which drives men to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.
615
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
616
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
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I don’t think any day is worth living without thinking about what you’re going to eat next at all times.
619
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
620
John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
621
You got one life to live. So I’m living it the way I want to live it.
622
I’m really living my dream.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
626
I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
627
The ADA is the living testament to our Nation’s commitment that we will always stand up for our neighbors‘ right to live fulfilling lives.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn’t be any fun living in it, or profit.
634
Dancing – however you do it, even if it’s in your living room – is a great workout.
635
Housing Works is the coolest thrift store in the world, because not only are they the best thrift store – they’re not the most thrifty thrift store – but they have amazing stuff and all of their proceeds go directly to kids, mostly homeless kids, living with AIDS and HIV in New York, in the metropolitan area.
636
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
637
For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.
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There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
640
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
641
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
642
As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
643
I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.
644
Living in hope is a really terrible thing.
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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.
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Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse.
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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
651
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.
652
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
653
I’m just living my life the way I want to. I have the freedom to do that.
654
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
655
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.
656
Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream.
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I don’t overspend. I believe in always living within my means.
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WeWork is working to create a world where people make a life and not just a living.
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My favorite room in the house is the living room. We have two big couches, six recliners and over 20 pillows. It’s a really comfortable place to hang out with my family.
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It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive – to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
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A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
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Faith means living with uncertainty – feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
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Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your home.
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Ever since the economic crisis in 2008, millions of people have accepted cuts in all sorts of things – from real wages and living standards to benefits and hospital care – without any real opposition. The cuts may be right, or they may be stupid – but the astonishing thing is how no-one really challenges them.
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My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It’s about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
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Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.
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The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
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Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change – this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
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Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.
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Living Life Tomorrow’s fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
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We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.
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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.
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Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.
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Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.
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Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don’t think about yesterday, and they don’t think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.
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My life is better with every year of living it.
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I adopted a motto: Never say no. Jim Morrison never said no, Kurt Cobain never said no. You couldn’t have great things to write about if all you did was sit in your living room with your roommates talking about the phone bill.
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Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life… That’s a superpower I’ve been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions.
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As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.
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There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.
