Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I’m living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you’re a woman.
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.
I’ve never felt like I was living in anyone’s shadow. My life was what it was.
Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, were up here up living here, we’re watching American news and we’re constantly saying, wow, it’s not as bad as it is in the United States.
Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.
If you’re living in a dystopia, you don’t necessarily want to look at another one.
Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matters. Most of the world’s poor people earn their living from agriculture, so if we knew the economics of agriculture, we would know much of the economics of being poor.
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.
The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure.
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.
Being reminded about the incredible power of God’s love, and living as He intended, is the most powerful motivation to change.
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.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
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.
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.
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.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
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.
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.
I love things that age well – things that don’t date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
If you make your living writing, and you can’t write anything, it’s over. It’s very frightening.
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.
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There’s always more than you can cope with.
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it!
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
You are done for – a living dead man – not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.
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.
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.
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn’t have much living in North Carolina.
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.
When I’m finished with a film, I’ve been living with it, we’ve been dubbing it, recording to it, and so on. You walk out of the studio and, ‘Ah, it’s finished.’
No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.
I’m living in Beverly Hills. I’m very, very lucky. I wake up every morning and I recognize that I’m blessed.
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.
I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.
Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.
Jazz to me is a living music. It’s a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.
For most of my life I’ve liked to pretend I live in a starship. Punching in fake codes to get into doorways that obviously are not secure. I love that idea of living on a spaceship. Because essentially we are: a gigantic thing floating in some infinite darkness that’s running on principles that we don’t even understand.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
I have worked out that I am living in London on £27 a day while David Cameron is claiming a damn sight more for his big house in Oxford.
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
You just never know when you’re living in a golden age.
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
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.
You need talent, dedication, skills, perseverance and so many other things to become successful. If you think you are very talented but someone needs to unveil your talent, then you are living in a fool’s paradise. You have to prove yourself every day.
I couldn’t settle in Italy – it was like living in a foreign country.
When I worked in the city, it was about survival. Now when I work in the countryside, I feel like I’m truly living.
My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
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.’
When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Never in a million years would I have imagined that this is how my life would have ended up. I just thought I would be living in the States, doing a regular job.
