The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.
All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I’ve achieved since then is above and beyond.
I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.
I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
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.
Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.
If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.
It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.
I worry about putting food on the table, paying for my kids needs, their college fees in years to come. It’s about earning enough to have a living to be able to look after your children.
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.
I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.
My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I’d be right back living on the Upper West Side.
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.
My life is better with every year of living it.
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.
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.
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
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.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?
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.
I’ll always keep you guessing. I’m living up to the name. It’s powerful. That’s just what I do.
All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It’s made it easier for me to make a living.
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.
For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.
Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
An empty canvas is a living wonder… far lovelier than certain pictures.
Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.
What a blessing it is to throw a baseball for a living!
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.
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.
There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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.
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.
We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end.
Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.
I’m a lawyer; I win arguments for a living.
I like to think that today is the best day of my life and tomorrow will be the next best day of my life. And if you think that way, you’re living for the beauty of today.
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
I need to celebrate life because I’m in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and happy with what I do for a living, and sometimes I just focus and overwhelm myself so much with the fights and getting better, that I just need to slow it down and enjoy life and enjoy training.
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?
‘Castle’ is a guy living in a fantasy world. He’s in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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.
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.
Owning vinyl is like having a beautiful painting hanging in your living room. It’s something you can hold, pore over the lyrics, and immerse yourself in the art work.
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
We are living in dystopia, in a world that is dominated by technology and disconnect, alienation, loneliness, and dysfunction.
The drive was brief and the conversation limited, but oh, what a legacy of love! Father never read to me from the Bible about the good Samaritan. Rather, he took me with him and Uncle Elias in that old 1928 Oldsmobile and provided a living lesson I have always remembered.
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Storytelling is not what I do for a living – it is how I do all that I do while I am living.
We might as well die as to go on living like this.
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
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.
Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
