Living Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.”
– Paulo Coelho

“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.”
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.”
– Plato

“We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.”
– Plutarch

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

“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We are always getting ready to live but never living.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

“Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.”
– Richard Bach

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

“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”
– Robert Kennedy

“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.”
– Saint Augustine

“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.”
– Samuel Ullman

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
– Socrates

“It is not living that matters, but living rightly.”
– Socrates

“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“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.”
– Stephen King

“Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
– Stephen King

“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.”
– Steve Jobs

“Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.”
– Steve Jobs

“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.”
– Susan B. Anthony

“Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.”
– Swami Vivekananda

“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?”
– T. S. Eliot

“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.”
– Tecumseh

“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.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”
– Thomas A. Edison

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