Living Quotes - page 12

Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone. (James Hetfield)
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance. View quote
Martha Graham
The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living. View quote
Martha Graham
My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
To live lightheartedly but not recklessly to be gay without being boisterous to be courageous without being bold to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. View quote
Peter McWilliams
It was not pleasant to admit what one is willing to do to go on living. View quote
John Varley
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on. View quote
David Bowie
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. View quote
Katharine Hepburn
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer. (Andy Warhol)
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom? View quote
Lord Byron
I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious life of himself. Man is conscious of himself, of his future, which is death, of his smallness, of his impotence; he is aware of others as others; man is in nature, subject to its laws even if he transcends it with his thought. View quote
Erich Fromm
Most of people talk, we do things. They plan, we achieve. They hesitate, we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them. Dubai is a living example of that. View quote
Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum
There are times when you come across somebody that's really impressive, someone that's got a proper living and really does make a difference to people's lives. Then I do feel a bit of a wanker, admitting I'm an actress. That's hard to say to someone who may be making a difference. But I don't know how I could change things. View quote
Michelle Gomez
The aim of living is life itself. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before-which means that the scope of society's domination over the individual is immeasurably greater than ever before. Our society distinguishes itself by conquering the centrifugal social forces with Technology rather than Terror, on the dual basis of an overwhelming efficiency and an increasing standard of living. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual effort; it is the a priori of social theory, and its rejection (which is perfectly logical) rejects theory itself. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures. View quote
Wassily Kandinsky
You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person. View quote
Hillary Clinton
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. (Søren Kierkegaard)
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else. View quote
Julian Jaynes
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Yes, 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 foolishly, to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.... View quote
Sukarno