Living Quotes - page 5

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. (Maxwell Maltz)
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain. View quote
Roberto Bolaño
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. View quote
Dr. Seuss
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life. View quote
James Clavell
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. View quote
Thomas Merton
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. (Agatha Christie)
Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia. View quote
W. C. Fields
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
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. View quote
Anthony Robbins
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love. View quote
Edvard Munch
Life is wasted on the living. View quote
Douglas Adams
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Living in age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. View quote
J. B. Priestley
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future. View quote
Stephen Spender
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. View quote
Jack London
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. (Will Rogers)
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. View quote
Lewis Mumford
A house is a machine for living in. View quote
Le Corbusier
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
We are always getting ready to live but never living. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson