Quotes about Living
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"In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think."
-Henry David Thoreau
-Henry David Thoreau
"Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."
-Albert Einstein
-Albert Einstein
"The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live."
-Oscar Wilde
-Oscar Wilde
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
-Oscar Wilde
-Oscar Wilde
"No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head."
-Terry Josephson
-Terry Josephson
"The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable."
-Storm Jameson
-Storm Jameson
"In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism."
-Hannah Arendt
-Hannah Arendt
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
-Albert Camus
-Albert Camus
"Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?"
-Maurice Maeterlinck
-Maurice Maeterlinck
"You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself."
-Beryl Markham
-Beryl Markham
"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy."
-Lope De Vega
-Lope De Vega
"Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that."
-Gloria Naylor
-Gloria Naylor
"He does not live in vain; who employs his wealth, his thought, and his speech to advance the good of others."
-Hindu Proverb
-Hindu Proverb
"If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about."
-Orlando Bloom
-Orlando Bloom
"I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning I say: "What is my exciting thing for today?" Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow."
-Barbara Jordan
-Barbara Jordan
"You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived."
-Gertrude Stein
-Gertrude Stein
"I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far."
-Neil Simon
-Neil Simon
"To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort."
-Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
-Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
"Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity."
-Werner Von Braun
-Werner Von Braun
"The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference."
-Al Capp
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