Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Votes: 2
Hans Christian AndersenWe love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. Votes: 2
Friedrich NietzscheGod gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. Votes: 2
VoltaireI'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on. Votes: 2
David BowieNegative thinking will always lead to failure and nervous prostration; but positive faith- positive thinking -will lead you towards happy, healthy, and abundant living. Votes: 3 Albert E Cliffe
Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living. Votes: 3 Josiah Royce
The good man is the friend of all living things. Votes: 4 Mahatma Gandhi
Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out. Votes: 1 Joe Rogan
Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with. Votes: 4 Julius Gordon
The authentic experience, where is that? Living the moment. That is something that we're losing. Votes: 1 Chris Pine
One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much. Votes: 3 Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There is a monumental difference between being alive and living. You should never settle for the first. Votes: 3 Matt Corby
The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living. Votes: 4 Ziggy Marley
I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like. Votes: 1 Gary Carr
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. Votes: 3 John Piper
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship. Votes: 1 Major Taylor
Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh. Votes: 4 Allen Ginsberg
Hate nobody; love everybody. It won't cost you anything. Love never costs anything. Love is the most selfish act. It gives you so much protection, grace, and radiance. It doesn't give you any smallness or suffering. The attitude of conscious living is to love and give grace to someone worthy of your trust. Do not seek anything from people. Give love instead, and rely on God. Votes: 3 Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down. Votes: 4 Flip Wilson
I don't like the kind of country living where you have to help. I like country living where there is help. Votes: 3 Fran Lebowitz
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Votes: 2 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. Votes: 4 Anton Chekhov
I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I'm living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal. Votes: 1 Queen Latifah
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. Votes: 5 Charles R. Swindoll
I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring. Votes: 2 Queen Latifah
I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring. Votes: 1 Queen Latifah
The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield. Votes: 2 Lefty Gomez
It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living. Votes: 1 Richard Le Gallienne
The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that by discovering and implementing a life calling, the successful stand on their pile of trash while the troubled sit under theirs. Votes: 3 Dan Miller
In life, like, I'm always living life to the fullest to always have fun. Votes: 1 Ryan Lochte
You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country. Votes: 1 Ulrich Beck
These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these. Votes: 1 Athanasius
I would be happy living on a massive ranch in Montana and not seeing anyone except my friends and family. Votes: 4 Nick Frost
If only we would learn every day of our lives to overcome those things in our character which are negative, to let go and let God take them over, we would all know what it was to experience harmonious living. Votes: 3 Albert E Cliffe
We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active. Votes: 1 Susan Hampshire
I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living. Votes: 4 Lexa Doig
A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ. Votes: 3 Jonathan Edwards
I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living. Votes: 3 Jack O'Connell
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration. Votes: 1 Gavin Rossdale
Mastery means responsibility, ability to respond in real time to the need of the moment. Intuitive or inspired living means not just passively hearing the voice, but acting on it. Votes: 3 Stephen Nachmanovitch
I don't believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person. And don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free. Votes: 1 Angelina Jolie
One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow. Votes: 4 Matt Goldman
The grace of joyful living gives strength to the bones. Votes: 3 Lailah Gifty Akita
Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement. Votes: 1 Natascha McElhone
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Votes: 2 Hans Christian Andersen
We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness. Votes: 2 Francis Chan
I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living. Votes: 1 Alan Hovhaness
I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didn't write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges. Votes: 1 Richard Matheson
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life. Votes: 3 Charles Ives
I've never really learned how to live and I've discovered too late that life is for living. Votes: 3 John Reith, 1st Baron Reith
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. Votes: 2 William James
There is a design and a purpose for each of our lives. Living unaware of that is sad, but dying unaware of it is a tragedy. Votes: 2 Lou Engle
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living. Votes: 3 Guy de Maupassant
can I ask you a simple but complex question? Why are you still alive and living? Votes: 3 Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
What I was concerned with was life: what are the major features that are common to all living organisms that subtly define life. So I looked at the whole problem as a chemist, as a biochemist, and as a molecular biologist. Votes: 1 Christian de Duve
You feel as if you're not living a full life. Which, of course, is why it's my theory about why so many people who are heavily into computers are also into extreme sports and S&M. It's because their bodies are crying out for some kind of action. Votes: 3 Brian Eno
It's hard enough to tell good stories about people who analyze information for a living. It's even harder to do a good show about people who think for a living. Votes: 1 Henry Bromell
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. Votes: 4 Havelock Ellis
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living. Votes: 3 Robert Henri
The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication. Votes: 3 Hidetoshi Nakata
All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly. Votes: 1 Tommy Lee Jones
Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems - clean air and water, healthy soil, stable climates - are integral to a functioning economy. As our living systems deteriorate, traditional forecasting and business economics become the equivalent of house rules on a sinking cruise ship. Votes: 1 Paul Hawken
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame. Votes: 4 Mason Cooley
Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a living and a dead body is that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent. Votes: 1 Annie Besant
The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You. Votes: 3 Rabindranath Tagore
To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment. Votes: 3 H. E Davey
I find that we must be careful not to judge or weigh in on anything other than ourselves. I am living and learning this still! Votes: 3 Lisa Rinna
You cannot be democratic one day, and undemocratic on another. It is a state of mind, it is a way of living, and it is an essence of action. Votes: 1 Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
If one limits to developing only the kitchen and bathroom as standardized rooms because of their installation, and then also decides to arrange the remaining living area with movable walls, I believe that any justified living requirements can be met. Votes: 4 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I honor the divine on a daily basis, but I want to know that the greatest magick in my life is living authentically with what I have and can do. Votes: 3 Thomm Quackenbush
LB Living Better... the only mistake is not to begin. Votes: 3 LB Living Better
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world. Votes: 3 Margaret Mead
The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams. Votes: 1 Steve Winwood
I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay. Votes: 1 Portia de Rossi
If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is impossible that one part should be independent of all the rest. Votes: 1 Charles Hodge
Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show. Votes: 1 Major Taylor
A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color Votes: 2 William Bolitho
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth? Votes: 2 George Bernard Shaw
If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures? Votes: 2 Martin Gardner
The earth is a planet that contains living things; I am a planet that contains living dreams! The earth revolves around the sun; I revolve around my passion! Votes: 3 Israelmore Ayivor
I'm just living each day, and I'm better equipped to do so. I mean, I used to be totally afraid, I used to have, like, permanent stage fright. But now I'm trying to have fun. I'm trying to bring as much happiness to as many people as possible. Votes: 3 Rivers Cuomo
I have to read something positive every single day. I have to have faith that the day is unfolding in a way that is going to be useful to somebody else... For me, living every day in gratitude has been profound for me. Votes: 4 Lea Thompson
The September 11th tragedy forced us all to look at the world in a different way, and it reminds us all of the importance of living every moment. Votes: 3 Joanne Woodward
Do what you do and mean it every second of the day. If you don't, you're living someone else's life. Votes: 1 Corey Taylor
I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive. Votes: 3 Elizabeth Taylor
I rarely need career advice because I don't have a career. No, that's not true. I can't really go far away while my kids are living with me. Votes: 1 Nicole Holofcener
It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood. Votes: 1 Cat Stevens
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Votes: 1 Carl Jung
I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way. Votes: 3 Daniel H. Pink
We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here. Votes: 1 Deepak Chopra
Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow. Votes: 1 Tom Wilson
No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied. Votes: 4 John Millington Synge
I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means. Votes: 3 Terry Eagleton
Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word. Votes: 1 Johann Georg Hamann
Growing up, I looked to people who had the same issues as me and were still living great lives. Votes: 3 Molly Tarlov
When you think about it, giving up your 'real' personality is a small price to pay for the richness of 'living happily ever after' with an actual man! Votes: 3 Lynda Barry
Being healthy and living a healthy lifestyle have always been very important to me. Votes: 2 Stacy Keibler
Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating. Votes: 4 Harvey Weinstein
All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history. Votes: 4 Bill Bryson
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man. Votes: 1 Denis Diderot
I tell you, I'm really not what you'd call into your basic kink, even though we do live in Hollywood, which is a little bit like living in a box of granola. Votes: 3 McLean Stevenson
I don't know how you prepare for something like that. I cannot imagine living in a fishbowl like that. I don't live here so I don't know it will be that bad anyway because I live in Paris and we don't have that sort of phenomenon there. So I don't know, we'll see what happens. Votes: 3 Diane Kruger
In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out de facto international news bureau. Votes: 1 Michael Hastings
Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter. Votes: 1 Evan Osnos
I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker. Votes: 3 Phil Daniels
I'm an urban person who loves living in the country. Votes: 2 Dani Shapiro
In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead. Votes: 1 Stephen Gardiner
If you spend your life living in fear or doubt, you will never actually live life, and will only be coexisting with the rest of the world. Votes: 4 Behdad Sami
If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands. Votes: 1 Adam Clarke
If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands. Votes: 2 Adam Clarke
Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me. Votes: 1 Anna Nicole Smith
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. Votes: 2 Thor Heyerdahl
There's something about living in the country that I think makes you inventive, because nature is full of miracles and wonder and surprises, and if you don't have much money, you have to make things if you want things. Votes: 2 Terry Gilliam
The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the magic of money. Votes: 1 Burt Shavitz
Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities. Votes: 3 Rick Warren
I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right. Votes: 4 Phil Anselmo
If you spend time alone in the wilderness, you get very attuned to living things. Votes: 1 George Dyson
Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark. Votes: 1 Dan Millman
The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to. Votes: 3 Alden Ehrenreich
Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large. Votes: 4 Marlee Matlin
I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire. Votes: 2 Roy Orbison
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again. Votes: 4 Omar Khayyam
Life's an awfully lonesome affair. 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. Votes: 1 Emily Carr
I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life. Votes: 1 J. M. G. Le Clezio
Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier. Votes: 1 Bruce Springsteen
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life. Votes: 1 Irwin Shaw
I'm not scared of getting hurt. I'm not scared of, pretty much, anything. If you live your life scared, what's the fun in living it? If you were scared of getting hit by a car, would you still cross the street? Votes: 1 Mark Zupan
The reason women are always reluctant to reveal their age is because other people label them as 'past it'. In the 21st century, women over 60 are not past it - we are vital, active, sexual beings, living life to the full. Votes: 2 Ita Buttrose
I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes. Votes: 1 Moby
To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle. Votes: 1 Arthur Rubinstein
I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises - of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive. Votes: 3 Eugene Ionesco
I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to. Votes: 2 Jimi Hendrix
The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver. Votes: 3 Adam McKay
I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It's a microcosm. Votes: 3 Jamie Wyeth
I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living. Votes: 1 Dean Cain
The less people that are on the stage, there's more drama. You start living the music with each individual. When you see a band with ten people on stage, just a huge ensemble, you don't know who's doing what. Votes: 1 Greg Lake
As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes to this: Just do it. How much simpler can we get? Votes: 3 Dan Millman
It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9. Votes: 1 Josh Lucas
Man enjoys living on the edge of his dreams and neglects the real things of the world which are so beautiful. The ignorant and indifferent destroy beautiful things merely by looking at the marble. Things that remake the soul of him who understands them. Votes: 3 Auguste Rodin
Live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece. Votes: 2 Dale West
Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms. Votes: 2 Karl Landsteiner
Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives. Votes: 3 Sarah Ban Breathnach
Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life. Votes: 3 Aimee Mullins
If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was shrieking like a banshee. Votes: 3 Ayelet Waldman
I had always been told that you shouldn't clean the litter box when you're pregnant, because of your cat. And I think that is overblown - unless you have, like, three kittens in your house that are living outside and eating raw meat, this shouldn't really be a significant source of concern. Votes: 1 Emily Oster
Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules. Votes: 2 Aimee Mullins
Everyone should have a philosophy for living better. Votes: 1 Compay Segundo
If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone. Votes: 2 Stephen Chbosky
Money - like health, love, happiness, and all forms of success that you want to create for yourself - is the result of living purposefully. It is not a goal unto itself. Votes: 3 Wayne Dyer
Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may just be an idea for you, hold that idea in your mind. Votes: 3 Frederick Lenz
The aquatic environment must be safeguarded by men. God created mankind to care for the environment and all the living resources. Votes: 3 Lailah Gifty Akita
It's not so weird that four generations are living together under the same roof and trying to make it work. It's how a lot of people in this country are living right now. Votes: 3 Martha Plimpton
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. Votes: 1 Albert Einstein
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. Votes: 4 David Frost
I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice. Votes: 1 Mahatma Gandhi
No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared. Votes: 1 Lana Parrilla
Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy. Votes: 1 Richard Roeper
I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I think that's sheer lunacy. Writing weighs so much less, in the great cosmic equation, than living. Votes: 1 Nicole Krauss
I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are. Votes: 3 Samuel Beckett
Living each day as if it were your last doesn't mean your last day of retirement on a remote island. It means to live fully, authentically and spontaneously with nothing being held back. Votes: 1 Jack Canfield
Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple. Votes: 3 Charles Spurgeon
And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings. Votes: 2 Kanye West
Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving. Votes: 2 Peter Singer
No one has it all figured out, especially not the people who are acting like they do and judging you because of it. Pretending to be something you aren't because you're trying to please a bunch of judgmental hypocrites and shitheads is not the way to be happy. Living the life you want to live is. It really is that simple. Votes: 3 Tucker Max
Enjoying life isn't about finding the answers, but living the questions. Votes: 3 Sue Margolis
I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either. Votes: 1 Stella Young
Green and living jewels drip into my eyes" from the poem "All Green and Living Things" in the book "Terra Affirmative Votes: 3 Jay Woodman
It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself. Votes: 3 Chelsea Handler
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. Votes: 4 Eric Hoffer
I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together. Votes: 1 Laura Wasser
Don't let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are. Votes: 3 Jaeda DeWalt
Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth. Votes: 4 John Ortberg
College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about. Votes: 1 J. Cole
A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? Votes: 1 Jane Wagner
I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge. Votes: 2 Sal Albanese
God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst. Votes: 4 Henri Nouwen
We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully. Votes: 3 Randy Pausch
My dreams came true while wearing the opening look from the spring/summer 2010 Dior ready-to-wear collection. I will never forget how special I felt opening John Galliano's show, like I was living a dream. Votes: 1 Karlie Kloss
I believe strongly in 'giving while living.' I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today. Besides, it's a lot more fun to give while you live than to give while you are dead. Votes: 1 Chuck Feeney
A revocable living trust allows your heirs to avoid probate entirely and keeps you in complete control of your finances while you're alive. You can always make changes to what's in the trust and to how you'd ultimately like it managed or disbursed. Votes: 1 Suze Orman
My parents split up when I was young, and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way. Votes: 1 Ani DiFranco
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. Votes: 2 Will Rogers
Since I don't come from a privileged background, I couldn't afford to be irresponsible with career decisions. I wrote two books alongside my job and resigned only when I realised I can make a living. Votes: 1 Amish Tripathi
As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever. Votes: 1 Erin Gray
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. Votes: 1 Polly Toynbee
One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer. Votes: 3 John Green
Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear. Votes: 1 Larry Kramer
Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins. Votes: 1 Jonathan Safran Foer
I am not a doctor or a scientist, but merely a passionate layperson, a filter, a messenger. I spoke with so many patients who are living normal, happy, fulfilled lives, and their enthusiasm and great quality of life convinced me that you can indeed live with cancer. Votes: 1 Suzanne Somers
I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes. Votes: 1 Moby
I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy. Votes: 1 Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it. Votes: 3 Joel Osteen
My high-school years were so mediocre - I moved out when I was 16 and started living with my girlfriend who was 10 years older. Apart from that, I was just a video nerd. Votes: 1 Jason Reitman
It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment. Votes: 1 Naomi Judd
Everybody should get to make a living with their passion. Votes: 1 Jim Butcher
Greatness comes from living with purpose and passion. Votes: 3 Ralph Marston
The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual. Votes: 1 Millicent Carey McIntosh
You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them. Votes: 1 Yoko Ono
Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse. Votes: 1 Patrick Swayze
Clear perception is the cornerstone and an absolute necessity for living your best life - and that's exactly what the focus of a yoga practice should be all about. Votes: 3 Rod Stryker
I was in Nepal and I had watched Oprah Winfrey's show. I had no idea, as a kid in Nepal, who she was, but I remember watching an episode of hers about living your dreams. Votes: 3 Prabal Gurung
As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Votes: 3 Henry David Thoreau
The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth. Sometimes, facing those truths can actually be your worst fear. Votes: 3 Liberty Ross
It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living. Votes: 1 David Whyte
I love a real-life, movie moment in living color. Votes: 1 L'Wren Scott
We must not only aim to make a living but to live life. Votes: 4 Lailah Gifty Akita
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people. Votes: 2 William J. Clinton
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. Votes: 1 Herbert Gold
Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight. Votes: 3 Nhat Hanh
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life. Votes: 3 Viktor E. Frankl
I think most of us can remember from our own childhood, just in the Disney cartoons, things that frightened us profoundly. For me it was Bambi, the scene when the forest was on fire. That was something I had nightmares about. I can't imagine being a little kid of eight and seeing Night Of The Living Dead with living corpses eating the flesh of living people. Votes: 4 Stephen King
In 'Last to Die,' three children living in different cities are the only survivors when their families are slaughtered. Two years later, their foster families are murdered, and these three orphans are once again the only survivors. Votes: 1 Tess Gerritsen
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself. Votes: 2 Leo Tolstoy
My dad has an incredible passion for living life, and he's really, really funny, so he definitely encourages me to enjoy all aspects of life. He's very proud of me and definitely encourages my career path, and we have a good time talking about work. Votes: 3 Spencer Grammer
I wanted to find something I was passionate about, something with the possibility of upward movement, and I wanted freedom. I need to be outside living life, not stuck in an office. I figured I could either be out selling condos in Miami, or I could move to L.A. and chase after that elusive actor's job. Votes: 1 Dawn Olivieri
Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living. Votes: 1 Nathaniel Branden
The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it. Votes: 1 Marilyn Monroe
My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: 'Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.' Votes: 1 Tony Oller
The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good. Votes: 3 Helen Keller
I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore. Votes: 2 Caity Lotz
I am not involved in any 'issues' because it's too sensitive for me - or my wife - to get involved. Every time we express an opinion it becomes a whole thing in itself. And the whole purpose of living in the countryside was to get away from hundreds of people. My wife fell off a horse, and suddenly there are hundreds of people around. Votes: 3 Guy Ritchie
The first key to a purposeful living is to accept the responsibility of your mission. When you agree "yes" to the calling, then you ask God "why?". Votes: 3 Israelmore Ayivor
Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city. Votes: 2 Lawrence Halprin
I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. Votes: 2 Ernest Hemingway
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. Votes: 3 Jose Ortega y Gasset
A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors. Votes: 3 Dalai Lama
Living each day as if it were your last doesn't mean your last day of retirement on a remote island. It means to live fully, authentically and spontaneously with nothing being held back. Votes: 1 Jack Canfield
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. Votes: 3 Bruce Barton
There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living. Votes: 4 David Starr Jordan
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. Votes: 1 Albert Einstein
The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico. Votes: 1 Heather Wilson
Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream. Votes: 1 Hugh Hefner
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna Votes: 6 Rumer Godden
As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future. Votes: 1 Alison Lurie
Material progress and a higher standard of living bring us greater comfort and health, but do not lead to a transformation of the mind, which is the only thing capable of providing lasting peace. Profound happiness, unlike fleeting pleasures, is spiritual in nature. It depends on the happiness of others and it is based on love and affection. Votes: 6 Dalai Lama
Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live. Votes: 3 Julius Lester
Instructions for successful living: Dream it. Plan it. Do it. Repeat. Votes: 3 Steve Maraboli
We have become stronger economically; we have been successfully resolving the social problems, raising the level of living - the standards of living - of the population. Votes: 1 Sergei Lavrov
I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living. Votes: 3 Edward Burtynsky
But the most dangerous thing in the world in the world is to run the risk of waking up one morning and realizing suddenly that all this time you've been living without really and truly living and by then it's too late. When you wake up to that kind of realization, it's too late for wishes and regrets. It's even too late to dream. Votes: 4 Kinky Friedman
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. Votes: 1 Thornton Wilder