Quotes
Quotes about Living
Such is the aspect of this shore; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there.
The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.
The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
'Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long thin hair was white as snow, But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye. And he sang every night as he went to bed, "Let us be happy down here below: The living should live, though the dead be dead." Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.
Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; . . . to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heartâthis is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal. -Mary Baker Eddy.
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.
A house is a machine for living in.
They shared the chores of living as some couples do--she did most of the work and he appreciated it.
There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape, self-named Homo Sapiens.
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one walking in the night.
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.
Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart?
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living. The other should teach us how to live.
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
