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Quotes about Living


I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

General Douglas Macarthur

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.

Allen J. Boone

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

Peter Mcwilliams

Thou living ray of intellectual fire.

William Falconer

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Luther Burbank

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system—that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.

Harper Lee

But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

Joseph Bible

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.

Olive Anonymous

Just for today, I will let go of anger. Just for today, I will let go of worry. Today, I will count my many blessings. Today, I will do my work honestly. Today, I will be kind to every living creature.

Mikao Usui

Blessed is he who has reached the point of no return and knows it, for he shall enjoy living.

W. C. Bennett

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

John D. Rockefeller

And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first—an attempted suicide.

Chris Hubbock, who shot herself during a broadcast

My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.

Sydney Smith

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

Mary Manin Morrissey

I haven't heard of anybody who want's to stop living on account of the cost.

Kin Hubbard

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Stephen Butler Leacock

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

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 Antonius

Mankind makes living contradictory.

William Butler Anonymous

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. -Samuel Ullman.

Samuel Ullman

Life is wasted on the living.

Douglas Adams

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Anton Chekhov

Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.

Philip James Bailey

... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters and architects. Every morning when you wake up, the house is a little different. Maybe there is a new turret, or some walls have moved. Or perhaps someone has temporarily removed the floor under your bed.

Unix for Dummies

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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