Quotes
Quotes about Living
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.
Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular.
Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging; it is the skin of living thought and changes from day to day as does the air around us.
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging; it is the skin of living thought and changes from day to day as does the air around us.
I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; Yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
It is impossible to live pleasurably without living prudently, honorably, and justly; or to live prudently, honorably, and justly, without living pleasurably.
...it is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Television is an invention whereby you can be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your house.
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living.
A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small haemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
