Quotes
Quotes about Living
Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of the billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things within that enormous immensity.
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body is different.
If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
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.
The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but men only.
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.
I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Present-moment living, getting in touch with your "now," is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, you cannot live it until it does appear.
Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. . -Sandra Carey.
The Bear and the Fox A bear boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had such respect for him that he would not even touch his dead body. A Fox hearing these words said with a smile to the Bear, Oh! that you would eat the dead and not the living.
The Raven and the Swan A raven saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the same beautiful plumage. Supposing that the Swan's splendid white color arose from his washing in the water in which he swam, the Raven left the altars in the neighborhood where he picked up his living, and took up residence in the lakes and pools. But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he could not change their color, while through want of food he perished. Change of habit cannot alter Nature.
The Sick Stag A sick stag lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground. His companions came in great numbers to inquire after his health, and each one helped himself to a share of the food which had been placed for his use; so that he died, not from his sickness, but from the failure of the means of living. Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.
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.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
