A Quote by Virginia Woolf

We insist, it seems, on living.

Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf
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January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941

The integral sage, the nondual sage, is here to show us otherwise. Known generally as "Tantric," these sages insist on transcending life by living it. They insist on finding release by engagement, finding nirvana in the midst of samsara, finding total liberation by complete immersion.

Ken Wilber

I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.

Virginia Woolf

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

Norman Borlaug

I didn't want to be captain, I wanted to have more free time. I didn't want that added pressure at that particular time, but they actually insist, insist, insist, so I said OK. So I thought, just get on with it.

Chris Gayle

If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.

Kurt Vonnegut

But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.

Martin Schulz

To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.

Joan D. Chittister

I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that they're living with, or they get irritable with the people that they're living with when the people insist on being noticed.

Roy Blount, Jr.

I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.

Joan D. Chittister

All things work for bad for those living in opposition to God and insist on having their own way.

Rick Warren

I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.

Christy Turlington

I sing my song for a living, and I don't really worry about who listens or what they think. But it seems to make a living.

Deepak Chopra

You look lousy,"Simon said. Jace blinked."Seems an odd time to start an insult contest,but if you insist,I could probably think up something good

Cassandra Clare

When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor

Terry Goodkind

This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence.

Leonard Bernstein

Ultimately, to insist that rock criticism be political is first to insist that the humans who make and enjoy music are embroiled in politics whether they like it or not - and whether they know it or not.

Robert Christgau

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