Top 1200 Living My Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well.

What . . . is this testimony of Jesus, how can it be acquired, and what will it do for those who receive it? The testimony of Jesus is the sure and certain knowledge, revealed to the spirit of a person through the Holy Ghost, that Jesus is the living Son of the living God. Because the testimony of Jesus is God-given, it stands preeminent and is essential to a happy life. It is the fundamental principle of our religion, and all other things pertaining to our faith are appendages to it.

Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

Before I was a Discordian, I took life much too seriously. When you take life too seriously you start to wonder what the point of it all is. When you wonder what the point is in life, you fall into a trap of thinking there is one. When you think there is a point, you finally realize there is no point. And what point is there in living like that? Nowadays I skip the search for a point and find, instead, the punch lines.

There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family. But he can't make a living for them and his government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people

You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it.

There is nothing more wonderful in life than seeing life as an adventure. We should all try things that we're afraid of. We should all look very clearly into the unknown and enjoy it. Because when you come in contact with things that you really don't know, that's when you're truly living.

I'm still a businessman. But what I do for my primary living and what is my life is music, and that will never change.

True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

My skin is my canvas. The artwork on it represents something that is very powerful and meaningful in my life. I look at my skin as something of a living diary because all my tattoos represent a time in my life. And I never wish to shut the door on the past, so I carry it all with me.

We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges.

Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.

When you live with constant gratitude, your life will become a living prayer.

The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.

Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.

Too many commercials. Too many lies. Too many celebrities. I don't recognize. Too many brand names. Too many magazines. I got so much sensation, I can't feel a thing. Simple. Living. Got to get to simple - living. Simple living. Simple... simply living.

There is nothing more beautiful than living a simple life in this complex universe!

Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!

I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the inherited resources of the race, and to use his own powers for social ends. I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.

While I was looking the other way your fire went out Left me with cinders to kick into dust What a waste of the wonder you were In my living fire I will keep your scorn and mine In my living fire I will keep your heartache and mine At the disgrace of a waste of a life

Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.

Keep it real by being straight forward. Don't pull no punches on people. It's better to tell somebody than just lollygag around, letting them think they're living their life the right way. Because some people don't know what the hell they're doing, they don't know if they're living the right way or making the right decisions. Some people don't know that.

Historically Indians have been frugal in terms of living, using only as much is required. Now convenience has taken over our simple and sustainable ways of living. We used to wash clothes with our hands, we used buckets and a mug for bath, there was emphasis on ventilation - but all that is lost to the fast pace of living.

For the lakhs living along its banks, the Aghanashini has given people life and livelihoods.

The earthquake in Haiti was a class-based catastrophe. It didn't much harm the wealthy elite up in the hills, they were shaken but not destroyed. On the other hand the people who were living in the miserable urban slums, huge numbers of them, they were devastated. Maybe a couple hundred thousand were killed. How come they were living there? They were living there because of-it goes back to the French colonial system-but in the past century, they were living there because of US policies, consistent policies.

"Humanism" is to be human, to think, to analyze, and to probe. To respond and to be stimulated by all living things - beasts, fowl, and fishes. To respond through touch, sight, smell, and sound to all things in nature - both organic and inorganic-to colors, shapes, and textures - to not only look at a blade of grass but to really see a blade of grass. These things, to me, are what life and living are all about. I would call it "Humanism."

Passion should meet your professional life, and I'm a living, breathing testament to that.

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

But I do believe in living life to the full and so I have no problems spending money on travel and holidays.

Living life as normally as possible gives you a richer well of experiences to draw from.

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension.

If I didn't have to earn a living somehow, I would never have taken a fashion photograph in my life.

Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.

WeWork is working to create a world where people make a life and not just a living.

Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.

I have realized it is more important to be happy and enjoying the life you are living - win or lose.

If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise. But we are not living in paradise, we are living in hell. What does it mean? That means the majority of people are wrong. So I never believed what people told me.

The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance. One's life completely changes based on the rain. After the monsoon, because the dust settles, one can see further and so it feels like one's eyesight has improved or that one is living in a different country where there is more light.

People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.

Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could.

I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes.

It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.

As a new mother, I want to give my children the best start in life but millions of children affected with AIDS don't live with such certainty. We can all do something to give them a future worth living for. We can make a difference in a child's life by joining with UNICEF to ensure that mothers and children are given the treatment that they deserve, in order to live a life free from HIV and AIDS.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

I'm not trying to say that people don't have the right opinion but I have to live my life. And I'm living it and I'm loving it.

So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.

I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.

I'm living a life until I die so there will be no shortage of things to sing about.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

I think we need a life-loving Palestine living by a Jewish democratic Israel.

That the role of size has been to some degree neglected in biology may lie in its simplicity. Size may be a property that affects all of life, but it seems pallid compared to the matter which makes up life. Yet size is an aspect of the living that plays a remarkable, overreaching role that affects life's matter in all its aspects.

When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.