Top 1200 Living My Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Biblical wisdom means living a disciplined and prudent life in the fear of the Lord

Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

I'm living proof that whatever happens to you in life, you can turn base metal into gold.

The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?

I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

When you value your integrity at the highest level, living alignment with your word and following through with your commitments no matter what, there are no limits to what you can create for your life. However, when you make excuses, justify doing what easiest, and choose the path of least resistance, you will live a life of mediocrity, frustration and regret. Live with integrity as if your life depended on it, because it does.

... I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.

Only music clarifies, reconciles, and consoles. But it is not a straw just barely clutched at. It is a faithful friend, protector, and comforter, and for its sake alone, life in this world is worth living. Who knows, perhaps in heaven there will be no music. So let us live on the earth while we still have life!

God is a compass. God is not about who you're sleeping with or, I mean, I don't care about that. It's about loving your neighbor. It's about living a life that's bigger than yourself. As time goes on, societies have a tendency to put themselves on the throne, and that leads to self-absorption and that leads to "life is all about me." And there's not a compass that sends you in a direction where life can't be just about you.

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me.

Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

Our greatest individual challenge in life is self-discipline. The self-discipline of a healthy diet, daily exercise, controlling our thoughts, selflessly serving others, and living a life of integrity.

Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.

I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.

Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.

Don't ask me if life is worth living, live it yourself and find out.

Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life.

Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

I don't let negative attitudes and meanness from other people keep me from living my life.

If you're crazy enough to do what you love for a living, then you're bound to create a life that matters.

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.

Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.

A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

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

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.

To have a purpose that is worthwhile, and that is steadily being accomplished, that is one of the secrets of life that is worth living.

For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.

People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living.

His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.

All things that are living are expression and therefore part of the inherent symbology of life. Art, therefore, that is encumbered with excessive symbolism is extraneous, and from my point of view, useless art. Anyone who understands life needs no handbook of poetry or philosophy to tell him what it is.

Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up from less competent people.

If you're living life from a place of fear, you're not free to take risks or pursue your dreams. If your energy is expended in avoiding failure or rejection, then that energy is used to stay safe, instead of being available to create the life you envision.

Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.

We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to industrial occupations. The monetary equivalent of a living wage varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living-a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit of reasonable saving for old age.

Before operating on a patient's brain... I must first understand his mind: his identity, his values, what makes his life worth living, and what devastation makes it reasonable to let that life end.

There's so much boldness in living life this way, and we did it all, and no one can take it away from us.

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living.

Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.

For some, the fear of coming out is so great, they can continue to live an inauthentic life. But at a certain point, the pain becomes too much to bear. For me, having one more day pass by where I wasn't living my true self seemed like such a wasted opportunity, such a wasted life.

It is not always possible or even right for a man to make his wife number one in his life. This is due to the nature of his life. His number one responsibility is to provide the living.

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.

It would be weird for me to be raging against all of the bullies in my life because it would be disingenuous. I've gotten through all of that and I'm living a wonderful life, but that doesn't mean that people aren't mean to me.

I'm glad to have grown up in the countryside and played, and had to use my imagination rather than a TV and had to learn to act the hard way, to have dealt with the rejection. It's a life as well as a job, at the end the day, we all have to work for a living, but we have to have a life as well.

I make more time to have fun in the life I'm living before I'm worm food.

For many impoverished people, living under a tarp or in a cardboard box is a way of life.

The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that occupation, to the payment of debts contracted by him. For if he could, he might, during his own life, eat up the use of the lands for several generations to come, and then the lands would belong to the dead, and not to the living. No generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.

It's been a funny life for me. Sometimes I feel I haven't done a lot of living.

I am not afraid of the darkness. Real death is preferable to a life without living.

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

Just work hard, and things come to life. I am a living truth of it.

I wanted to write; I sought all possible paths of personal liberation, but I could never sacrifice a living instant of life for the sake of a line to be written, my balance for the sake of a manuscript, a storm within me for the sake of a poem. I loved life itself too much for this.