Top 1200 Living On Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.

Surrendering is not a weakness. At the contrary it is strength. The surrender stops living in boiling water and starts living in a secure place.

Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what narrative it is, because I'm living my life and not always reflecting on it, but as I edit these pages I am aware that I have an urge to see my sometimes random wandering as having a plot, a purpose guided by some underlying story.

Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?

People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence.

Living country is more about your values and beliefs than cowboy hats or living on a farm.

All songs are living ghosts. And long for a living voice

The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.

We have become stronger economically; we have been successfully resolving the social problems, raising the level of living - the standards of living - of the population.

it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually.

One of the things about me is that I actually had marginally middle-class living from writing. For years and years, I actually wrote so much through the '70s and '80s that I made a living. And very rarely have I had to take another job. And now it's impossible for anybody coming up to make such a living. They've pissed in the temple, you know?

I'm not trying to make everything this fantasy world about how I'm living this lavish life that I'm not really living.

I find that the standard of living does not go up in proportion with the cost of living. The trick in life is to do things that are fun all the time.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

I represented women with unplanned pregnancies from age 14 to 40, and they range from living in their car to living in the nicest neighborhoods in town.

I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.

living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban a mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts

The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.

That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they do that by escaping the disciplines of the free market.

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

No man can teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ under the inspiration of the living God and with power from on high unless he is living it.

Dear brothers and sisters, the Church loves you! Be an active presence in the community, as living cells, as living stones.

I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak it up, to revel in it.

Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.

I hate living in a really small apartment, living in a shoebox, not being able to play the drums, not having space. It sucks.

Living with a dog is easy- like living with an idealist.

The living Lord leads His living church.

Moving to Liverpool was a new world for me. I had been living with my parents in Holland, and all of a sudden I was living in a foreign country on my own.

Living in my parents' house is pretty sweet. It's not like they're rich or anything, but they're pretty nice to me, so it was pretty good living there, too, and all I did was jujitsu. I was just like a stallion, just living on my parents' couch. It wasn't terrible.

Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are not the same thing. Living the good life and living a good life are not the same thing. A job title doesn't even come close to answering the question. "What do you do?".

Well, I'm somebody who is just living ...living life, and if I get frustrated by something, then I like to try to put it right.

Living in the present moment means living according to truth and principle (but not according to hard rigid dogma) flexibly applied in the particular way required by the immediate situation in which you are. Such a way of living leaves you free, not ruled tyrannically by imposed regulations which may not at all suit the particular case.

The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.

The living would come up with endless theories to argue, because the living were exceptionally good at arguing, especially when no one knew the answer.

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

When you see people on the street, they're living in their phones. They aren't living where they are - they haven't got the energy of the past. And so it's something that needs to be reestablished.

Living in the past or living in the future - those aren't real. The moment is now, and that's where safety and comfort and all that good stuff is.

I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

I'm getting on a bit, don't know what I'm going to do, no pension pot and the prospect of growing old in the city, well... So I met these people a few years ago doing community type of living, land sharing, living in a community way. You can live on next to nothing. It's about living the social life but keeping the party going and have a bit of fun.

The Iraqi people are living better lives now than three year ago, no longer living in fear.

Through all ages, great saints have remained as living proof that this non-temporary, permanent state of God consciousness can be revived in all living souls.

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.

Everything is the living God, the living Christ; see it as such.

I'm living the best life that I could ever be living.

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come - even if it came in a - living room - or to someone - with a humble living.

Worship is living our life individually and corporately as continuous living sacrifices to the glory of a person or thing.

When you have closed the Bible, you have neither closed God's mind nor shut God's mouth. God continues to speak, live and exist. I think we should consult the living God for the living word for living people dealing with death, destruction and despair in the midst of our hurt humanity. I believe love will conquer all.

Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

My opinion is that I follow what the Lord says. Or I try to. Others are following what they want to do, basically. They are living for their self. I am living for God.