Living Quotes - page 4

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. (William James)
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another. View quote
Richard Owen
Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory. View quote
Irena Sendler
For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings. View quote
Joan Miró
I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living. View quote
Georg Büchner
The art of living easily as to money, is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. View quote
Henry Taylor
The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you. View quote
Norman Mailer
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest. View quote
Peace Pilgrim
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. (Lionel Trilling)
Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in. View quote
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Activism is my rent for living on this planet. View quote
Alice Walker
Consideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good. View quote
Morarji Desai
I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form. View quote
Morarji Desai
Nothing ages a woman like living in the country. (Colette)
To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you. View quote
Anaïs Nin
I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India. View quote
Kiran Desai
You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing. View quote
Edie Sedgwick
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! View quote
Robert Browning