Living Quotes
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All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.
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I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.
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Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.
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Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.
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Chase away sorrow by living
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The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.
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The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.
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We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both.
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Don't always know what I am talking about, feels like I'm living in the middle of doubt.
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There exists no more difficult art than living.
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How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.
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What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do for a living is ship.
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Funerals aren't for the dead. They're for the living.
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If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.
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The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.
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If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.
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The dead know how to savor as the living never can.
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It is the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.
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The main thing you can change is how you perceive yourself. Stop looking in the mirror and realize that youre living for yourself, not other people.
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I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too.... I think the commitment is to get up everyday and say, "I'm a writer, therefore what I'm supposed to do today is write." And to do that, and to do that and to do that.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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If I run into someone on the street, that's one thing. But answering mail for a living? I like a job where you can play and act kind of goofy and have some fun.
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Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
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We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.
