Quotes about Living

Don't seek more days in your life but more life in your days.

Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

We need to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create that fact.

The first rule of a bureaucracy is to protect the bureaucracy. If the people running the welfare program had let their clientele find other ways of making a living, that would have reduced their importance and their budget.

Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it is the only way to live life completely.

Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.

Human beings are by their nature social and political, living in community even more than every other animal.

Here is the mistake so many of us make: we start out pursuing a passion and end up settling for a paycheck. So instead of making a life, all we do is make a living. And our deep-seated passions get buried beneath our day-to-day responsibilities.

If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into the shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. Simply the awareness that our mortal lives had a beginning and will have an end enhances the quality of our living. Perhaps it's even more intense when we know that the termination of the body is near, but it shouldn't be.