Living Quotes

For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily.

If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help!

Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving.

Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.

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

The secret of Christian living is love. Only love fills the empty spaces caused by evil.

Living together is an art. It's a patient art, it's a beautiful art, it's fascinating.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

I wasn't satisfied just earning a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready; and such as will be content to partake of them are always welcome. Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it.

Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those who can least protect themselves. It strikes hardest those millions of our citizens whose incomes do not quickly rise with the cost of living. When prices soar, the pensioner and the widow see their security undermined, the man of thrift sees his savings melt away; the white collar worker, the minister, and the teacher see their standards of living dragged down.

Almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living.

O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.

It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

Without question the Fair Labor Standards Act starts us toward a better standard of living and increases purchasing power to buy the products of farm and factory.

Liberty requires opportunity to make a living-a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.