Living Quotes

There is nothing like geology; the pleasure of the first day's partridge shooting or first day's hunting cannot be compared to finding a fine group of fossil bones, which tell their story of former times with almost a living tongue.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

America has changed [...] The gigantic scale of industrial institutions, of press, television, and commercial advertising has completely divorced me from the American way of life. I want the other side of the coin, a simpler personal sense of living.

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation.

Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.

He who injures living beings is not noble. He is called noble because he is gentle and kind towards all living beings.

In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast.

Whatever living beings there may be-feeble or strong, long, stout or of medium size, short, small, large, those seen or those unseen, those dwelling far or near, those who are born as well as those yet to be born-may all beings have happy minds.

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You.