Living Quotes

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.

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.

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.

A man has got to keep his extrication.The important thing is not to get bogged downIn what he has to do to earn a living.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

It is for us the living ... to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far nobly advanced.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.