Living - Quotes
We all want happiness for our children, but they don`t have to be happy about everything all the time. Life must include sadness, and there`s peace and truth to be found in sadness. The best times are not always the happiest times, but the times spent in the flow, the times spent getting things done, the times spent living.
An unexamined life is not worth living, but an electronically recorded life is not lived at all.
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It`s a palliative. The remedy is death.
It`s not sad to feel that life and the love of your real friends and family is more than enough to make life worth living. Isn`t it much sadder to feel that there is a more important love required than the love of the people who have chosen to spend their limited time with you?
It`s the life-long companionship that matters. It`s the living together from day to day, not the sleeping together once or twice.
The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
You have to see lots of ways of living in order to choose the best life for yourself. This is what the best cities do: They cultivate a vibrant array of cultures and allow their citizens to find their way to the neighborhoods and traditions in which they're most at home.
Anyone who has got any pleasure at all from living should try to put something back.
The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one`s living at it.
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.
It`s natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity`s highest callings.
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything - anything - be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in.