Quotes of: Lived Keyword

Dewey sent him, I thought, when I saw those eyes.

Dewey's Nine Lives: The Legacy of the Small-Town Library Cat Who Inspired Millions

Life is precious, and in the grand song of the universe, life is short. There is much to be done.

Dare to Wear Your Soul on the Outside: Live Your Legacy Now

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Knowing that this is what it means to live. That this love, this need is what drives us to push and fight and build and grow. That as long as there's hope and love in this world, there will always be the living.

The Dark and Hollow Places

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

Days of Reading

On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living them, those that we spent with a favourite book.

Days of Reading

No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book.

Days of Reading

I want to feel like I'm making a difference in this world. And I want some time for living rather than just working. Life is for living, isn't it? It can't be all just for working

The Doorman

I listened to you tell me, tell everyone, and all the world, “Praise the Lord.” You were broken, but not by bullets and bombs. You were broken by grace.

Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent

Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.

Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent

We are born crying, and for good reason,' he reflected. 'And the rest of our lives is bound to be a muted reiteration of that cry.

Dans un mois, dans un an

The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.

Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

The Christian experience is not primarily formed by our liturgy, doctrine, or ecclesiology, as important as those might be. We are formed by the dangerous stories of our great hero.

Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture

It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.

Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony

If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.

Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony

Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.

Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony

What you did in the past is your business. Those were your choices—your mistakes—if you even believe they were mistakes. Stop caring what anyone thinks and live your life the way you want to live it.

Eternal Kiss

The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

Eat, Pray, Love

Our response to the external conditions of our lives can be greatly altered by our perceptions of those conditions.

Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women

So let me get this straight. You were living in a tent in the woods, but now you're living with Prince Charming and anger management boy? SERIOUSLY?!

Fruits Basket, Vol. 2

These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be.

Fahrenheit 451