Quotes of: Living-thing Keyword

Are you living for the things you are praying for?

Austin Phelps

I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks for early light dappled through leaves and t...

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Supposing there is no life everlasting. Think what it means if death is really the end of all things. They've given up all for nothing. They've been cheated. They're dupes." Waddington reflected for a little while. "I wonder if it matters what they h...

The Painted Veil

I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami's and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven't witnessed but have changed my life, the lives of everyone I know, all the people I'll never know. I thought about life wit...

This World We Live In

The thing in jazz that will get Bix Beiderbecke out of his bed at two o’clock in the morning, pick that cornet up and practice into the pillow for another two or three hours, or that would make Louis Armstrong travel around the world for fifty plus...

Wynton Marsalis

Playing live if the thing I love doing best.

Bob Geldof

Ethics that focus on human interactions, morals that focus on humanity's relationship to a Creator, fall short of these things we've learned. They fail to encompass the big take-home message, so far, of a century and a half of biology and ecology: li...

The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

Why Dream? Life is a difficult assignment. We are fragile creatures, expected to function at high rates of speed, and asked to accomplish great and small things each day. These daily activities take enormous amounts of energy. Most things are out of ...

Make Your Creative Dreams Real: A Plan for Procrastinators, Perfectionists, Busy People, and People Who Would Really Rather Sleep All Day

...My dad, may he rest in peace, taught me many wonderful things. And one of the things he taught me was never ask a guy what you do for a living. He said "If you think about it, when you ask a guy, what do you do you do for a living," you’re sayin...

David Mamet

You wanted to live," he says. "You say that like it's a good thing. A virtue." "What is it really?" I think about this. "Selfish." "Wanting to live is selfish?" "Yes.

Charm & Strange

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Jeff Buckley

Defining art is huge; I feel like it's such a subjective thing. It's more like what's not art. You know what I mean? I think there can be an art in the way people live their lives, and art can be a gift someone gives to somebody.

Kathleen Hanna

I believe we have this idea that bad things ought to be prevented from happening.

Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

All the Little Live Things

Begin accepting the gift now, and have every beautiful and good thing in life — and then share.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Any thing or behavior too complex to understand becomes a phenomenon that could be termed spiritual or magical.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The harder you work on yourself the more the external things you couldn't change, will change on their own.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

One of the most radical and revolutionary things you can do is grow your own food and eat from the land.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate, and true compassion includes compassion for yourself.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The truth only comes if you are willing to face some really unpleasant things about yourself.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Our consistent thoughts become the things in our lives.

No Limits, Mastering the Mental Egde: The Class They Don't Teach You in School