Quotes of: Making-a-living Keyword

The philosopher Odo Marquard has noted a correlation in the German language between the word zwei, which means 'two,' and the word zweifel, which means 'doubt' - suggesting that two of anything brings the automatic possibility of uncertainty to our l...

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

They don't make morgues with windows. In fact, if the geography allows for it, they hardly ever make morgues above the ground. I guess it's partly because it must be eisier to refrigerate a bunch of coffin-sized chambers in a room insulated by the ea...

Death Masks

LARRY--(with increasing bitter intensity, more as if he were fighting with himself than with Hickey) I'm afraid to live, am I?--and even more afraid to die! So I sit here, with my pride drowned on the bottom of a bottle, keeping drunk so I won't see ...

The Iceman Cometh

The genius of the current caste system, and what most distinguishes it from its predecessors, is that it appears voluntary. People choose to commit crimes, and that's why they are locked up or locked out, we are told. This feature makes the politics ...

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Our personal identities are socially situated. We are we live, eat, work, and make love. [...] Our sense of identity is in large measure conferred on us by others in the ways they treat or mistreat us, recognize or ignore us, praise us or punish us. ...

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

From the standpoint of integrity, I think we all need to own up to our dirty little secrets. I believe that when we are open about our own strange desires or unusual lives, it paves the way for others to do the same. In the past thirty years, gay men...

The Threesome Handbook: Make the Most of Your Favorite Fantasy - the Ultimate Guide for Tri-Curious Singles and Couples

There is no music in a rest, but there is the making of music in it. In our whole life-melody the music is broken off here and there by "rests," and we foolishly think we have come to the end of the tune. God sends a time of forced leisure, sickness,...

John Ruskin

Many are the scholars who make it their professional occupation to occupy themselves in this towering edifice of culture, exploring its nook and crannies, developing their responses, making their contributions here and there, and helping to hand it o...

Until Justice and Peace Embrace: The Kuyper Lectures for 1981 Delivered at the Free University of Amsterdam

I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)

A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.

Gary Zukav

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

Make your customers comfortable and they will give you their lives.

Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic who Turned a Bright Idea Into One of America's Best Companies

My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.

The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction

hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," he says.

Catching Fire

Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.

Community And Growth

Why does everyone make fun of New Jersey? It's beautiful here," she said. "We live in America." "What does that mean?" "People like to judge without knowing.

The Color of Home: A Novel

If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.

Don't Waste Your Life Study Guide

To believe something and not live is like making fun of your abilities. You cannot be really trusted if you can dream and doubt its possibility.

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

Our desire to grow, to make a place for ourselves… to know we have counted in the lives of others, is healthy and necessary to our existence…

Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women

A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee.

Going Bovine

Living on purpose means stopping to make sure your actions still match your big goals.

Get-It-Done Guy's 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More