Quotes of: Making-a-living Keyword

Every human being, he believed, must do one of three basic things during his lifetime: leave something living, create something lovely, or make something better.

Above the Thunder

There won't be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not make for exciting copy.

The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

All the bad in my life led me to her, which makes me think that I can live with the past if she is my future. —HEW

He + She

He gave Dancer one last pat. 'You're luckier than you know, pal. Living without a set of balls makes life a lot less complicated.

Heroes Are My Weakness

America's always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be harder to make a living that way.

Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free

Must we always comment on life? Can it not simply be lived in the reality of Christ's terms of contact with the Father, with joy and peace, fear and love full to the fingertips in their turn, without incessant drawing of lessons and making of rules?

Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot

There is a world of difference between the experience of 'care' – the wiping of a bottom, the bathing of a body: basic biological obligations – and the intimacy that makes us want to live.

Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution

Upon achieving a lifelong dream, I thought, this is the way to live your life -- in the moment, and to the fullest.

Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success

Tunney has all the makings of a hero – he was clean living, intelligent, polite, reasonably good-looking – but, like Lou Gehrig, he lacked the chemistry that stirred affection.

One Summer: America, 1927

I would rather make love than war, but only because condoms kill millions of lives more enjoyably.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.

Lives of the Noble Greeks

People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one has lived.

Life... Love... Kumbh...

One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture

Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company

We have to live within the framework of our limitations and the mistakes we make. Argue with Destiny, but never try to wrestle it into submission. If you do, you’ll end up losing.

Spiral Road

I won't die. I won't give those ghouls the pleasure. I'll live and grow strong. I'll escape, then hunt them down and make them suffer.

The Thin Executioner

The speculative thinker makes Christianity into theology, instead of recognizing that a living relationship to Christ involves passion, struggle, decision, personal appropriation, and inner transformation.' (Moore's summary of Kierkegaard)

Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard

Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation.

Pearl in the Mist

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.

Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics

The next time someone tries to make you feel bad about feeling good, respond by continuing to live well.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Charley thought of her father. He'd always told her she should never make assumptions about other people's time or their money, and that's the way she tried to live.

Queen Sugar

Everyone makes mistakes, Jenna. Everyone has regrets and guilt for things they should have done differently in their lives. Shit happens, and we do the best we can at the time. You can't blame yourself forever.

Taken by Midnight