Quotes of: Making-a-living Keyword

During World War II, when combat rations were tinned, meat hashes were a common entrée because they worked well with the filling machines. “But the men wanted something they could chew, something into which they could ‘sink their teeth,’” wr...

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Why do you need that thing?" September asked. "None of the airports back home have them." "They do. You just can't see them right," Betsy Basilstalk said with a grin. "All customs agents have them, otherwise, why would people agree to stand in line a...

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

My mother lived alone in the ruins of the great Library, which was called Compleat, and a very passionate and dashing Library indeed. Under the slightly blackened rafters and more than slightly caved-in walls, my mother lived and read and dreamed, al...

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

There must be some kind of internal time distortion effect in here, because when I look at myself in the little mirror above my sink, what I see is my father's face, my face turning into his. I am beginning to feel how the man looked, especially how ...

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Back then, living hadn't had any meaning. Every so often, without any warning or any real reason, he'd even caught himself thinking, 'Maybe I'll try dying.' He'd had one foot in the world of the dead, and yet the other foot had been chained to the wo...

Kieli, Volume 9: The Dead Sleep Eternally in the Wilderness, Part 2

She held him at arms’ length, looked at the pipe still gripped inn his hand, then looked at his face and read him like a book. She ran the tip of her red tongue slowly across her full cushiony, sensuous lips, making them wet-red and looked him stra...

A Rage in Harlem

We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly and specifically our own. We should write because humans are spiritual beings and writing is a powerful form of prayer and meditation, connecting us b...

The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

Character? I should have thought it needed a good deal of character to throw up a career after half an hour’s meditation, because you saw in another way of living a more intense significance. And it required still more character never to regret the...

The Moon and Sixpence

What American would not want truthful and complete information about every product sold in the United States so that we can be more capable of making wise decisions concerning our lives and the lives of our loved ones? These are our friends and our f...

Maybe You Should Move Those Away From You

Jesus embraced His not enough ... He gives thanks ... and there is more than enough. More than enough. Eucharisteo always precedes the miracle. And who doesn't need a miracle like that everyday? Thanksgiving makes time. The real problem of life is ne...

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

In treating people as less important than things, work becomes both demoralised and demoralising and we become blind to the moral content of our decisions...Money and wilfful blindness make us act in ways incompatible wiht what believe our ethics to ...

Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril

I suppose I knew on an intellectual level that graves weren't especially made for getting out of. I mean, you start with a hermetically sealed casket and then you dump six feet of dirt on top of it. Over time the earth gets compacted, which can't mak...

Walking Dead

I believe in all human societies there is a desire to love and be loved, to experience the full fierceness of human emotion, and to make a measure of the sacred part of one's life. Wherever I've traveled--Kenya, Chile, Australia, Japan--I've found th...

Barry Lopez

Life must be lived at the right time. Death is not scary when one dies after having lived fully. One must choose to live though and face all adversities.

Daimones

Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give. Almost. It is death by living.

Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent

The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.

Black Genius: African-American Solutions to African-American Problems

We have soul contracts with every person in our lives to live in the vibration of truth.

The Book of Simple Human Truths

Our worship of God is not a part of our lives; worship is our lives.

Hunger No More: A 1-Year Devotional Journey Through the Psalms

Real vampires don't get pain, we give it." Florence da Vinci, Real Vampires Live Large

Real Vampires Live Large

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

Soldiers Live

Life wants you to have gratitude for the gift of living. Treasure every second.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life