The cost to reconnect animals to live in natural settings without human support is a debt that many animals in transition must honor with their lives.
For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.
The world we live in is not purely visual. For me it's totally poly-sensorial so the tactile, sensual aspect of living in the work that I do is brought to the fore.
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
The earth is a beehive; we all enter by the same door but live in different cells.
You have to be rich to be able to live like a poor man.
The white man lives in the castle; when he dies, he lies in the ground.
While the sun is still up, let people work that the earth may live.
If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.
Those who live together cannot hide their behinds from each other.
If a man would live in peace, he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
Living in the past has one thing going for it; it's cheaper!
Where you were born is less important than how you live.
We can best help our children not by sacrificing ourselves for them, but by trying to fulfill our own lives. When we are involved in an honest pursuit of our own goals, we serve as positive role models for our children.
None of us really has any idea how many lives we touch or what impact we have on those lives. In most cases, we will never get to see what difference we made, but living out loud isn’t about noticing the results. It is about doing what we came here...
Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze thr...
Notice that your judgments of what exists are the same kind of judgments you make about how to live your life. There aren't two kinds of things we do: judge what exists and decide what we want to do about it. Fundamentally, there is one kind of thing...
The struggle is lost. I believe we have to live, as long as we live, in the expectation and hope of changing the world for the better. That may sound naive. It may even sound sentimental. Never mind: I believe it. What are we to live for, except life...
Each of us has a call on our lives. This call says, ‘It’s time to get your act together, then take it on the road.’ This call says, ‘Put on your traveling shoes so that you can be of use to others... so that you can wear your soul on the outs...
