3,544 Quotes About Living

In ballet, any dancer who asks himself what step comes next must freeze. Any man who takes a sex manual to bed with him invites frigidity. Dancing, sex, writing a novel--all are a living process, quick thought, emotion making yet more quick thought, and so on, cycling round.

In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether occupy a bare one per cent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine per cent is just living in waiting.

To distort our faces with joy, or wail and weep with sorrow, or collapse in agony, or wallow in sentimentality – wasn’t an inviolable human trait but something we can lose simply by leading dull and dreary lives. ‘A rich emotional life,’ she’d written, ‘is a privilege reserved only for the daring few’.

It is not everyone who dies that actually lived. And of those who live, only a few are alive.Those who live get to make a living from doing what they love or don't love to do.But those who are alive, they give to make a life from being who they were meant to be.So live, know, do and get - if you only want to make a living.But be alive, be wise, become and give - if you really want to make a life.

This corner of history was as real as the tiled floor under our feet or the wooden tabletop under our fingers. The people to whom it had happened had actually lived and breathed and felt and thought and then died, as we did - as we would.

Hate is infectious, but so is love, the difference between the two is one takes effort and the other one doesn’t.

history is something you look back on, not something you really feel at the time. In the moment, you're just... living.

This day was made to be lived, even if I didn’t feel like it.

Cherish The Days As They Come, For History Records Everything As It Is or As We Want It To Be.