3,544 Quotes About Living

It's more interesting to be out in the world. than to see it reflected in the mirror.

The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.

The world is a drama, staged in a dream

Your heart's voice is your true voice. It is easy to ignore it, for sometimes it says what we'd rather it did not - and it is so hard to risk the things we have. But what life are we living, if we don't live by our hearts? Not a true one. And the person living it is not the true you.

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

The idea that property has overcome our personalities is the single reason we'll miss the best part of our lives. It's people, not possessions that make our lives worth living.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.