If I ‘ m living in New Orleans, … and somebody tells me to go to the Superdome, I ‘ d be damned reluctant to go there.

It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not...

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

The process of living, for each of us, is pretty similar. For every gain there is a setback. For every success, a failure. For every moment of joy, a time of sadness. For every hope...

Because of the value placed on individual materialistic success in our society, we are surrounded by people primarily interested in getting something from others. Their attitudes are characterised by selfishness and a lack of empathy...

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...

Everything seems different now. The room I am in looks no more familiar to me than it did this morning when I woke up and stumbled into it, trying to find the kitchen, desperate for...

I’ll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren’t so painful any more-not so raw or so new.

The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the...

We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active.

Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you’ve told, and all the people you’ve told them to, and then living the lies that have...

A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that isn’t drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can...

As the connections have been broken by the fragmentation and isolation of work, they can be restored by restoring the wholeness of work. There is work that is isolating, harsh, destructive, specialized or trivialized into...

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously...

There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’ I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle...

You are never more alive than when you are enraptured by pain.

Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!

Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright – getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.

I like photography as a recording device. It’s the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

People have to forgive. We don’t have to like them, we don’t have to be friends with them, we don’t have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to...

In my sleep I have my nightmares, awake I have my thoughts, I am not sure which is worse.

Stop living in the shadows of another. You’ve been given everything needed to live a purposed filled life. Don’t be a second rate version of yourself.

Don’t always seek the approval of others concerning your goals or dreams. Not everyone wants to see you succeed, just because they are not successful.

Don’t just leave your footprints in the sand only to be washed away as the ocean waves come crashing to the shore. You want to impact the lives of others in such a way that...

Everything is just better in California – the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.

For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

Procrastination is a way of living in the past instead of the present moment.

Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president’s campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother’s keeper, the idea that this same guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without...

The biggest lesson I’ve learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

The difference between the one who remembers Allah and the one who doesn’t is like the living and the dead.

What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.

I’m like, ‘What world am I living in?’ Aren’t movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie if you don’t have something to say? What are you doing it for? Are you...

The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have been a few who have groaned their way through to a competence, but...

The less people that are on the stage, there’s more drama. You start living the music with each individual. When you see a band with ten people on stage, just a huge ensemble, you don’t...

Dream sets us on fire.Dream gives us direction.Dream betters our potential.Dream helps us prioritize.Dream adds value to our work andlife.Dream colors our future.

To live, is to suffer. To survive, well, that’s to find meaning in the suffer.

For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.

I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and...

IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I’m far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read ‘Tech Crunch,’ ‘Ad Age.’ I would rather be living...

My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things – for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.

We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his visit to Washington, the Chinese president’s next stop was Saudi Arabia.

It is possible to be happy and successful by living on one’s own terms.

With a sigh, he grabbed hold of his chair and lifted himself out of it, then wrote on the blackboard: How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? – A.Y.’I’m going to...

Work is making a living out of being bored.

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

Make sure you have other cash resources available equivalent to three months living expenses.

Don’t try to understand women.Women don’t want to be understood,they just want to be loved.It is men who crave understanding.

Daring life, optimistic living.