Everybody should practice simple and virtuous living . They should never seek recourse to manipulative tendencies.

When I was 30 or so – by that time I had become an assistant D.A. – I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become...

Life never goes according to plan. That’s okay, because often our plans are much smaller than life intends. Probably EASIER, but smaller.

Often the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

In the West, we look at art through life. Well, that’s one way of living. In the Orient they look at life through art. They even drink their tea without sugar, for the same reason...

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

I’ve seen so many excellent actors – excellent actors – who, the minute they’re told they’re in a comedy, turn into God knows what – creatures from another planet! I mean they just… the voice...

We are living under siege.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

The success of a civil order should not be judged by its most affluent members, but by the standard of living of its poor.

Good question. The stock market is living proof that everybody loves to bet, and we think a wager on this prediction will appeal to all who follow the markets, whether they are big or small...

Trust that whatever you are dealing with, whatever doorway to crisis you experience, it is leading you to a greater lesson in liwing where ideally the power of love is what you learn. Forgive, and...

I’m not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take,...

I hope I don’t write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself “When did they live?” I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live!...

Free your mind from the prison of your past. Time has allowed you to grow and develop into the person you’re meant to be. Now, you are living a purposed filled life.

I think about the pepper plant, the corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, and more plants. And I’ve noticed that while those seeds are living within the fruit or vegetable they can not grow. It is only when...

To be alive is to be dizzy and not to know exactly where to go.

Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

Feel your emotions,Live true your passions,Keep still your mind.

What it takes just to earn a living – working two or three jobs – is driving a wedge in families that shouldn’t be there.

Living in Europe, I was surprised to find out just how little everyone knows about Japan.

As long as I’m not living out of a suitcase, I’m happy.

I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. It’s the living. Those of us left behind.

Emma felt frightened, apprehensive, yes, but also elated and excited, her feelings all tumbled and mixed together like a stew of varied ingredients tossed into the same pot. She was aware of the blood coursing...

I am myself for a living. I don’t animate a character.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

And sometimes we die to prove that we lived.

Though not a natural world by any means, more like a collection of living dioramas, a zoo exists in its own time zone, somewhere between the seasonal sense of animals and our madly ticking watch...

Mom wanted me to fight. To live.I’d just never dreamed that I’d have to do it alone.

There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person’s lifestyle that really isn’t suited to me.

We use fashion for status and to beautify and there’s nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you’re living a decadent life. And when that happens on a global scale, you’re...

I think it’s highly likely that we’ll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I’m not sure we’re all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens – which...

Despite what I do for a living, I am very insecure about my body.

LOOK at what is there first instead of what YOU want…Enjoy what YOU have for one day it WILL BE the exact thing YOU want back. Accept within yourself that YOU are not being your...

There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

I’d love to step off this well-trodden straight and boring path. To somehow live differently, think different thoughts, feel different feelings than others. It wouldn’t bother me to be as alone as a tree on...

But it would be like going to Heaven and not finding any of your friends there. Her life would go all beatific and empty in the eyes.

Where there is no will,there is always a way out.

What separated the living from one another could be as impenetrable as whatever barrier separated the living from the dead.

I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes...

vivre dans la vérité, ne mentir ni à soi-même ni aux autres, ce n’est possible qu’à la condition de vivre sans public. Dès lors qu’il y a un témoin à nos actes, nous nous adaptons...

Reading is an addiction, much like living and breathing is an addiction.

I’ve always had a little bit of darkness, and I’ve always been someone who was grieving. I had kind of had a tumultuous upbringing living in an abusive home, so for me, writing has always...

You have made him live.

He was in the right place. He was living his best life. How many other people in the multiverse could say that?

We are content with the ‘given’ in sensation’s quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.

You’re not saving lives, Dad. You can’t save lives when no one’s living anymore. (Maddie)