To be happy, count your blessings and discount the lessings.

Stop existing and start living!

I do not worship a DEAD and buried Christ at Calvary. I worship a ressurected and LIVING Christ in Heaven! Jesus Christ is alive.

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

…the real troubles with living is that living is so banal.

In the midst of life we are in death,'” said Miss Ophelia.

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.

Forget the American dream…whats your dream? The thing that keeps you up at night…the thing that makes you happy…the thing that keeps your spirit going. Do that thing. Don’t label it a hobby or what...

We start our sometimes tedious, sometimes exciting, often times sad and stressful march to the grave the moment we’re born, so it might as well be a march worth remembering.

Wherever you are you have to work to earn your own living.

It’s neat living downtown. I had built a house in Manitou, and I owned a couple fixer-uppers. I can see myself living here five or 10 years.

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and...

There were speakers everywhere. His whole living room was filled with them. He kept every speaker he ever bought.

Expectation is the greatest impediment to living, running ahead to tomorrow, it loses today.

I’m just living in Eau Claire, not really leaving for much. I go to the farmers market, go to the studio, go home and play with my cats. I don’t know if I’ve ever been...

Lest you forget the strong develop and improve the weak get frantic digress and deviate

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the...

But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? What man’s law shall bind you if...

I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song...

Living on steam isn’t easy.

When someone puts an end to something, it doesn’t mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere.

Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word.

But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open.

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

…I don’t ever want to feel that way. Feel as if there are no surprises left. The surprises make life worth living. Expecting nothing, accepting it all. Accepting isn’t the right word. ACKNOWLEDGING it all....

We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized when it invariably catches up to us.

There are already 30,000 hotel rooms and around 70,000 people are already living at the place.

It’s ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven’t lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

Legacy is not what’s left tomorrow when you’re gone. It’s what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you’re here that then happens to live on.

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.