What’s the point of living if you don’t feel alive?

I outline in some detail, but even after the outline is done I often get a new idea that is an improvement, so the outline is a living, breathing thing as well. I also re-outline...

Love is like is like the setting sunafter shining brightly, it dips steadilytill it disappears…only to resurface another day.

Some of the greatest journeys of humankind are those that, at the time being, only the one living it understands.

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

All we know, Midnight. The best of all we know. For Chestry Valley and its master we loved. For Nana. For Sugarloaf and Brimstone Farm. For Pop and Mom and Tom. For the foals to...

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I’ve ended up doing that myself.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.

People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.

But Viv, if I’ve learned anything at all in the last eight years of my life? It’s that people just like to tell themselves stories about where they came from. They can’t help themselves. They...

In my acting, I have tried to do this – to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.

People will doubt you, but do you doubt your own self? People will insult your integrity, but do you trust yourself? If you are at peace with yourself and with God, you can be at...

As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers...

Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man’s got to fake just to stay alive.

We are more than the sum of our biochemical functions. Even the tiniest flea is an incredibly complex living creature, with mouth-parts adapted to feeding on the blood of your cat or dog.

Do anything totally and it is finished; you will not carry a psychological memory of it. Do anything incompletely and it hangs with you.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

I’ve learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as someone who talks for a living, I’ve learned to check, double-check and triple-check my sources.

Even I don’t know myself… In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real...

Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor futurelessens . . . . Superabundant existencewells in my heart.

it’s something rebellious about picking up and leaving buying a one way ticket and not knowing when you want to return.

You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

Who are you if nobody knows your story?

Be like the flower, content with its nature.

There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.

While I was designing my home, I was living in different houses all around the world, and I saw thermostats that were just as bad as the ones in the U.S., or houses that needed...

I’m not an expert, I’m a survivor. I hope you can learn how to be one yourself.

Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.

Blame is a choice that doesn’t give you directions out of hell.

There is a very, narrow, thinness of line between the living and the dead; actually, it’s just a lack of a heartbeat away.

I recommend everyone who DJ’s to do it as a hobby and make sure you have a day job or are going to school. Only 100 DJ’s in the world make a living doing this,...

It takes time, or does time take it?

What does this think about that?Nothing thinks about anything.Does the earth have consciousness of its stones and plants?If it did, it would be people. . .Why am I worrying about this?If I think about these...

We did research and found that our customers, with the cost of fuels and the cost of living being high, were concerned about putting roofs over their heads and food on their tables. They were...

The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum...

Death changes us, the living. In the presence of death, we become more aware of life…. It can inspire us to decide what really matters in life–and then to seek it. (Founder of M.A.D.D.)

there are so many dayswhen living stops and pulls up and sitsand waits like a train on the rails.

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That’s baseball as it should be played – in God’s own sunshine. And that’s really living.

There are powers far beyond us, plans far beyond what we could have ever thought of, visions far more vast than what we can ever see on our own with our own eyes, there are...

Whenever you get an appetite, you feed yourself. Therefore, fill your belly on wisdom of things old and new. Only swallow the truth, less you choke on the lies.

Everybody is Beautiful and Unique in Their Own Special Way, Beauty goes Beyond the Outer Appearance. I think it’s More Important to have a Beautiful Mind. Stop Comparing Yourselves Amongst Yourselves. Nobody is like You...

Whoever lives wins. Don’t feel guilty about having survived. If you have time to be feeling guilty, work on living a day longer, a minute longer. And once in a while, remember the ones that...

It’s that short-lived happiness, which empowers us to bear; long-lasting pain in living.

What makes us leave what we love best?What is it inside us that keeps erasing itselfWhen we need it most,That sends us into uncertainty for its own sakeAnd holds us flush there until we begin...

Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.

I’m homeless. I’ve taken to the belief that home is not where we lay our heads comfortably some nights, or where we entertain visiting friends. It’s not where love is unconditional. When I look up...

Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn’t find a place for myself, for years and years.