Obscurity and a competencethat is the life that is best worth living. - Mark Twain The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like death, after which we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably won't matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly. - Diane Ackerman Look--I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch? - Elizabeth Gilbert a life without investigation is not worth living - Plato It might be a dungeon of suffering and pain full yet this life is worth living and this world is beautiful. - Jyoti Arora Emma leaned over to where their faces were only inches apart. Since you think you know everything, tell me if you understan...

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy. - Booker T Washington So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb. - Muriel Barbery Some kisses are worth living for - Sherrilyn Kenyon In the end, I take my shoes off and stick my feet in, letting the lukewarm water lick at my ankles. It feels good, and not just because I'm stoned. I make a mental note to add this to Dulcie's list of things worth living for. For some reason, I keep seeing her rolling her eyes at me, that big, goofy grin stretching her face like Silly Putty. On my private list, I add her smile. She doesn't have to know. - Libba Bray In short, our response as a party ...

Stop complaining and start living. - Habeeb Akande Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We believe in peace even though we hear only rumours of wars. And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here. - Shane Claiborne Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. - Chris Cleave It's time to start living the life you've imagined. - Henry James It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living. - Eckhart Tolle I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them. - Laurell K Hamilton live to the fullest or die; and die you will anywa...

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy. - Gloria Macapagal Arroyo A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money. - William Baldwin Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support. - Mario Batali It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that. - Glenn Beck The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind. - Norman Borlaug I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may fin...

There's something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia that disabuses you of the belief in the externals, shows you that strength and hope come not from circumstances or the acquisition of things, but from the simple accumulation of active experience, from gritting the teeth and checking the items off the list, one by one, even if it's painful and you're afraid. - Caroline Knapp I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later? Then I went into a sober living place where I stayed for three months. I've been clean for a good year and a half. - Marc Wallice

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living. - Simone De Beauvoir I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves. - Simone De Beauvoir Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sometimes I wonder, Balram. I wonder what's the point of living. I really wonder...' The point of living? My heart pounded The point of your living is that if you die, who's going to pay me three and a half thousand rupees a month? - Aravind Adiga That Jem makes beautiful things and I destroy them. That it really ought to be me dying and not him. I mean, what's the point of living if you can't even enjoy it? Yet Jem enjoys all the life he's got. It's not fair. - Cassandra Clare But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all? - Libba Bray What's the point of living if you're going to hate the world? Guard your heart if you have to, but don't shut it away. - Neal Shusterman he asked if i wouldn't like to live completely without problems, say in greece maybe, nice climate, everything provided? i say: when we find out what we are actually doing and who we actually are, that is the point of living...it may be only a few ...

The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like death, after which we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably won't matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly. - Diane Ackerman Look--I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch? - Elizabeth Gilbert a life without investigation is not worth living - Plato I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions....

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means. - Calvin Coolidge We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life. - Bob Ehrlich

Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift. - Maya Angelou The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it. - Hannah Arendt Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. - Aristotle Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?" "Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge - Lois Mcmaster Bujold God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. - Voltaire Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing. - Socrates I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class Ame...

You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women. - Marcia Wallace People are so cheap. Everyone wants quality, no one wants to pay for it. Here's the suburban dream-- to hire great workers who are such meek morons that they don't have the guts to ask for a living wage. - Joan Bauer Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio. - Sherrod Brown If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage. - Richard J Codey New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that - living wages? ...

Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others - Eric Berne I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously. - Laura Hillenbrand That's the thing about living vicariously; it's so much faster than actual living. - Audrey Niffenegger

Unless you're not pushing yourself, you're not living to the fullest. You can't be afraid to fail, but unless you fail, you haven't pushed hard enough. - Dean Karnazes <...> though he found that if you are stupid enough to bury a camera underground you won't be taking many pictures with it afterwards. Thus the story has no picture book for the period May 10, 1991 - January 7, 1992. But this is not important. It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you. - Jon Krakauer It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you. - Jon Krakauer

Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?" "The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less? - J R R Tolkien That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die! - Hermann Hesse All things grow, flourish, die, and re-grow. Life and death are continuous and fluid. Like the Sun and the Moon which die and are reborn, so do the seasons and all living things. - Brandi L Bates The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a ...

I'm still living it now, every day, living it out in my mind - following the ups and downs, walking the pathways, reliving the moments of our Moonlight World... It's a day that never dies. - Kevin Brooks Outside I saw her sitting in the wheelchair, hands folded on her lap, and I knew I was living the moment that says nothing, that will allow nothing said of consequence. - Gerard Donovan If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again. - Daphne Du Maurier

But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer "poetry" would embarrass us both, for we both know that nobody can earn a living simply by writing poetry. - W H Auden Is life worth living simply because you live, or is it worth more if you make life happen? - Jaycee Dugard I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply. - Bell Hooks When we black people commit ourselves to living simply as a political action, as a way of breaking the stress caused by unrelenting hedonistic desire for material objects that are not needed for survival, or essential to well-being, we will not be talking about ebonics. We will be out in the streets demanding that the public schools have enough teachers so that all kids, cross color, can read and write in standard English and in Spanish too. - Bell Hooks

Where did you go?" "To the end of the driveway," my mother says. "I was nine months pregnant; that was the maximum distance I could waddle without feeling as if my uterus was falling out." I wince. "Do you have to be quite so graphic?" "What would you like me to call it, Zoe? A fetal living room? - Jodi Picoult He's painting your living room as a thank you." "Huh. My decorator might screech, but I'm okay with that." "Your decorator? Seriously? How did you not know you were gay? - Dani Alexander I've given up my living room, guest room, job, career, heterosexuality and my stance on no pets in the house, but I'm not giving up my room. I'm drawing a line. - Dani Alexander Most unmarried Somali girls who got pregnant committed suicide. I knew of one girl in Mogadishu who poured a can of gasoline over herself in the living room, with everyone there, and burned herself alive. Of course, if she hadn't done ...