L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Living according to God's truth means that my ego must die, and I must live entirely for God and for my neighbors. Living according to God's truth means not following the crowd and not being dismayed when even your friends misunderstand you. For the God whom you serve will have the final word. On the day of judgement he will speak the final word over the whole of your life.”
Source: Letters from a Soviet Prison Camp
“Living ain't easy, loving's twice as tough.”
“Living all out for God certainly doesn't mean we'll have a safe life. It's not supposed to be safe-or particularly easy. That doesn't mean it always has to be full of turmoil and trials; it just means we want so much of God that we're willing to do whatever He asks us to do. It also means we have a rock-solid faith and a deep, abiding joy that doesn't depend on our circumstances.”
Source: A Woman of Strength and Purpose: Directing Your Strong Will to Improve Relationships, Expand Influence, and HonorGod
“Living alone had made me sensitive. When Will was still at the farm, I didn't differentiate the scent of wild fennel from that of slowly ripening blackberries or notice how cloud patterns changed from season to season. I didn't scan the sky to anticipate the weather or feel the air with my fingertips to decide whether to hang washing on the line. Sometimes I thought I might be acquiring some of Willow's talents. When she put up her muzzle into the breeze, her nostrils fluttered as if she were riffling the pages of a book, learning secrets carried on the wind. It seemed to me I sensed almost as much as she did.”
Source: The Witch's Kind
“Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.”
“Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.”
“Living alone means there's no need to consider whether you'll be waking another person up, so you walk straight over to the door and switch on the light. You switch on all the lights, in the bathroom, the kitchen, the entrance hall, and fill a glass with cold water, your hand trembling only very slightly, and drink.”
Source: Human Acts
“Living alone, with no one to consult or talk to, one might easily become melodramatic, and imagine things which had no foundation on fact.”
Source: Murder Is Easy
“Living alone, you can do so many fantastic things I've learned. You can like, walk around and have so many conversations with yourself and sing your thoughts. I think I'm the only one that does that.”
“Living alone,' November whispered, 'is a skill, like running long distance or programming old computers. You have to know parameters, protocols. You have to learn them so well that they become like a language: to have music always so that the silence doesn't overwhelm you, to perform your work exquisitely well so that your time is filled. You have to allow yourself to open up until you are the exact size of the place you live, no more or else you get restless. No less, or else you drown. There are rules; there are ways of being and not being.”
“Living among the wild blacks, for whom killing a man is like spitting, and killing a white man elevates the status of a warrior, was a balm to me, soothing the unbearable pain of an existence based on convention, the Ten Commandments, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. In Africa, I took a few lives by my own hand, but it was either in self-defense or to protect valuable cargo I was transporting. I don’t count the slaves traveling with the caravan because they always dropped like flies and were worth less than camels.”
Source: Adieu, Rimbaud!
“Living an awakened life [...] is just a matter of where our attention is being placed. It is possible for our human-beingness and our true nature or presence to exist wonderfully well together, enriching each other through their closeness. It is through the power of our attention that we experience one or the other or both.”
Source: Life Beyond Belief: Everyday Living as Spiritual Practice
“Living an engaged and contemplative existence allows a person to glean the quintessential experience of living mindfully.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat those blueberries flown in from somewhere far-flung.”
“Living an honest life starts with self-knowledge. Self-knowledge starts with closing your eyes.”
“Living an immoral life is like supergluing a bomb to your body that you have no way to disarm. You might be able to live in denial of the bomb, but you’re going to find it very difficult to live in denial of the explosion.”
“Living an inspired life is like breathing in the fresh air of possibility, exhaling the doubts and fears that hold you back, and embracing the limitless potential that lies within you.”
“Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.”
Source: Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
“Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can't do one without the other.”
“Living and dying, sorrow and joy, the blisters on my feet and the jasmine behind the house, the persecution, the unspeakable horrors — it is all as one in me, and I accept it all as one mighty whole and begin to grasp it better if only for myself; without being able to explain to anyone else how it all hangs together. I wish I could live for a long time so that one day I may know how to explain it, and if I am not granted that wish, well, then somebody else will perhaps do it, carry on from where my life has been cut short. And that is why I must try to live a good and faithful life to my last breath: so that those who come after me do not have to start all over again, need not face the same difficulties. Isn’t that doing something for future generations?” (3 July 1943)”
“Living and struggling, for others, is a great and dignified life. Whereas, living for oneself exhibits just egocentric and own importance, since mostly falls under it.”
“Living and working alongside host nationals, refugees can make a positive economic contribution to the national economy.”
Source: Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System
“Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes, jars, and vases. Yet like that of Chardin and the underappreciated William Nicholson, Morandi's work seems to slow down time and show you things you've never seen before.”
“Living and working in the presence of God is essential because what contitutes a truly productive person is the fact that they are labouring under the blessing of God.”
Source: Ploductivity: A Practical Theology of Tools & Wealth
“Living appears good, long, and tiresome, but it is way too short than a single stroke of lightning.”
“Living artificially in towns, we are sickly, and never come to know ourselves.”
Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations
“Living as a channel for giving and receiving invites us to view our lives from a broader perspective, seeing ourselves as integral parts of a vast, interconnected system.”
Source: Manifestation Mindset: The 12 Universal Laws of Creation
“Living as a couple never means that each gets half. You must take turns at giving more than getting. It’s not the same as a bow to the other whether to dine out rather than in, or which one gets massaged that evening with oil of calendula; there are seasons in the life of a couple that function, I think, a little like a night watch. One stands guard, often for a long time, providing the serenity in which the other can work at something. Usually that something is sinewy and full of spines. One goes inside the dark place while the other one stays outside, holding up the moon.”
“Living as a richer person among the poor is very stressful”
“Living as a slave to unchecked personal desire and subjugated to external circumstances is wearisome. It is a common error to devote a person’s life to earning money. While money relives us from the stress of suffering from deprivation, moneymaking will not make us happy. A person must have passion in life in order to achieve any degree of personal bliss.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.”
Source: The Happy Hoofer
“Living as an entity under a filled with stars sky and seeking for intuition, a voice whispers from your heart, for soul is unchained from whatever pulls it down, while what she is craving for is but only Ascension towards Divine ”.”
Source: Cosmic Light
“Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish.”
Source: I Am a Cat
“Living as if the world out there were somehow separate from us opens the door to the belief system of judgement and the chemical expressions of that judgment in our bodies. Thus we tend to see our world in terms of good germs and bad germs, and use words such as toxins and waste to describe the by-products of the very functions that give us life. It is in such a world that our bodies may become a combat zone for forces at odds with one another, creating the biological battlegrounds that play out”
“Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air.”
Source: The Rebecca notebook and other memories
“Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.”
“Living at peace with everyone...is not an option, it's an obligation.”
“Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.”
Source: Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews
“Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.”
“Living at the beach, it's hard to get out of the sun.”
“Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.”
“Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment where the odds are stacked immeasurably against you is a beautiful act of defiance.”
Source: Homebody: A Graphic Memoir of Gender Identity Exploration
“Living authentically means aligning our outer actions with our inner beliefs and desires. It starts with knowing yourself: your values, your likes and dislikes, your boundaries. ... It may mean facing discomfort, disappointing others, or redefining success. Yet the peace that comes from living in alignment is profound”
“Living authentically means living as the real you without deception. It means you are the person you say you are, not the person you want people to believe you are or the person others expect you to be.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“Living away from my native place I became more consciously Kentuckian than I was when I lived at home. This is what the experience of exile can do, change your mind, utterly transform one's perception of the world of home.”
Source: Belonging: A Culture of Place
“Living based in security is a monastery.”
“Living based in security is living based in fear.”
“Living beautifully and justly are the source of all joy and happiness.”
“Living Beauty is about creating a new ideal, a new reality, and a new aspiration for yourself. It's a guide filled with knowledge, secrets, and solutions to make you look and feel great”