L Quotes
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“Living in the present moment means living according to truth and principle (but not according to hard rigid dogma) flexibly applied in the particular way required by the immediate situation in which you are. Such a way of living leaves you free, not ruled tyrannically by imposed regulations which may not at all suit the particular case.”
Source: Relativity, Philosophy and Mind: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton
“Living in the present moment or "here and now" is the most rewarding job in the world. You get rewarded with magical experiences.”
“Living in the present moment requires discretion toward memory. Without memory we'd have amnesia. What good would there be in that? Offer discretion and discernment for our past with a broad spectrum of forgiveness. As for our present moment, delight. And dedication to remain fully present to all the possibility.”
“Living in the rural South, you sometimes feel trapped, like you don't have any options. It grinds people down, and of course it leads to substance abuse. I see it all around me. So many people in my family, probably more than 50 percent, have had substance abuse problems, either currently or in the past. It's so personal and immediate to me.”
“Living in the second half of the twentieth century, I realized, confers no automatic protection against unwise or even dangerous drugs and methods. Each age has had to undergo its own special nostrums. (Chapter 1)”
Source: Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient
“living in the slippery maybe the last green places are you listening”
Source: Falling Awake
“Living in the Spirit changes your attitude, thinking, and ultimately your actions.”
Source: A Woman's Guide to Making Right Choices
“Living in the spiritual world is very easy, once you grow accustomed to it. But initially, it puts you through some changes.”
“Living in the wake of slavery is haunting, and to experience this haunting is to be nothing less than traumatized. Still, it is possible to heal from trauma, or come to terms with it.
At first, we try to block out the horrors of the past - to ignore them, to pretend they are not there.
The next step is to acknowledge the past and its harm, even as it triggers us. We try to avoid looking at it too closely. But the ghosts are everywhere; they have been waiting for us all along.”
“Living in the world of the workshop, which I do as a teacher, you have to be articulate about craft. And that often involves imposing analysis on work that's in a pretty raw state.”
“Living in this moment is a gracious mercy of God.”
“Living in this nightmare leads nowhere, and I can only continue walking through the tundra of bone-chilling winds, through the snow, toward the endless wall of clouds for so many days in a row before I feel the need to fall to my knees and beg for forgiveness.”
Source: The Doctor's Daughter
“Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily sacrifice of heart over mind,
the forever ongoing task of explaining this and that,
and why I don’t want to look like this and
be like that
but still here I am and if this is the body I’ve been given I’m sure as hell gonna make it work.”
“Living in this world, the person we are most unfamiliar with is probably ourselves.”
Source: 而立·24
“Living in this world, under the dominance of the ego mind, is difficult. That's the struggle.”
“Living in war is a co- existence with death.”
“Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.”
“Living in your dreams meant bitter disappointment when you woke up.”
Source: On The Edge
“Living in your genome is the history of our species.”
“Living in, and promoting a eugenic White society. This means that we take particular care in not only assuring the perpetuation of our precious White Race, but we take deliberate care that the misfits are culled and that each generation advances to higher and more salubrious levels, physically, aesthetically, and mentally.”
“Living independent might come as appalling as the word to anyone but me. The one who thinks it's a cool idea and worth it, has sure forgotten that independence comes with a price. If one doesn't still agree, you gotta try staying at a hostel.”
Source: The Masquerade
“Living inside oneself means no one can take or steal anything from them. But it also means no one can give or gift them anything real either...”
“Living inside our Comfort Zone frees us and allows us to stay in the flow. By giving ourselves permission to be who we are, we gain the freedom to make choices that are rooted in our purpose.”
Source: The Comfort Zone: Create a Life You Really Love with Less Stress and More Flow
“Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.”
“Living inside this head was a torture of endless looping thoughts and self-hatred. Like many women, my suffering manifested itself through my relationship with my body that transcended self-hatred into self-destruction. There’s no need to go into any more detail about what it was like. What I do want to offer is that there is hope.”
“Living intensely each present day means letting Christ dwell within you. His words are so clear: Today I would like to enter your home.”
“Living is a burden without the sweet life of love.”
Source: Journey of Soul - Karma
“Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.”
Source: Rabbit Angstrom: a tetralogy
“Living is a constant process of debunking our romantic notions of how our personal life will unfold. Reality oftentimes fails to meet a person’s glamorous expectations.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.”
“Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.”
“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.”
“Living is a hazardous profession.”
“Living is a horizontal fall.”
Source: Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure
“Living is a like waiting for a bus, with no posted schedule, that comes once every day. You're not waiting for #168, you're waiting for happiness. Sometimes you catch the bus, but it never takes you as far as you want to go, as far as you need to go. What good is a five minute ride when you have eight hours ahead? If anything, the ride pisses you off; you're zooming at seventy miles an hour, comfortable, air-conditioned and laid-back, when suddenly you get kicked out, into the blazing sun, to carry your heavy backpack the rest of the way.
The bus can drop you off at indifference, insignificance, loneliness, anxiety, anger, or depression. Some three-hundred pound thug kicks you off and lets another wanderer on. You walk for hours with an aching back, sweating like a pig, hopeless and helpless, and all the while you're thinking, god damn, this would have taken 20 minutes on the bus. You whine and moan hoping someone will lend a helping hand, hoping someone will reach out to you and save you, but everyone only has trite, meaningless expressions to give. Let me clear up a common misconception: you will never help anybody by telling them to "feel better." "Feel better" isn't an air-conditioned ride.
What happens when you arrive, eight hours later, at the end of the road? I don't know either. I doubt you ever get there.”
“Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same.”
“Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of our lives, we would be different person, perhaps a lesser person.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Living is a risk," I snapped at him. "Every decision, every interaction, every step, every time you get out of bed in the morning, you take a risk. To survive is to know you're taking that risk and to not get out of bed clutching illusions of safety.”
Source: The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study
“Living is a scary proposition. Being a person in the world and having attachments and trying to do anything is a scary proposition. It's like stepping into a desert.”
Source: The Compleat Lungfish
“Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.”
“Living is a thing you do now or never which do you?”
“Living is about capturing the essence of things. I go through my life every day with a vial, a vial wherein can be found precious essential oils of every kind! The priceless, fragrant oils that are the essence of my experiences, my thoughts. I walk inside a different realm from everybody else, in that I am existing in the essence of things; every time there is reason to smile, I hold out my glass vial and capture that drop of oil, that essence, and then I smile. And that is why I have smiled, and so you and I may be smiling at the same time but I am smiling because of that one drop of cherished, treasured oil that I have extracted. When I write, I find no need to memorize an idea, a plot, a sequence of things: no. I must only capture the essence of a feeling or a thought and once I have inhaled that aroma, I know that I have what I need.”
“Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater”
Source: Dekker 2 in 1 (Obsessed & Three)
“Living is already having been born, in a condition we have not chosen, a situation in which we find ourselves, a quarter of the universe in which we may feel we have been thrown and are wandering, lost. And yet it is against this background that we can begin, that is to say, give a new course to things.”
“Living is also a state of mourning.”
Source: Temporary
“Living is an art, not a science.”
Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“Living is as good as learning.”
“Living is as necessary as learning.”
“Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.”
“Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.”