L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Living is brave. Quitting is cowardly.”
Source: If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say
“Living is bringing joy to others.”
“Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.”
“Living is dear, do not waste life.”
“Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that, citizens; on this side, orphans, on that, children; on this side, captives; on that, freemen; on this side, disguised, unknown; on that, disclosed and proclaimed as the sons of God.”
“Living is deeper than just life”
“Living is different from just existing.”
“Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out.
It doesn't matter much to me.”
“Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.”
“Living is for now.
Eternity is forever.”
Source: Judas Iscariot, His Life and Times: The Most Hated Man in All of Christendom
“Living is getting knocked down time and again, then standing up time and again, and once more. It's easy to act honorable when things are coming along and all your pastures are green. Plenty difficult when the ground is dried and burned and people have connived to take even that from you. I'll sell this place, or I'll lose it. I'll go on. People who don't have hard times aren't living.”
Source: Sarah's Quilt
“Living is giving. We live life best as we give our strengths, gifts, and competencies in the service of God's mission. We are called to serve, not survive. Our giving makes a difference in our families, our work, our community, our world, and our church.”
“Living is giving....If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give.”
“Living is hard--dying is easy. You close your eyes and never open them again. What's so difficult about that? Nothing really--except it hurts like hell to those you leave behind.”
Source: Ruin
“Living is hard. It takes so much effort. To die, all I have to do is stand here and wait. And beautiful. Dear God will it be beautiful.”
Source: The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle
“Living is having and following a purpose. That's all.”
“Living is having and following a purpose. That's all. That's the formula of life-have and follow a purpose. That's it. If you do it, you're living and if you don't do it, you're not living.
And that's all there is to it. I've now given you the basic fundamental of existence and that really is it.”
“Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends.”
“Living is like tearing through a museum.”
“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.”
“Living is like training for an athletic event. You have to have goals and challenges; you need to exercise and eat right.”
“Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.”
Source: This Business of Living
“Living is merely the chaos of existence.”
“Living is messy.”
Source: The Speaker
“Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.”
“Living is no laughing matter:
You must take it seriously.
So much so and to such a degree
that, for example, your hands tied
behind your back,
your back to the wall
or else in a laboratory
in your white coat and safety glasses,
you can die for people –
even for people whose faces you’ve
never seen,
even though you know living
is the most real, most beautiful
thing.
I mean, you must take living so
seriously
that even at seventy, for example, you’ll
plant olive trees –
and not for your children, either,
but because, although you fear death you
don’t believe it,
because living, I mean, weighs heavier.
- "On Living”
“Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.”
Source: Poems of Nazim Hikmet
“Living is not breathing but doing.”
“Living is not complicated.”
“Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“Living is not this tawdry, mediocre, disciplined thing which we call our existence. Living is something entirely different; it is abundantly rich, timelessly changing, and as long as we don't understand that eternal movement, our lives are bound to have very little meaning.”
“Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.”
Source: Mission of the University
“Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.”
Source: Absalom, Absalom!
“Living is painful. Without pain, reality would escape us and the lessons the world has for us will go untaught.”
Source: Embody
“Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.”
“Living is struggling to do something impossible;
To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.”
“Living is suffering, Billy. Now give your mom a nice big hug.”
Source: BodyWorld
“Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
“Living is the best and we must live every day as it comes.”
“Living is the best prayer you can offer to god.
Pray rightly!”
“Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.”
Source: Looking for Alibrandi
“Living is the direct communication between the subconscious of the city and the subconscious of the inhabitants.”
Source: Against Architecture
“Living is the easiest thing in the world. Your mom pushes, a man in a white coat on the other side of the uterus pulls. Out you pop, and someone cuts your umbilical cord. You start crying. The lights are too bright. Air enters your lungs. Air exits your lungs. Air enters your lungs. Air exits. Air enters. Exits. It's a piece of cake. A walk in the park. You're alive.
Living is the easiest thing in the world. Surviving ... that's another story. They attack you with pitchforks, they attack you with batons. They attack you with axes, with diseases, with cars. They come at you with tsunamis, with earthquakes, with a stroke. With a malignant tumor, a benign tumor, malignant tumor, benign tumor, malignant tumor. Let's see you get out of that alive.”
Source: Autocorrect: Stories
“Living is the journey from not knowing to knowing, from not understanding to understanding, from confusion to clarity. By universal design, you are born into a perplexing situation, bewildered, and you have one job as a human being: figure this shit out.”
Source: Will
“Living is the opposite of poetry. Poetry is the recollection of living, or, more often than not, the lament of having not lived. Or worse yet, merely the contemplation of living. My advice to you, Ms. Harper, is this: Live. And keep living. And never stop to look back to write about what you have lived and observed and overcome, lest you turn into a pillar of salt. This desert life is already full of such monoliths.”
Source: Cassie Draws the Universe
“Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.”
“Living is the outside of dying.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“Living is the purpose of life,
And meaning can be found therein.
I finds thou.
Thou becomes it.
And it begins again.”
“Living is the same thing as dying. Living well is the same thing as dying for others.”
Source: Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
“Living is too hard right now. Dying is easy. Let me die.”