L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Living more intensely, more lovingly, with more camaraderie, that is in itself resistance.”
“Living more lives than one, knowing people of all classes, all shades of opinion, monarchists, republicans, socialists, anarchists, has had a salutary effect on my mind. If every year of my life, every month of the year, I had lived with reformers and crusaders I should be, by this time, a fanatic. As it is I have had such varied things to do, I have had so many different contacts that I am not even very much of a crank.”
“Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.”
“Living movements do not come out of committees.”
“Living myth is about the experience of the waters parting again in the here and now. As a critical moment opens before us the spirit of life and genius of the soul speaks to us and through us. What was about to crush us suddenly parts before us and we shoot forward with the sudden vitality of life, fueled by the living imagination needed to survive.”
Source: The Genius Myth
“Living, naturally, is never easy. You continue making the gestures commanded by existence for many reasons, the first of which is habit. Dying voluntarily implies that you have recognized, even instinctively, the ridiculous character of that habit, the absence of any profound reason for living, the insane character of that daily agitation, and the uselessness of suffering.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.”
Source: Verses on Various Occasions
“Living near the Hawaiian fishing village of Milolii on the Island of Hawaii put me in frequent contact with the Hawaiians. I found them to be good people that treated me well and we were harmonious neighbors.”
“Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.”
“Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live.”
“Living New York, everyone has a million hustles, so I was doing party promoting, working the doors at parties, doing that whole nightlife thing.”
“Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.”
“Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.”
“Living off the land took a lot of getting used to for these city folk. They had to learn how to garden and grow their own crops. Of course, they were learning how to hunt and clean their prey, so it could be cut up and cooked. Smoking the meat was another necessary lesson to be learned.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.”
“Living on 420 & a Prayer.”
“Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.”
“Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element.”
“Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.”
Source: Rosie: A Novel
“Living on Faith.
Striving on Desire.
Flying on Hope.”
“Living on hope is like being hungry all the time.”
Source: Mrs. Demming and the Mythical Beast
“Living on is the memory of a horse who was hitched to a plow but wanted to soar. Snowman and Harry showed the world how extraordinary the most ordinary among us can be. Never give up, even when the obstacles seem sky high. There is something extraordinary in all of us.”
Source: The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation
“Living on one's own is not always ideal - but then, neither is marriage. The mated format is charted territory. Those venturing into singlehood are the Lewis and Clarks of a pioneering lifestyle with few maps, unexpected ambushes, and an infinity of adventures. Therein lies its glory!”
Source: Living Alone and Loving It
“Living on purpose is a lifestyle, a way of being and a lifelong spiritual practice that will refine your Soul. This isn't a 10-day or 30-day plan. This is a lifelong adventure!”
“Living on purpose requires us to find what we love fiercely, give it all we've got and then pass it on, as if it were a torch, to those who follow”
Source: I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose
“Living on steam isn't easy.”
Source: Steam
“Living on the edge - that's what I feel like when I don't know what my bowels are going to do next.”
Source: How to Shit Around the World: The Art of Staying Clean and Healthy While Traveling
“Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior citizen.”
“Living on the ocean, your nerves are numb. Everything has lost its meaning. If you don’t have a way to stay alert, it can be really dangerous.”
Source: Frontier
“Living on the slopes of an active volcano keeps life interesting!”
“Living on the street as a kid changed the way I looked at everything. It was a different time and while it had its dangers, it was nothing like it would be today. It was the Summer of Love and there was a real sense of community among us. We were hippies who looked out for each other instead of trying to rip each other off. We only had to watch out for the police who liked to roust us just on general principles, and the kids who came in from the suburbs to do a little hippie-bashing.”
“Living on the verge is not about doing more, but about being more. It isn’t about achieving more; it’s about experiencing more. It’s not about being someone different, as there ’s no “better version of you” on the horizon. Everything you’re searching for is available to you in this moment. Everything you need is right here on the verge.”
Source: On the Verge: Wake Up, Show Up, and Shine
“living only for the moment, savouring the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms, and the maple leaves, singing songs, drinking wine, and diverting oneself in simply floating, unconcerned by the prospect of imminent poverty, buoyant and carefree, like a gourd carried along with the current of the river...”
Source: Tales of the Floating World
“Living only with an outward-looking view is like living in a world of hungry ghosts constantly consuming and never satisfied. It is living with a centralized consciousness.”
Source: Aquarius Rising: Christianity and Judaism Explained Using the Science of the Stars
“Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.”
“Living organisms are distinguished by their specified complexity”
“Living original doesn’t mean being different just to be different; it means being a new kind of different—a different based on knowing who you are, knowing who God is, and being confident that He made you in a really cool, unique way. There’s no one else on earth like you, and that makes you incredibly special. If you can see how special you are and be strong in it, there is no limit to what you can do and become in your life, or how much you can enjoy it.”
Source: Live Original: How the Duck Commander Teen Keeps It Real and Stays True to Her Values
“Living our lives may not be an exciting prospect to some of us either. Maybe we've been so wrapped up in other people that we've forgotten how to live and enjoy our lives.”
Source: Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers
“Living our lives more and more in the NOW where only a bright side existed was a gift. It was grace.”
Source: Where One Is Not A Number
“Living our lives of faith or motivation with enthusiasm and excitment, convincing each other, dialoguing with each other about important moral issues of the day, but on fundamental issues of morality, we should let women make their own decisions.”
“Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach for your sword, you will never discover that.”
Source: Gregor the Overlander Collection:
“Living out one's faith is either no way to live or the only way to live; it's either imprisonment, or the only path to freedom. It offers happiness, or it frustrates the pursuit. There is no half-love, half-religion, half-worship, half-belief, half-truth. There is no kinda-sorta.”
“Living out their faith helped women like my grandmother to be conscious of their thoughts, actions, and words.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“Living people are a dying breed.”
Source: Outrun the Moon
“Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics; it must develop. All that progressives ask or desire is permission-in an era when 'development,' 'evolution,' is the scientific word-to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine.”
Source: Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings
“Living purposefully calls for us to display a dynamic constitution. Immersion in all facets of life allows us to experience the full sweep of living purposefully. Every civilization will flounder and fail, but out of these ruins, a few good people will emerge to lead us into new chapters of civilization.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.”
“Living rationally and authentically does not mean that you map out your future by thinking carefully about what it would be like if you chose one path versus another path and then choosing on that basis.”
“Living rationally and authentically means understanding that life centrally involves making leaps of faith, both small and large, and that the value of living is to a large extent the value of experiencing your life, whatever that experience is.”
“Living requires but little life; doing requires much.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert