L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The management can be through pharmaceutical intervention, talk therapy, mindfulness programmes, diet and exercise changes, all kinds of things.”
“Living with computers gives funny ideas.”
“Living with consequence is more difficult than dying because of it.”
“Living with contradiction may be nothing new to humans, but acknowledging it, and accepting it are. Even the dictionary has trouble accepting a paradox, calling it 'two things that seem to be contradictory but may possibly be true.' But that's not a real paradox--a real paradox IS contradictory and IS true. So I don't even call them paradoxes anymore, I call them 'contradictory co-existing realities,' both in direct opposition to each other, both true at the same time.”
“Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.”
Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression
“Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty.
People don't like doubt, so they pay money and give up opportunities to avoid it.
Entrepreneurshi p is largely about living with doubt. If you need reassurance, you're giving up quite a bit to get it. On the other hand, if you can get in the habit of seeking out uncertainty, you'll have developed a great instinct.”
“Living with faith and courage is
something that life requires of
each of us.
Never, absolutely
never, give up! Never give in no
matter what!
Fight it through!
And I promise you something with
all of my heart-God will help
you.”
“Living with generosity creates a swelling tide that raises all ships. Not just yours; not just the other person's; everyone's.”
“Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.”
Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex
“Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Living with him was like standing beside the sea. Each day a different colour, a different foam-capped height, but always the same restless intensity pulling towards the horizon.”
Source: Circe
“Living with integrity means... behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.”
Source: Are You the One for Me? ; Real Moments
“Living with integrity means...not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships; asking for what you want and need from others; speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension; behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values; making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.”
“Living with Justin in his childhood home, my love and I had formed an island—a nation-state of two, sleepy and safe. We had only planned to stay with his family for a few weeks after the wedding—three months had passed. Days in our private culture were peaceful, smooth as a frozen lake, our souls stilled. This life with my in-laws was a comfortable hibernation, easy.”
Source: Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir
“Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.”
“Living with long-term suffering in American culture feels like being off-key. Suffering quiets and slows, but our culture prefers a crescendo.”
Source: This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers
“Living with love for all humankind and worshiping nature’s immense beauty cures heartache and restores bliss. Respecting the splendor of nature awakens us to the beauty inscribing our own humanity.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Living with multiple personalities is not something you just wake up fully understanding. For months, maybe years after I first accepted the diagnosis, I was still discovering new nuances, fresh areas I hadn't considered.”
Source: All of Me
“Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world.”
“Living with one woman is horrific.”
“Living with reality is a very good trick, it gives you tremendous freedom and it changes the structure of the molecules of your soul by living with reality because you don't expect anything anymore. Which is a weird paradox.”
“Living with someone who hates you is—it drives you mad—”
Source: The Black Prince
“Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn't love you.”
Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
“Living with stress and secrets is both stressful and secretive.”
Source: This Book Is Gay
“Living with the belief that you’re a walking piece of shit is hell. The smarter the person is, the more hellish it is. The only way out of this hell is physical death. In any case, it seems so to many people. This is the real reason for the nuclear war that destroyed our civilization.”
Source: The Interchange
“Living with the daily ugliness of slum life, educational castration and economic exploitation, some ghetto dwellers now and then strike out in spasms of violence and self-defeating riots. A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard. It is the desperate, suicidal cry of one who is so fed up with the powerlessness of his cave existence that he asserts that he would rather be dead than ignored.”
Source: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
“Living with the exhortation "Be in the World But Not of It," stimulates the best of your analytical skills, deepens your intuition, eliminates destructive competition, develops your skills and creativity serially and painlessly, and develops concentration, efficiency, accuracy, and humor. And that's what a creative life is all about: making it a work of art.”
“Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.”
“Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.”
“Living with the longing for memories that have never been lived and dreaming with the nostalgia of a stranger who has never been met…”
“Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me than I would have thought.”
“Living with this gratitude elevates you... You become a more joyful person. You become a kinder and more compassionate person. You become a calmer and more peaceful person. You become a person who lives in greater harmony with others.”
“Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.”
“Living with your decision must be hard. Nothing I or anyone can say will give you any peace. You must reconcile your actions in your heart. In the meantime, we’ll take it slow.”
His hand stroked my cheek. I opened my eyes. He leaned closer and our lips met. A tender kiss, short and sweet.
He smiled. “A good first gather.”
I laughed at the glassmaking reference.”
Source: Storm Glass
“Living with your decision must be hard. Nothing I or anyone can say will give you any peace. You must reconcile your actions in your heart.”
Source: Storm Glass
“Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.”
“Living without awareness is like losing blood. Being aware is like drinking the wine from the holy chalice.”
“Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you must'nt shirk it. Love, after all, hopeth all things. But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.”
“Living without hate for people is almost impossible. There is nothing wrong with fantasizing about revenge. You can have that feeling. You just shouldn't act in it.”
“Living without hate is not possible but living with love is possible.”
“Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.”
“Living without passion is like being dead.”
“Living without personal boundaries is like trying to hold my breath and gasp for air, at the same time, it doesn't work. My introverted nature requires solitary sanctuary, to breathe. My internal batteries need time to recharge if i am to give from a place of abundance.”
“Living without protecting what needs to be protected is the same as death.”
“Living without the burden of death would make us fearless.”
Source: Until Now
“Living without thinking is like shooting without aiming; it can lead to missing opportunities and wasting precious moments.”
“Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.”
“Living without you is like living in a cloudy winter. It's so gloomy, cold and bitter.”
“Living your best life does NOT consist of getting in debt trying to fill a void. Don’t complicate your life by making poor choices that you will most likely regret later on. I encourage you to sincerely evaluate your life and take the necessary steps to create a life that’s healthy, balanced, and authentic. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying life, but make sure that you’re being responsible, too. I challenge you to save, invest, and build wealth as well. Be intentional… Face your truth with courage! Your mental, emotional, and physical health deserve a chance to thrive in peace. Give yourself permission to properly heal… Acknowledge your trauma, do the work, and CONQUER it.”
“Living your best life is to find out what your calling is. Your real job on Earth is to find out what you were meant to be doing & to find a way to do that thing.”