I really do believe in doing my work, minding my business, treating people well, and reading more than I write.
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Quotes tagged ‘Living’
Good morning. Thank you for all the good that you do. Thank you for the effort you put into life—stepping into the day, even when you are afraid. Thank you for your bravery, your kindness, your big heart. Eyes up. Let's go.
Learning that trying to do a little bit of good in the world will keep you through very challenging times.
Across centuries and continents, all of history conspired to bring you to where you are. And THIS day in your life was JUST the beginning of a longer story, the first pen stroke of something new. Tomorrow, the second. Rest up!
But there must be a certain pleasure in it while you're alive to enjoy it.
Yes, you must all die; but death does not hurt; no! Life hurts, but not death! See! As I pluck you, you all grow wings and fly away — away to other meadows and bloom again.
Once you've fixed your thing, you'll be amazed to discover how much energy it took just to navigate the annoyances of it being broken.
I attach no importance to the mere appurtenances of life — the baggage that accompanies one on that brief journey. Life itself is quite enough for me.
If you do not love life itself, you love the beautiful things of life, do you not?
'You do nothing for your living?' 'Nothing, indeed!' and he shrugged his shoulders with a mingled air of weariness and self-pity, 'Except one thing — I live! 'Is that hard work?' she inquired wonderingly. 'Very!'
Stop just assuming you have a full lifetime to do whatever it is you dream of doing.
I took more courage to live than to die.
— Ha Jin, amazon.com
Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.
I've never once thought about how I was going to die. I can't think about it. I don't even know how I'm going to live.
The foremost rule is that you must take responsibility for your own life. Period.
After all one has the right to be tired just before the end . . .
"You don't have to rush. You have careers to launch, debts to pay, spouses to meet and marry. That's enough for now. But in the course of your lives, without any plan on your part, you'll come to see suffering that will break your heart. When it happens, and it will, don't turn away from it; turn to…
From the Leaves, and Downs, and Beards of Plants, we come at last to the Seeds; and here indeed seems to be the Cabinet of Nature, wherein are laid up its Jewels.
The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things.
By this the Earth it self, which lyes so neer us, under our feet, shews quite a new thing to us, and in every little particle of its matter; we now behold almost as great a variety of Creatures, as we were able before to reckon up in the whole Universe it self.