Living Quotes

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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means… — Hannah Arendt
I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style,… — Pietro Aretino
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of… — Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute… — Giorgio Armani
Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons,… — Karen Armstrong
Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can… — Karen Armstrong
You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat prisoners with dignity.… — Joe Arpaio
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who… — Isaac Asimov
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual… — David Attenborough
I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds… — David Attenborough
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due… — David Attenborough
Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they… — Margaret Atwood
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no… — John James Audubon
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some… — Saint Augustine
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius

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