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Living Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who…
- Relationship is the mirror in which we see ourselves as we are. All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on…
- War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in ourselves,…
- Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.
- We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or…
- It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of…
- To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.
- There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and…
- What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it,…
- The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
- The significance of life is living.
- But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.
- What has validity is your living, not what happens tomorrow.
- The only thing that really matters is that there be an action of goodness, love and intelligence in living. Is goodness individual or collective, is…
- 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…
More Living Quotes
- 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… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — 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… — 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… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — 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… — Isaac Asimov