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Living Quotes by Tom Robbins
- Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears. It's up to each individual which one he chooses.
- Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but…
- There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
- A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.
- Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.
- Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.
- Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.
- The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed…
- Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.
- Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- 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