#iving

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#authors #competition #dead #envy #living

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#creature #living #living creature #man #only

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#best #best part #gracefully #grow #how

I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living. ↗

— Hulk Hogan

#great #i #life #living #people

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by. ↗

— Sam Shepard

#living #make #playwright #scrape #you

My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#anyone #doing #figure #good #life

The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#hardship #living #made #me #psychologically

My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#i #lost #match #never #playing

I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#back #begged #eventually #fraction #heard

One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#after #always #answer #been #clock