#living

[B]e comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it. And when you resent the ache in your heart, remember: You will be dead and buried soon enough. ↗

— P. Harding

#living-life #beauty

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#authoritarian #believe #cynical #form #heart

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement. ↗

— Donald Trump

#good #good living #i #just #living

There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#lives #living #men #own #still

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#bright #canada #ever #fellow #i

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. ↗

— Voltaire

#gave #gift #give #god #life

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. ↗

— Voltaire

#dead #living #only #owe #truth

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#abstract #acting #bit #even #i

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power. ↗

— Alice Walker

#earth #forever #had #i #i think

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#about #anything #been #brow #feel