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• Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Iron, Long, Feelings

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.439, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• the leader releases energy, unites energies, and all with the object not only of carrying out a purpose, but of creating further and larger purposes. And I do not mean here by larger purposes mergers or more branches; I speak of larger in the qualitative rather than the quantitative sense. I mean purposes which will include more of those fundamental values for which most of us agree we are really living.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Mean, Creating

  Mary Parker Follett (1957). “Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett”

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• it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually.

  Brenda Ueland

  Thinking, Live In The Moment, Care

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to stress again the importance of really living what we claim to believe. That needs to be a priority-not just in our personal and family lives but in our churches, our political choices, our business dealings, our treatment of the poor; in other words, in everything we do.

  Charles J. Chaput

  Stress, Believe, Choices

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• It's not that I don't appreciate my life sober, but it's like there are two different people battling inside of me. I want to be good, do good, be a worker among workers, a friend among friends. But there's also this part of me that is so dissatisfied with everything, If I'm not living on the verge of death, I feel like I'm not really living.

  Nic Sheff

  Two, Appreciate, People

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• Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition, and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the basic experience of the cross applies: the wider we open our hearts to others, the more audibly we intervene against the injustice that rules over us, the more difficult our lives in the rich unjust society will become.

  Dorothee Solle

  Heart, Mean, Unjust Society

  Dorothee Sölle (1990). “Thinking about God: an introduction to theology”, Trinity Pr Intl

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• It's not like we're all animalistic people trying to become more spiritual. We're really living spirit, trying to find out how to live embodied in this nitty gritty world, these corporeal forms, in these fleeting bodies in the material world where everything's changing and we're not in control.

  Surya Das

  Spiritual, People, Trying

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living in the town.

  Anna Quindlen

  Writing, House, Towns

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• As a teenager, my struggle was how do I balance being empathetic and compassionate towards my peers, while also living my life for myself and not basing my decisions on those around me, and really living a life where I receive my happiness from my own experiences rather than from people pleasing.

  Shailene Woodley

  Teenager, Struggle, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Until you find something worth dying for, you're not really living.

  Rebecca St. James

  Dying

  Song: Carry Me High, Album: God, 1996

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• I don't necessarily view death as something negative. Death gives meaning to life. Living in fear of death is living in denial. Actually, it's not really living at all, because there is no life without death. It's two sides of the one. You can't pick up one side and say, I'm just going to use the 'heads' side. No. It doesn't work like that. You have to pick up both sides because nothing is promised to anyone in this world besides death.

  Curtis Jackson

  Views, Two Sides, Giving

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• MTV wanted to downplay our lifestyles and pretend we weren't getting the checks that we actually were, so I think that was the blurry line between the lives we were really living and the lives that they wanted us to live, and things like that.

  Heidi Montag

  Thinking, Mtv, Lines

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• If your primary focus is to get over your health problems or get past a relationship crisis so that you can return to your former life and old patterns- that is, get back to business as usual-you are not really living. The distinction is paradoxical and sometimes subtle. It's the difference between walking through your life on your way to somewhere, and walking as your life. Even if you believe that where you want to get is extremely important, that destination is secondary. Your immediate experience is what really matters. It is your life.

  Richard Moss

  Life, Believe, Past

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• In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you 'should' behave. But what if you're living your life by the 'shoulds' and you're not really living your life?

  Chris Noth

  Pride, Live Your Life, What If

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• My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a minute here, a few seconds there. My wake-up call came when I found myself toying with the idea of buying a collection of One-Minute Bedtime Stories Snow White in 60 seconds. Suddenly it hit me: my rushaholism has got so out of hand that I'm even willing to speed up those precious moments with my children at the end of the day. There has to be a better way, I thought, because living in fast forward is not really living at all. That's why I began investigating the possibility of slowing down.

  Carl Honore

  Children, Race, Hands

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• If you're not living I mean really living, you're dead already.

  Martin Niemoller

  Mean, Catchy, Ifs

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• When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Goal, Looking Forward, Strive

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• The only difference between people who live in this way... is that the people who love in the magic of life have habituated ways of being

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Differences, People

  "The Secret". Book by Rhonda Byrne, September 4, 2008.

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• I try to be available for life to happen to me. We're in this life, and if you're not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it. But if you're available, life gets huge. You're really living it.

  Bill Murray

  Past, Trying, Ordinary

  "Charlie Rose", charlierose.com. February 10, 2014.

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• If your life has no problems, you're not really living it.

  Nigahiga

  Problem, No Problem, Ifs

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• Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

  Alvin Dark

  Baseball, Sunshine, Player

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• It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Somewhere Else, Ungrateful, Wish

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview in New York City, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

  John Banville

  Past, Thinking, Live In The Present

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• Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

  Ann Voskamp

  Pain, Heart, Two

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• Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Boredom, Office, Long

  Tom Hodgkinson (2011). “Brave Old World: A Month-by-Month Guide to Husbandry, or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself”, p.16, Penguin UK

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