Way To Live Quotes - Page 7

• ...just like some people's instinct to photograph is triggered by vacation... assignments might be that to me and that's why I've built my life around assignments. That was the way to live the photographic life.

  Sam Abell

  Vacation, People, Might

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• To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.

  Francis Quarles

  Death, Lying, Long

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• There is no way to live up to your full potential in life without losing lots of things. Yet there are people who believe you can go through a lifetime without losing anything, if you would just be more careful and more thoughtful. They actually believe that a child can get through elementary school without losing a jacket, but that's impossible unless the child is very repressed.

  Jennifer James

  Children, Believe, School

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• The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them.

  Laozi

  Water, Benefits, All Things

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• Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles. Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge, it repeats the same knowledge, it goes on chewing the same knowledge again and again. No-mind is clarity, purity, innocence. No-mind is the real way to live, the real way to know, the real way to be.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Moving, Knowledge

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• I get that you're scared and that you've been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve.

  Kiersten White

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire - for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness - that is the way to live in this world.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Fear, Hate, Giving Love

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1971). “Self-realization”

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• Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running - that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach.

  Jack Kerouac

  Running, Beach, Wine

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.7, Penguin

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• I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet we have to deal with them. If we want to accomplish anything, we have to deceive them into letting us accomplish it. Or force them. They understand nothing else. We cannot expect their support for any endeavor of the intellect, for any goal of the spirit. They are nothing but vicious animals. They are greedy, self-indulgent, predatory dollar-chasers

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Animal, Men

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• You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Writing, Sleep

  Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Want, Way, Life Is

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• The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent, is what I remain in my own eyes, to this day. The knowledge never goes, can never be undone. You just have to find a way to live with it.

  Jonathan Coe

  Mistake, Eye, Facts

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• bitter is a bad way to live!

  Margaret Haddix

  Way, Bitter

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2011). “Among the Betrayed”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• ...there is a celebrated aphorism insisting that the best way to live is to 'work like you don't need the money, dance like nobody is watching, and love like you've never been hurt.'...After years of hearing and reading these lines I have decided to tell the truth: the original version is wrong. There is a grave error in the wording of this adage. The correct version should go as follows: Love like you don't need the money, Work like nobody is watching, Dance like you've never been hurt. See? Doesn't that make more sense?

  Gina Barreca

  Hurt, Reading, Years

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• You will find a way to live without me. You will find a way to live for both of us,' Alexander said to Tatiana as the swelling Kama River flowed from the Ural Mountains through a pine village named Lazarevo, once when they were in love, and young.

  Paullina Simons

  Rivers, Mountain, Village

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• So if the world hates us, we take courage that it hated Jesus first. If you're wondering whether you'll be safe, just look at what they did to Jesus and those who followed him. There are safer ways to live than by being a Christian.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Jesus, Hate

  Shane Claiborne (2006). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical”, p.241, Harper Collins

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• My biggest faults is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. It's like I was raising chickens inside me. The chickens lay eggs and the eggs hatch into other chickens, which then lay eggs. Is this any way to live a life? What with all these faults I've got going, I have to wonder. Sure, I get by. But in the end, that's not the question, is it?

  Haruki Murakami

  Years, Eggs, Faults

  "A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 13, 1982.

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• "I liked the feeling of love," [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. "I wish we still had that," he whispered. "Of course," he added quickly, "I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be organized the way we are now. I can see that it was a dangerous way to live." [...] "Still," he said slowly, almost to himself, "I did like the light they made. And the warmth."

  Lois Lowry

  Wall, Light, Feelings

  "The Giver". Book by Lois Lowry, 1993.

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• Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].

  Alan Lightman

  Past, Men, Cost

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• I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.

  Henry James

  Life, Half, Feels

  Henry James (1984). “Letters”, Belknap Press

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• Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.

  Lauren Oliver

  Time, Forever, Watches

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• Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there can be no one place to be. There can be no one way to be, no one way to practice, no one way to learn, no one way to love, no one way to grow or to heal, no one way to live, no one way to feel, no one thing to know or be known. The particulars count.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Animal, Unique

  "Wherever You Go, There You Are". Book by Jon Kabat-Zinn, 1994.

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• The most effective way to live is as a warrior. A warrior may worry and think before making any decision, but once he makes it, he goes his way, free from worries or thoughts; there will be a million other decisions still awaiting him. That's the warrior's way.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Warrior

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• And I know you've spent a lifetime trying to protect me from the staggering pain of grief that comes from losing the things and the people and the places you allowed yourself to care about--but guess what, Jennika--that's no way to live. As much as it hurts to lose something you love, there's much greater joy in getting to experience it for as long as it lasts.

  Alyson Noel

  Hurt, Pain, Grief

  Alyson Noel (2012). “Fated”, p.347, Pan Macmillan

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• If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live.

  J. K. Rowling

  Forever, Stubborn, Body

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