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Living
«Utter happiness is a fallacy. The best most of us can hope for is that occasional span of time which occurs at irregular lengths and intervals throughout our lives wherein for an all too ephemeral period, nothing in particular sucks about living.»
«To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
| About:
Action,
Living
| Keywords:
breathe, faculties, organs, parts, senses, sense organs
«To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.»
«To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go»
Author: Mary Oliver
| About:
Living,
Love
| Keywords:
able, abler, ablest, against, against time, boned, bones, comes, depends, go, go to, hold, in this, In this World, knowing, let, let it go, let me know, live, live in, mortal, must, on it, own, The Time, things, this, three, threes, time, Time Life, To do, To Live, when the time comes
«Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.»
Author: William Saroyan
(Writer)
| About:
Anger,
Death and dying,
Laughter,
Living
| Keywords:
alive, alive with, angry, As Good as Dead, as much as possible, dead, good and, hell, like hell, much as, soon, soon enough, wholly
«To live is to feel oneself lost»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
| About:
Living
«To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Living,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
hesitation, paralyzed