#Living

"Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living."

"Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world."

"It is only normal that people count losses with their minds, and ignore to count blessings with the graciousness of their hearts."

"I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know,whoever I was, I wasalive for a little while."

"I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am going to write fire until it comes out of my ears, my eyes, my noseholes--everywhere. Until it's every breath I breathe. I'm going to go out like a fucking meteor!"

"I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance."

"This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key."

"Sometimes it just feels really really wonderful to be alive."

"It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living."

"The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly."

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."

"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."

"It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old."

"Live to the point of tears."

"You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets."

"We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place."

"What makes us leave what we love best?What is it inside us that keeps erasing itselfWhen we need it most,That sends us into uncertainty for its own sakeAnd holds us flush there until we begin to love itAnd have to begin again?What is it within our own lives we decline to liveWhenever we find it, making our days unendurable,And nights almost visionless?I still don't know yet, but I do it."

"The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart."

"How dull it is to pause, to make an end,To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!As tho’ to breathe were life!"

"Some people think driving is speeding the car. Only to find out. Driving is not speeding the car but is being able to control the car."