Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valor and religion.
For want of valor is want of religious faith.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is always safety in valor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Living in the present moment requires discretion toward memory.
Without memory we'd have amnesia. What good would there be in that?
Offer discretion and discernment for our past
with a broad spectrum of forgiveness.
As for our present moment, delight.
And dedication to remain fully present to all the possibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers
of the society but the people themselves;
and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise
their control with a wholesome discretion,
the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
- Thomas Jefferson
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
Fear of death ... That's funny. I have that too.
My dog has it. It's very common with living creatures.
- the movie Anything Else (2003)
Some husbands are living proof that a woman can take a joke.
- Anonymous
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
Science is a wonderful thing
if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
- Albert Einstein
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet
who tell time and think they have to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
Any idiot can face a crisis.
It's the day-to-day living that wears you out.
- Anton Chekhov
Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I cannot persuade myself that a
beneficent and omnipotent God
would have designedly created parasitic wasps
with the express intention of their feeding
within the living bodies of caterpillars.
- Charles Darwin
Dreams pass into the reality of action.
From the actions stems the dream again;
and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The Paradox Of Living In The Moment is -
How To Be Happy Today AND Prepare For Tomorrow
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Recognize that "suffering is optional," and develop daily habits
that support living a joyful and productive life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute
with love, grace, and gratitude.
- Denis Waitley
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hell is living with someone who complains, whines, and argues.
- Anonymous
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
My life is for living, not for worry or doubt,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
The Divine Plan is one of Freedom.
The inherent nature of man is ever seeking
to express itself in terms of freedom,
because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.
- Ernest Holmes
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most central ingredient in the recipe
for living Simply An Inspired Life
is to Make Joyful CHOICES.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is born a genius,
but the process of living de-geniuses them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes
the greater part of his life getting his living.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
- Steve Jobs
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
A consistent state of Serenity and Compassion
is living an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Get busy living or get busy dying.
- Stephen King
The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day,
the benefits of globalization never come to you.
- Jimmy Carter
I postpone death by living, by suffering,
by error, by risking, by giving, by loving.
- Anais Nin
I serve others by living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
From what we get, we can make a living:
what we give, however makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe
Do not mourn the dead, but comfort the living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature and its beauty.
- Albert Einstein
I've chosen my life - now I want to start living it.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
An individual has not started living
until he can rise above the narrow confines
of his individualistic concerns
to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root,
can only attain its full breadth and depth
if it embraces all living creatures
and does not limit itself to mankind.
- Albert Schweitzer
Compassion is the universal standard of moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
- Thomas Jefferson
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anais Nin
Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.
What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
- Henry David Thoreau
Rather than worrying about the continuous stream of potential threats,
let us give thanks for our blessing of living in the eye-of-the-storm -
our protected refuge from the terrors
of fearsome dangers just outside our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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