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Quotes To Live By (page 31)

The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that... Elizabeth Gilbert
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a..."
It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person Kim Stanley Robinson
time having transformed his own body into a storehouse for man-made contraptions designed to fend off collapse... there was only our bodies, born to live and die on terms decided by the bodies that had lived and died before us. Philip Roth
Thomas Merton quote: "A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops..."
A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live. Thomas Merton
L. M. Montgomery quote: "there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The..."
there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own. L. M. Montgomery
The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live. Alain de Botton
Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune's control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Epictetus quote: "It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and..."
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance Epictetus
when a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists. Paul Auster
Aristophanes quote: "Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to..."
Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em. Aristophanes
It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any. Wallace Stegner
Theodore Roosevelt quote: "This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in..."
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. Theodore Roosevelt
The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security. On the other hand, the more we are forced to admit that we actually live in the real world, the more we feel ignorant, uncertain, and insecure about everything. Alan Watts
I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon. Arthur Golden
Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won’t dislike you. Or, you can f**king live. Gerard Way

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