#iving

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#life-and-living #death

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

#being #consists #follows #language #less

And what cats have to tell on each return from hell is this: that dying is what the living do, that dying is what the loving do, and that dead dogs are those who do not know that dying is what, to live, each has to do. ↗

— Alastair Reid

#curiosity #death #dogs #dying #life

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#egypt #living #subordinate #were

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#concerned #contribution #dead #egyptian #living

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#cut #flowers #giving #grow #ineffective

History never looks like history when you are living through it. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#like #living #looks #never #through

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#every #excellence #free #free man #goal

I don't believe in depriving yourself of things you want. ↗

— Jennie Garth

#depriving #i #things #want #you

Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#actually #before #character #down #expected