#iving

.....no man should be without those moments of reality, those experiences that tell him that he is only a mortal and not a god ↗

— Belinda McBride

#experience

The important thing is to be able to live in a place or a situation where you must use your sixth sense all the time. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#sixth-sense #life

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life

It's easy to win. Anybody can win. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#life-and-living #loser #winning #life

Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#passion #sensuality #words #love

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#gift #grief #loss #love #passion

Say yes we live uncertainty And disappointments have to be And everyday we might be facing more And yes we live in desperate times But fading words and shaking rhymes There’s only one thing here worth hoping for With Lucifer beneath you and God above If either one of them asks you what your living of Say love, say for me love ↗

— The Avett Brothers

#love #love

It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. (361) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#dying #humility #humor #living #mindfulness

I want my life to be about LIVING, not leaving --which is why I'm LEAVING nothing behind. ↗

— Shelley K Wall

#living #living-life-to-the-fullest #humor

When we black people commit ourselves to living simply as a political action, as a way of breaking the stress caused by unrelenting hedonistic desire for material objects that are not needed for survival, or essential to well-being, we will not be talking about ebonics. We will be out in the streets demanding that the public schools have enough teachers so that all kids, cross color, can read and write in standard English and in Spanish too. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#priorities #simple-living #spanish