#live

It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive. ↗

— Victoria Principal

#being #easy #enjoying #forget #gift

It's a very weird thing. When you see your house naked, you feel very protective of it and of the people who lived here before. ↗

— Emily Procter

#feel #here #house #lived #naked

If you live in a small space, you should do the things that make it feel luxurious. ↗

— Emily Procter

#live #luxurious #make #should #small

To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living. ↗

— Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

#living #shared #worthy

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone? ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#alone #bed #chaste #god #goddess

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#apart #body #chained #compelled #creature

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#childhood #days #favorite #fully #lived

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#could #expunge #gladly #him #his

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#does #earth #ground #life #live

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#aspiration #greatest #live #tropics