#live

Read in order to live. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#order #read

Normally, to decide whether we are alive we do not look outside of ourselves to find out if we are nourishing and generating life. We look into ourselves to find out how strong and healthy and vital we are. But the notion of the seed that dies demands an extraordinary redirection of the sense of life. Now to know if anyone is alive, we do not look at them; look beyond them to the mode of their expenditures and the life that they nourish and preserve beyond themselves. ↗

— Arthur C. McGill

#life #death

It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#dealing #easy #feed #forget #into

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#live #play #you

My job is to be fit and I'm really blessed that I get to go and work out and live a really healthy lifestyle. ↗

— Kerri Walsh

#fit #get #go #healthy #healthy lifestyle

I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#become #christian #continued #had #hollywood

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#expense #flatterers #listen #live #them

When you cease to dream you cease to live. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#cease #dream #live #you

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#hundred #live #pray #tomorrow #were

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#berkeley #british #four #italian #live