#livin

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book. ↗

— Lois Wyse

#life #living-life-to-the-full #love #life

We are living in a world that is beyond controllability. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#living #world

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#moon

To illustrate how an individual can attain the goal of being submerged in physical reality while transforming it into holiness, we can use an analogy of a man who finds himself in a cold room. There are three ways that individual can maintain his body temperature: first, he can put on a warm coat; second, he can leave the room to go to a warmer environment; or third, he can light a fire. Similarly, if this individual finds himself in a "cold" environment, one which is detrimental to him, he can preserve his integrity through these three methods. First, he can put on a warm coat, which symbolizes strengthening himself inwardly so as not to be influenced by his surroundings. This however, is an incomplete victory, for if he were to relax his self-control he would capitulate. Second, he can leave the room, which implies separating himself from the negative influences surrounding him. Once again, this victory is only through removing himself from temptation and is, therefore, not permanent. He has not met the challenge by improving his surroundings. The third approach, lighting a fire, involves influencing the environment and raising it to a higher level. This is a complete triumph over one's surroundings for the dangers have not only been avoided, they have been entirely removed. ↗

— Chana Weisberg

#biblical-women #judaism #higher-living

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#big #efforts #forget #god #i

I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#full-time #horrible #i #i think #like

There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#boring #go #living #office #people

Work is making a living out of being bored. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#bored #living #making #making a living #out

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#doctor #had #head #heard #him

Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#away #choose #elevated #every #every time