#livin

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#ourselves #stories #telling

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation. ↗

— Nazim Hikmet

#beyond #example #for example #great #i

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#faith #life #living #makes #something

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn’t. (356) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#aging-well #growing-older #life #living-longer #age

Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#living #living-on #sorrow #waiting #age

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#escape #go #involved #living #must

Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us. ↗

— David Platt

#christianity #evangelism #faith #jesus-christ #dreams

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#centuries #century #changes #conception #education

Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young man - all present still, preserved like fossils on superimposed layers, and, like fossils, dead. Their message to this live dying creature is: Look at us - we have died - what is there to be afraid of? It answers them: But that happened so gradually, so easily. I'm afraid of being rushed. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#dying #face #living #mirror #age

Even in the darkest clouds There are specks of joy Out of the darkness Comes light Just as day Always follows night ↗

— Karen Hackel

#living #new-age #suffering #age