#livin

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. ↗

— Davy Crockett

#balance #dead #injustice #into #lead

…In this way that he sought to control the very passage of his life, deftly and without forethought, yet precisely and with enormous care. Part of it was to allow what was enormous, what was profound, without limiting it. ↗

— Jesse Ball

#living #mindfulness #life

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. ↗

— Alexander Jackson Davis

#american #any #architect #buildings #designed

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own. ↗

— Les Dawson

#furniture #i #living #my own #own

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance. ↗

— Richard Dreyfuss

#complete #going #i #ignorance #living

I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music. ↗

— George Duke

#band #could #doing #grew #had

On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France. ↗

— John Dyer

#content #cornwall #discovered #explore #france

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living. ↗

— Fernando Flores

#bigger #future #identity #living #present

The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#does #interesting #junction #know #last

Born in a cellar... and living in a garret. ↗

— Samuel Foote

#cellar #living