#livin

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#artists #brain #dead #experience #fact

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#consistently #creature #day #earth #ever

What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#could #country #get #getting #half

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#dead #desire #friends #living #made

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#believe #best #come #enough #foolish

... he preferred being stimulated to being bored. ↗

— Ruth Harris

#decades #life-and-living #life

It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler. ↗

— Christine Keeler

#christine #living #me #misery

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#life

As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a limited world. When you take a conscious part in life and its multitudes of choices, you won't let life happen to you - you will make life happen for you. ↗

— James Van Praagh

#consciousness #exist #ghosts #happen #human-experience

Don't live life like it's another day, but live life like it's your last day. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#life