#living

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. ↗

— James Cameron

#bicycles #brooding #civil #civil servants #cost

The world is a living image of God. ↗

— Tommaso Campanella

#image #living #world

From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#economic #economic power #emerged #increasingly #into

You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living! ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#got #great #great way #hobby #i

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#dead #done #hating #hatred #life

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#every #hours #living #provides #relief

Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#attic #being #being content #content #contented

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India. ↗

— Julie Christie

#child #even #family #i #india

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#brightly #cheer #coloured #diet #discarded

In the school of success, information is the greatest asset. The more you read, the more you discover, the more you discover, the more you recover and the better your life become. ↗

— Stella Oladiran

#family #life #love #motivational #successful-living