#living

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#apart #before #behind #double #everything

At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#dispute #family #got #grandfather #honor

I have a theory that as human beings get older, chemicals are released into the brain to prepare us for the end. Sort of like how the nurse lubes your ass up before the anus-cam. It makes the whole thing a lot easier to swallow. Easier, not enjoyable. ↗

— Kris D'Agostino

#death-and-dying #humor #life #life-and-living #realist

I'm into wellbeing, not because of social pressures to look a certain way, but because I'm interested in living a long, full and healthy life. ↗

— Kelly Brook

#certain #certain way #full #healthy #i

There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside. ↗

— Pat Brown

#killers #living #many #more #outside

Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel. ↗

— Harry Browne

#ever #feel #happiness #himself #his

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#any #go #going #i #i do

What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#living #perception #experience

We've gotten involved in cat rescue - we take them in and find homes for them. I've always loved cats. I saw how homeless cats were living out there. We take them in, put out flyers. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#cat #cats #find #flyers #gotten

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#brood #forever #get #living #loving