#living

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer. ↗

— John Green

#cancer #creatures #easy #either #else

It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#black #black and white #create #doing #fancy

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100. ↗

— William Greider

#chance #children #living #today

When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy. ↗

— Ruud Gullit

#boy #easy #father #first #generation

There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me. ↗

— Lusia Strus

#comfortable #go #grocery #grocery shopping #having

A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#cell #energy #functions #living #maintenance

I will revive the legend of the economic miracle, making the country a place where people have no worry about living and young people merrily go to work. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#country #economic #go #i #legend

My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#business #company #dollar #due #home

One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is to come, which may or may not happen, then you will only be wasting precious days you will wish in the future you could have cherished a bit longer. ↗

— R.J. Gonzales

#living-life-to-the-fullest #taking-things-slwo #life

Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#because #city #dense #different #especially