#living

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. ↗

— Ross Perot

#action #author #being #contemplation #good

How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#box #end #family #get #glass

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#ancient greeks #course #either #examined #fascinating

If it happens, it happens... We can't stop living. ↗

— Walter Reed

#living #stop

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#goes #here #i #i do #interaction

We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#about #around #blow #crippling #deformity

It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong. ↗

— Donna Rice

#been #down #exploit #hard #i

I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony. ↗

— Leni Riefenstahl

#beautiful #fascinated #harmony #healthy #i

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living? ↗

— James Rouse

#capacity #free #knowledge #lived #living

Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#am #any #aware #course #deeply