#living

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#beasts #does #every #give #his

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. ↗

— Channing Pollock

#conceit #decent #desire #earn #far

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it. ↗

— John Pomfret

#because #become #came #desire #i

I get to do interesting roles and make a living. ↗

— Aidan Quinn

#i #interesting #living #make #roles

My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths. ↗

— Katie Price

#get #go #i #interview #into

[...] Essence simply enjoys and commits attention and love to whatever is. In fact, committing attention to anything that is present results in enjoyment. The ego enjoys so little because it commits attention to what isn't present and to what it doesn't have, and suffers over that, instead of committing attention to whatever is. It loves its fantasies, dreams, and desires more than it loves reality. ↗

— Gina Lake

#essence #living-now #dreams

If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#catholic #catholic church #church #hierarchy #living

Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#america #being #between #born #hearing

It's very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven't got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#along #comes #day #eat #every

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#am #does #grateful #i #i am