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We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops. – Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness (1971)	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. "It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue. – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. – George Santayana	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not. – Jerry Gellis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. – Denis Waitley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self-made sepulcher of a living man. – Francis Quarles	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We find greatest joy, not in getting, but expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things, but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself. – R. J. Baughan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To live is to function. That is all there is in living. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. – Soren Kierkegaard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. – George Santayana	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy. – Tieck	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. – Voltaire	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The average person living to age 70 has 613,000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living. – Yiddish Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first. – Robert J. McKain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men. – Ignazio Silone	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities. – Henry Ward Beecher	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country. – Larry Kramer	added by anonymous 15 years ago
No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level--I mean the wages of decent living. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt	added by anonymous 15 years ago
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living. – Doug Larson	added by anonymous 15 years ago
I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul. – Douglas MacArthur	added by anonymous 15 years ago

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