It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?
All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.
To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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?
It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill.
There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.
This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.
I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.