Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.
I cook for a living; I'm not a scheduler.
It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life.
Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds.
But a living is not a life.
The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.
Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly. There is no single more powerful -or more simple- daily practice to further your health and well being than breathwork.
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.
Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree beside the ladder: never before had he been so suddenly and so keenly aware of the feel and texture of a tree's skin and of the life within it. He felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself.
It is not about knowing, but about living.
The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.
I always say writing is like dreaming, shooting is like living, and editing is like murder, because you take all these gifts that actors give you, and you cut them.
Basically the job of a magician is to do impossible things that challenge the nature of the universe. And I think some magicians buy into that perception a little too much. These days that turns people off a little bit. I'm not a wizard. I don't have special powers. If I did, I would not be doing magic for a living!
Any time you're making a living at what you love to do, you're blessed.
As for me: I loyally remained right where I was, remembering the very first I had ever seen the boy and then just now, the very last time-and all the times in between. The deep aching grief I knew I would feel would come soon enough, but at that moment mostly what I felt was peace, secure in the knowledge that by living my life the way I had, everything had come down to this moment. I had fulfilled my purpose.
Living without protecting what needs to be protected is the same as death.
Taking time out each day to relax and renew is essential to living well.