We live in really tough times. Pressured at work and depressed at home, people seek to make sense of life. Practices of awareness strengthen the relationship between our bodies, mind and everything those around us. Mindful living is the secret to recognizing our weight challenges and inspiring us to regulate our life weight? 38 inspirational quotes about living on the best life excerpts.
1. “I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.” — Michelle Obama
2. “The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.” — Michelle Obama
3. “When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.” — Noam Chomsky
4. “I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.” — Bob Dylan
5. “When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.” — Noam Chomsky
6. “The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called ‘new morality’ is all right. They say we’re living in a new generation; let’s be relevant, let’s change God’s law. Let’s say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication’s all right under certain circumstances. If it’s ‘meaningful.’” — Billy Graham
7. “I don’t need to publish to make a living.” — J. K. Rowling
8. “People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.” — Bob Dylan
9. “Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.” — W. C. Fields
10. “Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.” — Martin Luther
11. “The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.” — W. C. Fields
12. “I used to worry a lot. I still worry a lot, but not about the things that I used to worry about because my younger self, I didn’t regret anything that I ever did… I was happy, and I was free, and I was living it up.” — Cardi B
13. “You can’t understand America without understanding the Puritans. In many ways, we’re still living out their legacy in ways that are good and bad.” — Pete Buttigieg
14. “Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought – asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. ” — William Butler Yeats
15. “I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.” — Susan B. Anthony
16. “When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, ‘Don’t get comfortable, because we may not be here long.’” — LeBron James
17. “Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.” — Harriet Tubman
18. “Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they’ll just have to learn how to be babies longer.” — Andy Warhol
19. “Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.” — Karl Marx
20. “He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
21. “Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being valued, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.” — Karl Marx
22. “Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.” — Andy Warhol
23. “In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.” — Karl Marx
24. “History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.” — Karl Marx
25. “We can’t leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world’s people while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.” — Jane Goodall
26. “It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principal evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.” — Jane Goodall
27. “I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching, and writing. But in ’86 I went to a conference and realized the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.” — Jane Goodall
28. “I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father’s knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.” — St. Jerome
29. “I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.” — Jane Goodall
30. “Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.” — Francis Bacon
31. “As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.” — Francis Bacon
32. “Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
33. “I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.” — Bertrand Russell
34. “Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
35. “It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.” — Bertrand Russell
36. “There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. ‘The Saturday Evening Post’ and ‘Collier’s’ both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now, of course, information technology… the new way of killing time.” — Tom Wolfe
37. “We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.” — Robert Kennedy
38. “All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.” — W. E. B. Du Bois
