practical living Quotes

Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness of the higher values of life and would be tempted to bring them down into practical life and live them.

Your home should make your life easier.

I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.

The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.

I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.

The Lordship of Jesus Christ is not quite forgotten among Christians, but it has been relegated to the hymnal where all responsibility toward it may be comfortably discharged in a glow of religious emotion. Or if it is taught as a theory in the classroom it is rarely applied to practical living. The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute final authority over the whole church and over its members in every detail of their lives is simply not now accepted as true by the rank and file of evangelical Christians.

The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.

You can stay in therapy your whole life, but you've got to live life and not talk about life.

Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

Be useful where thou livest.

It's the living, the eating, the sleeping that everyone needs. Ideas don't matter so much after all. My three best friends are Catholic. I can't see their beliefs, but I can see the things they love to do on earth. When you come right down to it, I do believe in the freedom of the individual.

I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs and public-houses; of miners half naked in drawers the forthright, perfectly unassuming, and without end in view except dinner, love, money and getting along tolerably; that which is without great hopes, ideals, or anything of that kind; what is unassuming except to make a tolerably, good job of it. I like all that.

If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.

I don't read blogs. I'm living the life they're writing about. So why read about it?

It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.

It is now, and in this world, that we must live.

To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

You can't live your life in a state of profundity, because you're never going to get anything done, and you're just profound.

Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.