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Cricket was my reason for living. -- Harold Larwood
If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat. -- Garth Brooks
Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work. -- Richard Dean Anderson
Discover the joy of giving and you will discover the reason for living. -- Mark Victor Hansen
Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living. -- Toni Cade Bambara
DÃ¼rer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this. -- Marianne Moore
...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. -- William Faulkner
What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying. -- Albert Camus
Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled. -- John Green
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. -- George Bernard Shaw
The closer you get to your dream, the more your personal legend becomes your real reason for living. -- Paulo Coelho
You don't decide what your purpose is in life you discover it. Your purpose is your reason for living. -- Bob Proctor
Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living. -- Jo Nesbo
Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living. -- Gao Xingjian
The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return. -- Paulo Coelho
The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you. -- Brian Tracy
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It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact. -- Marcel Duchamp
When you find your reason for living, hold onto it. Never let it go. Even if it means burning other bridges along the way. -- Abbi Glines
So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living. -- Paulo Coelho
I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. -- William Faulkner
If you keep in mind that love and love alone is the reason for living, it will calm your heart and free you from your worries. -- Harold Klemp
Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living. -- Vanna Bonta
I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living. -- Antonin Artaud
If you just take it down to bare facts, the reason for living is the reason you make it. I mean the brain was made to create. -- Sharon Tate
I've got a reason for living. When I wake up, there are individuals who are counting on me to be my best and live my maximum life. -- Eric Thomas
Any wrong decision you have ever made will become unimportant when your attention has shifted from it to a creative reason for living right here and now. -- Raymond Charles Barker
I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living. -- Ray Bradbury
The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living. -- Chris Hedges
I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living. -- Frida Kahlo
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I don't have time' is the single most frequently given reason for living fractional, perpetually indentured lives, for not living fully or freely. Because time is life, when we say we don't have enough time, we are admitting that we don't have enough life. -- Sonia Johnson
Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state. -- Dale T. Mortensen
If you're a leader, your whole reason for living is to help human beings develop - to really develop people and make work a place that's energetic and exciting and a growth opportunity, whether you're running a Housekeeping Department or Google. I mean, this is not rocket science. -- Tom Peters
We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for. We are machines for propagating DNA, and the propagation of DNA is a self-sustaining process. It is every living object's sole reason for living. -- Richard Dawkins
To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living. -- Albert Camus
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times. -- Jaclyn Smith
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction. -- Audre Lorde
Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody. -- Steve Wynn
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history. And now at my age I believe that with almost an increasing certainty. -- Anne Graham Lotz
For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature. -- Octavio Paz
One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities! -- Jack Palance
I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so. -- Alexis Korner
There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism. -- Damon Lindelof
I felt very special in Paris, more special than I felt in London. I love London for different reasons. I've always been close to London, being English. But somehow, there's something special about living as an Englishwoman in Paris. -- Charlotte Rampling
Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers. -- Sandra Bullock
I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it. -- J. Michael Straczynski
My father certainly believed that one could make a living outside of an office, as he did. And that if I didn't want to work for other people, there wasn't any reason why I had to. He conveyed that very strongly to my sister and I - that smart people can make their own livings. -- Amy Bloom
I don't know about living on an automatic pilot, but I've had times where I've decided to just test myself and my mettle, and for no good reason other than it's what life is. Even before I was acting, I had, like, one day in high school I decided to just show them my pajamas, just for no good reason. -- Will Ferrell
In the West, we look at art through life. Well, that's one way of living. In the Orient they look at life through art. They even drink their tea without sugar, for the same reason that they don't like a lot of frilly decorations on a painting. I can't stand butter on my bread for the same reason. I'm allergic to goo and rococo. -- Paul Rand
There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design. -- Isaac Mizrahi
A goldfish is reason enough for living, if someone needs a reason. -- Mason Cooley
I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery. -- James Dean
There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people. -- Cesar Chavez
Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident -- Jean-Paul Sartre
For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person. -- Vine Deloria Jr.
Grace is a system of living whereby God blesses us because we are in Jesus Christ, and for no other reason at all. -- Steve McVey
Your future depends of the choices you make today. The future for this reason can be predicted by your day to day living. -- Israelmore Ayivor
I used to fear living a life untouched by God, but now, for some reason I've gone back to being afraid of cement mixers. -- Dana Gould
The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living. -- Martha Graham
I don't make music for any other reason than me enjoying music, and I am also glad that I am able to make a living of this. -- Varg Vikernes
He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya. -- Gautama Buddha
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality. -- FÃ©lix J. Palma

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