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Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living. -- Juvenal
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Remind yourself of your reasons for living. You have a future worth enduring for, and you deserve to have a renewed sense of purpose and pleasure in your life. -- Karen Katafiasz
Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread". -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves. -- Simone de Beauvoir
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
Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them. -- Sydney J. Harris
Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure. -- Giacomo Leopardi
I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer, and pizza are all good enough reasons for living. But living an honest life - for that you need the truth. -- Ricky Gervais
Cricket was my reason for living. -- Harold Larwood
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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