passive living Quotes

Automatically thinking ‘everything that happens is God’s will’ is a lazy way to live. We live in a war. Jesus wasn’t fighting the Father’s will when He raised the dead.

We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.

I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

It seems to me you can be awfully happy in this life if you stand aside and watch and mind your own business, and let other people do as they like about damaging themselves and one another. You go on kidding yourself that you're impartial and tolerant and all that, then all of a sudden you realize you're dead, and you've never been alive at all.

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

It is so easy to exist instead of live.

Because our lives are cowardly and sly, Because we do not dare to take or give, Because we scowl and pass each other by, We do not live; we do not dare to live.

Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.

The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.

He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is . . . a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being-an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner-life is a slave of his surroundings as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.