Living may refer to:
- Life, a condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms
- a living species is one that is not extinct
- Personal life, the course of an individual human's life
- Living wage, refers to the minimum hourly wage necessary for a person to achieve some specific standard of living
- Living or Benefice, in canon law, a position in a church that has attached to it a source of income
Famous quotes containing the word living:
“Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumism is a virus which spreads through the body politic. As other “isms,” it breeds disorder and demagoguery and hate.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)
“Idleness [is] only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others’ expense.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)