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:
“We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
“The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)
“Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or even the Elizabethan men. But what is that to the purpose? A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)