The proper inference is, that there is a low kind of livingness in every atom of matter. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)
For my own part I think it will prove in the end more convenient if we say that there is a low kind of livingness in every atom of matter, and adopt Life eternal as no less inevitable a conclusion than matter eternal. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)
Independent of specifically missing the good things about my ex, I'm also aware that I'm going to miss the warmth, skin, pulse and general "livingness" that you feel from a lover. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In the opening to The Human Stain, author Philip Roth's narrator, Nathan Zuckerman, describes the summer of 1998, when "Bill Clinton's secret" - about Monica - "emerged in every last mortifying detail - every last lifelike detail, the livingness, like the mortification, exuded by the pungency of the specific data." ❋ Michael Takiff (2010)
Sometimes you succeed at yanking them accessing info from the ground or crack or difficult place but most times you merely break them in half and leave the living root where it was, thus not being able to extract this livingness from the ground so that it doesn't live again — or at least for a few months. ❋ Jeffrey S. Callico (2011)
I suppose it's nice to regulate and synchronize everyone's life with a clock, but it's sad when this kind of time becomes significant to the exclusion of the Timelessness that actually envelopes livingness. ❋ Unknown (2007)
His hard brain went soft, and he felt his livingness as never before. ❋ Attanasio, A. A. (1984)
Responsive movements being a test of life, we shall try to construct a scale with which the height of livingness may be measured. ❋ Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose (N/A)
And how scarifyingly he would laugh at me, if he knew what comic relics of old prudish reflexes are stirred up by the contact with his mere human livingness. ❋ Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1918)
Thus his personages have a body, and awaken sympathies which would hardly attach to purely allegorical figures; a charm of livingness invests the world he has created. ❋ Gertrude Hall Brownell (1912)
Its livingness is patent to our observation, at any rate from the point where we recognise it in the vegetable kingdom; but its intelligence and responsiveness are not, perhaps, at once so obvious. ❋ Unknown (1881)
This is the great secret of the livingness of Life, and it is called by many names and set forth under many symbols in various religions and philosophies, each of which has its value in proportion as it brings us nearer the realisation of this perfect wholeness. ❋ Unknown (1881)
Life itself is to be realised only by the conscious experience of its livingness in ourselves, and it is the endeavour to translate these experiences into terms which shall suggest ❋ Unknown (1881)
As we advance in this knowledge we know ourselves to be unlimited, and that, in the miniature world, whose centre we are, we ourselves are the very same overflowing of joyous livingness that the Great Life Spirit is in the ❋ Unknown (1881)
Thus our livingness consists simply in being ourselves, only more so; and in recognising this we get rid of a great burden of unnecessary straining and striving, and the place of the old _sturm und drang_ will be taken, not by inertia, but by a joyous activity which knows that it always has the requisite power to manifest itself in forms of good and beauty. ❋ Unknown (1881)
The livingness of Life consists in both concentration and externalisation: it is not the dead equilibrium of inertia, but the living equilibrium of a vital and rhythmic pulsation. ❋ Unknown (1881)
The Spirit is Life, hence its generic tendency must always be lifeward or to the increase of the livingness of every individual. ❋ Unknown (1881)
We know by personal experience that we realise our own livingness in two ways, by our power to act and our susceptibility to feel; and when we consider Spirit in the absolute we can only conceive of it as these two modes of livingness carried to infinity. ❋ Unknown (1881)
That is the living proof of the value of his opinion to himself, and no change in his opinions can be for the better that does not lead him to a greater recognition of the livingness of Divine Spirit in himself. ❋ Unknown (1881)
