Live Quotes

If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Caleb Colton

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

Helen Kelle

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.

Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", 1951

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.

Socrates

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

Ellen Gilcrist

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleano

He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.

Michael Dorris

A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.

John Locke

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

Macneile Dixon

If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for - To bite when he feels like it On military preparedness.

Nikita Khrushchev

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

George Washington Carve

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Muriel Rukeyse

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

William Shakespeare

Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.

Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

Terry Josephson

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides

Vivere est cogitare. To think is to live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Henry David Thoreau

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Albert Einstein

Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Old Indian saying

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.

Albert Einstein

What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.

Ivan Pavlov

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Edward Dahlberg

There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy.

Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

Cristion Morgenstern

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

Norman Douglas

To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Emerson

Houses are built to live in, not to look on therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

Francis Bacon

Death is more universal than life everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

Eric Hoffe

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

Mark Twain

The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well doing.

Boerhaave

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - From Live Without Principle.

Henry David Thoreau