Live Quotes

Make the most of your regrets.... To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

Henry David Thoreau

While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.

William Shakespeare

We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.

Fairfield Osborne

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

Lewis Thomas

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.

Anon.

I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.

Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Thomas Jefferson, 1801

I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - Their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives.

John Keats, Letter to James Rice, Feb 1820

A dreamer lives for eternity.

Anonymous

Resolve to live as with all your might while you do live, and as you shall wish you had done ten thousand years hence.

Johathan Edwards

Live simply that others may simply live.

Mahatma Gandhi

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.

George Gordon Byron

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

Harry S Truman, August 8, 1950

He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.

Thomas Fulle

Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.

Seneca

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.

James Baldwin

When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.

Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value What is my worth Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

Oprah Winfrey

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Euripides, Temenidae

Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.

Burk Hudson

Life is short; live it up.

Khrushchev

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

Socrates

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

Helen Kelle

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.

Newell Dwight Hillis

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.

Alexander Pope, "Ode to Solitude".

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Morris Adle

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.

Kenneth Hildebrand

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.

Sri Madhava

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.

Henry Louis Mencken

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Betty Friedan

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Socrates

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.

Moroccan Prove

Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment - - This day - - Is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day - - Each moment of this day - - A heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.

Dan Custe