Live Quotes

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Marcus Aurelius

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

Edward Dahlberg

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Traditional Indian Saying

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

Benjamin Franklin

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Rita Mae Brown

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

George Orwell

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Herman Melville

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthu

If you choose not to live in a cluster, uh, dorm...

Jim Zelenka

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick - And - Jane books and the first word you learned - - The biggest word of all - - Look.

Robert Fulghum

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Oscar Wilde

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.

James Joyce

Live truth instead of professing it.

Elbert Hubbard

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard, "Winning Words" Compiled by Allen Klein Portland House, 1998

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

F. Forrester Church

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

The 14th. Dalai Lama

I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

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 to learn... forget... and learn again.

Brian

A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H. L. Mencken

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

Horace, Satires

It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self - Centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self - Reliance

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963

It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it.... This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.

Clarence Jordan

What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway?

David Merritt, a. k. a. THE RED SHARK

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

Brooks Atkinson

But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead? a dead parent, for example? can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.

Jacques Derrida, Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994

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

Henry David Thoreau

If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.

I. F. Stone

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - - Live for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, They think of you.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

Henry David Thoreau

I have lived some thirty - Odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Henry David Thoreau