Live Quotes

The proper function of man is to live - Not to exist.

Jack London

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

Ralph Emerson

I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

Samuel Johnson

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

This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.

Robert

Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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.

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

Frank Herbert, Dune

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

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

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Be patient enough to live one day at a time, letting yesterday go and leaving tomorrow until it arrives.

Unknown

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.

Stephen Hawking

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Albert Camus

We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.

George W. Bush, September 7, 2003

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

George Eliot, Romola, 1863

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.

Woodrow Wilson

It is better to die standing on your feet, than live the rest of your life on your knees.

Emiliano Zapata

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Thomas Jefferson

Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Conte Vittorio Alfieri

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - - But Congress can.

Cullen Hightowe

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Charles Bukowski, From "Betting on the Muse".

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

Home

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Jean - Paul Sartre

If you ask me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Emile Zola

Live your own life, for you will die your own death.

Latin Prove

This is our purpose to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Oswald Spengle

The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant.

Dorothea Brande

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Aldous Huxley

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to - Day his own: He who, secure within, can say, To - Morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

John Dryden

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

Ashley Smith

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

D. H. Lawrence

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Howard Thurman

What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger - Fraught ascent toward salvation.

Nikos Kazantzakis

I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.

Fitzgerald

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Nancy Reagan