Live Quotes
Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - There is nothing small about it.Florence Nightingale
I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks.La Rochefoucauld
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
Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.Bruce Lee
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
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.Archibald MacLeish
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do??Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.Mark Twain
Forget the past and live the present hour.Sarah Knowles Bolton
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.Erik H. Erikson
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.Willa Cather, O Pioneers! (1913)
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.Steve Prefontaine
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.Burk Hudson
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.Alfred North Whitehead
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.Immanuel Hermass von Fichte
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly... spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.Susan Taylo
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.Albert Einstein
Blade You better wake up. The world you live in is nothing but a sugarcoated topping There is another world beneath it. And if you want to survive it you better learn how to PULL THE TRIGGER.Blade
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - In order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.Ellen Goodman
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
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.Charles Caleb Colton
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.Rachel Carson
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.Edward Kennedy
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.Samuel Butle
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.Lady Bird Johnson
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.Thomas Alva Edison
How nice - - To feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse - Five
To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.Ralph Waldo Emerson
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.Leo Tolstoy
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.Henry David Thoreau
If we live, we live if we die, we die if we suffer, we suffer if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.Alan B. Watts
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.Miguel de Unamuno
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.Margaret Cho, weblog, 10 - 30 - 03
