Live Quotes

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.

Thomas Crum

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.

Ken Keyes Jr., Handbook of Higher Consciousness

I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake, 1997

O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.

Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156 - 160.

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jealousy - That dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

Havelock Ellis

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

Andre Gide

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.

Latin Prove

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffe

Our lives improve only when we take chances - And the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

Annie Besant

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.

P. T. Forsyth

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Marian Wright Edelman

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - You win some and you lose some.

Ken Keyes

When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

Saint Ambrose, Taylo

What kind of man would live a life without daring Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure Is there a better way to die.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

Our children change us? whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.

Blaise Pascal

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Helen Kelle

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Henry Van Dyke

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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Groucho Marx

It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Dolores Ibarruri, September 3, 1936

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I can live two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

Norman Maclean

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.

Henry David Thoreau

Live simply that others might simply live.

Elizabeth Seaton

We cannot be sure that we have something to live for unless we are ready to die for it.

Eric Hoffe