Live Quotes

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Woody Allen

It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3

We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.

John Claypool

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau

To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Denis Watley

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.

Carl Sandburg

Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

Ashley Montagu

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

Leo Tolstoy

the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.

Albert Schweitze

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Willa Cather, O Pioneers! (1913)

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berline.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

If you suffer, thank God! - - It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Elbert Hubbard

There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.

Lewis Black, "Black on Broadway" (2004)

The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

Kahlil Gibran

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Michael Landon

The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.

Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991

Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

Will Rogers

I still live.

Daniel Webster, last words, 24 October 1852.

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

The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.

Richard Clark

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Samuel Johnson

Write a wise saying and your name will live foreve.

Anonymous

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

Albert Einstein

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

John Wooden

Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.

General John Stark

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off.

Andrew Schneide

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

D. H. Lawrence

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat.

Socrates

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

Henry David Thoreau

We live in a rainbow of Chaos.

Paul Cezanne

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

Terry Josephson