Live Quotes

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. God will see that you do want society.

Henry David Thoreau

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.

Terence, Adelphoe

Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living.

Emad Hasan

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

Cecil B. DeMille

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

Margaret Mille

You are the most beautiful girl that has ever lived, and it is worth dying to have kissed you.

Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

William Penn

In order to write about life, first you must live it!

Ernest Hemingway

Life is not a laughing matter, but can you imagine having to live without laughing.

Leonid Sukhorukov

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone? s shadow. If I fail, if I succeed, at least I? ll live as I believe.

Whitney Houston, The Greatest Love Of All

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.

Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

Flora Whittemore

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Socrates

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.

Bessie A. Stanley

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

Boutros Boutros - Ghali

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

George Smith Patton, Jr.

It is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep.

Tibetan Prove

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

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Alfred A. Montapert

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

How nice - - To feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse - Five

Live life to the fullest.

Ernest Hemingway

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

Oscar Wilde

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.

Joesph Heller, Catch - 22

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Plato

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

Willa Cather, O Pioneers! (1913)

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

Clarence Darrow

The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind - - But one cannot eternally live in a cradle.

Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Malcolm S. Forbes