Live Quotes
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.Rabbi Abraham Heschel
Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow.Theodore Epp
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.Aristotle
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.J. Michael Straczynski
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.George Bernard Shaw
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.Henri - Frederic Amiel
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.Euripides, Temenidae
Our lives are like a candle in the wind.Carl Sandburg
Become the change you want to see - Those are words I live by.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.James Branch Cabell
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - A place where history comes to life.Norman Cousins
I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.Muriel Rukeyse
Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.William Shakespeare
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.Eleanor Roosevelt
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
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.Baltasar Gracian
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers - On, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.Henry Ward Beeche
In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful, But the gratefulness that makes us happy.Unknown
When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.Dag Hammarskjold
I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one anothe.Theodore Hesburgh
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars.Gerald R. Ford
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
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.Jean - Paul Sartre
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.Martin Luther King, Jr.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.Eleanor Roosevelt
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.Robert F. Bennett
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.Mahatma Gandhi
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.Robert Orben
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
There is a destiny That makes us brothers None goes his way alone All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.Edwin Markham
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.George W. Bush, Gov. of Texas, state leading in executions
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.Robert Louis Stevenson
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.Saint Augustine
