Live Quotes

I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves.

Alexander Humboldt

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Live well. It is the greatest revenge.

The Talmud

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

Seneca, Epistles

I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American.

Daniel Webste

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

Latin Prove

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

Plato

Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat.

Socrates

To live is well, but to live well is bette.

Russian prove

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

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

Eric Hoffe

It is not enough to show people how to live better there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Marya Mannes

The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Wayne W Dye

If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.

Philip Sheridan

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

Martina Navratilova

May you live every day of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.

Mary Ann Brussat

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Foster C. McClellan

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 secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

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)

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

Mark Twain

What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger - Fraught ascent toward salvation.

Nikos Kazantzakis

The Terminator Come with me if you want to live.

Terminator 2 Judgment Day

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

Judy Garland

If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.

Upham

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Anthony Robbins

Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.

Barbara Garrison

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile.

Unknown

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

Homer, The Iliad

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Neil Postman

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

Ernest Hemingway

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, They think of you.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

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

Rainer Maria Rilke