Live Quotes

The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

William Stekel

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Dame Rose Macaulay

Be patient enough to live one day at a time, letting yesterday go and leaving tomorrow until it arrives.

Unknown

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

S. I. Hayakawa

A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.

Yiddish Prove

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

Jeff Marde

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 10 - 30 - 03

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

Unknown

Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the eternal. The giant weed of evil cannot flower there this blot upon existence is wiped out by the very atmosphere of eternal thought.

H Hahn Blavatsky

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

Brooks Atkinson

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields

Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people.

Thomas Davidson

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - But it is terrible when one has to live it.

Jean Anouilh

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

Emiliano Zapata

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

Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Maria Mitchell

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Sir Thomas Brown

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Richard Bach

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

Ursula K. LeGuin

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

George Bernard Shaw

Live the questions.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

Sir Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Building, 1623

People don? t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Chuck Palahniuk

The neurotic and the artist - Since both live out the unconscious of the race - Reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.

Rollo May

Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn.

Kalidasa

You live, you learn You love, you learn You cry, you learn You lose, you learn You bleed, you learn You scream, you learn.

Alanis Morissette

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates, from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

J. K. Rowling

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Kahlil Gibran

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.

Frank Crane

Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

William Dement, Forbes Magazine, April 6, 1998

Life is divided into three terms - That which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.

William Wordsworth

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Publilius Syrus