Live Quotes

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.

Charles Schaefe

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Katherine Mansfield

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Johann von Goethe

Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

George Eliot, The Mill On The Floss, Ch 9

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly.

George Gordon Byron

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

Socrates

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.

Albert Einstein

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

Dame Rose Macaulay

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Mae West

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to - Day his own He who, secure within, can say, To - Morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

John Dryden

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self - Discipline with all of them came first.

Harry S Truman

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

To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well.

Author Unknown

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.

James Baldwin

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.

Gerald W. Johnston

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

Samuel Johnson

God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

Live simply, so that all may simply live.

St, Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774 - 1821) Foundress of the Sisters of Charity, USA, Speech given in the Diocese of Baltimore

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

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Horace Mann

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

Live to learn... forget... and learn again.

Brian

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is merely to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.

Leo Rosten

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.

Moroccan Prove

Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 5 scene 1

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

John Steinbeck

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Thomas Jefferson

Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid - 1980s, meaning there was about a 25 - Year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.

Mark Leepe

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Woodrow Wilson

You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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

Will Rogers

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Robert Southey