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
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.Israel Zangwill
It may be that we have all lived before and died, and this is hell.A. L. Prusick
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
We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.Margaret Young
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.Phillips Brooks
We live in a world where lemonade is made from aritificial flavoring and furniture polish is made from real lemons.Alfred E. Neuman, The Half - Wit and Wisdom of Alfred E. Neuman (MAD magazine)
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.Leo Tolstoy
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?Cesare Pavese
Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person.Jason Hurst
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.Buddha
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.Rachel Carson
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.Elizabeth Bowen
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.Sir James Barrie
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.Daniel Webste
The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.Philo Judaeus
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.Albert Schweitze
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!Friedrich Nietzsche
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.Cicero
One must desire something to be alive.Margaret Deland, O Magazine, September 2002
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.Henry Van Dyke
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.Albert Camus
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air?Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who won? t die for something is not fit to live.Martin Luther King Jr.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.Henry David Thoreau
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.Albert Camus
Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.Terry Lynn Taylo
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
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You must be still in the midst of activity, and be vibrantly alive in repose.Indira Gandhi
We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.Seneca
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - - But Congress can.Cullen Hightowe
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.Ansel Adams
You are the most beautiful girl that has ever lived, and it is worth dying to have kissed you.Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)
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


