Live Quotes

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
Horace - he will always be a slave who does not know how...
Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Michael landon - somebody should tell us, right at the start of...
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
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.
Robert
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
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Alice Walke
A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.
John Locke
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 essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus
If a man die, shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Job 1414 Bible Hebrew
Christian furchtegott gellert - live as you will have wished to have lived when...
You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.
P. T. Forsyth
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
Dietrich Bonhoeffe
He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.
Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
Socrates
I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - Their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives.
John Keats, Letter to James Rice, Feb 1820
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
Claude Bernard (1813 - 78)
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Mark Twain
Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all This is a miracle and that no more.
Brigham Young
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
Henry David Thoreau
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
W. Somerset Maugham
I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Brian Tracy
A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.
Yiddish Prove
How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.
Ovid
A man who won? t die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins
Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.
Seneca
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin
Carlyle said, A lie cannot live; it shows he did not know how to tell them.
Mark Twain
You only live once - But if you work it right, once is enough.
Joe E. Lewis
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
Flora Whittemore
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.
W. E. B. Du Bois, last message to the world, 1957