Live Quotes
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.Alvin Toffle
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.Jacob August Riis
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.Hellen Kelle
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.Elizabeth Drew
How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods.Paul Claudel
We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.Celeste Holm
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
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.Rabbi Harold Kushne
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
Work hard, live cheap, and save your money.Edward C. Moroney, Jr.
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.Samuel Johnson
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.T. S. Eliot, Quoted in the May, 24 edition of "The Montreal Gazette".
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.Mark Twain
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.Frank Crane
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.Alan Stewart Paton
At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.Barbara DeAngelis
Heroing is one of the shortest - Lived professions there is.Will Rogers, Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925
If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for - To bite when he feels like it On military preparedness.Nikita Khrushchev
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.Martin Luther King Jr.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.Carl Jung
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.J. Todd
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.Harrison Ford
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.Louise Hay
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.Clarence Darrow
One must desire something to be alive.Margaret Deland, O Magazine, September 2002
Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.Francis Quarles
Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.General John Stark
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.Laurens Van der Post
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.Homer, The Iliad
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.Home
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - And part of the living, incarnate cosmos.D. H. Lawrence
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.Charles Bukowski, From "Betting on the Muse".
