Live Quotes

It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it.... This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.

Clarence Jordan

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

Peter S. Prescott

There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy.

Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004

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

I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake, 1997

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Publilius Syrus

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Thomas Jefferson

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

R. D. Laing

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

Henry Mille

Live like you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell.

Unknown

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

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.

John Ernst Steinbeck

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

I have lived some thirty years on this planet and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Henry David Thoreau

I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thomas Jefferson still lives.

John Adams, On his bed, not knowing Jefferson had died only a few hours earlier - July 4th, 1826

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

Corazn Cojuangco Aquino

Idiots... nothing can live forever.

Magus Dactylus, Chronotrigge

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Socrates

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.

Christopher S. Drew

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

J. K. Rowling

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

Whether they live in an igloo or a grass shack or a mud hut, people around the world all want the same thing a better house.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

Alcaeus

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

Claude Bernard (1813 - 78)

A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.

Henri Frdric Amiel

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

How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved... the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Jack Kerouac, "On the Road".

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Herman Melville

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Albert Camus

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.

Horace, Odes

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.

George Santayana

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi