Top 100 In Order To Live Quotes
#1. In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release the hold that our past has on us.
Deepak Chopra
#2. Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
Daniel Everett
#3. Is contentment death? Does one need to want in order to live?
A.M. Homes
#4. Because no being can live in a perfect world. Life is destined to fight to survive. To thrive. To prosper. To have more than the have-nots. All life destroys in order to live.
Darynda Jones
#5. The Socialists have found good the equality, and bad the inequality. Good the servants and bad the tyrants. I crossed the threshold of good and evil in order to live my life intensely. I live today and can not await tomorrow. The wait is of peoples and of humanity, so could not be my affair.
Renzo Novatore
#6. If you intend to insist on justice in order to live a successful and happy life, you will not do so in this lifetime, on this planet.
Maxwell Maltz
#7. The human race is a monotonous thing. Most people work most of the time in order to live, and the little freedom they have left over frightens them so, that they will do anything to get rid of it. Oh, the regimentation of mankind!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#8. In order to live the life of your dreams, first you will have to dream!
Anamika Mishra
#9. What is stripped away is not our humanity but our idolatries, not faith but our false hopes, not meaning but out illusions. Dying in order to live.
Charles Ringma
#10. The time will come that humans will be able to grasp the true essence of matter, so they will no longer need their physical bodies in order to live and to exist in this universe.
Toba Beta
#11. The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.
Isadora Duncan
#12. I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.
Alan Moore
#13. Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living thus, as a river, one experiences life to the full, flows along with the current of life, and dies in order to live again as an ocean.
Henry Miller
#14. You see, I'm sure we can change. Because we're weak. And because we die. We have to fight in order to live, and that's what will make us strong
Hiromu Arakawa
#15. I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.
Franz Kafka
#16. Do we work for and pay for all this convenience in order to live our lives, or do we live our lives in order to work for and pay for all this convenience?
Colin Beavan
#17. I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.
Sol LeWitt
#18. In order to live a rich life, everything about who you are must
be one, in alignment, and in pure harmony.
Suze Orman
#19. Children surrender nothing when faced with the world: it is the world that gives up, over and over again. By so giving up, of course, it renews itself - that is the secret. Dying in order to live, that sort of thing.
Gregory Maguire
#20. We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
Ales Kot
#21. I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#22. Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that makes it necessary for a man to steal in order to live.
Eugene V. Debs
#23. By tuning in to the ocean of loving energy around you, you can have far more security, enjoyable sensations, effectiveness, and love than you would ever need in order to live a continuously beautiful life.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#24. Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism , Christianity , and Islam , and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism . For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#25. We also want to leave our own area behind, our domestic world so well regulated day to day; we are drawn by the desire no longer to be at home and therefore no longer to be ourselves. We want to interrupt a life where we merely exist, in order to live more.
Stefan Zweig
#26. The best we can do is strive to minimize the amount of harm we cause by living. We need to eat in order to live, and there is no moral or ethical code that dictates that we should refrain from eating and allow ourselves to die for some higher purpose.
Sharon Gannon
#27. I do not need some guy around in order to get inspiration, in order to make a great record, in order to live my life, in order to feel okay about myself. And I wanted to show my fans the same thing.
Taylor Swift
#28. By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.
Friedrich Engels
#29. Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.
Willow Smith
#30. She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
Victor Hugo
#31. In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.
Kin Hubbard
#32. If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.
David Deida
#33. The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#34. In order to live to the fullest one needs to let go of the past, needs to see beyond the miseries of life, needs to appreciate life
Me
#35. The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.
Audre Lorde
#36. You should never employ your intellect but only that it is not essential to exercise it in order to live a humane life. Language permeates all of life, of course, and one's mind is essential to it, but that does not mean intellectuality should transcend all of life.
Talal Asad
#37. You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it ... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople. - J.R. Isidore
Philip K. Dick
#38. I have the feeling that I was born in Vienna in order to live in Paris.
Romy Schneider
#39. It is the Father's life, and the Father's life alone, that ever lives the Christian life. It is the Father's life, and Father's life alone, which will live the Christian life in you. Embrace a formula or a list in order to "live the Christian life," and you are doomed to frustration.
Gene Edwards
#40. I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose or passion]- has turned himself into a slave.
Joseph Campbell
#41. We were created in order to live in Paradise, and Paradise was ordained to serve us.
What was ordained for us has been changed; it is not said
that this has also happened with what was ordained for Paradise.
Franz Kafka
#42. What we do to survive is often different from what we may need to do in order to live.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#43. Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape from any danger in order to live a moment longer. And the desire to live is most developed in man.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#44. Aristotle says that in order to live alone one must either be an animal or a god. The third alternative is lacking. A man must be both; a philosopher.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. I work either way, you see - assisted or unassisted - because that is what you must do in order to live a fully creative life. I work steadily, and I always thank the process. Whether I am touched by grace or not, I thank creativity for allowing me to engage with it at all.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#46. Do you require yourself to remember? In order to live as you can and should, you first must remember who you are and what you've been given.
Paul David Tripp
#47. The Wolf is never tamed through violence. But rather with a kind, gentle, and above all, patient hand. The most ferocious of beasts see enemies everywhere. They have to in order to live. All they know is how to be attacked and how to fight. They expect treachery from all.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#48. You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. ... You are captives - and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it? - your captivity and the captivity of the world.
Daniel Quinn
#49. Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.
Wyndham Lewis
#50. It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family.
Rick Renzi
#51. It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'
Johann Most
#52. In order to live fully, it is necessary to be in constant movement, only then can each day be different from the last.
Paulo Coelho
#53. A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.
George F. Kennan
#54. We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.
Elisabeth Elliot
#55. You've got to rely on people. I know you're hurting because of all the bad things that have happened to you, but in order to live, truly live, you've got to feel pain, you've got to trust, and you've got to love.
Kim Izzo
#56. Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#58. In order to live a life of holiness, we must first receive new life from God - we must be born from above.
J. Vernon McGee
#59. My father told me once that we are on earth to learn. God wants us to receive everything that life was meant to teach. Then we take what we've learned, and it becomes our offering to God and to mankind. But we have to live in order to learn. And sometimes we have to fight in order to live.
Amy Harmon
#60. In order to live a creative life, we must give up the fear of being
wrong.
Satyen Raja
#61. When you refuse to pay attention to what life is saying to you, life will make its point very clear. Life wants us to be aware of ourselves so we can make the necessary adjustments in order to live more harmoniously.
Iyanla Vanzant
#62. Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it ... it is a good will.
Emmanuel Levinas
#63. In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
Adrienne Rich
#64. Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.
Adyashanti
#66. We tell each other stories in order to live.
Joan Didion
#67. Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock.
Marcel Proust
#68. When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.
Marianne Williamson
#69. No one cares for reality, everyone stakes his essence on illusion. Slaves and dupes of their self-love, men live not in order to live but to make other believe they have lived!
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#70. People generally complain that they're overburdened by responsibilities, forgetting that they chose to have those responsibilities. No one makes you work like a dog in order to live in a nice house, put your kids in nice schools, drive a smart car and go on exotic foreign holidays. It's up to you.
Mark Barrowcliffe
#71. Incidental, all of it, of course, but this was what this city bestowed that novels couldn't: not what you needed in order to live, but what made the living worth doing in the first place.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#73. It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.
Ernest Becker
#74. We can't always know the whys and wherefores,' the old man said. 'A bird's given two wings, not four, because it can fly with two; so a man's not given to know everything, but only a half or a quarter. As much as he needs to know in order to live, so much he knows.
Anton Chekhov
#75. Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life
Aristotle.
#77. Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live.
Camille Paglia
#79. What do you need to know in order to live and die in the joy of this comfort?
Cornelis Vonk
#80. The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
R.D. Laing
#81. In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in order to live, I will not steal a name.
Victor Hugo
#82. In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy choice.
Richard Bach
#83. I buy art in order to live with it at home or in the office, never to store it away in a vault. In fact, living with art has been one of the great joys of my life. It is a private pleasure, however, and not one that I have an urge to inflict on other people.
Michael Audain
#84. You should read the novel in order to live, to feel, to tell someone the hidden secret of it.
Read as if its your story, search your character in it.
You should never read a book, if you feel ashamed of telling its story ...
Respect book or never read it.
Emma Brynstein
#85. Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live.
Soren Kierkegaard
#86. You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.
Joyce Rachelle
#87. In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.
Huston Smith
#88. Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.
Phyllis McGinley
#89. What does it mean to be a Saint? In the Lord's Church, the members are Latter-day Saints, and they attempt to emulate the Savior, follow His teachings, and receive saving ordinances in order to live in the celestial kingdom with God the Father and our Savior Jesus Christ.
Quentin L. Cook
#91. Gentlemen, if we don't cut spending we will be bankrupt. Yes, the medicine is harsh, but the patient requires it in order to live. Should we withhold the medicine? No. We are not wrong. We did not seek election and win in order to manage the decline of a great nation.
Margaret Thatcher
#93. No matter the technological sophistication of ultramodern molecular research, and no matter the increasingly abstruse terminology of its current literature, the circle of knowledge always returns to its starting point: In order to live, man must have air.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#94. If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?
Rabindranath Tagore
#95. Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert
#96. Sometimes the things that scare me are the things I'm drawn to: moving to London, L.A., New York; marrying, having a kid. In order to live a full life, sometimes you have to do things that scare you.
Jason O'Mara
#97. The changes during adolescence are not something to just get through; they are qualities we actually need to hold on to in order to live a full and meaningful life in adulthood.
Daniel J. Siegel
#98. Sometimes you have to risk life, in order to live, and gamble death, to sacrifice life.
Anthony Liccione
#99. It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live.
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Rachel Naomi Remen
#100. In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threatening to us.
John Kuypers
