Top 100 Live And Living Quotes
#1. Necessity demands that one should carefully examine who it is that comes to the position of spiritual authority; and coming solemnly to this point, how he should live; and living well, how he should teach; and teaching rightly, with what kind of self-examination he should learn of his own weakness.
Gregory The Great
#2. I'm almost convinced that I'm never awake. I'm not sure if I'm not in fact dreaming when I live, and living when I dream, or if dreaming and living are for me intersected, intermingled things that together form my conscious self.
Fernando Pessoa
#3. Being strong doesn't mean you can't be soft. Working hard to meet your goals doesn't mean you can't live. And living a certain way your entire life doesn't mean you can't ever change. Life is fluid. The only way to run yourself ashore is to not follow the change and contour of the curves.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#4. If time stood still for a moment, what would you be grateful for? And will it be enough to allow time to have meaning when it begins?
Steven Cuoco
#5. The vision is not to see things just as we have imagined them to be. The vision is the freedom to live deliberately every day and that is a simply a choice.
Colleen Mariotti
#6. The foundation of self-confidence, the basis of boldness and self-assertion, is a deep inner trust, based on living a life of perfect integrity, and disciplining yourself to live consistent with your highest values in every situation.
Brian Tracy
#7. That's the thing about death that makes it useful. Death was always a reminder to the living to live - to live in the present and to look forward to the future.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#8. I'm not good at living in the grim places ... when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being.
Bruce Dern
#9. We make a living by what we give; and live a life by what we have yet to give.
George Alexiou
#10. All of us who are living are dying. The only ones not dying are the dead.,,To live was to be haunted by the inevitability of one's own decay, and to be dead was to be haunted by the memory of living.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#11. William James said, "You cannot travel without until you have travelled within." Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." People who discover their sweet spot are people who take the inward journey and examine themselves. They make the choice to live until they die.
Scott M. Fay
#12. To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.
Margaret Atwood
#13. Yeah, I love living in New York, man, and people who live in New York, we wear that fact like a badge right on our sleeve because we know that fact impresses everybody! I was in Vietnam. So what? I live in New York!
Denis Leary
#14. We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
Karl Lagerfeld
#15. Live for the present, as the past has gone and the future as yet to arrive.
LadyTiara
#16. I don't really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits
Anais Nin
#18. The moral and spiritual individuality comes here to live a painful adventure, full of frustrations, a dramatic experience of living in foreign lands, dominated by a constant, painful feeling of absence from its true home; a feeling of nostalgia, thirst and lack of fulfilment.
Paul Amadeus Dienach
#19. The point of reading is not reading but living. Reading helps you live with greater appreciation, keener insight and heightened emotional awareness.
Steve Leveen
#20. Bipolar depression really got my life off track, but today I'm proud to say I am living proof that someone can live, love, and be well with bipolar disorder when they get the education, support and treatment they need.
Demi Lovato
#21. What does repentance mean? It means to change - to change your mind, change the way that you're living - and to determine that with God's help you will live for Christ.
Billy Graham
#22. Because you can make decisions for yourself even if they're wrong. Mistakes can be corrected. Life is too short to have everyone else tell you how to live. Make a few mistakes, and learn from them. At least they'll be real, and you'll be living, not just existing.
Carolyn Brown
#23. One of the best things Dr. G. told me was that I didn't have to judge every new situation I encountered. Living alone, for example. She said I didn't have to say that living alone was good or bad, I could just live alone and not make a judgement on it.
Natalie Taylor
#24. For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#25. Embodying recapitulation as a practical application to one's path means not living the way you used to live, and being so completely in the moment that you are lost to yourself.
Lujan Matus
#26. I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor.
Lea Thompson
#27. Driven living makes us the center of our well-planned schedules. It may stem from a passion to live with eternal purpose, but it signifies that we believe God's work depends on us and neglects to acknowledge that God created us as finite resources dependent upon Him.
Paul Chappell
#28. I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite
Andy Warhol
#29. It's not like we're all animalistic people trying to become more spiritual. We're really living spirit, trying to find out how to live embodied in this nitty gritty world, these corporeal forms, in these fleeting bodies in the material world where everything's changing and we're not in control.
Surya Das
#30. Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know.
Frederick Lenz
#31. When you know your role in life, living makes sense because of clarity, and the loads become enjoyable to carry.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#32. They take away your options and all you can do is live, and it's just like Humble said: I'm not afraid of dying; I'm afraid of living. I was afraid before, but I'm afraid even more now that I'm a public joke.
Ned Vizzini
#33. Let's live to regret this (Martin Riggs [Mel Gibson] to Lorna Cole [Rene Russo] in Lethal Weapon 3)
Martin Riggs
#34. I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.
Charles Spurgeon
#36. A theocracy is a government ruled directly by God, and for us it means "Theocracy within". In other words, trying to live by God's principles instead of just living selfishly.
Matt Smith
#37. Why in the world have we never found what we're really looking for? Because what we need is often the very thing we won't accept. And sadly, in turning away the God we need, we need to understand that we have chosen to live without everything we need.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#38. Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. You can sincerely believe there is a God and live as though there isn't.
Frederick Buechner
#39. What I do is about living. It's about living the best life you can and enjoying the fullness of the life around you- from what you wear, to the way you live, to the way you love.
Ralph Lauren
#40. I'm living in the moment. I just try to move each of the stories, scripts and projects that I work on forward. And when they're ready and the people are ready to make them, we'll do that.
David Heyman
#41. Axes bit wood into pieces and hammers nailed it back together. Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.
Robin Hobb
#42. There is nothing more powerful than this moment your living, now, more powerful than your convictions and truths, spend time with what your heart desires and souls screams for. Life ends a day before we know it, it's so important to chase everything that matters to you.
Nikki Rowe
#43. In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.
Andy Serkis
#44. Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center.
Brennan Manning
#45. We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds.
T.L. Rese
#47. Seems to me there's not much time to read about other people's lives and live your own while you're at it. If I have to choose, and I reckon I do, I'll choose living my own life over reading summat about someone else's.
Sophie Hannah
#49. Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win!
live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Jerry Garcia
#50. The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that's only if you're very lucky. And you listen very hard.
Mark Slouka
#51. Life is diverse. Living is to live with difference. Anyone telling you that difference should be stamped out is stamping out life. Those people insisting that there are black and white answers to the difficult questions are stamping out the diversity that is inherent in life.
Omar Saif Ghobash
#52. I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.
Pierre Soulages
#53. Authentic and free. The Gucci guilty woman is about living in the moment. She's a modern woman, someone who really owns herself and her sensuality. It's supposed to be a very empowering and sensual fragrance.
Evan Rachel Wood
#54. You can't live an unhealthy lifestyle and expect a healthy outcome.
Frank Sonnenberg
#55. Do not take advantage of foreigners who live among you in your land. 34 Treat them like native-born Israelites, and love them as you love yourself. Remember that you were once foreigners living in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Anonymous
#56. The Atonement has not only helped me be cleansed, and be healed, but it has also helped me live.
Jayda Skidmore
#57. I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves.
Pam Houston
#59. Learn new things and grow every day. Growing is living; live every moment; live all the way.
Debasish Mridha
#60. Life on the farm had fed his soul since he was a child. he was ever grateful to Gott for giving him a chance to work the land and live by the seasons. It was a good life...but a lonely one for a man his age, a man too old to be living with his family.
Rosalind Lauer
#61. No REGRETS. Just LESSONS learned, BLESSINGS recognized and HUMOR found.
Tanya Masse
#62. I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.
Taylor Momsen
#63. Oh, let us love our occupations,
Bless the squire and his relations,
Live upon our daily rations,
And always know our proper stations.
Charles Dickens
#64. Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.
Robert Hass
#65. Passionate - that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for sake of experience. Passion, that is self-forgetfulness. But what you all want is self-enrichment.
Thomas Mann
#66. And you know what? That's okay. If you want to live your life with many things and forgo the life of living like a simplifier, no one can force you to. This has to be something
Neal Hoffman
#67. Life was good, one had only to live it.
Jorge Amado
#68. Death is most terrifying to those who have yet to live.
Dan Pearce
#69. I'd rather live my life and do what I love and experience it. If I have some issues when I'm older, I mean, that's the cost of living a fantastic life.
Tory Nyhaug
#70. We talk as if living a sanctified life were the most uncertain and insecure thing we could do. Yet it is the most secure thing possible, because it has Almighty God in and behind it. The most dangerous and unsure thing is to try to live without God.
Oswald Chambers
#71. Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does.
William Mountford
#72. So many people die though they live, and it is not as if they don't have life; they only refuse to keep breathing!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#73. Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
Jerry Garcia
#74. To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
William Faulkner
#75. We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.
Eduardo Galeano
#76. By justifying our harmful negative habits, we live in delusion. We are lying to ourselves. And worse yet, we waste the precious opportunity of living our truth.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#77. You live. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think of the bruises.
Jojo Moyes
#78. That it doesn't matter if you live a billion years, or just a short handful like Jake. It's how bright you burn while living them that really matters, and Jake burned so bright it hurt my eyes.
Kate McCarthy
#79. Don't you cry for the lost
Smile for the living
Get what you need and give what you'r given
Life's for the living so live it
Or you're better of dead
Passenger
#80. After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in their books. I had had some experience living in Africa. I was drawn to that kind of adventure.
Leslie Cockburn
#81. The most important part of living life on your own terms and having it all is having faith and belief in yourself and in the intelligent power that created you.
John Assaraf
#82. Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he live.
Konrad Lorenz
#83. One trouble with living beyond your deserved number of years is that there's always some reason to live another year. And I'd like to live another year so that Nixon won't be President. If he's re-elected I'll have to live another four years.
Rex Stout
#84. We should be working to live, not living to work. We have created this "individualistic culture" were living to work has been centered around material gains. Working to live is a better approach because it emphasis on the human experiences and the condition of living.
Henry Johnson Jr
#86. There are so many ways to live, to define what living means for you and you alone. We are so narrow in our thinking, and once you understand that, once you decide to not abide by these artificial constraints, anything is possible and you are so liberated
Gayle Forman
#87. I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
Barbara Kingsolver
#88. We were designed to love and to be loved, to reach our dreams to unleash our potentials but not live in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
Auliq Ice
#89. Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
Nazim Hikmet
#90. I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too.
Paul Muldoon
#91. We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.
Friedrich Schiller
#92. Life's like a book: What matters is the hook.
Be it short or long, just live it strong.
Whether it's five stars, or how near or far, just soar!
Ana Claudia Antunes
#93. The problem with thinking that you are the absolute best, is that it leaves no room for you to become any better and while you live life thinking that you're the best, truth is a lot of people around you are already better and becoming even more better.
C. JoyBell C.
#94. If science can eliminate sleep, we will have more time to live and no time for the dreams. But living is superior to the dream because it is real!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#95. Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)
Julia Cameron
#97. I know you can't live on hope alone; but without hope, life is not worth living. So you, and you and you: you got to give them hope; you got to give them hope.
Harvey Milk
#98. Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.
Mario Batali
#99. You'll live for as long as you live, and once you stop living, you don't have to worry about staying alive any more because you'll be dead.
Sebastyne Young
#100. Let it be uppermost in your minds, now and at all times, that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God who came into the world to lay down his life that we might live. That is the truth, and is fundamental. Upon that our faith is built.
Joseph Fielding Smith
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