Top 100 Live As If Quotes
#1. The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.
Daisaku Ikeda
#4. We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.
Gerald Brenan
#5. If you live as if you know nothing you offer yourself the opportunity to learn everything.
Kay Whitley
#6. In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.
Luc De Clapiers
#8. Live as if you are the Jesus and learn as if you are the Aristotle.
Debasish Mridha
#9. It seemed foolish and wasteful and wonderful - to live as if the sky were endless and time itself had no measure.
Cameron Stracher
#10. War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.
Cesare Pavese
#11. If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.
Muhammad Ali
#12. It is necessary to take what is common as our guide; however, though this logic is universal, the many live as if each individual has his own private wisdom.
Heraclitus
#13. It would seem, after this, that even when living upon earth we must live as if in the heavenly kingdom, dwelling there in anticipation by hope. But in reality, for the greater part, the contrary is the case. Men cling with their whole being to the earth and everything earthly.
John Of Kronstadt
#14. When no one is watching, live as if someone is.
Max Lucado
#15. Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen Hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#16. Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.
Viktor E. Frankl
#17. When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.
John Tillotson
#18. Live as if you have faith," she said, "and faith shall be
given to you.
Paullina Simons
#19. Although you know that one day you will die, you live as if you won't.
Arundhati Roy
#20. Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
Hugh Prather
#21. You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.
John Eldredge
#22. I've never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they're never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.
Bob Dylan
#23. Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
Albert Camus
#24. Live as if you have already lived and died, now do what you ever wanted to in an earlier life
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#27. Am I sitting here now, months later, in Los Angeles, writing all this down, because I want my life to matter? Maybe so. But I don't want it to matter more than others.
I want to remember, or to learn, how to live as if it matters, as if they all matter, even if they don't.
Maggie Nelson
#28. It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.
Ram Dass
#29. Many Christians live as if salvation is the only reason Jesus died. Christ died so we would die to sin and live to righteousness (1Peter 2:24) This is a life long discipline that we must exercise every moment. His marvelous grace does not excuse us from His expectations of holy living.
William Branks
#30. Live as if you were a country and other people as other nations. Then learn politics
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#31. Live as if today is the last day of your life. Love and be kind as if this is the last chance to express it.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.
Marge Piercy
#33. Love as if you are living just to love.
Live as if your life depends on love.
Debasish Mridha
#34. I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.
Joshua Lederberg
#35. It's a reminder of one of the greatest lessons of all: live as if you'll live forever, but live each day as if it were your last.
Mark Richardson
#36. It's too bad you can't always live as if it were the last moment of your life. Because, you know, it might be-it might really be. And if we could really see it that way, really live like that, I think we'd all feel a lot differently about everything.
Andrew Klavan
#37. Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
Viktor E. Frankl
#38. And yet is not this transitoriness a reminder that challenges us to make the best possible use of each moment of our lives? It certainly is, and hence my imperative: Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now. In
Viktor E. Frankl
#39. Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
Heraclitus
#40. Live as if you already are what you wish to become.
William Jones
#41. So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
Viktor E. Frankl
#42. Love God more than you fear hell. Make major decisions in a cemetery. When no one is watching, live as if someone is. Succeed at home first. Don't spend tomorrow's money today. Pray twice as much as you fret. God has forgiven you; you'd be wise to do the same.
Max Lucado
#43. God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
John Ortberg Jr.
#44. RVM Thoughts for Today There is no guarantee about life. Live before it is too late. Live as if today was your last day .
R.v.m.
#45. Live as if your life has become an example of goodness for others to follow.
Debasish Mridha
#46. You are the beloved child of this universe, so live as if everything is yours. Every morning the sun is rising for you. The rays of light are kissing you, birds are singing for you, flowers are dancing for you, and everything belongs to you.
Debasish Mridha
#48. We need to set our affections on one good man and keep him constantly before our eyes, so that we may live as if he were watching us and do everything as if he saw what we were doing.
Epicurus
#49. Love as if you are born to love; live as if life is for love.
Debasish Mridha
#50. These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.
John Fowles
#51. Science and religion both teach that we are all interconnected, and thus interdependent. And at the very core, we are all One. But how do we live as if we know this?
Ram Dass
#52. As if you are already dead.'" "What's that?" "A Japanese saying. Live as if you are already dead.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#53. One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
Mary Renault
#54. Dream as if you'll live for ever, live as if you'll die today
James Deam
#56. Live as if they're going to tell stories about you.
Shari Arnold
#58. Live as if ye expected (your prayers) to be answered.
Edgar Cayce
#59. Our greatest warriors,' Terayama-san said, 'believe that they are already dead. They live as if their lives are over, and so fighting holds no terror for them.'
A Suda-san looked gravely at him. 'That, Terayama-san, is one of the saddest things I have ever heard.
Zoe Marriott
#61. But the pride of those who live as if they believed they were better than anyone else is rooted in a secret failure to believe in their own goodness.
Thomas Merton
#62. For all prayer is answered. Don't tell God how to answer it. Make thy wants known to Him. Live as if ye expected them to be answered. For He has given, What ye ask in my name, believing, that will my Father in heaven give to thee.
Edgar Cayce
#63. Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.
Jean Houston
#64. Best advice was from a man by the name of James Dean. "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today". I read that my senior year in high school and have never stopped since.
Kelly Blatz
#65. We burn because of the beauty in the burning, because life is precious, extraordinary, and we would live as if we were on fire with the brightness of it.
Kate Griffin
#66. So you can't demand the broken to live as if they were whole. Discipline is not the issue; apply discipline and you'll make it worse. What is needed is healing.
John Eldredge
#67. At the center of the universe, is a deep abiding love. We are called to be part of it. We Catholics and Christians are not ashamed to believe this. We invite everyone to accept the challenge to live as if we were all loved into existence.
Jennifer Morse
#68. Live as if they know that they are worth their own time. Live as if they deserve to take care of their bodies. Live as
Geneen Roth
#69. I live my life based on 2 principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.
Osho
#70. There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
#71. You're not yet Socrates, but you can still live as if you want to be him.
Epictetus
#72. We desperately want to believe in something. To simply live out our lives believing in nothing is to live as if this thing we call life is filled with nothing but nothing.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#73. However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
Nazim Hikmet
#74. Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you're alive and able - be good. 18.
Marcus Aurelius
#75. Christians are condemned who profess to own God for their God and yet do not live as if he were their God.
Thomas Watson
#76. I don't really believe I am a hero to the world. But I long ago decided that I must live as if I were a hero - that I must pass through all the difficulties which confront me, because they are only my inevitable circles of fire.
Anne Rice
#77. Every Betrayal begins with trust-Phish
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today-James Dean
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live-Anonymous
Brian Jacques
#78. Live as if your prayers are to be answered.
Wayne Dyer
#79. My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.
Anne Lamott
#80. We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.
Philip Pullman
#81. You, on the other hand, were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around.
Wm. Paul Young
#82. Live as if you were to die tommorow.
dream as if you were to live forever
Albert Einstein
#83. Live as if you are the creator of your universe. Because you are.
Debasish Mridha
#85. Let your light shine, never look back and live as if today is your last day ... because it just might be.
Gena Showalter
#86. We live as if we know how everything will turn out. I certainly lived that way. But we don't know anything. Really, we don't.
Amy Purdy
#87. I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
Albert Camus
#88. Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
Ray Bradbury
#89. And I keep on marching as if this is the way a Christian woman is supposed to live, as if this is the call on my life, as if this is all there is.
Lysa TerKeurst
#90. Its best to live as if it were the first and last day of my life.
Paulo Coelho
#91. Many people live as if life were a dress rehearsal for some later date.
Richard Carlson
#92. As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#93. Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
J.C. Ryle
#94. Too vast is Man and too imponderable his nature. Too varied are his
talents, and too inexhaustible his strength. Beware of those who
attempt to set him boundaries.Live as if your God Himself had need of
you His life to live. And so, in truth, He does.
Mikhail Naimy
#95. Christians alone are in a position to rescue the perishing. We dare not settle down to try to live as if things were 'normal.' Nothing is normal while sin and lust and death roam the world, pouncing upon one and another till the whole population has been destroyed.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#96. Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.
Ray Bradbury
#97. At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.
Tracy Chapman
#98. It is the denial of death that is partially responsible for people living empty, purposeless lives; for when you live as if you'll live forever, it becomes too easy to postpone the things you know that you must do.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#99. Whenever a nation turns its back on God or beings to live as if He does not exist, it begins to show up in its citizens' disregard for human life.
Tim LaHaye
#100. When you have nothing but love, you have everything. This means you must live as if you have nothing to hide, nothing to prove and nothing to lose.
John Kuypers
