Live Our Lives Quotes

#1. think about the littler rules. Club rules. Social standards. Values. "The way things are normally done." Opinions, every one. Yet we live our lives as if they're immutable truths.

Johnny B. Truant

#2. Maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them.

Jodi Picoult

#3. We are all here to live our lives.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Self-growth does not always mean that we've changed. It means that we've stopped listening to what others say we 'ought' to be doing and finally live our lives according to our own values.

Anthea Syrokou

#5. So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key."

(Already Gone)

Eagles

#6. Were Gabriel and I going to fall in love? Be together forever? Live our lives happily as soul mates? Who the hell knew something like that? I
sure didn't. I can't see the future.
All I knew was that I would love finding out.

Kim Harrington

#7. Time is your most precious commodity and yet most of us live our lives as if we have all the time in the world.

Robin Sharma

#8. I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

Jesse Ventura

#9. I have come a long way and learnt a lot. I read this quote about a year ago: 'Happiness must not be pursued; it must ensue.' It's made me realise that just being married again or something like that won't make me happy; the happiness ensues from how we live our lives.

Lucy Davis

#10. We live our lives before the wild, dangerous, unfettered and free character of the living God.

Walter Brueggemann

#11. Let's live our lives with great meaning and purpose in the attempt to influence the world to whatever degree our circumstance allows.

Chris Matakas

#12. Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.

Christopher Moore

#13. We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

Neil Gaiman

#14. When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives

Byron Katie

#15. Every one of our sons leaves home at some point. They become men who can return to help us mothers in ways that no other human can. They can teach us how to live our lives better. If we hold on long enough, and love them always, they come back to us.

Meg Meeker Md

#16. We live our lives with hope, intentions, and actions. Without hope, there will be no intention. Without intention, there will be no action.

Debasish Mridha

#17. We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Barbara De Angelis

#18. A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.

Paulo Coelho

#19. We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.

George Takei

#20. Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives.

Ruth Ozeki

#21. Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]

Al Gore

#22. When we clean up after ourselves, we have nothing to blame. When we begin to live our lives in that way, cleaning up after ourselves, what is left is further vision and further openness, which leads to cleaning up the rest of the world.

Chogyam Trungpa

#23. We live our lives, made up of a great quantity of / isolated instants / So as to be lost at the heart of a multitude of things.

John Ashbery

#24. If we want to be spiritual, then, let us first of all live our lives. Let us not fear the responsibilities and the inevitable distractions of the work appointed for us by the will of God.

Thomas Merton

#25. Who knows what the long-term effects of saving rescue dogs are and the healing lessons and love they bring to Earth? Each one of us has the capacity to influence hundreds - even thousands of people or animals through the way we live our lives.

Jadi Kindred

#26. Most of the time, we live our lives within these invisible systems, blissfully unaware of the artificial life, the intensely designed infrastructures that support them.

Bruce Mau

#27. God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God.

John Piper

#28. There is no greater gift we can give to ourselves and those who passed before us than to live our lives at the highest level possible, and to interact with those around us in a way that makes us, and them, BRIGHTER.

Heidi Tankersley

#29. We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.

Tom Hardy

#30. I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.

Adrienne Rich

#31. People tend to forget that celebrities are human beings. We live our lives. We try to do what we love, which is music. And to share it with everyone in our job usually is to entertain and to make people forget their troubles.

Gloria Estefan

#32. We can't control death. There's nothing either of us can do to avoid it or to hold it off. All we can control is how we live our lives before it comes for us.

J.A. Redmerski

#33. We live our lives by the water and if you don't know how to swim in Australia, it's like not knowing how to cross a road. It's an incredible survival thing that you really must learn when you're a child.

Eric Bana

#34. Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.

Hank Johnson

#35. When we have a clear idea of who we are and why we live, our lives become a journey. A story is created about our lives. And when the end comes, even if the story adds up to only one line, the story reaches a settled conclusion.

Ilchi Lee

#36. We all die. We don't have to live our lives fearing it.

Claire North

#37. What we require of others so that we may live our lives of easy convenience. Dad, there are people who work all day every day for thirty years assembling the three wires that make a microwave timer beep. What are we supposed to think of this? How do they survive it? Why do we ask them to?

Sunil Yapa

#38. The way we live out our days is the way we will live our lives.

Francis Chan

#39. When we think a thought enough times it becomes a belief and that belief becomes a pattern which, in turn, becomes how we live our lives.

Sherree Mongrain

#40. Sometimes, I imagine how great it would be if we could live our lives without bothering other people.

Haruki Murakami

#41. Just trying to live our lives and figuring out how to turn that into art. It's tough to say that the art was premeditated. Instead you just focused on living. 'How do I want to live? What do I want to do?' Then you figured out how to make that into art.

Casey Neistat

#42. Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.

Philip Zimbardo

#43. There is a God-designed way for us to live our lives here, and do church here, for the sake of people around the world who don't know Christ.

David Platt

#44. We can only try to live our lives with enough joy and passion that when our time is finished we leave behind more good memories than regrets.

P.C. Cast

#45. Somatic Exercises can change how we live our lives, how we believe that our minds and bodies interrelate, how powerful we think we are in controlling our lives, and how responsible we should be in taking care of our total being.

Thomas Hanna

#46. We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

Gary Oldman

#47. Morality is good when we use it to live our lives but not to hurt anyone.

Debasish Mridha

#48. Embrace the truth. Speak the truth. Be the truth. When we welcome the truth, we live our lives like it's golden.

Iyanla Vanzant

#49. We have a choice. We can love our lives trying to conform to some nebulous standard, or we can live our lives seeing how everything works. When we step back and look at it that way, it is obvious that the attitude of fascination is the only intelligent one to bring to anything.

Cheri Huber

#50. We must live our lives in such a way that our children, and their children after them, will form a natural and lasting commitment to the vigorous life. Only in this way can we be assured that the spirit and strength of America will be constantly replenished..

John F. Kennedy

#51. All things pass. None of us can manage to hold on to anything. In that way, we live our lives.

Haruki Murakami

#52. So often does it happen that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know there is no key.

Chuck Klosterman

#53. It's not words, but years we should be editing. Remember: time spent on bad art is a form of redundancy, doing the same thing twice is a form of tautology, and wasting precious moments complaining about life is a form of pleonasm. We should all learn to live our lives concisely.

Anthony Marais

#54. It's believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits.

Amy Purdy

#55. Many of our problems come from having too much: rapid technological disruption, junk food, traditions that tell us the way we're supposed to live our lives. We're soft, entitled, and scared of conflict. Great times are great softeners. Abundance can be its own obstacle, as many people can attest.

Ryan Holiday

#56. I want my film to be possible to use as a reference when we are trying to live our lives.

Ruben Ostlund

#57. If Jesus is here we are going to walk out of this place to live our lives to the glory of God the Father.

Louie Giglio

#58. Every time I learn this, the truer it gets: we can only live our lives looking ahead, and we can only understand them looking back.

Kee Sloan

#59. We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom.

Rudy Giuliani

#60. There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks, and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society, we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.

Nicholas A. Christakis

#61. Indeed, it has affirmed my belief that our purpose as spiritual beings is to follow our bliss, seek our passions, and live our lives as inspirations to each other.

Aron Ralston

#62. You don't realize how small you really are until you're faced with something like that. We live our lives as if we're at the center of our own universe, but we're just tiny pieces of a shattered whole.

Cora Carmack

#63. We were meant to live courageous and bold lives and not lives of mediocrity. However, we have to live our lives actively and on purpose each day to be unstoppable.

Thomas Narofsky

#64. We just tend to live our lives without even knowing that there are certain principles that enhance a better passage through life.

Sunday Adelaja

#65. We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.

Christopher Nolan

#66. We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?

Maria Shriver

#67. We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.

PZ Myers

#68. Never be shaken, no matter what happens or what others may say. Never be flustered; never lose confidence. This is the way we should strive to live our lives. Being able to do so is a sign of genuine character.

Daisaku Ikeda

#69. I think that if we just listen to ourselves we know what it is we have to do ... And I have come o think that however much it hurts, however hard it is, we have to listen. We have to live our lives.

Linda Olsson

#70. We really can't afford to live our lives walking in some sort of introspective darkness as if the darkness is the only thing that we can walk in.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#71. Instead of making decisions based on safety, security, or practicality, the Soul wants us to live our lives according to what we find to be most beautiful.

Elisa Romeo

#72. When we live our lives with the authenticity demanded by the practice of teaching that is also learning and learning that is also teaching, we are participating in a total experience ... In this experience the beautiful, the decent, and the serious form a circle with hands joined.

Paulo Freire

#73. I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.

Emma Thompson

#74. There is much in this world that hurts us, but if we let pain become our master, we live our lives as slaves.

Hannah Hart

#75. Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our lives - and our individual liberties are sacrificed for the benefit of the Fatherland.

Harry Browne

#76. And as we live our lives we discover - drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each - what has been lost. I closed my eyes and tried to bring to mind as many beautiful lost things as I could. Drawing them closer, holding on to them.

Haruki Murakami

#77. Even if we change practices or behaviors, we are seeking transformed hearts. We must know in our bones God's heart for equality and wholeness in the Body of Christ then live our lives out of that truth, with invitation and joy, as living prophets of God's way of life.

Sarah Bessey

#78. God brings us a song so that we may know joy. He enters our hearts so that we may know how to love. God brings us his word so that we may know how to live our lives. He brings us his peace so that we may be strong. God helps to make the world a more loving place.

Phil Mitchell

#79. We will all die one day,
but if we live our lives to our full potentials,
we can live forever..
In the consciences of others.

Jose N. Harris

#80. We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

Terry Goodkind

#81. I think we have to make our own rules. I don't think we should live our lives in relationships based off of old traditions that don't suit our world any longer.

Cameron Diaz

#82. I think that the way we begin our day is really the way we live our day and the way we live our lives; and that not enough of us are really aware of it.

Louise Hay

#83. We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.

Paul David Tripp

#84. It's almost as if we don't need to live our lives or feel our feelings at all, because someone already told us what the ending was going to be.

Josephine Angelini

#85. One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

Mary Pickford

#86. We can't live our lives obsessing about the past or mourning the future. We have a responsibility to ourselves and to each other to live every moment of our lives the best we can.

Lisa Mangum

#87. It is said that there are three stages of life for those of us who live our lives in circles. These are rejection, exploration, and acceptance.

Claire North

#88. Animals are here to live their lives. We are here to live ours. We can live well without eating them. How pathetic it is that we have to eat a life just to live our lives!

Debasish Mridha

#89. A brush with death always helps us live our lives better

Paulo Coelho

#90. If we live our lives looking for the excitement and exhilaration that change can bring, we will be much happier than when we are eventually forced to accept it anyways.

Daniel Willey

#91. We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.

Jimmy Carter

#92. The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us.

Donna Farhi

#93. Maybe that's as good as it gets." "Shit. I wish it had been better." "Maybe it will be. We just live our lives, good ones. Pay that way." He leaned into me and sobbed. "Nic, I love you. You saved my fucking soul.

Harper Fox

#94. We live our lives by measures of weeks, months, years, but the creatures we truly are, those are exposed in fractions of moments.

Joshua Gaylord

#95. Abigail read in Reader's Digest that all plane landings were controlled crashes. Like the way we live our lives, she thought. Bumble through doing the best we can and hoping that some benevolence keeps us from crashing.

Chris Abani

#96. We can all afford to do a little soul-searching about the choices we make and the way we live our lives, but sometimes searching one's soul doesn't provide the answers we seek.

Danielle De Niese

#97. I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

Alan Moore

#98. We waste our lives when we do not pray and think and dream and plan and work toward magnifying God in all spheres of life. God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is.

John Piper

#99. We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

Alan Moore

#100. Happiness isn't found in some finite checklist of goals that we can diligently complete and then coast. It's how we live our lives in the process. That's why the four pillars of happiness are faith, family, community and meaningful work. Those are priorities we have to keep investing in.

Arthur C. Brooks