Top 100 Quotes About How To Live
#1. I'm broken, but I have to learn how to live. I feel stuck together with scotch tape, like after any breath everything could come apart. If it does, if it all comes undone, I think I'll fall down and never rise again.
Anna White
#3. Kissing her in the ocean and feeling my entire world stop. Wishing I could be normal, if only to be with her. Because she hadn't just taught me how to surf and shoot zombies and to scream while plunging down a roller-coaster drop. She had shown me how to live.
Julie Kagawa
#4. Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.
Nancy Friday
#5. Learn how to die, and you learn how to live." I
Mitch Albom
#6. A magic dwells in each beginning,
protecting us, telling us how to live ...
Hermann Hesse
#7. Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
Michel De Montaigne
#8. Here's the problem. I don't know how to live if I'm not loving you. It's like asking my lungs to expand without air, my heart to beat without blood, my eyes to see without light. It's just not possible. And yet, you're so stupid ...
Jewel E. Ann
#11. The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.
John O'Donohue
#12. We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live.
Matthew Specktor
#13. You are a child of the universe
Come to choose how to live here.
You are a child of the universe
Loved beyond measure.
Jay Woodman
#14. it is still the case that he "can look in her eyes and disappear." He may not know how to live with her, but he will always know he loves her
Elaine N. Aron
#15. The problem, unstated until now, is how to live in a damaged body in a world where pain is meant to be gagged uncured ungrieved over. The problem is to connect, without hysteria, the pain of anyone's body with the pain of the world's body.
Adrienne Rich
#16. And it is so simple ... The one thing is - love thy neighbor as thyself - that is the one thing. That is all, nothing else is needed. You will instantly find how to live.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#17. If one doesn't know who he is, how can he fully know how to live out what he feels called to?
Brad Lomenick
#18. He wanted to show her how to live, even after he was gone.
Kass Morgan
#19. The answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live
Damien Hirst
#22. As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
Franz Grillparzer
#23. Knowing how to free oneself is nothing; the difficult thing is knowing how to live with that freedom.
Andre Gide
#24. [Camus] The meaning if my works: so many men are deprived of mercy. How to live without mercy? One must try and do what Christianity never did: to take care of the damned.
Olivier Todd
#25. Just imagine, how much easier our lives would be if we were born with a 'user guide or owner's manual' which could tell us what to eat and how to live healthy.
Erika M. Szabo
#26. The girl he had come across, of whom he had possessed himself, to whose presence he was not yet accustomed, with whom he did not yet know how to live; that human being so near and still so strange, gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life.
Joseph Conrad
#27. Is that what living is for you? Breathing? We' just end up right back where we started. Living isn't about flesh and bone and breathing. It's about faith. Faith that surpasses fear. Faith in something bigger than yourself. That's what we're doing here, showing people how to live!
Rachelle Dekker
#28. We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it.
Tricia Helfer
#29. Eliot isn't like anyone I know. He's just Eliot. And even if he isn't refined, he knows how to live. That's why I'm not about to let him die.
K.E. Ormsbee
#30. Dogs are not 'people' of another species. They are another species. To train and care for them properly, to show them how to live in our complex world, requires first and foremost that we understand that.
Jon Katz
#31. Indians and animals know better how to live than white man; nobody can be in good health if he does not have all the time fresh air, sunshine, and good water.
Flying Hawk
#32. We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.
Omar Nelson Bradley
#33. What if the new political spectrum has on one side those people who want to be left alone, those who want to be free, those who don't hurt people or take their stuff, and on the other extreme of this new scale stands anyone who wants to use government power to tell you how to live your life?
Matt Kibbe
#34. Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, as if to beat his uncertainty into submission.
Candace Bushnell
#35. Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.
John Allen Paulos
#37. It is a less evil to be unable to live than not to know how to live.
Publilius Syrus
#38. [ ... ] we will turn this place around, and a new civilization can be born that does not know boundary lines but knows better how to live in the garden and knows that we are one thought away from paradise.
Jon Ronson
#39. The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
#40. I'm giving a lot of opinions, but I don't give any advice. I'm 31 and I'm not married and having kids. I'm five-foot-three. I weigh, like, 150 pounds and I'm not in this position to be telling people how to live.
Mindy Kaling
#41. Maybe you and I have to learn how to live
with what we saw. With what we know.
Elizabeth Scott
#42. I still don't know how to live my life except on my haunches at the feet of Jesus, eyes fixed on his face. Nothing else "works." No formula, no method makes me feel so fully human and alive as the radical act of living loved.
Sarah Bessey
#43. The deep problem facing everyone is how to break free when being a prisoner is the only comfortable way you know how to live.
Deepak Chopra
#44. I had no idea how to live a day without her next to me. How to breathe without her by my side.
Tillie Cole
#46. You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.
Tom Robbins
#47. I think that the idea of reaching young girls that are in college is something that we are strongly open to because who better wants to know how to live a more purposeful life than people who are starting out?
Oprah Winfrey
#48. But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.
Bill Murray
#49. ...the revelation that the dream was teaching the dreamers how to live.
Joan Didion
#50. Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.
Winston Churchill
#51. The world will tell you how to live, if you let it. Don't let it. Take up your space. Raise your voice. Sing your song. This is your chance to make or remake a life that thrills you.
Shauna Niequist
#52. It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.
Ruth Rendell
#53. Our most serious failure today is the inability to provide effective practical guidance as to how to live the life of Jesus. And I believe that is due to this very real loss of biblical realism for our lives
Dallas Willard
#54. Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#55. I wish I could teach you how to live happily ever after, Petra," she said, "but that is something you will have to learn on your own.
Marie Rutkoski
#56. Comtemporary pulpits feel that to bring up dying is just not as relevant as telling people how to live, marry, succeed, relate, or become a winner.
Calvin Miller
#57. Aim for balance. Make your own rules and don't let others tell you how to live according to theirs. When
Rachel Brathen
#58. Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.
Harold S. Kushner
#59. Jesus was a doer, and not only a talker. He led the way by example. He showed us how to live and minister to others.
Artur Pawlowski
#60. You didn't know how to live under my light? I don't have a light anymore unless you're there.
Kristen Callihan
#61. He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Horace
#62. When you are secure in who you are, you set the trend for your own life, and do not look to others to tell you how to live.
When you know that every truth you seek is available within you,
you will not place someone else's idea of how you should live, above your own.
Alan Cohen
#63. This, in the end, is the prime purpose of a philosophy: to give us lucid ways to think about the world and how to live in it.
Daniel Klein
#64. I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.
Anita Diamant
#65. Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
William Penn
#66. Worship is our rehearsal for how to live today and how to glorify God in heaven. It is not merely a Sunday morning exercise meant to make us feel good.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#67. I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.
Nicholas Sparks
#68. I don't really know how to live my life, just like lots of other people don't. I guess you just learn along the way.
Marina And The Diamonds
#69. I'm trying to teach people how to live their everyday lives, and so I do focus on it, probably not as much as some people would like.
Joel Osteen
#70. There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.'
Thomas More
#71. My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures and ... go at them.
Craig Ferguson
#72. To learn how to swim, observe fish.
To learn how to hunt, observe lions.
To learn how to work, observe bees.
To learn how to live, observe sages.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#73. I was so lost, didn't know what to do with myself,
I was my own worst enemy, I was lost and oh I needed help,
Then you came along, and saw what state I was in,
You picked me up, when I was down,
Showed me how to live again.
James Morrison
#74. People would tell you how to live life and what to do. Don't listen them. Just do what is right and what your heart wants. They will ultimately agree with you
Laksh Kishore
#76. The only thing white people have that black people need, or should want, is power - and no one holds power forever. White people cannot, in the generality, be taken as models of how to live.
James Baldwin
#77. Her advice boiled down to a consistent theme: that we all have to learn how to live with uncertainty, because some things are simply out of our control.
Susan Stellin
#78. The organized churches must become schools of spiritual discipline where Christians are taught how to own without treasuring (Matt. 6:21); how to possess without, like the "rich young ruler," being possessed (Mark 10:22); how to live simply, even frugally, though controlling great wealth and power.
Dallas Willard
#79. The West can teach the East how to get a living, but the East must eventually be asked to show the West how to live.
Tehyi Hsieh
#80. I think I understand life. I think I understand how to live. I'm enjoying my life. I don't really live in an as extravagant way as people think.
Donald Trump
#81. All good activities which encourage people to learn how to live with one another pleasantly and to develop a sense of humor improve living.
Leonard Carmichael
#82. I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.
Albert Camus
#83. Living our lives may not be an exciting prospect to some of us either. Maybe we've been so wrapped up in other people that we've forgotten how to live and enjoy our lives.
Melody Beattie
#84. Perhaps as you went along you did learn something. I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.
Ernest Hemingway,
#85. If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?
Confucius
#86. I tried. I tried to burn that memory of my regret. But I wasn't dead yet, I was just on my way to dying, and it's harder to burn memories when you've still got life left. When you're alive you have to learn how to live with things like regret.
Christopher Barzak
#87. From a book you can learn the theory but it takes practise to learn how to live life.
Chloe Thurlow
#88. In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.
Maya Angelou
#89. Attempting to succeed in a competitive external environment, we can lose track of how to live without anxiety.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#90. When I first read 'On the Road,' it helped me figure out how to live against the grain. Now I wonder how to be subversive when the subversive has become mainstream.
Tony D'Souza
#91. Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone."
"Shut up shut up ... Everybody's alone."
He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it.
Theodore Sturgeon
#92. God's Word is not a book of human ideas ... it is given to us by [God] to teach us how to live.
Billy Graham
#93. Science is concerned about quantity; religion is concerned about quality. Religion is concerned with the art of how to live life and how to die life.
Rajneesh
#94. Songs have taught me more about life than school ever has and how to follow my ambitions no matter what they are and how to live my life no matter the trade-off.
Meghan Blistinsky
#95. First, we must love the Lord with all our hearts, and we must love our children. Second, we must become a worthy example to them by continually seeking the Lord and striving to live the gospel. Third, we must teach our children the gospel and how to live its teachings.
Cheryl C. Lant
#96. Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.
Leo Tolstoy
#97. A knowledge of how to live was a knowledge of how to die.
Richard Wright
#98. Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.
Bob Dylan
#99. It seems as if no man had ever died in America before, for in order to die you must first have lived. These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live.
Henry David Thoreau