Top 100 Should Live Quotes
#1. If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?
Henry David Thoreau
#2. And one of the things I learned is that one should live in spite of. Although, one should eat. Although, one should love. Although, it must die. Even it is often the same even though it pushes us forward. It was despite the fact that it gave me an unhappy anguish that was the creator of my own life.
Clarice Lispector
#3. Why should we remain innocent of what lurks in the shadows? How can we live in the world if we don't understand how dark and brutal it can be?
Penny Matthews
#4. Reality and 'what should be' are two brothers who live very far apart.
Gerald Welch
#5. Asked how a man should best grieve his enemy, Epictetus replied, By setting himself to live the noblest life himself.
Epictetus
#6. I see no reason why I should not live on indefinitely just as I have done, and on the whole I am more comfortable here than in Purgatory, a place that I imagine to be like the suburbs of London.
Mary Borden
#7. Never let anyone tell you your dreams are not the most important thing, because they are. I am trying to live my dream, so should you! I think anything is possible, if we believe it can be. Keep dreaming dreamer.
Jennifer Lamonica
#8. Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.
Benjamin Disraeli
#9. The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise.
Robert Foster Bennett
#10. Oh, I wish so much to live again! Each minute, each instant of life should be blessedness for man ... they should, surely they should! It is man's own duty to arrange it so; it is his law
a hidden but surely existing one ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#11. Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
Pope Paul VI
#12. We should live every day like people who have just been rescued from the moon.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#13. When this is finished, I think I should like to live where it is warm all year.
Brandon Sanderson
#14. The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
Michel De Montaigne
#15. I turned away, unexpectedly afraid to look at him. I was afraid of what he might be feeling, the depth of his loss, the extent of his fears. Will Traynor's life had been so far beyond the experiences of mine. Who was I to tell him how he should want to live it?
Jojo Moyes
#16. Anything can happen to anyone at any time and you shouldn't just live through the days, or you lose them. You should do what you can to enjoy every moment.
Sarah Brightman
#17. Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures.
That is contentment.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#18. There's something in me that knows of a life I've never lived, the kind of a life no one has ever lived, but should." "You know it? Why don't you live it?
Ayn Rand
#19. I personally don't think a woman should ever live with a man unless they're married. I guess there are some really great guys out there who wouldn't take advantage of having a live-in cook and maid, but guess how those arrangements usually turn out?
Linda Howard
#20. It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.
Terry Pratchett
#21. You should either be like the candle that produces light or you live like mirror which reflects it. Pray for love; Sow love, Show love and Share love!
Israelmore Ayivor
#22. We cannot fulfill our engagements with the Almighty without we have that Spirit with us. We should so live as to acknowledge the Good Spirit continually. We cannot do this unless we let the Spirit of God rule in temporalities as well as in spiritual matter.
Daniel H. Wells
#23. Honoring Christ, magnifying Christ, making much of Christ. That was the meaning of Paul's life. It should be the meaning of ours. And Paul prays it will be the meaning of his death as well. We live and we die to make much of Christ.
John Piper
#24. Had a wee in the Amazon. Until Richard told me I should be careful because there are some tiny fish that can swim up from the water through my urine and into my knob! Is that how amazing the Amazon is? The fish in there would really rather live in my knob than the river.
Karl Pilkington
#25. The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.
Jacques Delors
#26. Believe it or not, the number one fear in America remains public speaking. And, in some ways, I think that is a real shame because we are so blessed to live in a country where we are able to express ourselves, so we should want to do that.
Dana Perino
#27. The true disciple should aim to live for the gospel, rather than to die for it.
Saadi
#28. When you feel weak in spirit, think about the agreements you made with yourself about how to live an honourable life. We all have them, but unfortunately the contracts are often written in invisible ink when they should be signed in blood.
Suzanne Hayes
#29. All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.
Simone Weil
#30. One should try to live with his abilities rather than his deprivals.
M.H. Rakib
#31. Truth Matters "Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows." Pope Paul VI Italian Pope 1897-1978
C Snapp
#32. Everyone says that you should live like there is no tomorrow, but I think it's even more important to live like there is no yesterday. Your future means so much more than your past.
John A. Ashley
#33. You said I should change my life and find a reason to want to live. I chose you.
Laurann Dohner
#34. Because I am a one-legged, black, short, woman I had to spend every day of my life pushing against what society told me I should be. I had to sell my value every day of my life. Confidence is what enables us to push back on reality. Once you get good at that, you can use it to live your joy.
Bonnie St. John
#35. I am less interested in your chain-smoking; I am more interested in your habit. Any habit that becomes a force, a dominating force over you, is a sin. One should live more in freedom. One should be able to do things not according to habits but according to the situations.
Rajneesh
#37. Science may explain how humans came into being, but it has no answer to the slippery question of how humans should live. Only literature makes it possible to pose such questions in the first place. And if there is no answer, only literature can point to the impossibility of ever finding one.
Minae Mizumura
#38. It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die
Brent Weeks
#39. We all wish to live a happy life. In addition, we all have the same right to fulfil this goal. And we all have the potential to do so for the simple reason that future is not fixed, it can be changed. Therefore, we should live in hope that we really can overcome whatever problems we face.
Dalai Lama
#40. Your mind should be on one thing and one thing only: gaining enough power to be free to live your own purpose and not another man's.
Cheryl Matthynssens
#41. We should all have the legal right to purchase health insurance from any insurance company in any state, and we should be able use that insurance wherever we live. Health insurance should be portable.
John Mackey
#42. We can't hide it or fake it. We'll never fit society's idea for how women should look and behave, but why is that a tragedy? We're free to live how we want. It's liberating, if you choose to see it that way.
Sarai Walker
#43. If you should choose to look at those files, you will have to live with the consequences of your choices while, at the same time, being mindful that these choices will not only effect you, but will also infect, sorry, I intended to say effect, our entire family.
Donna K. Childree
#44. 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
#45. You have to believe in its principles. Anything is possible, as long as it's for the good of the world. Make the exception. Live exceptionally. And if you can't do that, maybe we should consider whether you're right for the project. Think about it, then let's talk tomorrow.
Amy Tan
#46. I think that we should make the best of where we live and we all should be able to come back home to a place that is welcoming and represents who we are
David Bromstad
#47. Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday.
Pradeepa Pandiyan
#48. We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.
J.R. Rim
#49. People should make up their minds whether to live or to die and do one or the other with the least inconvenience to others.
P.D. James
#50. When shall we pass a day alone? I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love - but if you should deny me the thousand and first - 'twould put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.
John Keats
#51. Too often we assume that what is "best" means that our children should live their lives according to the script that has worked for us. Without realizing it, we try to create carbon copies of ourselves.
Charles F. Boyd
#52. There should be a democracy of voices in literature. There are people who live with a kind of striving and with a certain kind of tenderness - it's not an unusual thing - and maybe that's not written about enough.
Anne Michaels
#53. We live in an age of generational turmoil. Baby-boom parents are accused of clinging on to jobs and houses which they should be freeing up for their children. Twentysomethings who can't afford to leave home and can't get jobs are attacked as aimless and immature.
Jane Ridley
#54. While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland.
Charles R. Swindoll
#55. The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.
Lenny Bruce
#56. Be careful how you live. Someone is always watching and will look to you as an example, an excuse, or a warning. The message some choices send is why struggle to do the right thing when you can do the wrong thing and be happy. Should we be happy or should we be right?
Donna Lynn Hope
#57. Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.
John Agyekum Kufuor
#58. I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with.
Denis Leary
#59. If we're going to make a politically responsible and a scientifically sensible claim it should not be stop the world exactly where it is because that's not possible. It has to be to decide what kind of world do we as human beings want to live in.
Richard Lewontin
#60. I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.
Sherman Alexie
#61. Know what? (Wulf) If halflings live past twenty-seven. But then anything is possible. I say in a few months we should pop us some Orville Redenbacher's, then sit back and enjoy the show. (Spawn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#62. Yet we may constantly do more in what we are than in what we do. We may serve better in the lives we live than in the best service we ever give. The memory of that should bring rest to your spirit when a bit tired, and may be disheartened because tired.
S.D. Gordon
#63. I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.
Cynthia Ozick
#64. Inspiration should be in direct correlation to the way you live. It shouldn't be something you strive to become. It should be the reaction to the journey you took to get there.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#65. To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they should be happy, they are trying to like it, but if it's off course from their north star, they aren't satisfied.
Martha Beck
#66. If one person comes in and says, this is the way life should be, I think you're asking for chaos. I think you gotta let different people live different ways. It's a big world.
Ice-T
#67. Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.
David Suzuki
#68. He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who dwell in heaven
Thiruvalluvar
#69. 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
#70. Why should we live halfway up the hill and swathed in the mists, when we might have an unclouded sky and a radiant sun over our heads if we would climb higher and walk in the light of His face?
Alexander MacLaren
#71. The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.
Alexander Sutherland Neill
#72. We all know what we should have done as we look backward. Yet looking backward further still, we may say that all goes as the Wild Magic wills. And we must look forward if we are to live long enough to look backward.
Mercedes Lackey
#73. I know what I don't want. I don't want to live through somebody else. To do what others expect me to do, be what they think I should be. I have to make my own choices, my own decisions. I have to control my own life, at least as much as any of us can
Kay Hooper
#74. I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.
Odette Annable
#75. - But, if life is just that, just being reasonable, then there is nothing in it - nothing worthwhile. So, the yearning that we have to keep dead things living - or to make unreasonable things reasonable. That is why a person should live.
Jesse Ball
#76. By and by, the cause of my disease
Gives me a pang that inwardly doth sting,
When that I think what grief it is again
To live and lack the thing should rid my pain.
Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey
#77. A man with a victim mentality attracts autocrats into his life who will decide how he should live
Sunday Adelaja
#78. The public school system is damned. Let me tell you how radical I am. Christian students should be in Christian schools. If you have to sell your car, live in a smaller house, or work a night job, put your child in Christian schools. If you can't afford it, homeschool.
Jerry Falwell
#79. We tell the dead to rest in peace, when we should worry about the living to live in peace.
Anthony Liccione
#80. I wrote the song "Show Me" as a prayer to God asking simple, honest questions about life and death and why there is so much suffering in the world. As I grew with the song I realized I shouldn't limit these questions solely to God; I should ask those questions of others and of myself.
John Legend
#81. In our time, no less than any other, traditionalists should live out their faiths and their ways in the world, confident that their instruction and example will make that world better and that people will be drawn to the spark.
Yuval Levin
#82. the same way, you should be a light for other people. Live so that they will see the good things you do and will praise your Father in heaven.
Max Lucado
#83. What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.
Plato
#84. Every time I rap about being a big girl in a small world, it's doing a couple things: it's empowering my self-awareness, my body image, and it's also making the statement that we are all bigger than this; we're a part of something bigger than this, and we should live in each moment knowing that.
Lizzo
#85. You should live in such a way that looking back at your past later on in the future, you will thank God for your life and for what He has done for you
Sunday Adelaja
#86. The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like ... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.
Moby
#87. A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?
Alan Moore
#88. According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
Moliere
#89. I decided we should get married no more of this running-through-the-rain shit. We should live in the same place, sleep in the same bed at night, wake up together in the morning, and whenever there's a tornado, I can take care of you and watch Baseball at the same time.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#90. I believe that ... every one of God's creatures was created equal. I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.
Paula Deen
#91. People should go about their daily lives, to work, to live, to travel, to shop, to do the things people did in the same way as they did them before 11 September.
Tony Blair
#92. Each human being has his own sexual identity and should live according to that identity without guilt, provided that he does not oblige others to share it.
Paulo Coelho
#93. I support equality. Everyone should feel free to live out the parts of their personality that correspond to the classic male or female image.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
#94. Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect.
ASAP Rocky
#95. People always say you should live your life as if it were your last day. I think you should live your life as though it will go on for ever; that every day is so good that you don't want it to end.
Peter Thiel
#96. We live in an upside-down world, in which people hate what they should love and love what they should hate.
Billy Graham
#97. I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake.
Pablo Picasso
#98. I could live in the woods with thee in sight, Where never should human foot intrude: Or with thee find light in the darkest night, And a social crowd in solitude.
Tibullus
#99. Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.
Phyllis Schlafly
#100. Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea ...
Anna Letitia Barbauld
