Live Life famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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She was crazy. I could be too. It was my greatest fear, that I'd snap one day too. Just like she had. I wanted to live life because if that day came I wanted to have lived once.
-- Abbi Glines -
I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.
-- Al Jourgensen -
Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
-- Alan Lightman -
I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.
-- Alan Rickman -
People are very proud of Newcastle, very proud to come from here. This is a working class City and they just want to enjoy themselves and live life to the full. They work all week, pick their wages up at the end of the week and they spend it over a weekend by having a good time and watching the football. That's our life.
-- Alan Shearer -
With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.
-- Alanis Morissette -
Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
-- Alexander Herzen -
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
The hardest part of living is loving 'Cause loving turns to leaving every time And the hardest part of leaving is living Life is hard when love is so unkind
-- Allison Moorer -
Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.
-- Amos Oz -
Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.
-- Amy Neftzger -
Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.
-- Andy Andrews -
Youve got to live life to write a book about it.
-- Andy Williams -
If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end...
-- Angela Johnson -
Rare is the book that can actually transform us into better, more fulfilled people. Having combed through the research and documented case studies all over the world, Kristof and WuDunn present the clearest view I have ever seen of the human soul. A Path Appears tells us whether we are intrinsically good, why specific ways we parent our newborns help predict their chances for success, and how we can live lives of greater significance. This book, full of rich and riveting true stories, reminds us that human greatness is all around us, and even within us, if we dare to look.
-- Ann Curry -
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead; that is where your future lies. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?
-- Ann Landers -
Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.
-- Ann Patchett -
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
-- Anne Sullivan Macy -
I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Effort is required to live life of others, but to live our own every action comes all and only natural.
-- Anuj -
A person can always live life of his own only if he is prepared to stand alone when there is none to support the things that he applauds, believes and cherishes in his soul.
-- Anuj -
There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if - as the poet Rumi put it - everything is rigged in our favor.
-- Arianna Huffington -
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
-- Aristotle -
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
-- Arnold J. Toynbee -
Country to me is living life at its simplest: Learning to appreciate a sliced vine-ripe tomato with a dash of salt, served between two slices of good bread and eaten over the kitchen sink.
-- Art Smith -
Go back. Go back in time. Everyone's life is a chain of memories. In each chain there are shining links, happenings where this element of wonder...was very strong. Why don't you reach out and relive some of those memories? If you work at it, remembering the wonder can revive your ability to live life as it should be lived.
-- Arthur Gordon Webster -
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen short in almost any undertaking, it was seldom because I had tried and failed. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.
-- Arthur Gordon Webster -
Is it so wrong to just live life and enjoy it? Between fun and function, why must we choose the latter?
-- Arthur Nersesian -
To be alive, to able to see, to walk...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.
-- Arthur Smith -
All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.
-- August Wilson -
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
-- Ayn Rand -
Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect.
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process.
-- Barry Goldwater -
[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need to evaluate—whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama.
-- Bart D. Ehrman -
Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends.
-- Baz Luhrmann -
Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.
-- Beck -
Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.
-- Bell Hooks -
Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a culture that uses so much of the world’s resources. How do men and women, boys and girls, live lives of compassion, justice and love? And I think that’s the visionary challenge for feminism and all other progressive movements for social change.
-- Bell Hooks -
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.
-- Bernard Malamud -
It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.
-- Betty Friedan -
All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live.
-- Betty Smith -
You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.
-- Bill Ayers -
You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
-- Bill Hybels -
I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.
-- Bobby Womack -
And I deeply pray that everyone discovers that they can strip away anything that might be holding them back on every level, and can begin living life from the real essence of their own soul.

-- Brandon Bays -
Discipleship is the art and science of helping people find, follow and fully become like Jesus. Discipleship happens as God's people show love, share truth and live life with one another, making new disciples along the way.
-- Brandon Cox -
Reach for the sky, set goals, live life to fullest and always remember to wake up each day with a smile.
-- Brandy Miller -
Live life to the fullest. Follow your dreams - don't let anything stop you.
-- Brendan Foster -
People may call what happens at midlife 'a crisis,' but it's not. It's an unraveling - a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you're 'supposed' to live. The unraveling is a time when you are challenged by the universe to let go of who you think you are supposed to be and to embrace who you are.
-- Brené Brown -
Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion. False, manhandled religion produces the opposite effect. Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretexts, it draws us away from reality and God.
-- Brennan Manning -
Living life with a clear conscience is the fruit of a repentant heart and new life through Jesus Christ.
-- Brian Houston -
I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.
-- Brian K. Vaughan -
Live life today and deal with tomorrow when it comes!
-- Brian McFadden -
There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
-- Bruce Lee -
Italy is still very much the same place it was 2,000 years ago. Italians are still the same .. there's a sense of beauty and a sense of dignity and a sense of living life to the full that infects everyone.
-- Bruno Heller -
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
-- C. S. Lewis -
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
-- C. S. Lewis -
There are people who live lives little different than the beasts,and I don't mean that badly. I mean that they accept whatever happens day to day without struggle or question or regret. To them things just are, like the earth and sky and seasons.
-- Celeste De Blasis -
Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.
-- Celia Imrie -
When you realize youre alive, you can live life!
-- Chad Michael Murray -
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
-- Charles Ives -
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.
-- Charlie Hunnam -
I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.
-- Che Guevara -
The goal isn't more money. The goal is living life on your terms.
-- Chris Brogan -
How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing.
-- Christian Slater -
Imagine all the people, living life in peace. Well, that's hard to do when you're on this blood stained street.
-- Christine Lavin -
I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.
-- Christopher Reeve -
I'm living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what I wanted.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die.
-- Colleen Hoover -
If I were you I'd promise to live life for all it's worth, take all you've been given and leave your mark upon this Earth. Trust your heart to show you everything you need...and if you were you, I'd fall in love with me.
-- Collin Raye -
Never let your soul be silenced. Live life out loud. Every day tell your truth not with words but with actions from your heart.
-- Cory Booker -
From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived."
-- Craig Scott -
We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.
-- Dalai Lama -
The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.
-- Dallas Willard -
Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.
-- Darren Aronofsky -
If you live life, then you become what are.
-- Dave Matthews -
It's a lot of work living the life that you want to live, but that's what I'm doing.
-- David Alan Harvey -
I think it may have been Tom Wolfe (if it wasn't, my apologies, Tom, and my apologies to whoever it was) who said in print once, 'David Carradine lives the life that Hunter Thompson only writes about.'
-- David Carradine -
Liza, I love you more than any words can say. You have made me a complete person. You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever.
-- David Gest -
You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got.
-- David Miliband -
When God calls His child to live the life of a missionary, He gives him the desire with the calling.
-- David Sills -
A lot of ultramarathoners are soloists. They're single and live lives off the grid.
-- Dean Karnazes -
There’s no point to living life unless you make history and the best way to make history is to help others.
-- Demi Lovato -
Angels assist us in connecting with a powerful yet gentle force, which encourages us to live life to it's fullest.
-- Denise Linn -
A Quest of any kind is a heroic journey. It is a rite of passage that carries you to an inner place of silence and majesty and encourages you to live life more courageously and genuinely.
-- Denise Linn -
The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life- how terrible! Nita gulped for control as she remembered Fred's word of just this morning, an eternity ago. And this was what being a wizard was about. Keeping terrible things from happening, even when it hurts. Not just power, or control of what ordinary people couldn't control, or delight in being able to make strange things happen. Those were the side effects- not the reason, the purpose.
-- Diane Duane -
You cant write about stuff you dont know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.
-- Dierks Bentley -
We can't all be stars; we can't all be leaders. We are all God's creatures, living life, and we have that God light in us and we're supposed to let it shine. And not everybody wants to be like me and stick their neck out to get up on stage and perform. There are those like me, but there are also those that are of a shyer nature. And they're smarter than most of us that are out there showing our asses.
-- Dolly Parton -
Live the life you're living and try and stay who you are
-- Donald Cerrone -
Decide that life is good and you are special. Decide to enjoy today. Decide that you will live life to the fullest now, no matter what. Trust that you will change what needs changing, but also decide that you're not going to put off enjoying life just because you don't have everything you want now. Steadfastly refuse to let anything steal your joy. Choose to be happy...and you will be.
-- Donna Fargo -
You have to live life if you're going to create believable lives on paper.
-- Donna Jo Napoli
