Live Quotes: Inspiring Words to Celebrate Life

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

George Matthew Adams, Philosopher

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it"

David Hockney, Artist

"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

"Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!"

Steven Wright, Comedian

"I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world"

Ruth Benedict, Scientist

"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little"

Plato, Philosopher

"To live happily is an inward power of the soul"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live"

Socrates, Philosopher

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"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, Actor

"I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know"

Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Photographer

"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company"

Charles Evans Hughes, Judge

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it"

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever"

Mattie Stepanek, Poet

"Love the life you live. Live the life you love"

Bob Marley, Musician

"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"To live without Hope is to Cease to live"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts"

Cicero, Philosopher

"What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"We make war that we may live in peace"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"Live your life, do your work, then take your hat"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Live the life you've dreamed"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

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