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Quotes for: to live




Who lives content with little possesses everything.
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux - Épîtres / 
 






We have as much need of reasons for living as of the necessities of life.
Henri Grouès / 






There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein / 






The best of all will be those who know only one thing for certain: that whatever else happens, as long as we live we shall have to live together with ourselves.
Hannah Arendt / 






To live without loving is not really to live.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - La Princesse d'Élide / 
 



To live without loving is not really to live.




One should eat to live, and not live to eat.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - The Miser / 
 






Many who have not learnt Reason, nevertheless live according to reason.
Democritus - Fragments / 
 






Passion makes a man live; wisdom only makes him last!
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 
 






The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
Alan Watts / 






If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
Alan Watts - The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety / 
 






The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 
 






Out of my Will to Health and to Life I made my philosophy.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is / 
 






It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and — what will perhaps make you wonder more — it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
Seneca - De Brevitate vitæ / 
 






I want to live through three or four more books.
Gustave Flaubert / 






You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David Thoreau - Journal / 
 






We have to live and deal with disorder.
Edgar Morin - Introduction à la pensée complexe / 
 






To travel is to live.
Hans Christian Andersen - The fairy tale of my life / 
 






Live and let live.
Friedrich Schiller / 






It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell / 






To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery / 






Of all the sciences needful for men, the chief one is the knowledge of how to live, doing as little harm as possible; and of all arts, the most important is that which teaches how to avoid evil, and how to produce good with the least violence.
Leo Tolstoy / 






He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray / 






I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.
Henry David Thoreau / 






Man was born to live with his fellow human beings.
Denis Diderot /






He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus / 






To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Bertrand Russell /






Remember to live!
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus Aurelius /






To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Arthur Schopenhauer /






Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
Albert Camus /










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