Living Quotes

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living. (Cicero)
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. View quote
Carl Jung
Without love living is easy; but it's meaningless. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
The examined life is the only life worth living. View quote
Socrates
Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude. View quote
Anne Frank
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. View quote
Euripides
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. View quote
Epicurus
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. View quote
Thomas Szasz
The dead govern the living. View quote
Auguste Comte
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. View quote
Steve Jobs
You are not here merely to prepare to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget this errand. (Woodrow Wilson)
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once. View quote
Audrey Hepburn
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system. View quote
Bruce Lee
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. View quote
Bruce Lee
Living is a horizontal fall. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. View quote
John Adams
Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. View quote
Bruce Lee
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. View quote
Norman Mailer
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything. View quote
Gertrude Stein
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it. View quote
Aaron Copland
Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream. (Hugh Hefner)
Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. View quote
Frank Sinatra