Lives Quotes

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. (Marcus Aurelius)
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. View quote
Oscar Wilde
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. View quote
Antonio Porchia
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. View quote
J. M. Barrie
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. View quote
Booker T. Washington
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. View quote
Clarence Darrow
All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives. View quote
Steven Spielberg
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. View quote
Roger Caras
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. (James Thurber)
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
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
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. View quote
Sophia Loren
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. View quote
Arthur Miller
Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. View quote
Saul Bellow
Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity. (Jane Goodall)
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. View quote
Jimmy Carter
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. View quote
Katherine Mansfield