One Life To Live Quotes (page 2)

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• evening
• leaving
• one life

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent peopleand the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easierbecause you have lived, this is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• life
• moving
• to live

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving. Jerry Seinfeld

• life
• to live
• pure

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. Buddha

• to live
• life
• one life

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice. Khalil Gibran

• look
• looking back
• life

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice. Lord Acton

• life
• god
• to live

To know God and to live is one and the same thing. God is life. Leo Tolstoy

• people
• good
• understanding

One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand these eighteenth century people, that it was that grounding in Greek and Latin that gave them their sense of the classic virtues: the classic ideals of honor, virtue, the good society, and their historic examples of what they could try to live up to. David McCullough

• life
• evening
• one life

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• life
• success
• to live

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed. Corita Kent

• life
• good
• to live

Life was good, one had only to live it. Jorge Amado

• your life
• life
• culture

How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life... Barry Lopez

• free
• atheist
• beautiful

If you're an atheist, you know, you believe, this is the only life you're going to get. It's a precious life. It's a beautiful life. Its something we should live to the full, to the end of our days. Where if you're religious and you believe in another life somehow, that means you don't live this life to the full because you think you're going to get another one. That's an awfully negative way to live a life. Being a atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily and fully Richard Dawkins

• traitor
• die
• courage

I am not one of your repentant sinners, Kenneth. I have lived my life—God, what a life!—and as I have lived I shall die, unflinching and unchanged. Dare one to presume that a few hours spent in whining prayers shall atone for years of reckless dissoluteness? 'Tis a doctrine of cravens, who, having lacked in life the strength to live as conscience bade them, lack in death the courage to stand by that life's deeds. I am no such traitor to myself. Rafael Sabatini

• ocean
• die
• life

Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living thus, as a river, one experiences life to the full, flows along with the current of life, and dies in order to live again as an ocean. Henry Miller

• thinking
• bad
• life

Having then for the first time clearly understood that before every man, and before himself, there lay only suffering, death, and eternal oblivion, he had concluded that to live under such conditions was impossible; that one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself. But he had done neither the one nor the other, yet he continued to live, think, and feel, had even at that very time got married,... Leo Tolstoy