We have as much need of reasons for living as of the necessities of life.
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.
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.
To live without loving is not really to live.
Passion makes a man live; wisdom only makes him last!
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
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.
I want to live through three or four more books.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Who lives content with little possesses everything.
To travel is to live.
Live and let live.
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.
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.
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
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.
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.
Man was born to live with his fellow human beings.
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.
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.
Remember to live!
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.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
Irony hurts, humour treats. Irony can kill; humour helps to live. Irony wants to establish domination; humour liberates. Irony is cruel, humor is forgiving. Irony is humiliating; humor is humble.
