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To live is to choose.
- Kofi Annan
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Choice
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
You have made people listen.
You have made people care, and you have taught us
that whether we are poor or prosperous,
we have only one world to share.
You have taught young people that
they do have the power to change the world.
- Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General, to Bono. (November 1999)
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The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
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
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Whatever happened, forgive others, forgive yourself,
move forward, live for today and tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations.
For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child,
and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential,
and fight for your dreams.
- Ashley Smith
Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau
Have a Vision, a Dream.
Believe in that Vision.
Live that Vision with every fiber of your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is your dream - your life-dream?
Have you begun to live it yet?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I live courageously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I choose to live a life of gratitude and joy,
inspiring others to follow my example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dance like no one is watching,
love like you'll never be hurt.
Sing like no one is listening.
Live life like it's heaven on earth.
- Anonymous (various attributions and alternate phrasings)
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Love yourself as you truly are -
and live courageously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as one's own
in the midst of abundance.
- The Buddha
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
Live life to the fullest.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
It's your life - live your own goals,
your own values, your own life.
Be of service to others,
but make your own decisions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
Dream as if you'll live forever.
Live as if you'll die today.
- James Dean
Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.
- Ernest Holmes
I live with enthusiasm, and give thanks for my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't live down to expectations.
Go out there and do something remarkable.
- Wendy Wasserstein
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation.
Live wild, life free, live as master of your own fate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I submit to you that if a man hasn't
discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel
As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget that the highest appreciation
is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John F. Kennedy
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
Life is a dangerous - ultimately fatal - endeavor,
so you may as well live it full out.
Chart your course, cast off the lines,
and boldly sail the seas of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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