Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
Leo Buscaglia

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
George S. Patton

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
Les Brown

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
Les Brown

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
Les Brown

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
Les Brown

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
Saint Augustine

To seek the highest good is to live well.
Saint Augustine

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
Leo Tolstoy

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Leo Tolstoy

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
Leo Tolstoy

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
Leo Tolstoy

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Leo Tolstoy

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Voltaire

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
Voltaire

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Voltaire