The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
Epictetus

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
Blaise Pascal

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I want to live my life, not record it.
Jackie Kennedy

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Woody Allen

I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
Woody Allen

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
Dolly Parton

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
Dwight L. Moody

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
Oprah Winfrey

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Alfred Lord Tennyson

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
Charles Spurgeon

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
Charles Spurgeon

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
Noam Chomsky

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
Alan Watts

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
Alexis de Tocqueville

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.
Henny Youngman