Born To Live Quotes

• I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, Names, Sometimes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". Vanity Fair, www.imdb.com. April 1991.

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  Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

  James Dean

  Life, Change, Positive

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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  It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby

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• A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

  Max Muller

  Love, Inspirational, Couple

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

  Boris Pasternak

  Life, Journey, Men

  Doctor Zhivago ch. 9 (1958) (translation by Max Hayward and Manya Harari)

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• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 6, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

  Orson Welles

  Love, Life, Depressing

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• It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ch. 12 (1997)

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• Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.

  R. J. Palacio

  Children, Love Yourself, Life Is Good

  "Fictional character: Via". "Wonder", www.imdb.com. 2017.

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• Remember that animals are born to live their own lives, not to serve you! Do not use them; do not exploit them. Let them live their own lives.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Animal, Use, Remember

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• We're born to shimmer, we're born to shine
  We're born to radiate
  We're born to live, we're born to love
  We're born to never hate.

  Shawn Mullins

  Hate, Shining, Born

  Song: Shimmer Right, 1998

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• To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form has its own sort of happiness and unhappiness. From the elephant down to the flea... from the flea down to the sensitive and living molecule which is the origin of all, there is not a speck in the whole of nature that does not feel pain or pleasure.

  John Dewey

  Life, Pain, Science

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• We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.

  Jeff Buckley

  Pain, Patterns, Born

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• Gratitude feels so good because it is the state of mind closest to your natural state in which you were born to live.

  Esther Hicks

  Gratitude, Grateful, Mind

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• We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

  Studs Terkel

  Realist, Born, Courses

  Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Interview, www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• When you feel gratitude, you are the closest to the natural state you were born to live in.

  Esther Hicks

  Gratitude, Natural, States

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• What can you do when you don't fit in? What can you do when life seems to be passing you by?" "Follow me. I want to show you something. See the horizon over there? See how big this world is? See how much room there is for everybody? Have you ever seen any other worlds?" "No." "As far as you know, this is the only world there is, right?" "Right." "There are no other worlds for you to live in, right?" "Right." "You were born to live in this world, right?" "Right." "WELL LIVE IN IT THEN! Five cents please.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Other Worlds, Horizon, Want

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• Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Men, Suffering, Finals

  Thomas Wolfe, Maxwell Evarts Perkins, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Park Bucker (2000). “To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe--Maxwell Perkins Correspondence”, p.21, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

  Voltaire

  Men, Boredom, Misery

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• To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.

  Albert Camus

  Peace, War, Winning

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

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• L'homme est ne   pour la socie  te  ; se  parez-le, isolez-le, ses ide  es se de  suniront, son caracte'  re se tournera, mille affections ridicules s'e  le'  veront dans son coeur; des 274 pense  es extravagantes germeront dans son esprit, comme les ronces dans une terre sauvage. Man is born to live in society: separate him, isolate him, and his ideas disintegrate, his character changes, a thousand ridiculous affectations rise up in his heart; extreme thoughts take hold in his mind, like the brambles in a wild field.

  Denis Diderot

  Heart, Character, Son

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• I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

  Ed Bradley

  Travel, Cities, Paris

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