Live Well Quotes - Page 5

• You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

  Bill Ayers

  Life, Needs, Way To Live

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• Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Law, Cities

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• I love to travel. I think it's the best education to experience how other people live. It reminds us of the abundance and variety we have in the world, but at our essence, we are all the same, we all want the same things: to live well, pursue our dreams, and be happy.

  Kandyse McClure

  Dream, Thinking, Essence

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• The government will pay certain farmers to not grow corn. Wow. Where's my check? That'd be great. "Hey, what do you do for a living?" "Well, I don't grow corn. Get up at the crack of noon, make sure there's no corn growing. I'm gonna get up early tomorrow. And not plow. You know, we used to not grow tomatoes-but there's more money in not growing corn."

  Brian Regan

  Funny, Up Early, Government

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• All those large dreams by which men long live well Are magic-lanterned on the smoke of hell.

  William Empson

  Dream, Men, Long

  William Empson (2000). “The complete poems”, Lane, Allen

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• Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true.

  Leo Strauss

  Views, Doe, Certain

  Leo Strauss (1953). “Natural Right and History”, p.6, University of Chicago Press

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• To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the whole heart, the whole soul, and the whole mind: It is therefore obvious that this love must be kept whole and uncorrupt, that is temperance; it should not be overcome with difficulties, that is fortitude, it must not be subservient to anything else, that is justice; it must discriminate among things so as not to be deceived by falsity or fraud, that is prudence.

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Heart, Justice

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• You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

  George Eliot

  Running, Thinking, Entitlement

  George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.72

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• There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Knowledge, Mean, Sea

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• Men don't live well by themselves. They don't even live like people. They live like bears with furniture.

  Rita Rudner

  Men, People, Bears

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• You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.

  Bill Vaughan

  Want, Sopranos, Said

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• A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

  "Clemenceau, The Events of His Life as Told by Himself to His Former Secretary, Jean Martet". Book by Georges Clemenceau, 1930.

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• Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Inspiring, Memorial Day, Gratitude

  "Honor Sacrifice by Supporting Vets" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2012.

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• I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually.

  Robert Mondavi

  Wine, Ideas, Moderation

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• The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Live Life, Yoga

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.183, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The best revenge is living well without you.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Revenge, Without You, Wells

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• Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

  Maya Angelou

  Art, Philosophy, Love Life

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• There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

  Michel de Montaigne

  This Life, Wells, Acquire

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.852, Stanford University Press

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• I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen

  Rene Descartes

  Desire, Unseen, Motto

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• I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shame -faced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Mean, Men

  "King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus".

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• Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too;
  To live and die is all we have to do.

  John Denham

  Life, May, Wells

  Sir John Denham (1779). “The poetical works of Sir John Denham: With the life of the author”

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• Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
  You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill:
  Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age
  Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Play, Age

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Colley Cibber (1804). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with his last corrections, additions and improvements”, p.105

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• Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Age, Care

  "Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium". Book by Seneca the Younger, LXI, c. 65 AD.

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• To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Blessing, Wells

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• Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest,
  Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.

  John Milton

  Life, Hate, Long

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 11, l. 553

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