Born To Live Quotes

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving Up, Animal, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.

  Hannah Arendt

  Effort, Trying, World

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Between past and future: eight exercises in political thought”, Viking Adult

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• Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.

  Denis Diderot

  Heart, Character, Men

  "Memoirs of a Nun". Book by Denis Diderot, 1796.

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• We may writhe in agony from pain
  Or laugh out loud when we find happiness
  As long as we're alive tomorrow will come
  we become stronger and keep on living
  We were born to live

  Miho Obana

  Pain, Agony, Long

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• There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.

  Alistair Maclean

  Courage, Son, Men

  ALISTAIR MACLEAN (1956). “THE GUNS OF NAVARONE”

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• I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered "Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.

  Alice Hoffman

  Cousin, Blood, Knives

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.474, Simon and Schuster

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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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