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| Du kan leva en livstid och i slutet av den veta mer om andra människor än vad du vet om dig själv. | Beryl Markham |
| Du lever och lär. Hur som helst, du lever åtminstone. | Douglas Adams (1952-2001) |
| En person börjar leva när han kan leva utanför sig själv. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Ett hus är en maskin att bo i. | Le Corbusier (1887-1965) |
| Innan jag kan leva med andra människor måste jag leva med mig själv. Det enda som inte står ut med majoritetsbeslut är en persons samvete. | Atticus |
| Min läkare gav mig sex månader att leva, men när jag inte kunde betala räkningen så gav han mig sex månader till. | Walter Matthau (1920-2000) |
| Om du lever i 100 år så vill jag leva i 100 år minus en dag så jag aldrig blir tvungen att leva utan dig. | A. A. Milne (1882-1956) |
| Vi lever i en värld där lemonad är gjord av kemikaliska smakämnen medan möbellack görs av riktiga citroner. | Alfred E. Neuman |
| The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep | Alan Patrick Herbert |
| A man cannot live more than 24 hours unless he has at least three cubic meters of air that is being constantly replaced. | Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) |
| I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning I say: "What is my exciting thing for today?" Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow. | Barbara Jordan (1936-) |
| People who live in glass houses have to answer the bell | Bruce Patterson |
| Live as you would have wished to live when you are dying | Christian Furchtegott Gellert |
| The one thing worse than not living for ever would be living for ever | Christopher Ricks |
| My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. | Clarence B. Kelland (1881-1964) |
| I don't pretend to tell people how to live their lives other than to do the right thing and work hard. Everything else should take care of itself. | Dave Anderson |
| Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it | David Hockney (1937-) |
| We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic | David Russell (1942-) |
| An adult male living alone stops being a vaguely tragicomic bachelor once he is found in the circumstance of simultaneously taking a whiz and eating a sandwich | Dean Allen |
| All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'. | Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) |
| Live simply that others might simply live. | Elizabeth Seaton |
| If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. | Eubie Blake (1883-1983) |
| Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake... | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| I'm gonna live till I die. | Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) |
| If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee | Graham Summer |
| When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life | Greg Anderson (1964-) |
| In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. | Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) |
| Read in order to live. | Henry Fielding (1707-1754) |
| I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook. | Henry Hill |
| He does not live in vain; who employs his wealth, his thought, and his speech to advance the good of others | Hindu Proverb |
| Two can Live as Cheaply as One for Half as Long | Howard Kandel |
| America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live. | Jane Addams (1860-1935) |
| You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life- so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself | Jane Seymour (1951-) |
| Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be. | Jeremy Schwartz |
| It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. | Jim Bishop (1907-1987) |
| The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. | Joan Borysenko |
| It's almost two societies, the living and the dead, and you live with them both. | John Hall Wheelock |
| It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known | John Wilmot (2nd Earl of Rochester) (1647-1680) |
| No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly. | Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) |
| We live, as we dream alone | Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) |
| Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living | Josiah Royce (1855-1916) |
| Men can live without air a few minutes, without water for about two weeks, without food for about two months - and without a new thought for years on end. | Kent Ruth |
| What has God revealed to man that has ever helped him get a living? K | Lemuel K. Washburn |
| With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. | Lope de Vega |
| My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. | Louis Adamic |
| In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world | Mary Heaton Vorse |
| To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go | Mary Oliver |
| Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. | Nicholas Negroponte |
| You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them. | P.T. Forsyth |
| He could not live without adversaries, no more than a tree can live without soil; like mangrove trees, which make their own soil, he could create enemies from within himself. | Peter Evans |
| It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious. | Peter McWilliams (1949-) |
| Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. | Ray Bradbury (1920-) |
| Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy | Richard Halloway |
| The demands of modern living are so exacting that men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely | Robert Grant |
| The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate. | Ronald Blythe |
| Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life. | Sogyal Rinpoche |
| The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable. | Storm Jameson (1891-) |
| There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world: what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one. | Swahili Proverb |
| No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. | Terry Josephson |
| Redeem thy misspent time that's past, And live this day as if thy last | Thomas Ken |
| Every man dies - Not every man really lives | William Ross Wallace |
| When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it! | Agneta Fältskog (1950-) |
| To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle. | Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) |
| To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort. | Barbara Grizzuti Harrison |
| It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. | Betty Friedan (1921-) |
| I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant. instead of my master. | Brigham Young (1801-1877) |
| The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free. | Charles R. Swindoll (1934-) |
| I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. | Corazon Aquino (1933-) |
| Living is abnormal. | Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994) |
| We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it! | Gary Ryan Blair |
| I think people who can truly live a life in music are telling the world, "You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don't need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give | George Harrison (1943-2001) |
| In this Age, when it is said of a man, "He knows how to live," it may be implied he is not very honest | George Savile (1633-) |
| You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived | Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) |
| Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that. | Gloria Naylor (1950-) |
| To be alive at all involves some risk. | Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) |
| It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. | J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) |
| I want to live my life, not record it. | Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994) |
| Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it | Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) |
| To live is to feel oneself lost | José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) |
| One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with. | Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) |
| Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass? | Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) |
| The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| I live on good soup, not on fine words. | Molière (1622-1673) |
| I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far. | Neil Simon (1927-) |
| Live your life and forget your age. | Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) |
| You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career. | Paul Newman (1925-) |
| Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. | Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919-2000) |
| In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium. | Reggie Jackson (1946-) |
| They that live in a trading street are not disturbed at the passage of carts | Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729) |
| Mother can't you see I've got to live my life the way I feel is right for me might not be right for you but it's right for me... | Sarah McLachlan (1968-) |
| The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion. | Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) |
| I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. | General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) |
| One must work and dare if one really wants to live. | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
| I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism | Whittaker Chambers (1901-) |
| I have liked remembering almost as much as I have liked living | Lord William Maxwell Aitken Beaverbrook (1879-1964) |
| You live and learn. At any rate, you live. | Douglas Adams (1952-2001) |
| I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry, because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life? | Christian Furchtegott Gellert |
| Live as you would have wished to live when you are dying | Christian Furchtegott Gellert |
| There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world - even if what is published is not true. | Richard David Bach (1936-) |
| Only a life lived for others is worth living | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go | Mary Oliver |
| I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is. | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. | Clarence B. Kelland (1881-1964) |
| No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. | Terry Josephson |
| No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
| One must work and dare if one really wants to live. | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
| Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. | Robert Cody |
| Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world - even if what is published is not true. | Richard David Bach (1936-) |
| We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. | Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) |
| Where I make a living, there is my home | African Proverb |
| The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference. | Al Capp (1909-1979) |
| He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world. | Arthur Miller (1915-2005) |
| You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government. | Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965) |
| To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances. | Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) |
| You'll live. Only the best get killed. | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. | Clarence B. Kelland (1881-1964) |
| Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours | Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) |
| Roaming through the jungle of "oohs" and "ahs," searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats. | Duke Ellington (1899-1974) |
| If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. | Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) |
| We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously | Epicurus |
| Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want | Erich Fromm (1900-1980) |
| He who has why to live can bear almost any how | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| They used us as an excuse to go mad and then blamed it on us. Gandhi says create and preserve the image of your choice. The image of my choice is not Beatle George - those who want that can go and see Wings. Why live in the past? Be here now. | George Harrison (1943-2001) |
| The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. | George Norman Douglas (1865-1957) |
| Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all. | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| In this Age, when it is said of a man, "He knows how to live," it may be implied he is not very honest | George Savile (1633-) |
| Live and let live | German Proverb |
| I intend to live forever, or die trying. | Groucho Marx (1890-1977) |
| Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Living with a dog is messy - like living with an idealist | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children; | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) |
| It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. | Jim Bishop (1907-1987) |
| Live dangerously and you live right. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely to live and die on this earth | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| It's almost two societies, the living and the dead, and you live with them both. | John Hall Wheelock |
| Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do. | José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) |
| I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| We live, as we dream alone | Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) |
| It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die | Decimus Junius Juvenal (60-127) |
| Living wasn't easy for you, was it? You couldn't enter your own life, but you could be someone else. You weren't you then; you were safe. | Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) |
| Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance. | Ogden Nash (1902-1971) |
| The great end of living is to harmonize man with the order of things | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about. | Orlando Bloom (1977-) |
| The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. | Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) |
| The greatest wealth is to live content with little. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| They live ill who expect to live always | Publilius Syrus (85 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| For we who live to please must please to live | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear. | Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) |
| People do not care how nobly they live, only how long, despite the fact that it is within everyone's reach to live nobly, but within no one's reach to live long | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing. | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
| Live with wolves, and you learn to howl | Spanish Proverb |
| I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there. | Stephen Wright (1955-) |
| To live happily with other people, one should ask of them only what they can give. | Tryon Edwards |
| Those who live are those who fight. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now! | Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) |
| Lives in eternity's sun rise. | William Blake (1757-1827) |
| Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| Simply the thing that I am shall make me live. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| We live by admiration, hope and love; and even as these are well and wisely fixed, in dignity of being we ascend | William Wordsworth (1770-1850) |