(verb) To be alive; to have life. Example: "He's not expected to live for more than a few months."
"Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people."
"Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic."
"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could."
"Each day brings new opportunities, allowing you to constantly live with love—be there for others—bring a little light into someone's day. Be grateful and live each day to the fullest."
"You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not."
"A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life."
"Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly you forget meDo not look for meFor I shall already have forgotten youIf you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my lifeAnd you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have rootsRememberThat on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my armsAnd my roots will set off to seek another land"
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."