live for
Verb
Meaning
To deeply enjoy or be fulfilled by something esteemed as very important in one's life.
I live for knowledge.
To find a reason to continue having the will to live.
He has been chronically depressed and feels he has nothing to live for.
To eagerly await or hope for (a significant life event).
I live for the day I can finally break free from my servitude.
Examples
We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - live for it.
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.
A man's servant can live for a hundred years; the slave of a woman dies in six months.
Live for a century ? learn for a century.