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live for

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live for someone or something 
1. to exist for the benefit of someone or something. She just lives for her children. Roger lives for his work.
2. to exist to enjoy someone or something. She lives for her vacations in Acapulco.
See also: live
live for something
to enjoy doing one thing more than anything else You live for your sport or your work or your family and most other things you simply enjoy.
See also: live
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Certainly not; but if you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them; and she is very stout and healthy, and hardly forty.
Sense and Sensibility by Austen, Jane View in context
Earlier, this had occupied my mind an hour; now I dismissed it in a moment; there was Eva, I must live for her; there must be ways of living at least a day or two without sustenance, and I must think of them.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
To live for myself avoiding those two evils is my whole philosophy now.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
 
 
 
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