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Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

Benjamin Franklin

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.

Margaret Milla

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Jack London, The Call of the Wild

I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American.

Daniel Webste

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Mille

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

William Shakespeare

Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - A date which will live on in infamy - The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Johann von Schille

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self - Made laws.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butle

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Conte Vittorio Alfieri

Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Providence" #330

God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preache

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

Alice Thomas Ellis

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

John Donne

I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

Samuel Johnson

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive.

Irv Kupcinet

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

Leo Tolstoy

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

R. D. Laing

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

Terry Josephson

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

Flora Whittemore

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Dame Rose Macaulay

The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.

Laurens Van der Post

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates, from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each othe.

Roger Banniste

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Samuel Johnson

A man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.

James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment

Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.

Percy B. Shelley

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth.

Native American Praye

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly... spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Susan Taylo

Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

James Joyce

He that lives on hope will die fasting.

American Prove

I have lived some thirty years on this planet and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Henry David Thoreau

Man can live far from God - - Not outside God. God is wherever we are. Even in suffering? Even in suffering.

Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffe