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Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat.Socrates
To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.Denis Watley
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.Henry Drummond
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.Walter Lippmann
I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.George Gordon Byron
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
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.Henri - Frederic Amiel
What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.Ivan Pavlov
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.Leoardo da Vinci
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.Barry Lopez
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.Richard Bach
The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.Norman Douglas
We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same.Anne Frank
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty... This is my highest and best use as a human.Ben Stein, E! Online, 12 - 20 - 03
Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.Francis Quarles
Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.Friedrich Nietzsche
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.Napoleon Bonaparte
The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.Kahlil Gibran
May you live every day of your life.Jonathan Swift
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thine own.Smart
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.Katherine Mansfield
He will live ill who does not know how to die well.Seneca
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly.George Gordon Byron
Continental people have sex - Lives the English have hot - water bottles.George Mikes
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.Upham
The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - Either by themselves or by others.Mark Twain
I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - Their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives.John Keats, Letter to James Rice, Feb 1820
One must desire something to be alive.Margaret Deland, O Magazine, September 2002
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.Boutros Boutros - Ghali
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.Charles Caleb Colton
I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake, 1997
I have lived some thirty - Odd 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
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.Eleanor Roosevelt
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.Margaret Young
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.Marilyn Ferguson


