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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

Oscar Wilde

Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

Bruce Lee

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile.

Unknown

It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty.

Sir Winston Churchill

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

Voltaire

Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

Georges Rouault

Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment.

Christopher Darlington Morley

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

Anonymous, Graffito

Frank knew that no man had ever crossed the desert on foot and lived to tell about it. So, he decided to get back in his car and keep driving.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Antonio Porchia

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Lin Yutang

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

Percy B. Shelley

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

Samuel Butle

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead.

Pierre Corneille

Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.

Author Unknown

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

If you suffer, thank God It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Elbert Hubbard

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Anthony Robbins

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

J. K. Rowling

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

Henry Mille

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Agnes Repplie

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

Henry Mille

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

Leo Tolstoy

You are the most beautiful girl that has ever lived, and it is worth dying to have kissed you.

Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)

Live to live and you will learn to live.

Portuguese Prove

I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Henry David Thoreau

It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Dolores Ibarruri, September 3, 1936

Our lives teach us who we are.

Salman Rushdie

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

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

Nancy Spain

Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good.

Ernest Holmen