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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

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Euripides

The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.

Richard Leide

In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.

Joesph Heller, Catch - 22

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - To live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283

To live without loving is not really to live.

Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.

Albert Einstein

Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.

Barbara Garrison

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

Alcaeus

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

Samuel Butle

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

Johann von Goethe

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead? a dead parent, for example? can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.

Jacques Derrida, Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Eliot

The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.

Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony

Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.

Alan Holbrook

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

Sophocles

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Henry David Thoreau

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Edgar Watson Howe

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - Of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

Homer, The Iliad

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca, Epistles

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.

Terence, Adelphoe

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Earl Warren

How many angels are there One - who transforms our live - Is plenty.

Prove

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Sir Thomas Browne

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

This is our purpose to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Oswald Spengle

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

The neurotic and the artist - Since both live out the unconscious of the race - Reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.

Rollo May

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Walt Disney