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By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.

Blaise Pascal

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Howard Thurman

Indeed, we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world.

Charles Hanson Towne

The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.

Edward Clarke

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.

Albert Einstein

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Cherokee Prove

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.

John Ernst Steinbeck

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

James Joseph Sylveste

Chain letters are not illegal. What is illegal is to threaten lives in such letters or solicit money.

Deane Jordan

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

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.

Arab Prove

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Henry David Thoreau

God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

Claude Bernard (1813 - 78)

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Alfred A. Montapert

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

Kathleen Norris

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government".

We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.

David P Gardne

We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.

Madame Chiang

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

Joseph Helle

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to advance the good of others.

Hindoo Maxim

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

Martina Navratilova

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head - On and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Gene Roddenberry

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Groucho Marx

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

Brooks Atkinson

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

Les Brown

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

Benjamin Franklin

To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well.

Author Unknown

Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - There is nothing small about it.

Florence Nightingale

You only live once - - But if you work it right, once is enough.

Joe E. Lewis

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

Sir Arthur Helps

A man has to have a code, a way of life to live by.

John Wayne, the book "My Life With the Duke".