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For long you live and high you fly, For smiles you give and tears you cry, For all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be.

Pink Floyd

Thomas Jefferson still lives.

John Adams, On his bed, not knowing Jefferson had died only a few hours earlier - July 4th, 1826

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Vivere est cogitare. To think is to live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial they abide with realities, they remain not with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.

Lao Tzu

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

Dante Alighieri

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berline.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.

Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.

Socrates

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

A light heart lives long.

Irish Prove

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

William Dement

Be patient enough to live one day at a time, letting yesterday go and leaving tomorrow until it arrives.

Unknown

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

Israel Zangwill

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live 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

God, I don? t 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 Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002

Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

Sarah If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn. People die. But real love lives forever.

Crow, The

To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butle

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Samuel Johnson, Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - In order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

Ellen Goodman

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

David H. Lawrence

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Charles de Montesquieu

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - From Live Without Principle.

Henry David Thoreau

Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple.

Marcius Porcius Cato

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Wayne W Dye

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Ezra Loomis Pound

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Mark Twain

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Nancy Reagan

Live the questions.

Rainer Maria Rilke