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

Percy B. Shelley

There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world: what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one.

Swahili prove

Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Henry David Thoreau

To live outside the law you must be honest.

Bob Dylan

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prathe

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

Alan Holbrook

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

I think in one of my previous lives I was a mighty king, because I like people to do what I say.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.

Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", 1951

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

Will Rogers

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

Seneca

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

Johann von Goethe

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

Adolf Hitler, His 3rd Public Speech After taking Power.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vivir para contarla (Living to tell the tale)

It is better to live richly than to die rich.

Author Unknown

The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well doing.

Boerhaave

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Rainer Maria Rilke

When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it? s magical.

Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003

Live truth instead of professing it.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Claude Bernard (1813 - 78)

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Socrates

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

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.

Charles Schaefe

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

Corazn Cojuangco Aquino

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

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thine own.

Smart

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

Harry S Truman, August 8, 1950

Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

George Bernard Shaw

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.

Alexander Pope, "Ode to Solitude".

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Albert Einstein

We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.

Fairfield Osborne

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Aristotle, Politics