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We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - And part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

D. H. Lawrence

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

Annie Dillard

I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Muriel Rukeyse

Force is all - Conquering, but its victories are short - Lived.

Abraham Lincoln

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Woodrow Wilson

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to - Day his own He who, secure within, can say, To - Morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

John Dryden

It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it.... This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.

Clarence Jordan

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

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

William Shakespeare

Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.

Sam Walter Foss

Love is a flame that burns in heaven, And whose soft reflections radiate to us. Two worlds are opened, two lives given to it. It is by love tht we double our being It is by love that we approach God.

Aimee Martin

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Socrates

I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living for words are infinitely less important than acts.

A. S. Neill

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own He who secure within can say Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Horace

When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

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

Joe E. Lewis

To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Emerson

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Dag Hammarskjold

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Leoardo da Vinci

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Thomas Jefferson

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

Aristotle

Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Samuel Johnson

Jealousy - That dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

Havelock Ellis

There is a destiny That makes us brothers None goes his way alone All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.

Edwin Markham

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

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one anothe.

Theodore Hesburgh

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

Elbert Hubbard

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Elizabeth Drew

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Albert Camus

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

Edward Weeks

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermass von Fichte

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

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Jean - Paul Sartre

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Herman Melville