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Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people.

Thomas Davidson

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.

John Oliver Hobbes

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

Eugene Delacroix

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

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

Alexandre Dumas, fils

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Johann von Schille

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

Walter Lippmann

As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the worlds way of life and the way they think their lives should be.

Kandice Hehner, Innocent Eyes

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

A. Bronson Alcott

Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

George Walker Bush

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

Peter S. Prescott

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self - Made laws.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is merely to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.

Leo Rosten

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive.

Irv Kupcinet

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Voltaire

He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.

Philip Sheridan

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

William Penn

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

John F. Kennedy

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H. L. Mencken

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Agnes Repplie

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself.

Alan Alda

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthu

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Alexis Carrel

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

Norman Maclean

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - This is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

Sir Walter Scott

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty - Five?

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.

George Santayana

It is good to live and learn.

Miguel de Cervantes

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Conte Vittorio Alfieri

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

Roger Caras

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

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr.