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The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

D. H. Lawrence

Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Havelock Ellis

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly.

George Gordon Byron

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by... religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

Harvey Cox

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

Henry David Thoreau

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

Margaret Fulle

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

Ernest Hemingway

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

No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Henry David Thoreau

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all This is a miracle and that no more.

Brigham Young

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau

A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.

Yiddish Prove

In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful, But the gratefulness that makes us happy.

Unknown

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990

Live your own life, for you will die your own death.

Latin Prove

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

The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.

Philo Judaeus

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

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

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

O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.

Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156 - 160.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Thomas Jefferson

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Albert Einstein

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception.

Alice Walke

We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

Nathan M. Pusey

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Sir Thomas Browne

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Aristotle, Politics

People don? t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Chuck Palahniuk

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

John Wooden

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

Henry David Thoreau

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

Jeff Marde

A man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.

James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

George Bernard Shaw

One day at a time - This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.

Ida Scott Taylor.