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Houses are built to live in, not to look on therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

Francis Bacon

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

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.

Kenneth Hildebrand

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Vivere est cogitare. To think is to live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

W. B. Yeats

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Henry C. Blinn

For no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Hermann Hesse

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Prove

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

Albert Einstein

Become the change you want to see - Those are words I live by.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

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

Live..... Laugh..... GOLF.

Kathryn Schaefer Plaum

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

James Truslow Adams

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Henry Miller, The Henry Miller Reader (1959), "Reunion in Brooklyn".

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

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Kahlil Gibran

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

To reget deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

Ronald David Laing

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.

Horace

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don? t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Samuel Johnson

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

Mark Twain

If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for - To bite when he feels like it On military preparedness.

Nikita Khrushchev

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

Rabbi Abraham Heschel

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard, "Winning Words" Compiled by Allen Klein Portland House, 1998

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

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

Peter S. Prescott

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Dag Hammarskjld

Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

Henry David Thoreau

He does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to advance the good of others.

Hindoo Maxim

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters, in The Chicago Tribune