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Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.
Bartholomew
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999
What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger - Fraught ascent toward salvation.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Logan pearsall smith, afterthoughts (1931)
Ida scott taylor. - one day at a time - this is enough. do not look...
To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
Woodrow Wilson
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
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - In order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
Ellen Goodman
Everything has been figured out except how to live.
Jean - Paul Sartre
Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.
Henry David Thoreau
If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.
Dorothy Law Nolte
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do??
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
Simone de Beauvoi
Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
Samuel Johnson
O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!
Sophocles, Oedpius Rex
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Katherine Mansfield
It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.
Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3
Arnold h. glasgow - live so that your friends can defend you but...
He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.
Terry Lynn Taylo
The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.
J. R. R. Tolkien
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb Colton
We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Indira Gandhi
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
Joan Borysenko
Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ... there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ... one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God.... To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ... so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.
Saint Augustine
I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.
Henry Truman
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
Moliere
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Elizabeth Bowen
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
Harriet Martineau
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I have no money, no resources, and no hope. I am the happiest man alive.
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cance
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Ursula K. LeGuin
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
Johann Von Schille
Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 5 scene 1