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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.
Ken Lancaste
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
Alexandre Dumas, fils
The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks.
La Rochefoucauld
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus
James cagney - live fast, die young, and leave a good - looking...
After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
Mark Twain
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn
Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn.
Kalidasa
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
Socrates
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - A place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
D. H. Lawrence
My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.
Spotted Tail (Sioux Indian)
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
Me, we. Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.
Muhammad Ali
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Cicero
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Mille
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
Les Brown
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild ai.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
John Dryden
We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Indira Gandhi
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.
Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony
Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.
Anon.
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Roosevelt, Eleano
I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.
Mark Duffy
The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.
Dorothy Parke
The unfit die - - The fit both live and thrive. Alas, who say so They who do survive.
Sarah N. Cleghorn
What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing - - To live in accord with his nature.
Seneca
You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Voltaire
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Marquis de Vauvenargues
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
Ansel Adams
Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the eternal. The giant weed of evil cannot flower there this blot upon existence is wiped out by the very atmosphere of eternal thought.
H Hahn Blavatsky
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.
John Claypool
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Samuel Johnson
Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.
Mary Ann Brussat