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Hindoo maxim - he does not live in vain, who employs his wealth,...
Marcus valerius martialis, epigrams - a man who lives everywhere lives nowhere....
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein
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
Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.
Lavina Christensen Fugal
Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.
Homer, The Iliad
In love there are no vacations No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.
Marguerite Duras
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
Horace Mann
Fyodor dostoevsky - by interpreting freedom as the propagation and...
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny Carson
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
Phillips Brooks
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
Clarence Darrow
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
James Truslow Adams
Death is more universal than life everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. Sachs
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
Euripides
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Traditional Indian Saying
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
Betty Friedan
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
Alexandre Dumas, fils
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard, "Winning Words" Compiled by Allen Klein Portland House, 1998
We live as we dream - Alone.
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
Socrates
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
Charles Caleb Colton
The Terminator Come with me if you want to live.
Terminator 2 Judgment Day
Cross - Country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
Steven Wright
Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone, and flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on.
Anderson H. Scruggs
Live simply, so that all may simply live.
St, Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774 - 1821) Foundress of the Sisters of Charity, USA, Speech given in the Diocese of Baltimore
While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
William Shakespeare
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.
Albert Einstein
The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
Joan Borysenko
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
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
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.
Plato, The Republic
Every man dies. Not every man lives.
Tim Robbins
Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it.
Henry Mille
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.
Margaret Mille