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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

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

Israel Zangwill

Self - Esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self - Esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

Bette Midle

I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

Samuel Johnson

Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment.

Christopher Darlington Morley

Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

Nancy Spain

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

Horace

As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the worlds way of life and the way they think their lives should be.

Kandice Hehner, Innocent Eyes

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Rainer Maria Rilke

We Americans live in a nation where the medical - Care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

Dave Barry

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Henry Van Dyke

A dreamer lives for eternity.

Anonymous

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

George Washington

To live is to function. That is all there is in living.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake, 1997

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.

Ken Keyes Jr., Handbook of Higher Consciousness

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

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

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

Live always in the best company when you read.

Sydney Smith

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

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

Herb Caen

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Euripides

Blade You better wake up. The world you live in is nothing but a sugarcoated topping There is another world beneath it. And if you want to survive it you better learn how to PULL THE TRIGGER.

Blade

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live...

Dorothy Thompson

I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.

Mark Duffy

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Schweitze

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - Invincible determination - - A purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

William Dement

Our children change uswhether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

Jacob August Riis

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.

Frank Crane