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By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nikos kazantzakis - what, then is our duty it is to carefully...
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one.
Swahili Prove
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
He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
Publilius Syrus
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - The sea - The sun.
Katherine Mansfield
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard, "Winning Words" Compiled by Allen Klein Portland House, 1998
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Thomas Jefferson
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off.
Andrew Schneide
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
James Truslow Adams
Write a wise saying and your name will live foreve.
Anonymous
When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
Morrie Schwartz, "Tuesdays with Morrie".
One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.
Alcaeus
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus 1 day, so I never have to go through a day without you.
Alan Alexander Milne
George eliot - it seems to me we can never give up longing and...
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
Hugh Prathe
Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Providence" #330
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald Reagan
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - From Live Without Principle.
Henry David Thoreau
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each othe.
Roger Banniste
Forget the past and live the present hour.
Sarah Knowles Bolton
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we? d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.
Henry David Thoreau
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.
Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, 1980
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly... spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
Susan Taylo
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
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan Stewart Paton
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.
Richard Leide
I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!
Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
If there is another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
Robert Burns
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.
Walter Lippmann
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Emiliano Zapata
Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
Benjamin Franklin
Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.
Bruce Lee
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Live always in the best company when you read.
Sydney Smith
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
Burk Hudson
Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty - Five?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson