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Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Erik H. Erikson

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Muriel Rukeyse

If a man die, shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Job 1414 Bible Hebrew

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

Aristotle

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Cherokee Prove

Live life to the fullest.

Ernest Hemingway

I can live two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain

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

We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.

David P Gardne

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Willa Cather, O Pioneers! (1913)

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

Miguel de Unamuno

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

Judy Garland

I cannot live without books.

Thomas Jefferson

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

We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.

Sanskrit Prove

the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.

Albert Schweitze

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.

Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Ursula K. LeGuin

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

Cicero

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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

To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live.

Loren Klein

People don? t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Chuck Palahniuk

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.

Danish prove

If I die, I forgive you If I live, we shall see.

Danish prove

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each othe.

Roger Banniste