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For no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Euripides - the best and safest thing is to keep a balance in...
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert Heinlein, "Job", 1984
Will rogers, newspaper article, feb. 15, 1925 - heroing is one of the shortest - lived...
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
Oswald Spengle
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
Lin Yutang
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.
Macneile Dixon
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
Hermann Hesse
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
Frederick W. Fabe
Our children change us? whether they live or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berline.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Lao tzu - the men who are great live with that which is...
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
Annie Besant
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
Dag Hammarskjld
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Robert Francis Kennedy
I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.
Fitzgerald
You must be still in the midst of activity, and be vibrantly alive in repose.
Indira Gandhi
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854
It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.
Kahlil Gibran
Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.
Frank Herbert, Dune
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
Live the wonderful life that is in you.
Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey
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
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus
It is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep.
Tibetan Prove
Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
Samuel Johnson
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
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Dag Hammarskjold
It was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us.
Charles Dickens
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Harrison Ford
Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
Winnie the Pooh
Affection is responsible for nine - Tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
For long you live and high you fly, For smiles you give and tears you cry, For all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be.
Pink Floyd
Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
William Dement, Forbes Magazine, April 6, 1998
Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.
Barbara Garrison