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Write a wise saying and your name will live foreve.

Anonymous

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.

Clarence Darrow

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

Les Brown

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Hellen Kelle

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Caleb Colton

May you live every day of your life.

Jonathan Swift

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthu

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

Chain letters are not illegal. What is illegal is to threaten lives in such letters or solicit money.

Deane Jordan

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

Eric Hoffe

This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.

Robert

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

General Omar Bradley

The unfit die - - The fit both live and thrive. Alas, who say so They who do survive.

Sarah N. Cleghorn

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

George Orwell

Underpromise overdeliver.

Tom Peters

Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

W. B. Yeats

Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

David Starr Jordan

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One

Live simply that others may simply live.

Mahatma Gandhi

What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: Why is it so dark in here?

Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self - Made laws.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

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

I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.

Sam Walter Foss

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

Andr Maurois

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

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.

John Oliver Hobbes

Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - There is nothing small about it.

Florence Nightingale

Have a variety of interests... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.

George Mathew Allen

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Henry Mille

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933)

Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple.

Marcius Porcius Cato