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Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.

Mary Ann Brussat

Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.

Yiddish Prove

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Live well. It is the greatest revenge.

The Talmud

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

Deane Jordan

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

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

Peter Cochrane

Make the most of your regrets.... To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!

Sophocles, Oedpius Rex

Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.

Unknown

To reget deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living for words are infinitely less important than acts.

A. S. Neill

Love is a flame that burns in heaven, And whose soft reflections radiate to us. Two worlds are opened, two lives given to it. It is by love tht we double our being It is by love that we approach God.

Aimee Martin

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

Ayn Rand

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.

Niccolo Machiavelli

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

R. D. Laing

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

Ursula K. LeGuin

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.

Steve Prefontaine

Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone, and flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on.

Anderson H. Scruggs

Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat.

Socrates

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven.

Russell M. Nelson

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

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing - - To live in accord with his nature.

Seneca

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Howard Thurman

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

Zora Neale Hurston

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King Jr., Speech at St. Louis, March 22, 1964

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

John Oliver Hobbes

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Douglas Adams

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Buddha

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

Robert F. Bennett

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

Mark Twain

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

Albert Einstein

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.

George Gordon Byron