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Henri - frederic amiel - to live we must conquer incessantly, we must have...
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed 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.
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
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
A Muslim who meets with others and shares their burdens is better than one who lives a life of seclusion and contemplation.
Prophet Mohammed, Muslim
John adams, on his bed, not knowing jefferson had died only a few hours earlier - july 4th, 1826 - thomas jefferson still lives....
I think there is a 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
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
Socrates - thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat....
We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.
Celeste Holm
No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly.
Joseph Brodsky
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson, 1801
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
Benjamin Franklin
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
Horace Mann
For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - To live dangerously.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis
How many angels are there One - who transforms our live - Is plenty.
Prove
I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.
Fitzgerald
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
Andre Gide
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Gerald R. Ford
Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
George Walker Bush
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields
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
Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.
Henry C. Blinn
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
Rainer Maria Rilke
You can teach a student a lesson for a day but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
Clay P. Bedford
Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.
Henry David Thoreau
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
Charles Farrar Browne
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
Mary Cholmondeley
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
Everything has been figured out except how to live.
Jean - Paul Sartre
Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.
Lavina Christensen Fugal
God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.
Edwin Holt Hughes
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
Jimmy Carter, Spech in March 1976