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To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

Oscar Wilde

I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

George Bernard Shaw

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

Herb Caen

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.

Henry Truman

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.

Socrates

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

Seneca

Our The Stoic motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

Horace, Satires

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Socrates

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

Mark Twain

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

Terry Josephson

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

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Emerson

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.

Homer, The Iliad

Continental people have sex - Lives the English have hot - water bottles.

George Mikes

In order to be able to live in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

Alice Walke

Live free or die.

New Hampshire State Motto

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

Benjamin Franklin

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butle

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

Peter S. Prescott

It may be that we have all lived before and died, and this is hell.

A. L. Prusick

We are always beginning to live, but are never living.

Manilius

We live in a world where lemonade is made from aritificial flavoring and furniture polish is made from real lemons.

Alfred E. Neuman, The Half - Wit and Wisdom of Alfred E. Neuman (MAD magazine)

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one anothe.

Theodore Hesburgh

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

Ronald David Laing

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

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Henry Van Dyke

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.

A. Huxley, Island

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

Douglas Adams

Idiots... nothing can live forever.

Magus Dactylus, Chronotrigge