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What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

Henry Mille

It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Dolores Ibarruri, September 3, 1936

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

Will Rogers

He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones.

English Prove

Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.

Mark A. Clement

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

We Americans live in a nation where the medical - Care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

Dave Barry

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.

Thomas Crum

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

Live truth instead of professing it.

Elbert Hubbard

Live to live and you will learn to live.

Portuguese Prove

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists.

Eric Hoffe

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.

Terence, Adelphoe

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

J. Michael Straczynski

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Lin Yutang

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.

Margaret Milla

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words.

Marcel Marceau

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

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.

Stephen Hawking

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

H. G. Wells

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

Henry David Thoreau

Affection is responsible for nine - Tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

R. D. Laing

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

Gloria Swanson

A dreamer lives for eternity.

Anonymous

The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well doing.

Boerhaave

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

Terry Josephson

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Woody Allen

How nice - - To feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse - Five

You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Ruth Smeltze

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

F. Forrester Church

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

Gertrude Stein

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

George Washington

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Thomas Jefferson

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

He who lives by the sword, will eventually be wiped out by some bastard with a sawn off shotgun.

Steady Eddy

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