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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Joseph Addison

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

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Antonio Porchia

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

Michael Landon

So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.

Alfred Austin

Our children change us? whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick - And - Jane books and the first word you learned - - The biggest word of all - - Look.

Robert Fulghum

If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.

Upham

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.

Ovid

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

S. I. Hayakawa

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.

Henry David Thoreau

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

John Donne

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

Jacques Martin Barzun

Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

William Dement, Forbes Magazine, April 6, 1998

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

Nancy Spain

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

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

John Wooden

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

Everyone dies. Not everyone really lives.

William Wallace, Braveheart

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

Adolf Hitler, His 3rd Public Speech After taking Power.

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

Plato

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

Home

We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.

Madame Chiang

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

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.

Ken Keyes Jr., Handbook of Higher Consciousness

Author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

Montesquieu

A light heart lives long.

Irish Prove

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

Cross - Country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

Steven Wright

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

Henry Louis Mencken

I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

Fine art and pizza delivery, what we do falls neatly in between!

David Letterman

It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

Rabbi Abraham Heschel

Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.

Alan Holbrook