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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Every man dies. Not every man lives.

Tim Robbins

This is how God showed His love among us He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him.

1 John 49 NIV Bible

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

Margaret Mille

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Edgar Watson Howe

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

J. R. R. Tolkein

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Have patience awhile slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Ezra Loomis Pound

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Elbert Hubbard

Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.

Seneca

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Einstein

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - A place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

Our lives improve only when we take chances - And the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Thomas Jefferson, 1801

A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.

Henri Frdric Amiel

The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

Kahlil Gibran

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields

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

Live to the point of tears.

Albert Camus

Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.

James Madison, Federalist Papers (# 10)

We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.

John Claypool

If you wish to be a sucess in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

William Shakespeare

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Socrates

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

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

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

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.

Roscoe Snowden

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Publilius Syrus

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell