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It was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us.

Charles Dickens

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.

Bartholomew

Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living.

Emad Hasan

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.

Gerald W. Johnston

Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Unknown

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

Seneca

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermass von Fichte

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

Frank Herbert, Dune

I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

Edward Weeks

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

A. Bronson Alcott

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

Andr Maurois

I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each others lives.

Hugh Elliott

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Jorge Luis Borges

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Samuel Johnson

You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.

Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".

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

For long you live and high you fly, For smiles you give and tears you cry, For all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be.

Pink Floyd

Live dangerously and you live right.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (1806)

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

David H. Lawrence

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

Anonymous

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

Benjamin Franklin

If you suffer, thank God! - - It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Elbert Hubbard

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

Johann von Goethe

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ovid

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don? t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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

The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial they abide with realities, they remain not with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.

Lao Tzu

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

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933)

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Roosevelt, Eleano