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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.

Moroccan Prove

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

Sir Arthur Helps

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Henry Mille

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.

Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony

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

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

Seneca

Jealousy - That dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

Havelock Ellis

Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

John Dryden

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy.

Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004

Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

David Starr Jordan

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

James Truslow Adams

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

Ralph Emerson

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

Henry David Thoreau

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.

Christian Furchtegott Gellert

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

H. L. Mencken

He does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to advance the good of others.

Hindoo Maxim

Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.

Anon.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Jean - Paul Sartre

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Joseph Addison

Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

Daniel Webste

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Frank Herbert

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

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

Johann von Goethe

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Eleanor Roosevelt

As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the worlds way of life and the way they think their lives should be.

Kandice Hehner, Innocent Eyes

In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his resurrection, a conqueror in his ascentions, a kind in his intercession, a high priest.

Martin Luthe

The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.

Edward Clarke

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Saint Augustine

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

William Penn

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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