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In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.Buddha
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.Niccolo Machiavelli
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
The primary task of the Church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. When men hear that Gospel and believe it, their lives will give evidence of their faith.Walter Dale Langtry
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.Alfred Lord Tennyson
Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.F. Forrester Church
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.Emiliano Zapata
There is a destiny That makes us brothers None goes his way alone All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.Edwin Markham
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - The sea - The sun.Katherine Mansfield
To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.Henry Miller, The Henry Miller Reader (1959), "Reunion in Brooklyn".
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?Jane Austen
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.Jack Kerouac
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
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.Henry David Thoreau
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.Buddha
It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.Lillian Hellman
As I sit I see a dove And think of our deep, dear true love Think not about our future lives Except perhaps our growing size Keep all your thoughts alive, aglow, All will be well, no fear, I knowUnknown
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.Dag Hammarskjld
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.Ashley Montagu
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.Leo Tolstoy
We can spend our whole lives underachieving.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!Sophocles, Oedpius Rex
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - Invincible determination - - A purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - Either by themselves or by others.Mark Twain
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.Martina Navratilova
O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156 - 160.
How nice - - To feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse - Five
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - You win some and you lose some.Ken Keyes
He does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to advance the good of others.Hindoo Maxim
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.Mark Twain
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.Richard Bach
Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.Logan Pearsall Smith
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.Robert Green Ingersoll
Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to - Day his own: He who, secure within, can say, To - Morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.John Dryden
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day - To - Day basis.Margaret Bonnano
