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The state is the great ficticious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
Frederic Bastait, Letters to the Economist March 5, 2005
Heroing is one of the shortest - Lived professions there is.
Will Rogers, Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
Woodrow Wilson
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
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Johann von Goethe
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.
Clarence Darrow
If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.
I. F. Stone
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
Marilyn Manson
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
I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - Their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives.
John Keats, Letter to James Rice, Feb 1820
A man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.
James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment
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
What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.
Boutros Boutros - Ghali
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
Cecil B. DeMille
If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
Albert Camus
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.
George Eliot, Romola, 1863
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
Henry David Thoreau
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard
Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow.
Theodore Epp
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Oscar Wilde
Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight.
The London Times
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The unfit die - - The fit both live and thrive. Alas, who say so They who do survive.
Sarah N. Cleghorn
No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau
He that lives on hope will die fasting.
American Prove
You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough.
Adam Marshall
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of live.
Vince Lombardi
Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.
John Wilkins
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
George Washington
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
He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.
Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead.
Pierre Corneille
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
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Euripides
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
Clarence Darrow