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Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Buddha

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Charles Caleb Colton

I live for books.

Thomas Jefferson

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Plato

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one anothe.

Theodore Hesburgh

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Christian Furchtegott Gellert

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Robert M. Hutchins

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

The 14th. Dalai Lama

Live truth instead of professing it.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Soren Kierkegaard

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.

A. Huxley, Island

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

Peter S. Prescott

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides

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

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception.

Alice Walke

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Groucho Marx

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

Horace, Satires

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by... religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

Harvey Cox

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Henry David Thoreau

And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.

Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.

Christopher S. Drew

To live outside the law you must be honest.

Bob Dylan

You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person.

Jason Hurst

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Jimmy Carter, Spech in March 1976

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Oswald Spengle

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

Johnny Carson

Live the questions.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.

George Santayana

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Daniel Webste

I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.

Fitzgerald

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Simone de Beauvoi

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

Dorothy Law Nolte