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While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Seneca

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

Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.

Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 09 - 17 - 05

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

A. Huxley, Island

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

Plato

Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vivir para contarla (Living to tell the tale)

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Richard Bach

Live to learn... forget... and learn again.

Brian

We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.

Celeste Holm

Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

H. G. Wells

Live to live and you will learn to live.

Portuguese Prove

Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe.

Maurice Mascaranhas

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

Thomas Carlyle

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein, "Job", 1984

God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

Charles Farrar Browne

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Anthony Robbins

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

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Edward Dahlberg

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

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

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

Eugene Delacroix

The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.

Philo Judaeus

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

Anonymous

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone, and flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on.

Anderson H. Scruggs

The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...

Donald Barthelme

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

General Omar Bradley

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.

J. Todd

Heroing is one of the shortest - Lived professions there is.

Will Rogers, Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925

Every man dies. Not every man lives.

Tim Robbins