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

James Truslow Adams

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Hermann Hesse

When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it? s magical.

Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003

We live, as we dream, alone.

Joseph Conrad

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Immanuel Kant

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

Walter Lippmann

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

Jacques Martin Barzun

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

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing - - To live in accord with his nature.

Seneca

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

Dorothy Law Nolte

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.

W. E. B. Du Bois, last message to the world, 1957

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

James Joseph Sylveste

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Samuel Johnson, Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.

Emily Dickinson

The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant.

Dorothea Brande

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Elizabeth Drew

Plan like you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.

Unknown

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Mille

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - And part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

D. H. Lawrence

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head - On and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Gene Roddenberry

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.

Margaret Milla

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

Johann von Goethe

I can live two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain

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

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

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild ai.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man has to have a code, a way of life to live by.

John Wayne, the book "My Life With the Duke".

Live each season as it passes breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Henry David Thoreau

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

George Washington Carve

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

Havelock Ellis

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Henry David Thoreau

For no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln

Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.

Author Unknown