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It is not enough to show people how to live better there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.Marya Mannes
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.Henry Mille
Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good.Ernest Holmen
Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.La Fontaine
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.Epictetus
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.Euripides
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.Burk Hudson
You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.John Wooden
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.Bertrand Russell
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off.Andrew Schneide
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.Soren Kierkegaard
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it.Henry Mille
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
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.Rainer Maria Rilke
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.Herman Melville
States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.George W. Bush, Gov. of Texas, state leading in executions
The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.William Stekel
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.Marilyn Ferguson
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.Henry David Thoreau
Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes
How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods.Paul Claudel
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.Dag Hammarskjold
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.Joseph Chilton Pearce
To regret deeply is to live afresh.Henry David Thoreau
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.Lewis Thomas
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
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.Andr Maurois
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848
And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth.Native American Praye
When you are at Rome live in the Roman style when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.Saint Ambrose
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.Henry Mille
We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same.Anne Frank
There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.Nancy Spain
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.Elizabeth Bowen
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.Henry David Thoreau