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A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H. L. Mencken

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Jorge Luis Borges

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Mark Twain

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

This is how God showed His love among us He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him.

1 John 49 NIV Bible

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.

Phillips Brooks

Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple.

Marcius Porcius Cato

A Muslim who meets with others and shares their burdens is better than one who lives a life of seclusion and contemplation.

Prophet Mohammed, Muslim

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - You win some and you lose some.

Ken Keyes

Have patience awhile slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Caleb Colton

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Douglas Adams

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

George Bernard Shaw

If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.

Upham

Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

Daniel Webste

If I die, I forgive you If I live, we shall see.

Danish prove

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

Margaret Fulle

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Margaret Young

A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.

Henri Frdric Amiel

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

Henry David Thoreau

It is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep.

Tibetan Prove

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Thomas Browne

If you wish to be a sucess in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Charles Bukowski, From "Betting on the Muse".

Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Providence" #330

The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.

Edward Clarke

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Publilius Syrus

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Leoardo da Vinci

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

Write a wise saying and your name will live foreve.

Anonymous

At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.

Barbara DeAngelis

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.

Clarence Darrow