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What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway?

David Merritt, a. k. a. THE RED SHARK

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

David H. Lawrence

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

D. H. Lawrence

Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

Ashley Montagu

It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty.

Sir Winston Churchill

You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Ruth Smeltze

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Douglas H. Everett

It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them.

George Eliot

Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.

Jeremy Schwartz

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

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Michael Landon

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Carl Sandburg

Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 5 scene 1

You must be still in the midst of activity, and be vibrantly alive in repose.

Indira Gandhi

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - Invincible determination - - A purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

Cristion Morgenstern

Live fast, die young, and leave a good - Looking corpse.

James Cagney

Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

George Bernard Shaw

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Dag Hammarskjold

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

I still live.

Daniel Webster, last words, 24 October 1852.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

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

George Santayana

Author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

Montesquieu

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

Socrates

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

Les Brown

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

Charles Caleb Colton

We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

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

Soren Kierkegaard

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

George Bancroft

It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Dolores Ibarruri, September 3, 1936