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Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile.

Unknown

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Johann von Schille

What kind of man would live a life without daring Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure Is there a better way to die.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

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

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Jean Ingelow

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

Jorge Luis Borges

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Marcus Aurelius

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.

Bessie A. Stanley

Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

David Starr Jordan

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

There is a destiny That makes us brothers None goes his way alone All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.

Edwin Markham

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.

Homer, The Iliad

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.

Bruce Lee

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Albert Einstein

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

Sir Arthur Helps

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

James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926

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

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Simone Weil, The Need for Roots (1949)

Force is all - Conquering, but its victories are short - Lived.

Abraham Lincoln

I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves.

Alexander Humboldt

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.

George Gordon Byron

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978

Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

George Walker Bush

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

Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the eternal. The giant weed of evil cannot flower there this blot upon existence is wiped out by the very atmosphere of eternal thought.

H Hahn Blavatsky

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Herman Melville

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

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

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly.

George Gordon Byron

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. God will see that you do want society.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Life must be lived as play.

Plato

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

Johann von Goethe

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

Edward Kennedy

The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial they abide with realities, they remain not with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.

Lao Tzu

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

George Orwell