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To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Jeremy Schwartz

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Erik H. Erikson

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.

Charles Schaefe

Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.

Lady Duff - Gordon

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Hellen Kelle

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

H. L. Mencken

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

Leoardo da Vinci

There is no virtue in being uncritical nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

Richard Livingstone

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value What is my worth Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

Oprah Winfrey

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good.

Ernest Holmen

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.

George Gordon Byron

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Buddha

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

Norman Maclean

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

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

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

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

Lady Bird Johnson

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

Dorothy Parke

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

John F. Kennedy

People don? t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Chuck Palahniuk

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Lillian Hellman

Life is not a laughing matter, but can you imagine having to live without laughing.

Leonid Sukhorukov

While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.

William Shakespeare

Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.

Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)

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

Sir Winston Churchill

At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.

Michael Dorris

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

H. L. Mencken

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)

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

Josh Billings

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.

Edmund Burke