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No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Brian Tracy

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Old Indian saying

I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.

George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.

Newell Dwight Hillis

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Socrates

Be patient enough to live one day at a time, letting yesterday go and leaving tomorrow until it arrives.

Unknown

The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

You live, you learn You love, you learn You cry, you learn You lose, you learn You bleed, you learn You scream, you learn.

Alanis Morissette

God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.

Edwin Holt Hughes

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Neil Postman

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

George Washington

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

Seneca

It matters not how long we live but how.

Philip James Bailey

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

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

Live your own life, for you will die your own death.

Latin Prove

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live.

Loren Klein

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Henry David Thoreau

On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

Bertolt Brecht

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, O Magazine

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

William Penn

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

John Steinbeck

We are always beginning to live, but are never living.

Manilius

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.

Christian Furchtegott Gellert

A man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.

James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Euripides

The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant.

Dorothea Brande

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

Jacob August Riis

We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

Indira Gandhi

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Mae West