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Plato - life must be lived as play....
Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena
If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.
Philip Sheridan
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
Johann von Goethe
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitze
Lao tzu - the men who are great live with that which is...
Chain letters are not illegal. What is illegal is to threaten lives in such letters or solicit money.
Deane Jordan
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
Rainer Maria Rilke
We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven.
Russell M. Nelson
The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well doing.
Boerhaave
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963
The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
Socrates
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
Hermann Hesse
It is good to live and learn.
Miguel de Cervantes
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Emiliano Zapata
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
Madame Chiang
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.
Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", 1951
Carlyle said, A lie cannot live; it shows he did not know how to tell them.
Mark Twain
I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
Muriel Rukeyse
I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.
Kahlil Gibran
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
George Washington
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
Aristotle
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.
Israel Zangwill
To laugh is to live profoundly.
Milan Kundera, The Book Of Laughter and Forgetting
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off?
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - Of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
Robert F. Kennedy
I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government".
Live life to the fullest.
Ernest Hemingway
I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
Samuel Johnson
Underpromise overdeliver.
Tom Peters
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Emerson
Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.
Alan Holbrook
One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.
George Washington Carve