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We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

Jeff Marde

It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

Benjamin Franklin

The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.

Philo Judaeus

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Saint Augustine

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Lin Yutang

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is merely to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.

Leo Rosten

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Earl Warren

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception.

Alice Walke

Live free or die.

New Hampshire State Motto

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Alice Walke

Chain letters are not illegal. What is illegal is to threaten lives in such letters or solicit money.

Deane Jordan

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - This is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

Sir Walter Scott

I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American.

Daniel Webste

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, They think of you.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering.

Bruce Lee, Film: (Dragon The Bruce Lee Story. Quotation posted at end of film just before credits)

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

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Albert Schweitze

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words.

Marcel Marceau

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

Cherokee Prove

A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

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

James Cagney

Make the most of your regrets.... To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.

Moroccan Prove

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Ezra Loomis Pound

Self - Esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self - Esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

Bette Midle

To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butle

Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

William Dement, Forbes Magazine, April 6, 1998

To live is to function. That is all there is in living.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good.

Lyndon B. Johnson

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Roosevelt, Eleano

No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly.

Joseph Brodsky