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While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Seneca

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Thomas Jefferson

Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment - - This day - - Is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day - - Each moment of this day - - A heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.

Dan Custe

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca, Epistles

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)

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Frank Herbert

How many angels are there One - who transforms our live - Is plenty.

Prove

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

Alcaeus

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Adam Marshall

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self - Made laws.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

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

Albert Einstein

All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butle

We live as we dream - Alone.

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - A date which will live on in infamy - The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941

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

If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for - To bite when he feels like it On military preparedness.

Nikita Khrushchev

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

Benjamin Franklin

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Joseph Addison

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

Ernest Hemingway

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

Joseph Helle

The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.

Richard Clark

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

Peter Cochrane

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933)

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butle

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

H. L. Mencken

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

The 14th. Dalai Lama

Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people.

Thomas Davidson

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Henri - Frederic Amiel

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I think there is a 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

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Betty Friedan