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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.

Phillips Brooks

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

Anonymous

Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.

Yiddish Prove

In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his resurrection, a conqueror in his ascentions, a kind in his intercession, a high priest.

Martin Luthe

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty - Five?

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we? d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. - From Live Without Principle.

Henry David Thoreau

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

Andre Gide

the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.

Albert Schweitze

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

Joseph Addison

Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living.

Emad Hasan

Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Logan Pearsall Smith

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

Henry Louis Mencken

How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

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

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

Sarah If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn. People die. But real love lives forever.

Crow, The

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.

Arnold H. Glasgow

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

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Morris Adle

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preache

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Sir Thomas Browne

We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.

George W. Bush, September 7, 2003

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Anon.

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

What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.

Ivan Pavlov

Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of live.

Vince Lombardi

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

Alexandre Dumas, fils

Every man dies. Not every man lives.

Tim Robbins

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

The events of our lives happen in a sequence of time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order.

Eudora Welty

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

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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

Sir Winston Churchill