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What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot 
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort
of feeling safe with a person;
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,
but to pour them all out, just as they are,
chaff and grain together,
knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them,
keep what is worth keeping, and then,
with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
- George Eliot
Those who trust us educate us.
- George Eliot
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations.
For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whatever happened, forgive others, forgive yourself,
move forward, live for today and tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child,
and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential,
and fight for your dreams.
- Ashley Smith
What is your dream - your life-dream?
Have you begun to live it yet?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Live the life you've dreamed.
- Henry David Thoreau
We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
The biggest adventure you can take is
to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
What we speak becomes the house we live in.
- Hafiz
When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
I live with enthusiasm, and give thanks for my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't live down to expectations.
Go out there and do something remarkable.
- Wendy Wasserstein
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
I live courageously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is a dangerous - ultimately fatal - endeavor,
so you may as well live it full out.
Chart your course, cast off the lines,
and boldly sail the seas of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dream as if you'll live forever.
Live as if you'll die today.
- James Dean
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love yourself as you truly are -
and live courageously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Live Your Dreams.
- Les Brown
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as one's own
in the midst of abundance.
- The Buddha
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
Anyone is free who lives as he wishes to live.
- Epictetus
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
Live wild, life free, live as master of your own fate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can live the life you love -
even in the face of the most challenging circumstances.
While sometimes it may appear that life throws more obstacles
in your path than you can handle,
you can always choose to be happy.
Yes, you are that powerful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Live a Life of Bold and Courageous Action
Inspired by Powerful Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
- Flora Whittemore
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