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If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work, and disease will be less frequent.

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

Of the 1960s

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

Lady Bird Johnson

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

Robert Anton Wilson

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do.

To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.

Thomas Campbell

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

I live a very dull life here and know nothing that passes in the town — I never go to any public place; indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else. There are certain bounds set for me which I must not depart from; and as I cannot do as I like, I am obstinate, and stay at home a great deal.

Martha Washington

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

Giacomo Meyerbeer

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

Nikita Khrushchev

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

Never let a day so pass that you will have cause to say, "I will live better tomorrow,"

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Once more, never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Gaston Bachelard

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Roughly, for me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.