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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.

They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.

Thought means life, since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Amos Bronson Alcott

If you let yourself be absorbed completely, if you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

Vittorio Alfieri

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue!

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits
of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

Spoiled. That's all it's about — can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. Everybody lies.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives — one is so very small — but that is the satisfaction of writing — one can impersonate so many people.

Katherine Mansfield

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

Jorge Luis Borges

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

Louis de Bernières

The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.

Morrie Schwartz

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American!

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

William Cobbett

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling, and what is the use of truth!
How do we use feeling?
How do we use truth! However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
If we use the resources we now have, we and the world itself may move in one fullness. Moment to moment, we can grow, if we can bring ourselves to meet the moment with our lives.

Muriel Rukeyser

Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.