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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. – Norman Mailer	added by anonymous 15 years ago
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Nelson Mandela	added by anonymous 15 years ago
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. – Laurence J. Peter	added by anonymous 15 years ago
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today. – Dale Carnegie	added by anonymous 15 years ago
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living. – Oliver Wendell Holmes	added by anonymous 15 years ago
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. – Oliver Wendell Holmes	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. – Albert Schweitzer	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. – Epicurus	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Spread love everywhere you go First of all in your own house...let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. – Mother Teresa	added by anonymous 15 years ago
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - from Live Without Principle – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 15 years ago
A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense. – Erich Fromm	added by anonymous 15 years ago
The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life-freedom. – Erich Fromm	added by anonymous 15 years ago
'I have done my best.' That is about all the philosophy of living one needs. – Lin Yutang	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 15 years ago
I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 15 years ago
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. – Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 15 years ago
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky. – Rainer Maria Rilke	added by anonymous 15 years ago
History never looks like history when you are living through it. – John W. Gardner	added by anonymous 15 years ago
You desire to know the art of living, my friend It is contained in one phrase make use of suffering. – Henri Frdric Amiel	added by anonymous 15 years ago
A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life -- provided he go his own way. He need not and should not think of making a good living, but rather of creating a good life for himself. To live one's own life is still the best way of life, always was, and always will be. – Henry Miller	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off – Henry Miller	added by anonymous 15 years ago
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living. – Randolph Bourne	added by anonymous 15 years ago
The life which is unexamined is not worth living. – Plato	added by anonymous 15 years ago

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