Lives Quotes (page 309)

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• top
• seen
• between

I've seen the bottom. And I've been on top. But mostly I've lived in between Dan Fogelberg

• hope
• learning
• today

Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow. Orison Swett Marden

• great
• to live
• greatness

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live to the point. Michel de Montaigne

• best
• revenge
• wellness

The best revenge is living well without you. Joyce Carol Oates

• maine
• main
• point

I live, which is the main point. Heinrich Heine

• different
• church
• support

The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering person—every person—needs: namely, loving personal concern. We do not need a State which regulates and controls everything, but a State which, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, generously acknowledges and supports initiatives arising from the different social forces and combines spontaneity with... Joseph Ratzinger

• great
• to live
• die

Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly? Katharine Hepburn

• reality
• real
• evening

In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs. Edith Wharton

• pain
• courage
• history

History with all its unending pain cannot be outlived, but faced with courage need not be lived again. Maya Angelou

• king
• growing up
• dark

It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon! While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was growing up. Charles M. Schulz

• life
• achievement
• should

Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can steady them, and are experiencing instead, a lingering sense that there is something more important they should be doing . . .as if what is quietly achieved in righteous individual living or in parenthood are not sufficiently spectacular. Neal A. Maxwell

• war
• knowledge
• fear

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it Carlos Castaneda

• heart
• heart break
• deeper

The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breakingit is necessary to go throughdark and deeper darkand not to turn Stanley Kunitz

• mind
• world
• giving

The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness... The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy. The dear, stupid body is easily satisfied as a spaniel. And, incredibly, the simple spaniel can lure the brawling mind to its dish. It is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious mind will hush if you give it an egg. Annie Dillard

• thinking
• to live
• lively

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. Richard P. Feynman