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Daniel J. Boorstin quote: "When I was living in England I found that the more I lived..."
When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was. Daniel J. Boorstin
Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future! Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. Jerry Garcia
T. S. Eliot quote: "He who was living is now dead. We who were living are now dying."
He who was living is now dead. We who were living are now dying. T. S. Eliot
Oscar Wilde quote: "I don't want to earn my living, I want to live."
I don't want to earn my living, I want to live. Oscar Wilde
Harper Lee quote: "but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with..."
...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. Harper Lee
Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us. W. H. Auden
We, all who live, have. A life that is lived. And another life that is thought, And the only life we have. It's the one that is divided. In right or wrong. Fernando Pessoa
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after... Jack London
Albert Einstein quote: "Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else."
Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else. Albert Einstein
I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope. Harvey Milk
If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him. Paulo Coelho
We are all of us doomed to spend our lives watching a movie of our lives - we are always acting on what has just finished happening. Tom Wolfe
Item one: the law of the will. We just talked about this: one should only do that which truly fills our hearts with enthusiasm. If we brush this aside, if we put off the moment to live that which we dream of, we lose the energy necessary for any important transformation in our lives. Someone once put this most succinctly: “I don’t know the secret of success - but the secret of failure is to always try to follow the will of others. Paulo Coelho
It would be a poor result of all our anguish and our wrestling if we won nothing but our old selves at the end of it--if we could return to the same blind loves, the same self-confident blame, the same light thoughts of human suffering, the same frivolous gossip over blighted human lives, the same feeble sense of the Unknown towards which we have sent forth irrepressible cries in our loneliness. Let us rather be thankful that our sorrow lives in us as an indestructable force, only changing... George Eliot
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this. Jane Smiley

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