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Quotes To Live By (page 45)

Jose Saramago quote: "If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us..."
If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals. Jose Saramago
I know how it is to live your life like a dream. To listen and watch, to wake up and try to understand what has already happened. You do not need a psychiatrist to do this. A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he is just another bird drinking from your misery. My mother, she suffered. She lost her face and tried to hind it. She found only greater misery and finally could not hide that. There is... Amy Tan
So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere. Marcus Aurelius
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
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience. Joan Didion
All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live. Swami Vivekananda
If you could only tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing! But it's no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily... David Herbert Lawrence
Annie Dillard quote: "Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we..."
Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live. Annie Dillard
Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other. M. Scott Peck
Cormac McCarthy quote: "If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then..."
If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them? Cormac McCarthy
Andre Dubus quote: "It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through..."
It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. Andre Dubus
George Orwell quote: " . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in..."
. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it. George Orwell
Ralph Ellison quote: "In those days it was either live with music or die with noise,..."
In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live. Ralph Ellison
Leo Tolstoy quote: "without knowing who I am and why I’m here it is impossible to..."
without knowing who I am and why I’m here it is impossible to live. Yet I cannot know that and therefore I cannot live Leo Tolstoy
However, do you know what? I am convinced that fellows like me who live in dark cellars must be kept under restraint. They may be able to live in their dark cellars for forty years and never open their mouths, but the moment they get into the light of day and break out they may talk and talk and talk... Fyodor Dostoevsky

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