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Life.v. Death We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results. Herman Melville Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. To live the good life: work like you're not getting paid, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like nobody's watching. How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? Frank Scully The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. You make a living by what you get: you make a life by what you give. Winston Churchill Time takes from all of us; the trick is learning to take from it. Ron Sitton Live with your conscience, sleep with your dreams. adapted from John Prine Rest is for the dead. Thomas Carlyle Life is worth being lived but not worth being discussed all the time. Isabelle Adjani For those of you who were fooled too; life's edge, you will find, only exists in your mind. Micah Hall The greatest and most important problems of life are all, in a certain sense, unsolvable. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. Carl Jung You should emulate your heroes, but don't go too far -- especially if they are dead. This is as bad as it gets ... but don't count on it. Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. Katharine Hepburn He's not dead, he's electroencephalographically challenged. Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead. Louise Brooks For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. Clifton Fadiman Gin a body meet a body Coming through the rye; Gin a body kiss a body, Need a body cry? Robert Burns I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death. Patrick Henry Life can be understood by looking backward, but it must be lived by looking forward. Soren Kierkegaard Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its shortness. La Bruyere Life is a voyage, not a destination. You can make yourself enter somewhere frightening if you believe you'll profit from it. The natural response is to flee but people don't act that way anymore. By your response to danger it is easy to tell how you have lived and what has been done to you. You show whether you want to stay alive, whether you think you deserve to and whether you believe it's any good to act. Jenny Holzer He who has the courage to laugh is master of the world nearly as much as he who is prepared to die. Leopardi Life is one long process of getting tired. Samuel Butler I hope your life is like a piano - upright and grand. Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler Oh Grave! Where is thy Victory? Oh Death! Where is thy Sting? Alexander Pope Life is too short to do anything for oneself that one can pay others to do for one. William Somerset Maugham Somewhere between the time you arrive And the time you go may lie a reason you were alive But you'll never know. Jackson Browne There's no need to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do business from there. Colonel Sanders Cherish yesterday, dream tomorrow, live today. Time is the one loan which even the grateful recipient cannot repay. Seneca We are always getting ready to live, but never living. Ralph Waldo Emerson Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. Herbert Spencer No young man believes he shall ever die. William Hazlitt There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana Suicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism. The thought of suicide is a great consolation; with the help of it one has got through many a bad night. Nietzsche Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. Mark Twain To live forever, acquire a chronic disease and take care of it. Life's a bitch then you die. Is life worth living? Depends on the liver. Life's a bitch then you marry one. If it looks easy, it's tough. If it looks tough, it's damn near impossible. Life's a virgin, a bitch is too easy. Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined! Thoreau Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. Shakespeare A ship ought not to be held by a single anchor, nor life by a single hope. Epictetus The trouble with life is, you're halfway through it before you realize it's a do-it-yourself thing. In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: hit the line hard. Theodore Roosevelt The only way to reform some people is to chloroform them. Thomas C. Haliburton It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. Woody Allen Life's a beach then you drown. The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. Peter Ustinov It may be that your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. W. Somerset Maugham The only completely consistent people are the dead. Aldous Huxley Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. James Thurber Life is like a dog sled team ... if you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates Life's like that: just when you think you're sitting on a bed of roses, you get stuck in the ass with a bunch of thorns. Ronny Sitton There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it's not easy to restore life to the dead. Musharriff-uddin Life is unbearable, but death isn't so pleasant either. Russian proverb Copyright İRonald W. Sitton, 2009. Revised 022606 - http://southerner.net/sitron/wis/wlivdi.html |