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Lives based on having are less free
than lives based on doing or being.
- E.Y. Harburg
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau 
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People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A life rooted deeply lives and grows in memory.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Most of us spend our lives as if
we have another one in the bank.
- Ben Irwin
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
Who made the rule that life has to be so serious?
One would think that "life is serious" had been engraved
upon stone tablets to judge from how most lives are lived.
Get a life, smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat - dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we want to direct our lives,
we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins
To a very young child, mommy and daddy are gods.
We spend our lives looking to regain
that sense of being cared for and protected.
Thus religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who lives in harmony with himself
lives in harmony with the universe.
- Marcus Aurelius
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
A life, deeply rooted, lives and grows in memory.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
The power of the Wizard lives within me.
I call upon its magic at will - transforming Fear into Love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
How we spend our days is of course
how we spend our lives.
- Annie Dillard
The ego lives by comparisons...
The ego cannot survive without judgment.
- A Course in Miracles
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
- Flora Whittemore
We travel, some of us forever, to seek
other states, other lives, other souls.
- Anais Nin
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not what we get.
But who we become, what we contribute...
that gives meaning to our lives.
- Tony Robbins
We get to CHOOSE the meaning for our lives.
Our lives mean exactly what we say they do - no more, no less.
Each of us chooses their path in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whether we allow external events to
shape our lives at a core level
is very much within our own control.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A Great Relationship is the Dance of Two Great Lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The freedom we are looking for
is the freedom to be ourselves,
to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives
we will see that most of the time
we do things just to please others ...
The worst part is that most of us
are not even aware that we are not free.
-Don Miguel Ruiz
All major religious traditions
carry basically the same message,
that is love, compassion and forgiveness.
The important thing is they should
be part of our daily lives.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We do not need to proselytize
either by our speech or by our writing.
We can only do so really with our lives.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity
in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Rather than worrying about the continuous stream of potential threats,
let us give thanks for our blessing of living in the eye-of-the-storm -
our protected refuge from the terrors
of fearsome dangers just outside our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth
who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
- Ernest Holmes
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
- John F. Kennedy
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
A inspired life lives not in the DOing, but in the BEing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
It is in our lives and not our words
that our religion must be read.
- Thomas Jefferson
At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
Anyone is free who lives as he wishes to live.
- Epictetus
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
The man who is awakened, lives in such a way
that he leaves no footprints.
- Osho quoting The Buddha
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
This is the answer to all questions about relationship.
When two people sing their lives in harmony,
their lives are grand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All the religions of the world,
while they may differ in other respects,
unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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