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  • To perceive is to suffer.
        Aristotle   Best?
  • May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, The rains fall soft upon your fields.(Irish Blessing)
        Unknown   Best?
  • Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.
        Frank Herbert   Best?
  • All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • I feel that we read to learn new things, sure, absolutely, but more often than not, what we really get out of the good books we read is self- recognition. We read and discover stuff about life that we already knew, except that we didn't know we knew it until we read it in a particular book. And this self-recognition, this discovering ourselves in the writings of others can be very exciting, can make us feel a little less isolated inside our own thing and a little more connected to the larger world.
        Richard Price   Best?
  • All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.
        Joni Mitchell   Best?
  • A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.   Best?
  • Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
        Charlie Parker   Best?
  • We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
        Thucydides   Best?
  • Common sense is not so common.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
        Eleanor Roosevelt   Best?
  • To laugh is to live profoundly.
        Milan Kundera   Best?
  • If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
        Jim Morrison   Best?
  • Truth is what stands the test of experience.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
        Emily Dickinson   Best?
  • The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
        Horace Walpole   Best?
  • How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
        Henry Wadsworth Longfellow   Best?
  • If you ask me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
        Emile Zola   Best?
  • See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.
        J. C. Penny   Best?
  • A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.
        Angelina Jolie   Best?
  • We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
        Marilyn Manson   Best?
  • The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
        H. P. Lovecraft   Best?
  • The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It's the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. Whoever does not know it can no longer wander, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
        Plato   Best?
  • You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • Cross-country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • Live to the point of tears.
        Soren Kierkegaard   Best?
  • No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
        Ann Landers   Best?
  • What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
        Sonia Taitz   Best?
  • I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
        G. K. Chesterton   Best?
  • Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
        Adolf Hitler   Best?
  • It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?

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