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Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Bruce Barton

Change, Hope, Fear

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde

Live, Others, Wishes

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
John F. Kennedy

Today, Tomorrow, Young

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
Johnny Depp

Life, Love, Made

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

Life, Hurt, Live

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.
Barbara Smith

Love, Faith, Trust

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Bruce Lee

Life, Worth, Key

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
W. Clement Stone

Life, Truth, Courage

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela

Life, Passion, Small

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen Keller

Life, Future, Heart

Real living is living for others.
Bruce Lee

The good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma Gandhi

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis

Live, Thinking, Keep

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Step, Toward, Rational

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
Thomas Jefferson

Dead, Earth, Belongs

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness, Daily, Thinking

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung

Person, Another, Shoe

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Bruce Lee

Important, Individual, System

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
William Shakespeare

Father, May, Dead

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau

Good, Book, Down

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
Eminem

Life, Home, Nice

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Freedom, Pay

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.
Audrey Hepburn

Book, Thinking, Through

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi

Woman, Sacrifice, Service

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
Leo Buscaglia

Forever, Loving, Brood

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
Mahatma Gandhi

Great, Live, May

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
Mahatma Gandhi

Everything, Law, Universe

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
John Lennon

Society, Live, Mean

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time, Greatest, Lies

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