The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living.
Society is a partnership not only by those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.
What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: "Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example." She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.
some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.
Most people like to live in illusions.
She who has never loved has never lived.
I always say: Don't die with your music still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul. When you do this, you're also tapping into one of the face of intention: love. If you're doing what you love and loving what you do - whatever it is - you make a living at it!
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . .
Live or die but don't poison everything.
The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
