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To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
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We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
To live is to choose.
- Kofi Annan
You have made people listen.
You have made people care, and you have taught us
that whether we are poor or prosperous,
we have only one world to share.
You have taught young people that
they do have the power to change the world.
- Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General, to Bono. (November 1999)
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Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child,
and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential,
and fight for your dreams.
- Ashley Smith
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations.
For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A single event can awaken a stranger totally unknown to us.
To live is to be slowly born.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The biggest adventure you can take is
to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There are old heads in the world
who cannot help me by their example or advice
to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself;
but I believe that it is in my power
to elevate myself this very hour
above the common level of my life.
- Henry David Thoreau
To live a satisfying life requires two steps...
1. Plan your life goals.
2. Act on your plan - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is the salve that heals
the wounds of unkind words and acts.
Forgive everyone for every hurt you have ever received -
for your own sake, that you may live in peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness comes from a conscious choice to live life joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
Live with passion.
- Anthony Robbins
I choose to live my life in the present, with consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
I am not bound to succeed,
but I am bound to live by the light that I have.
I must stand with anybody that stands right,
and stand with him while he is right,
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
I choose to live a life of gratitude and joy,
inspiring others to follow my example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
I Live a Life of Bold and Courageous Action
Inspired by Powerful Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
Live life to the fullest.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey
It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez
Live Your Dreams.
- Les Brown
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
What is your dream - your life-dream?
Have you begun to live it yet?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
if you don't trust enough.
- Frank Crane
Don't live down to expectations.
Go out there and do something remarkable.
- Wendy Wasserstein
Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
- Martin Buber
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous;
there's really nothing to lose.
There's no wrong you can't make right again,
so be kinder to yourself;
have fun, take chances. There are no bounds.
- Jewel
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I love myself as I truly am - and live courageously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust yourself. Only you can live your life.
Only you can taste your victories.
Only you can suffer the sting of your defeats.
Make your own choices, and accept your own consequences -
for better or worse.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins
Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau
To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as one's own
in the midst of abundance.
- The Buddha
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Love yourself as you truly are -
and live courageously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are
and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
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