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• Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, May, Language

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.34, Convergent Books

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• It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Sleep, Gains, Conformity

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• Things that live by night live outside the realm of 'normal' time and so suggest living outside the realm of good and evil, since we have moralistic feelings about time. Chauvinistic about our human need to wake by day and sleep by night, we come to associate night dwellers with people up to no good at a time when they have the jump on the rest of us and are defying nature, defying their circadian rhythms.

  Diane Ackerman

  Sleep, Night, People

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.40, Vintage

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• We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.

  Iris Murdoch

  Light, Self, Secret

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “A Severed Head, The Black Prince, The Sea, The Sea”

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• Ease leads to habit, as success to ease.
  He lives by rule who lives himself to please.

  George Crabbe

  Ease, Habit, Please

  George Crabbe, George Crabbe (Jr.) (1834). “The poetical works of the rev. George Crabbe: with his letters and journals, and his life”, p.37

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• If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines.

  Richard Rohr

  Years, Suffering, World

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Pride, Train Of Thought, Track

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.338, Broadview Press

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• The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Spiritual, Thinking, Discovery

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• Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.

  Radclyffe Hall

  Men, Light, Darkness

  Radclyffe Hall (2005). “The Well of Loneliness”, p.214, Wordsworth Editions

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• when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !

  Ethel Smyth

  Art, Hands, Fire

  Ethel Smyth (1946). “Impressions that remained”

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• Kandinsky in Munich uttered the well known words: 'Everything is permitted!' In 1961; we still live by this heritage, which in truth is inexhaustible.

  Michel Seuphor

  Heritage, Munich, Truth Is

  Michel Seuphor (1964). “Abstract Painting: 50 Years of Accomplishment, from Kandinsky to the Present”

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• of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were meant to live by twos, with someone close with whom to share good and bad, to hear breathing in the dark room at night. Being alone is the one unnatural act.

  Zelda Popkin

  Loneliness, Heart, Dark

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• It is precisely because we cannot see God that we can only know that our prayer is valid by the effect it has upon our lives, by the way we treat our neighbor.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Prayer, Way, Neighbor

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• Parents do not, indeed, live by bread alone. We feast daily on banquets of our own words.

  Sarah Bird

  Parent, Bread, Banquets

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• Carry your Bible and live by it. There's a better chance that you will stay married if that much is true for either one of you - male or female.

  Phil Robertson

  Males, Female, Chance

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• I want to live in a city where people who make the rules have to live by them.

  Martin Firrell

  Cities, People, Want

  "I Want to Live in a City Where". Text projections onto The National Gallery, London, www.martinfirrell.com. 2006.

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• G.K. Chesterton once said: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. I live by this philosophy when I teach writing. It seems to me vastly more important that a student try a new technique in her writing, and use it imperfectly, than never try the technique at all.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Philosophy, Writing, Important

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• Exact words are hard to live by.

  Mike Brady

  Hard

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• We live by choice, not by chance.

  Hal Urban

  Choices, Chance

  Hal Urban (2005). “Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog.

  Bret Anthony Johnston

  Dog, Rejection, Salt

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• We tend to promise by our hopes and live by our fears.

  Michael Grinder

  Promise

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• It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.

  Robert Harbison

  People, Changed

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• Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

  John Milton

  Equality, Splendor, Assuming

  John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing

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• Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

  Kevin Hart

  Hard Work, Play Hard, Years

  "Kevin Hart's Wild 'Ride' [INTERVIEW]". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. January 20, 2014.

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• I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

  Zubin Mehta

  Doctors, Medicine, University

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