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• We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Diversity, Want, Helping

  "Fictional character: A Jewish Barber". "The Great Dictator", 1940.

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• Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Health, Men, Views

  "All I Survey". Book by G. K. Chesterton, www.theguardian.com. 1933.

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• You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

  John Cleese

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

  Phyllis Diller

  Relationship, Stay Strong, Anger

  "Getting Through to the Man You Love : The No-Nonsense, No-Nagging Guide for Women". Book by Michele Weiner-Davis, (p.151), 1999.

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• Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

  Jim Davis

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Hope, Planning

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1833). “The Wondrous Tale of Alroy: The Rise of Iskander”, p.61

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• God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

  Jim Elliot

  Inspirational, Faith, God

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• Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

  George Eliot

  Music, Effort, Goes On

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1203, Wordsworth Editions

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• When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

  Patricia Briggs

  Expectations, Grace, Important

  Patricia Briggs (1998). “When Demons Walk”, p.236, Penguin

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• It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Reality, Decision, Maps

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• I can always live by my pen.

  Jane Austen

  Pens, I Can

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• A good motto to live by: "Always try not to get killed.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

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• There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Heart, Soul

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• We can control our lives by controlling our perceptions.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Health, Perception, Our Lives

  "What do you stand for? Values or Beliefs?" by Great Work Cultures, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2017.

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• Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

  Wendell Berry

  Law, Justice, Competition

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.212, Counterpoint

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• I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Beautiful, Song, Philosophy

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• All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.

  Philip Pullman

  Stories, World, Morality

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?

  Cecelia Ahern

  Life, Running, Coffee

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• We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.

  Wendell Berry

  Effort, Would Be, World

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• You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Thrill, Ends

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.601, Cambridge University Press

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• For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object has been real, the photograph surreptitiously induces belief that it is alive, because of that delusion which makes us attribute to Reality an absolute superior, somehow eternal value; but by shifting this reality to the past ("this-has-been"), the photograph suggests that it is already dead.

  Roland Barthes

  Real, Past, Two

  "Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography". Essay by Roland Barthes (translated by R. Howard), 1980.

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• The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given, the weather conditions that prevail at the ...moment.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Jobs, Opportunity, Weather

  Eugene H. Peterson (2009). “Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best”, p.150, InterVarsity Press

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• "So, why do I have so much fear in my life?" "Because you don't believe. You don't know that we love you. The person who lives by his fears will not find freedom in my love. I am not talking about rational fears regarding legitimate dangers, but imagined fears, and especially the projection of those into the future. To the degree that those fears have a place in your life, you neither believe that I am good not know deep in your heart that I love you. You sing about it, you talk about it, but you don't know it."

  William P. Young

  Believe, Love You, Heart

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, May, 2007.

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• It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

  Peter McWilliams

  Tattoo, Marriage, I Hate You

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• This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Thinking, Air

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