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• I've heard fate talked of. It's not a word I use. I think we make our own choices. I think how we live our lives is our own doing, and we cannot fully hope on dreams and stars. But dreams and stars can guide us, perhaps. And the heart's voice is a strong one. Always is. Your heart's voice is your true voice. It is easy to ignore it, for sometimes it says what we'd rather it did not - and it is so hard to risk the things we have. But what life are we living, if we don't live by our hearts? Not a true one. And the person living it is not the true you.

  Susan Fletcher

  Dream, Strong, Stars

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• America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.

  Stephen Colbert

  Baby, Children, Father

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• It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.

  Lady Gaga

  Destiny, Pockets, Where You Come

  "Lady Gaga says fame was her 'destiny' in new HBO Promo" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. April 26, 2011.

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• Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

  Holly Black

  Change, People, Choices

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• We're not called to live by human reason. All that matters is obedience to God's Word and his leading in our lives. if God says go,we'll go. If he says stay, we'll stay. When we are in his will, we are in the safest place in the world.

  Brother Yun

  World, Matter, Reason

  Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway (2002). “The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun”, p.272, Monarch Books

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• Every man lives by exchanging.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Economics, Trade

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master”, p.31, VM eBooks

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• The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Regret, Mistake, Made

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2006). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”, p.362, Penguin UK

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• On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step

  Nadeem Aslam

  Journey, Dying, Steps

  Nadeem Aslam (2008). “The Wasted Vigil”, Faber & Faber

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• Life is but a dream for the dead.

  Gerard Way

  Music, Dream, Life And Death

  "Song: You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison (Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge)". June 8, 2004.

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• Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.

  Thomas Browne

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1658 Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial), ch.5.

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• That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Kids, People, Stories

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.179, A&C Black

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• Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

  Agatha Christie

  Order, Life Is Like, Doe

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Sad cypress”

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• Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.

  Anne Sexton

  Wise, Thinking, Sometimes

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• All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Serenity, Grace

  1934 Reflections on the End of Our Era.

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• Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Worry, Investing, Way

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• People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that's not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner's faults honestly and say, 'I can work around that. I can make something out of it.'? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it's always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Clever, Fall

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.393, A&C Black

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• I live by the rule that you should follow your dreams…no matter what you do, you should follow your dreams

  Jared Leto

  Dream, Matter, Should

  Twitter post from Nov 1, 2014

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• I believe in a set of values I cannot live by. I set high goals for myself, I seek perfection, dream of exotic faraway places. But ultimately, what I long for isn't far away at all. It's in my own backyard. Imperfection charms me, familiar things move me... a celebration of what we have, instead of what we long for. That for me, is glamor.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Dream, Believe, Moving

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• Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Moving, Movement

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living" edited by John Little, (p. 5), 2000.

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• That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference. You're not prone to measure your energies in time. You're not likely to live by equations.

  Ruby Dee

  Inspirational, Thinking, Differences

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• Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.200, Macmillan

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• It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.

  Wallace Stegner

  Want, Aggravated, Persistent

  Wallace Stegner (1991). “All the Little Live Things”, p.96, Penguin

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• You are a victim of the rules you live by.

  Jenny Holzer

  Victim

  Jenny Holzer (1983). “Truisms and essays”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, or we are also living the stories we planted — knowingly or unknowingly — in ourselves. We live stories that either give our lives meaning or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives.’

  Ben Okri

  Giving, Age, Stories

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• Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Rules To Live By, Three

  "Ray Bradbury on Sci-Fi, God and Robots: The Late Author's Biggest Ideas" by Angela Watercutter, www.wired.com. June 6, 2012.

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