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• We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that we can make it so.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Hope, Believe, Want

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• Those whose thinking is disciplined by science, like all others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for courage to do great deeds. They need a faith to live by. The hope of the world lies in those who have such faith and who use the methods of science to make their visions become real. Such visions and hope and faith are not a part of science.

  Arthur Compton

  Life, Lying, Real

  "The cosmos of Arthur Holly Compton".

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• Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Men, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle, Edwin Markham (1842). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.215

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• It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!.

  Merrill Markoe

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Magic

  Merrill Markoe (2011). “What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned”, p.85, Villard

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• It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Baby, Men, Support

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “Etruscan Places”, p.31, Read Books Ltd

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• Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Thinking, Envy

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.101, Univ of California Press

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• Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned to live our life trying to satisfy other people's demands. We have learned to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Being Yourself, Views, People

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• My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She always says, 'Happiness is your own responsibility.' That's probably what I quote from her and live by the most.

  Jennifer Garner

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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• We live by what we believe not but what we see.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Inspirational, Graduation, Believe

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• To live by a large river is to be kept in the heart of things.

  John Haines

  Heart, Rivers, Water

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• Second is the way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make his living. The way of the merchant is always to live by taking profit.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Wine, Use

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.10, Bottom of the Hill

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• Learn to live without self concern.
  For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless and ever victorious.
  Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you but your own imagination,
  you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas, and live by truth alone.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Self, Ideas, Imagination

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• Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

  John Churton Collins

  Life, Trust, Men

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• It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

  Bernard Malamud

  Men, Justice, Diversity

  Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon (2003). “Dubin's Lives: A Novel”, p.275, Macmillan

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• Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the goods of others, whereas causes for taking life are rarer and more quickly destroyed.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Causes

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, ch. 17, 1513.

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• You can't make everyone happy no matter what. All I can do is live my life and try to be successful and please myself. I have my own morals I live by. Bill Cosby once said, 'I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.' I agree with that. I live my life my way. I try to do the right thing, but I know there are going to be people who aren't happy with what I do or say no matter what, so I'm not going to worry about it.

  B.J. Penn

  Successful, Keys, Worry

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• Have a spiritual basis which guides you in life. Have a philosophy of life to live by.

  Tom Osborne

  Basketball, Spiritual, Philosophy

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• Gymnastics is not only a good thing to live by, but it is important to understand how it does help you in life.

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, Important, Doe

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• I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them - that's just the way I am they make me feel good about who I am.

  Louis C. K.

  Who I Am, Feel Good, Way

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• Give light, and people will find the way...

  Ella Baker

  Happiness, Success, Uplifting

  "Song: Give Light". 1999.

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• Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.

  T. S. Eliot

  Memories, Men, Forget

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• Never be so brief as to become obscure.

  Tryon Edwards

  Writing, Obscure

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.157, Ravenio Books

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• Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

  Andre Norton

  Cat, People, Creative

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• We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Life, Fate

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Alroy: A Romance”, p.81

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• Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying!

  William Gurnall

  Death, Christian, Blessing

  William Gurnall (1669). “The Christian in Compleat Armour, Or, A Treatise of the Saints War Against the Devil: Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints ...”, p.270

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