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• When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

  James A. Baldwin

  Literature, Habit, Quotations

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• To know nothing is the happiest life.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Life, Inspire, Knows

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• I live by 'Earnin' and burnin'.' Meaning, I like to make money and spend it before I even have it. That's the way I live my life.

  Will Ferrell

  Way, Making Money, Living My Life

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• I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.

  Orson Scott Card

  Believe, Two, Soul

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.90, Macmillan

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• I wouldn’t call myself a feminist. I try to live by the girl-power motto. It’s about believing in yourself, no matter how bad a day you’re having, and lending your support to other women. It’s empowering to have that camaraderie with other women.

  Melanie Brown

  Girl, Believe, Empowering

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• Go take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man , and What men live by . When thou hast learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mother, Men, Heaven

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “What Men Live By”, p.38, Leo Tolstoy

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• The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

  Aeschylus

  Truth, Pain, Suffering

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• Jesus accepted the plenary [i.e., complete, extending to all its parts] inspiration of the Bible; when first approached by the devil to turn stones into bread, our Lord replied that man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4 quoting Deut. 8:3). He did not say, "some words" but "every word." If Scripture is breathed out from God (2 Tim. 3:16), then Scripture must be included in what sustains man, not only parts of Scripture but all of it.

  Charles Caldwell Ryrie

  Bible, Jesus, Inspiration

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• if i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made. but then, caleb taught me long ago you can't build anything without some sort of foundation. maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mistake, Long Ago, Starting Over

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

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• Our father was a great warrior. Our mother is proud and strong. They shared only one flaw: that their only loyalty was to themselves above all other cats. We're not like that. We understand what it means to be loyal to our Clan. We have the courage to live by the warrior code. And because of that we'll be the most powerful cats in RiverClan one day, and our Clanmates will have to respect us then.

  Erin Hunter

  Loyalty, Mother, Strong

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• Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections.

  William Gibson

  Running, Baby, Eye

  William Gibson (2003). “Idoru”, p.32, Penguin

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• In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton)

  J. M. Coetzee

  Yield, Voice, Giving

  J. M. Coetzee (2017). “Foe: A Novel”, p.25, Penguin

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• Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Want, Break, Wit

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.58, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?

  David Eddings

  Possible And Impossible, Ordinary World, Law

  David Eddings (2010). “Pawn Of Prophecy: Book One Of The Belgariad”, p.53, Random House

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• There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a tempest of passion, and there are others who cling to the rules because they fear that there is no passion there at all, and that if they let go they would simply remain where they are, foolish and unmoved; and they could bear that least of all. Living a life of iron control lets them pretend to themselves that only by the mightiest effort of will can they hold great passions at bay.

  Philip Pullman

  Letting Go, Passion, Iron

  Philip Pullman (2009). “The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ”, p.61, Canongate Books

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• All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure.

  Theodore Roethke

  Vision, Lovers, Longing

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.163, Anchor

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• Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.

  Laura Riding

  Disappointment, Self, Victory

  Laura (Riding) Jackson, Laura Riding (1939). “Lives of Wives”

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• We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Desire, Acting, Genius

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• Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.

  Matthew Kelly

  Noble, Climate, Modern

  Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.11, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.

  Tom Robbins

  Suicide, Adventure, Differences

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.112, Bantam

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• Tell me." Edward had to raise his voice a little. "Do you live by the principle that what people don't know can't hurt them?" "No," Harper replied. "What people don't know can't hurt me.

  Ginn Hale

  Hurt, Voice, People

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• Christians belive in a sovereign God who never says "Oops". We believe that all our days ... are divine strokes on the canvas of our lives by the Master Artist who certified his skill, his power, and his love in the Masterpiece of Calvary. If you doubt His skill in painting your life - look at the Calvary

  John Piper

  Christian, Believe, Artist

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• He that lives by the sight of the eye may grow blind.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Eye, Sight, May

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Choose to live by faith and not fear

  Kevin W. Pearson

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• Am I really a person who lives by faith? God can surely tell the difference between someone who walks in darkness and someone who walks with her eyes shut. Which am I?

  Mark Salzman

  Eye, Differences, Darkness

  Mark Salzman (2003). “Lying Awake: A Novel”, p.153, Vintage

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