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• Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Believe, Sleep, Men

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• When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Photography, Sea, Weather

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• Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Silence, Grace, Wilderness

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• A democratic public forms when citizens gather together to deliberate and make public judgments about local and national issues that affect their lives. By associating together for public discussion, citizens learn the skills necessary for the health of a democratic public; listening persuading, arguing, compromising, and seeking common ground. When these skills are nurtured within the institutions of a democratic public, citizens educate themselves in order to make informed political decisions.

  Kevin Mattson

  Order, Skills, Issues

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• We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

  Terry Goodkind

  Might, Has Beens, Our Lives

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “The First Confessor: Sword of Truth: The Prequel”, p.70, Head of Zeus

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• Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged - well, one can't do all these things at once, worse luck, because they're so contradictory. It's then that proportion comes in - to live by proportion. Don't begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.

  E. M. Forster

  Humble, People, Luck

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.580, Delphi Classics

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• sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections.

  Ellen Wittlinger

  Thinking, Law, People

  Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Blind Faith”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Any man who lives by his beliefs is to be admired, not mocked.

  Julie Garwood

  Men, Belief

  Julie Garwood (2011). “For the Roses”, p.137, Penguin

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• Oh my, justifying reasons why Is an absolutely insane resolution to live by ((Live High))

  Jason Mraz

  Insane, Reason Why, Resolution

  Song: Live High, 2008

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• Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

  Lewis Mumford

  Life, Elderly, Littles

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• I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.

  Keith O'Brien

  Jesus, Simple, Trying

  "Catholic cardinal calls on Christians to wear their crosses every day" by Damien Pearse, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.

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• My belief in God is personal, I do not need to browbeat anyone into agreeing with me, because I believe what I believe and I try to live by it. My belief in God is about trying to be the best person I can be in this life.

  Dorothy Koomson

  Believe, Trying, Needs

  Dorothy Koomson (2008). “Goodnight, Beautiful”, p.377, Hachette UK

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• We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

  Yoko Ono

  Sleep, Pride, Giving

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• Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hope, Lying, Deceit

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• But in the end, we can’t live our lives by ‘what if’ and ‘if only.’ We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That’s why the truth is so important.

  Terry Goodkind

  Ifs And, What If, Important

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “The First Confessor: Sword of Truth: The Prequel”, p.181, Head of Zeus

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• signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Errors, Trial And Error, Trials

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• I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

  Mike Royko

  Movie, Couple, Philosophy

  Mike Royko, Lois Wille (2000). “One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko”, p.120, University of Chicago Press

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• It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.

  David Levithan

  Ocean, People, Stories

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.13, Egmont UK

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• Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

  John Ruskin

  Giving Up, Men, Titles

  1880 Open letter to EnglishTrades Unions, 29 Sep.

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• If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.

  Bill Johnson

  Men, Criticism, Praise

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• The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Eye, Hands, Space

  Terry Tempest Williams (2002). “Red: passion and patience in the desert”, Vintage

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• At last, Lady Evenstar, fairest in this world, and most beloved, my world is fading. Lo! we have gathered, and we have spent, and now the time of payment draws near." 'Arwen knew well what he intended, and long had foreseen it; nonetheless she was overborne by her grief. "Would you then, lord, before your time leave your people that live by your word?" she said.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Grief, Long, People

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• I only have disdain for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He raised taxes and has increased regulations. What else is new? He's a bully who wants to micro-manage people's lives by mandate, not persuasion.

  Mark Skousen

  New York, Cities, People

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• Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Journalism, Sometimes, Journalist

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• O'Connor lives by the following words: You don't look back. When people ask O'Connor now, "Aren't you sorry you resigned because everything you voted for is being reversed by the current court?" She says, "You can't look back."

  Linda Hirshman

  Sorry, People

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