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The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

Emma Goldman

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Saudi Arabian Confucius

A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.

Adlai E. Stevenson

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secret of getting along—whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Bernard Meltzer

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

Max Frisch

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

George Eliot

If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could

Orison Swett Marden

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

William Shakespeare

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of Aids than I ever did in the cut-throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

Anthony Perkins

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.

William Lyon Phelps

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

Edmund Burke

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Life [is] a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity.

Charles A. Lindbergh

[The heart] is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.

William Harvey

Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life. - Matthew Prior,

Matthew Prior

Make me to see't; or at the least so prove it That the probation bear no hinge nor loop To hang a doubt on--or woe upon thy life!

William Shakespeare

Dreams in life are like mirages in the desert where you can never reach.

Kazi Shams

If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell; Some a light sigh, That shakes from Life's fresh crown Only a rose-leaf down. If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rung the bell, What would you buy?

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Dreams are necessary to life.

Anais Nin

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau

To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.

Chinese Proverb

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

K Denis Waitley

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Anaïs Nin

Through snow covered forests of spirited dreams nourished to life by crystalline streams. Jan of http://jsmagic.net/emissary.

Les Jan

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