People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.
Daisaku Ikeda
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AUDRE LORDE To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give. TRISTAN BERNARD Effort is required to live life of others, but to live our own every action comes all and only natur... ANUJ SOMANY I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contai... RICHARD FLANAGAN No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living respon... WENDELL BERRY Live the present in such a way that in the future, you will need not be ashamed of your past. MARK HAMPTON WAYNE Careful, lest sentiment governs your ideals. A.H. SEPTIMIUS I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in t... MADELEINE L’ENGLE Silence is the best reply to those who provoke you. Smile is like icing on the cake. SARU SINGHAL Life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved CLIVE OLLIES In a world of words, anything is possible... 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CLEMENT OGEDEGBE you can't stop and rewind time, you can only live in the moment, foreseeing the future is foolish. L... JOSHUA JAMES GUYER We don't live through life only by our own experiences, we live through life with other people's exp... NIKE THADDEUS I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not onl... JACK KEROUAC Shelley, you’re just like that oyster.” God confronted me on the deeper areas of my life that I ... SHELLEY LUBBEN You live day by day. You can't build your life. BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI People gave us a purpose. Something to do all day, every day. At the end, I suppose, you spend a lot... C. ROBERT CARGILL To live with Faith, eliminate Fear. Only one can exist in our Life at any point of time.-RVM RVM To live happily with other people, one should ask of them only what they can give. TRYON EDWARDS When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. JAMES A. BALDWIN We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance. WILLIAM STEPHENSON Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to lif... VIKTOR FRANKL Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to lif... VIKTOR E. FRANKL The kind of life you live is not only determined by the level of education you attained. It's define... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop were not ther... MOTHER TERESA Real Dominance isn't always measured in muscle. Nor is it always measured in Intelligence. But rathe... LUCIAN BANE Money is only a human invention. VANNA BONTA It is easy to opt out and follow the stream down the river and end up stranded without knowing how y... CHRIS ERZFELD Acknowledging awesomeness is powerful, contagious, important and necessary! TANYA MASSE If you think someone is AWESOME, tell them! 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