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Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

Illusion, Live By, Knows

And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist.

Sage, Mist, Live By

Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown (2012). “Geisha Of Gion: The True Story Of Japan's Foremost Geisha”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

Many live by their wits but few by their wit.

Laurence J. Peter

Wit, Live By

Every day I live by only one rule, be a good guy.

Judd Apatow

Guy, Good Guy, Live By

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

Thornton Wilder

Existence, Live By, Plans

Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

N. T. Wright

Book, Want, Live By

I live by the 80/20 rule: I'm 80 percent healthy, and then 20 percent indulgent.

Miranda Kerr

Healthy, Live By, Percent

Who's the best person you know. Of all the people you know personally, is there anyone who has a sense of right and wrong and lives by it? This was a sticky question because it would have to be Ranger ...but I suspected he occasionally killed people. Only bad people, of course, but still...

Janet Evanovich

People, Rangers, Live By

Janet Evanovich (2010). “Eleven on Top”, p.340, Macmillan

We dull our lives by the way we conceive them.

James Hillman

Dull, Way, Live By

We live by choice, not by chance.

Hal Urban

Choices, Chance, Live By

Hal Urban (2005). “Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

Crispin Glover

Good Things, Interest, Live By

Our beliefs become the rules we live by, and then here's what happens: We make ourselves right.

Cheryl Richardson

Belief, Live By, Happens

The more you live by external shoulds, the farther you drift from the power inherent in your own spirit.

Alan Cohen

Spirit, Live By, Inherent

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Philosophy, Relevant, Live By

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.13, Stanford University Press

A dear friend of mine once told me that the only way around is through. I now live by this.

A. J. McLean

Way, Dear Friend, Live By

I can no longer live by thinking.

William Shakespeare

Thinking, Live By, I Can

I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

Taylor Swift

Way, Live By, Feels

To the stars through difficulties.

Seneca the Younger

Stars, Difficulty, Live By

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books

Robertson Davies

Book, Pleasure, Live By

Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading”, Penguin Group Canada