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“The Korean Catholic Church has always embodied the Christian virtues of "forgiveness" and "sharing", promoting these values in society while living peacefully with other religions. In the reality of living in a "divided nation", the Church has worked tirelessly over the past seven decades to resolve the conflicts inherent in this division and has striven for peace and unity for the Korean people.”
Paul Kyung Sang Lee (born 1960) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: World Youth Day 2027 in Seoul: young people from all over the world to become “courageous missionaries” (24 September 2024) Fides News Agency
“All you boys seem to think about is the things you can see and touch—that ain’t living. It’s the things you can feel inside of you—that’s what living is made for.”
Erskine Caldwell (1903–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I was decorated in 1969, there were 450 living recipients of the Medal of Honor. Today, there are only about one hundred, and the average age is near eighty. Statistically, in five years there will only be fifty or sixty still alive, and in less than fifteen years there will be none of us left. There has not been a living Medal of Honor recipient from any conflict since the war in Vietnam.”
Jack H. Jacobs (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You need to focus on the numbers you'll see in these cases and the dates, because there's a puzzle you need to solve to save yourself from the possession that has struck. Thirty living dead and dead living, with a wound on their backs bearing the letter Gh, and people acting unconsciously, or are they possessed?”
Alaa Sarhan wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have been very much involved in ICEHA’s Healing Through Art (art therapy) for survivors of Boko haram insurgency in the North East of Nigeria, Also children and young persons living with the sickle-Cell anemia, children and young persons living with cancer and Down syndrome.”
Kunle Adewale (born 1981) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://tribuneonlineng.com/i-sat-wasce-7-times-im-now-international-figure-creative-arts-olakunle-adewale-joel/, Nigerian Tribune, by David Olagunju, 16 July 2016
“These are novel living machines,They're neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animal. It's a new class of artifact: a living, programmable organism.”
Josh Bongard (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You are not allowed to post! I’m an influencer and content creator. I make a living off social media. I have a bond and other bills to pay. How am I supposed to make a living, because my acting career has been destroyed”
Tebogo Thobejane (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you are an ordinary person, there are many things you tend to just turn a blind eye on, but working on this project has opened my eyes that apart from people living with HIV, cancer or other ailments, people living with albinism require special attention”
Ann-Grace Mutambu (born 1996) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Miss Zim smiles on albinos,16 November 2015
“Living in certainty, for what we have said so far, is not living in truth. And precisely in the name of truth, we must observe that the promise of certainty [...] gives peace. But it is also true that peace, as Kafka said, is what one wishes for ashes. (p. 106)”
Maurizio Ferraris (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today, therefore, I can say that Italians living abroad are an integral part of the Italian system, and they have demonstrated, by asserting this through the power of their actions, that they have rights that are in every way identical to those of Italians living in Italy.”
Mirko Tremaglia (1926–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Berlusconi had said that it made no sense for Italians living abroad to vote, because Italians living abroad do not pay taxes. Should we take away the right to vote from tax evaders, since they don't pay tax? Are we going to take away the right to vote from the homeless and the poor?”
Mirko Tremaglia (1926–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well, I’ve been a fan of Louis’ for years and years and years, and an old friend as well, so I’ve always wanted to work with him, and even while I was living in L.A. for eight years, I used to call him often saying, ‘Just send me another play, send me another play so I can read it’. I just wanted to read his stuff, not thinking I’d ever work with him because I was living somewhere else”
Carl Beukes (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We will create jobs through rapid industrialisation of our state, to earn a living instead of begging for a living.”
Udom Gabriel Emmanuel (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My book portrays a vast humanity living on the edge of Cape Town. My book portrays a vast humanity living on the edge of Cape Town.”
David Lurie (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have a different mindset, You have to make a living out of it because you don't get a living from anywhere else. You have to go out there and make something of yourself.”
Asafa Powell (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When we're at home, we try to separate that, But it's what he does for a living, what I do for a living. Of course it's going to cross over into home.”
Jearl Miles Clark (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.”
Laozi (misattributed) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to "Jimmy R." in Days of Healing, Days of Joy (1987)
“Times before you, when even living men were antiquities,--when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world could not be properly said to go unto the greater number.”
Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682) said by 1682 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The mind is its own place and in his inner life each of us lives the life of a ghostly Robinson Crusoe. People can see, hear and jolt one another’s bodies, but they are irremediably blind and deaf to the workings of one another’s minds and inoperative upon them.”
Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What appears to us to be an accurate definition of justice does not also appear to be so to the Gods. For we, looking to that which is most brief, direct our attention to things present, and to this momentary life, and the manner in which it subsists. But the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul, and all its former lives.”
Iamblichus (245–325) said by 325 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians, translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor, (1821) quoted by Annie Besant in Karma, (1895)
“If power means having control over one's own life, then perhaps there is no better ranking of the impact of sex roles and racism on power over our own lives than life expectancy.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art is not for the personal satisfaction of one or the other, but art wants to return all what’s in life... Art wants to give back everything what’s in our lives. The more comprehensive the artist stands in life the more powerful his work will speak, and therefore a work of art is a measure of the mental size of his creator.”
Bram van Velde (1895–1981) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to H. E. Kramer, 25-10-1926, as quoted in: Bram van Velde, A Tribute, Municipal Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Municipal Museum Schiedam, Museum de Wieger, Deurne 1994, p. 44 (English translation: Charlotte Burgmans)
“If you want to be a true professional, you will do something outside yourself, something to repair tears in your community, something to make life a little better for people less fortunate than you. That’s what I think a meaningful life is. One lives not just for oneself but for one’s community.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stanford Rathbun Lecture 2017 Highlights: Ruth Bader Ginsburg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnzP035hotc
“To make life a little better for people less fortunate than you, that’s what I think a meaningful life is. One lives not just for oneself but for one’s community.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About her legacy. As quoted in: Jay Croft (September 20, 2020): 10 quotes that help define the ‘Notorious RBG’ legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In: CNN. Archived from the original on September 9, 2022.
“I know this now. Every man gives his life to what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and so they give their lives to little or nothing…”
Joan of Arc (1412–1431) said by 1431 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Joan of Lorraine, (Washington, D.C.: Anderson House, 1947), Maxwell Anderson
“I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address in Des Moines, Iowa (4 November 1910)
“Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.”
Marcus Aurelius (121–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Think of life as it really is, think of the details of life; and then think that there is no meaning in it, no purpose, no goal except the grave. Surely only fools or self-deceivers, or those whose lives are exceptionally fortunate, can face that thought without flinching?”
George Orwell (1903–1950) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Clergyman's Daughter, Ch. 2 (1935)
“Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.”
Carl Jung (1875–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes it felt to him as though he's spent most of his life traveling, and never quite got to anywhere that mattered. Then again, that might be as good a description of what life was supposed to be as anyone ever thought of. The only real destination was death, and our lives consisted of finding the most circuitous and pleasant path to get there.”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.”
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 2, “At Tienappels’,” (1924), trans. by H.T. Lowe-Porter (1928).
“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nelson Mandela on life, 90th Birthday celebration of Walter Sisulu, Walter Sisulu Hall, Randburg, Johannesburg, South Africa (18 May 2002). Source: From Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations © 201…
“...he tries to view his life as a brick of sorts, set in place with a slap in 1933 and hardening ever since, just one life in rows and walls and blocks of lives.”
John Updike (1932–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do know without fear of contradiction what the definition of life is and it is 12 words long. 'Life is defined by how much you improve the lives of others.'”
Keith Olbermann (born 1959) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Senior Convocation Speech," Cornell University (1998-05-23)
“Anyhow, she knew when she looked into her heart she’d never really wanted kids anyhow. She’d seen how kids dropped from the sky and exploded people’s lives like squalling neutron bombs. She was honest enough to admit she was too selfish for that; her life, her only life, was her own.”
Stephen Baxter (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the critic is the amount of life he finds there.”
Carl Van Doren (1885–1950) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Roving Critic (1923), p. 20
“I tell brides and grooms to have many children. To bear many children and raise them is God's blessing. It is unthinkable the human beings apply their own standard of judgement and arbitrarily abort precious lives given to them by God. All life born into this world embodies God's will. All life is noble and precious, so it must be cared for and protected.”
Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2009, As a Peace Loving Global Citizen
“Two years ago—even if my own life was at stake—and I am confident, if I thought a man would shoot me—I would give him a chance of keeping his life, and would part with my own; but if I knew that through him innocent persons' lives were at stake, I certainly would have to shoot him.”
Ned Kelly (1854–1880) said by 1880 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference — the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All my life I have done nothing but feel and cultivate my feelings; all their lives they had done nothing but strive for petty goals, the trivial material prizes of American life. We shared a common tongue, but my language was a different language from theirs.”
Richard Wright (1908–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A dim notion of what life meant to a Negro in America was coming to consciousness in me, not in terms of external events, lynchings, Jim Crowism, and the endless brutalities, but in terms of crossed-up feeling, of psyche pain. I sensed that Negro life was a sprawling land of unconscious suffering, and there were but few Negroes who knew the meaning of their lives, who could tell their story.”
Richard Wright (1908–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt: Give any man the power of a god, and you better hope he's got the wisdom and morals of a god to match. There's nothing feeble about my moral line. I value life. That is why I fight to protect it. I mourn every man I lose and every sacrifice I make. One life or a billion, they're all lives.”
Dan Abnett (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The unfoldment of the human consciousness is signalised sequentially by the recognition of life after life, of being after being, and the realisation that these lives are in themselves the sum total of all the potencies and energies whose will is to create and to manifest. p. 5”
Alice Bailey (1880–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[M]an's life of all lives is the most completely and fully bound to earth because life's experience, wholly earthly, is in man's case the most complete and full. […] Man is the most, not the least, earthly of all creatures.”
Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Because he had seen much of life, his last and greatest work, The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, is more than a collection of facts: it is a book of wisdom and experience, a treatise on the conduct of life, a commentary on human destiny.”
Walter Raleigh (professor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were. She knew Tuck understood that more than anyone.”
Nicholas Sparks (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control. Separate Reality: Conversations With Don Juan. (1971) p. 85; As cited in: Eugene Dupuis (2001) Time Shift: Managing Time to Create a Life You Love. Ch. 5: Self Management”
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I talked for hours, and for the first time in my life, I could see that I’d lived two very different lives ever since I’d started school. On the ranch I’d lived a life full of love and work and warm, good feelings. At school I’d been treated with so much … physical and mental abuse that I was still filled with so much rage; it was hard for me to even think about it.”
Victor Villaseñor (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many will want to know if in this reflection of mine, and study, and commit myself incessantly to so many causes I have found the meaning of life. Yes, I have an answer: life perhaps has no meaning. But that's exactly why we spend our lives looking for one. The important thing is not to know, but to seek.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Are we obliged to give these bastards [criminals] a good life? They spend their whole lives fucking us and those of us who work have to give them a good life in prison. They should fuck themselves, full stop. That’s it, dammit!”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On 11 February 2014. A única coisa boa do Maranhão é o presídio de Pedrinhas, diz Bolsonaro. UOL (11 February 2014); Who is Jair Bolsonaro? Brazil's far-right president in his own words. The Guardian (29 October 2018).