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“Don’t be afraid of dying. A Warrior lives with death, Aubry. Welcome it as an ally. All other fears are just fragments of death, forms of unbecoming. A fighter clings to life, and therefore cannot win. A warrior treats life and death as the same thing, and therefore cannot lose.”
Steven Barnes (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some were sentenced without having had a fair trial... Some were put in jail because they didn’t have enough money or couldn’t get legal counsel, or were the victims of false accusations... I was able to learn about the life of women, and to learn about structural corruption in the political system... It was really a life education — to understand people’s lives and feelings, mainly about women.”
Wai Wai Nu (born 1987) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Myanmar activist Wai Wai Nu: ‘Prison was really a life education’, by John Reed, The Financial Times, (6 December 2017)
“Being part of the lives of parish families has been my greatest joy. When you don’t have your own personal family or wife, sharing the highs, lows and joys of the life of families is the kernel of a parish priest’s life, and I think that’s where you find God.”
Eugene Hurley (born 1940) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Darwin’s retiring bishop reflects on life of great joy (September 21, 2018)
“what we're really trying to do here is protect this ocean pyramid, and that ocean pyramid connects to our own pyramid of life. It's an ocean planet, and we think of ourselves as a terrestrial species, but the pyramid of life in the ocean and our own lives on land are intricately connected. And it's only through having the ocean being healthy that we can remain healthy ourselves.”
Stephen Palumbi (born 1956) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hidden toxins in the fish we eat (April 2010)
“At Christmas, God enters our lives so we may enter divine life. Humanity was looking to be saved, and God sends us a child! Humanity was hoping for the extraordinary, and God comes in everyday life. Humanity was waiting for something on which to lean, while God has need of us – the need for a mother to give nourishment and a father to provide protection.”
André Gaumond (1936–2019) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Christmas Message from Archbishop André Gaumond, President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (6 December 2006)
“It seems to me that there is nothing in literature more valuable for young people to read than the lives of those who, in travelling the journey of life, have left their impress for good or bad on society. Every life carries its lessons - it matters not whether they are warnings or inspirations, they are alike valuable to the young who have the journey before them.”
B. O. Flower (1858–1918) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lessons Learned from Other Lives (1889), page 3
“I’ve spent my whole life on the development platform working in rural areas to try to change the lives of women and girls. My mission in life is to assist women and youth in social and political empowerment through business and education. So from 1981, what I have done is to find ways to enable my fellow women through economic empowerment.”
Joyce Banda (born 1950) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Interview with Joyce Banda, Former President of MalawiThe Politic(August 6, 2017)
“Nothing in life is worth committing suicide over. It is said that when there is life, there is hope. For most people who reached that bridge of almost taking their lives, they eventually thank God that they did not take that plunge. The only thing that is constant is change. You may not have today, but you would have tomorrow.”
Ayo Adesanya (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That’s my natural self. There’s no negative energy here. A lot of people see more of negativity than the positive things God is doing in their lives but for me, I prefer to magnify the positivity in my life. There will always be challenges when you want to go to the next level of your life. For me I find solution to the challenge and I just move on.”
Belinda Effah (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One will begin to wonder whether we have lost our humanity or we no longer value human lives, life belongs to God, no one on earth has the right to take another’s life.”
Angela Miri (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In life, we experience relationships sometimes as being traumatic, especially when outside events affect our parents. When they make decisions that we hold them responsible for –– that affect our lives, not knowing all of the reasons they made those decisions for their life –– [it] creates a little bit of [a] gap and a little bit of a traumatic experience.”
Giancarlo Esposito (born 1958) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Giancarlo Esposito Is a Smooth Criminal" in Netflix (5 January 2023)
“Nothing moves, neither here nor there, nor within me. And it is in those moments that I realize it: nothing lives so intensely as time stands still; because it is not the people running, the objects falling, the voices resounding, that make life: those are inexact imitations of life.”
Roberto Vecchioni (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My life has been, and is, full of experiences, a life that we can define as intense. I could say that perhaps I have lived three lives in one, having done so many things, and there are certainly many that I still want to do.”
Demetra Hampton (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The more they acquire more knowledge, the more they will do well in their productions and do well in their personal lives as well, because if your business life improves, your personal life will definitely improve too.”
Queen Blessing Ebigieson (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here in the country’s heart Where the grass is green, Life is the same sweet life As it e’er hath been.Trust in a God still lives, And the bell at morn Floats with a thought of God O’er the rising corn.God comes down in the rain, And the crop grows tall— This is the country faith, And the best of all.”
Norman Gale (1862–1942) first seen 1893 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Country Faith", in A Country Muse: New Series (1893), p. 16
“This is an insightful drama about people groping in the dark in their search for the truth until they come into contact with the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ ( The Way, The Truth and The Life, The Only Way back to God), give their lives to Jesus, accept Him as their personal Saviour and Lord and have eternal life.”
Ifeoma Mabel Onyemelukwe (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope to empower my students to make progress in science and in their own lives. To date, the 34 or so PhD students who I have worked with are as important in my professional life as are my four real children in my life.”
Salvatore J. Stolfo wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A novelist has two lives — a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.”
Jane Smiley (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bear in mind that we need to take control of our lives and make good decisions. Life has no ‘rewind’ button, ‘reverse gear’ or ‘delete’ button. But life always gives us a second or even a third chance. Use them well and in 2025 let us fulfill our personal dreams, strengthen our families, our communities and our country.”
Wavel Ramkalawan (born 1961) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wavel Ramkalawan(2024) cited in ""Message of the President of the Republic of Seychelles, Mr Wavel Ramkalawan on the occasion of New Year 2025"on State House,31 December 2024.
“I am tackling the subject of love from my experience, my journey in life, and life in general,” she stressed. “I have also addressed issues resonating with our everyday lives.”
“We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.”
Martha Graham (1894–1991) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The American Dance", in Modern Dance, ed. Virginia Stewart (1945).
“Geologists discover... an almost complete difference to exist between the species or stamp of life, of one epoch from that of every other. We are therefore led to admit, either of a repeated miraculous creation; or of a power of change, under a change of circumstances, to belong to living organised matter, or rather to the congeries of inferior life, which appears to form superior.”
Patrick Matthew (1790–1874) said by 1874 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A person’s true means of expression is his life. Living the shame of life and maintaining silence, that was the greatest accomplishment of all.”
Imre Kertész (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Most of the time you are thinking about life, not living life.”
“Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.”
Adoniram Judson Gordon (1836–1895) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 194.
“I am working here [Amsterdam] on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a more intense life and exhilaration. My God, life is worth living!”
Max Beckmann (1884–1950) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to Stephan Lackner, Amsterdam, 1939; as quoted in Max Beckmann, Stephan Lackner, Bonfini Press Corporation, Naefels, Switzerland, 1983, p. 5
“I believe in one thing—that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home. No father and mother can hope to escape sorrow and anxiety, and there are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oswald Cabal: Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.”
H. G. Wells (1866–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.”
Carl Jung (1875–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jesus said that God was not the God of the dead, but of the living. And the other life is not, in fact, thinkable to us except under the same forms as those of this earthly and transitory life.”
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In a crystal we have the clear evidence of the existence of a formative life-principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is none the less a living being.”
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Problem of Increasing Human Energy: With Special Reference to the Harnessing of the Sun’s Energy", Century Illustrated Magazine, vol. 60, no. 2 (June 1900), p. 180
“To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: March 6, 1936 Fire
“That great disaster is a symbol to us to remember the big things of life and to forget the small things. We have thought too much of the small things. Now the time has come again, as in his death he has reminded us of the big things of life, the living truth, and if we remember that, then it will be well with us and well with India.”
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
William James (1842–1910) first seen 1897 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: William James, "Is Life Worth Living?," The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)
Also quoted by: Henry James (misattributed)
“Parrhesia... in its extreme form... takes place in the "game" of life or death. ...[Y]ou risk death to tell the truth instead of reposing in the security of a life where... truth goes unspoken. ...[H]e prefers himself as... truth-teller rather than... living... false to himself”
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Warm, eager, living life — to be rooted in life — to learn, to desire to know, to feel, to think, to act. That is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for. … This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it’s no longer so. I feel happy — deep down. All is well.”
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Entry in her journal (10 October 1922) which she tore out to send to John Middleton Murry, before changing her mind. This later became the last published entry in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927) edited by J. M…
“Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman’s individual entity and the necessity of economic independence. Perhaps it was necessary. But now I think we need some emphasis on the instinctive side of life, sex and motherhood.... Life isn’t all earning your living. Unfortunately we fall in love and Feminism must take that into consideration.”
Dora Russell (1894–1986) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Who is Dora Black?" Equal Rights (5 June 1926)
“Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.”
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.”
Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) first seen 1848 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A letter to Zhukovsky, January 1848, quoted in Sculpting in Time (p49) by Andrei Tarkovsky
“The Heart is that understanding, that true consciousness, that true life that is under the extreme conditions of life and death. Therefore, it is said, that One that is, is neither born nor come to death, not alive as the limitation of form, not rendered in what appears, and yet it is the living One, than which there is no other, appearing as all of this, but eternally the same.”
Adi Da (1939–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my effort to create an equivalent with paint color for the world – life as I see it.”
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I also think living in the country gives you faith. All you have to do is get up and look at the mountains and look at the other animals to realize that your problems are mostly made up or exacerbated by humans. But human life isn't necessarily life. There's so much more out there.”
Rita Mae Brown (born 1944) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in OutSmart magazine (January 1998)
“A life spent defensively, worried, is a life wasted. You know when I need to die? When I'm done living. When I can't walk, can't eat, can't see, when I'm a crotchety old bastard, mad at the world. Then I can die.”
Lance Armstrong (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The good die young — but not always. The wicked prevail — but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre. O'Neil's dramas are slapstick farces, Albee's riddles are simple explanations, Pinter's threatening and threatened anti-heroes are innocent babes — next to life and the living. I cry out for order and find it only in art.”
Helen Hayes (1900–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And what is death? It is the change in the living process of a particular body. Integration ends and disintegration sets in. (…) In death only the body dies. Life does not, consciousness does not, reality does not. And the life is never so alive as after death.”
Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you look into living process closely, you will find cruelty everywhere, for life feeds on life. This is a fact, but it does not make you feel guilty of being alive. (…) From the animal point of view, being killed is not the worst form of dying; surely preferable to sickness and senile decay. The cruelty lies in the motive, not in the fact. Killing hurts the killer, not the killed.”
Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into Living peace. And the men who have this life in them are the true lords or kings of the earth — they, and they only.”
John Ruskin (1819–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“None but right acts can follow right thoughts; none but a right life can follow right acts; and by living a right life all blessedness is achieved.”
James Allen (1864–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source