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“Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight. The Universe did not create Life in the hope that the failure of the majority would underscore the success of the few. Spirtiuality atleast, we live in a democracy, an equal opportunity society.”
B. K. S. Iyengar (1918–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I had to live my life over again, I wouldn't change a thing. I fully approve of what I've done, and I'm immensely proud of myself. It's life itself that I despise, not my existence; it's the principle, not its application, that couldn't have been better, given the circumstances.”
Albert Caraco (1919–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: L’Âge d’Homme, Lausanne (1994), p. 50
“Protected areas provide hope that the creatures of Ed Wilson's dream of an encyclopedia of life, or the census of marine life, will live not just as a list, a photograph, or a paragraph.”
Sylvia Earle (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is freedom dearer than life? or does it become easier to live when life becomes difficult?”
Suman Pokhrel (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope humor is a part of your life, too. It takes a positive attitude and a strong desire to enjoy life to see the humor around us, but having a little laughter sprinkled throughout your day is a great way to live.”
Don Soderquist (1934–2016) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Don Soderquist “Live Learn Lead to Make a Difference, Thomas Nelson, April 2006 p. 44.
“Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.”
Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I look to stories for consolation,the kind of small consolation that one needs to want to wake up everyday;as template for life;for news on how others live;for reminders that life's mysteries have no key”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[El Instituto Técnico de la Construcción y del Cemento] had shown that it is possible in Spain to create organizations in which there exists a perfect harmony between different professions, between those above and those below; organizations in which everyone is able to live a life of high human rank, as gentlemen, a life of mutual respect and help and of maximum personal dignity.”
Eduardo Torroja (1899–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Francisco Arredondo Verdú, La obra de Eduardo Torroja (1977) pp. 50-51, as quoted by Lino Camprubí, Engineers and the Making of the Francoist Regime (2014) p. 181.
“He was very modest. If someone admired him, he was becoming and was taunting him. He had not servant or telephonist and if somebody had suggested him to employ one person he had said: «Imam Khomeini's life is simple than our life. We must live simply.» Ayatollah Khamenei about him said:«Although he was a popular scholar, but he was very modest,unassuming and sedately.»”
Ata'ollah Ashrafi Esfahani (1902–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For me, the best way to live my life is to complete what I want to do. As I am grateful to my mother for giving birth to me, but regret that she lost her life while in labor, I just want to help pregnant women who need financial support to make sure they are safe while giving birth.”
Chen Shu-chu (born 1951) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said at the ceremony celebrating her NT$15 million (US$537,095) donation to the Taitung County Government to set up a fund to lower maternal mortality (2021)
“One commonly held ideal of a possible good life is one spent in adoration of or service to the Supreme Being. It is hard to believe that the value of such a life is independent of whether there is, in fact, any such being to adore or serve. In sum, how we should live is a question that cannot be wholly separated from facts about how things are.”
John Dupré (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have three choices in life: to kill ourselves, go crazy, or learn to live with what we have in life.”
Elvin Semrad (died 1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life is a sexually transmitted disease with 100 percent mortality. So you can't live your life in fear.”
Richard Pyle (born 1967) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A dive into the reef's Twilight Zone (February 2004)
“We live in a world of instant communication and the amount of information that comes our way can be overwhelming. The questions of what’s important in life, what is life-giving etc. can often be missed. So my message is simple, and it sometimes comes up at Mass: "Judge wisely the things of earth and measure them against the values of heaven.”
George Stack (born 1946) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Heart Talk : Archbishop George Stack (4 March 2018)
“When you try to live your most authentic life, some of your relationships will be put in jeopardy. Losing them is a risk worth bearing; finding a way to keep them in your life is a challenge worth taking on.”
Jay Shetty (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I receive this appointment, believing that only grace can realize the keys that I received in my vocation: to live and transmit the Gospel with the sacrifice of my life and my reputation, faithful to the greatest testimony of love, to give up my life together with Christ for our Heavenly Father”
Luis Miguel Romero Fernández (born 1954) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Spanish-born missionary priest named auxiliary bishop of Rockville Centre (March 3, 2020)
“And then you stepped into my life and changed my rainy day, ay ay. Now every rule I live my life by I can safely say It's all for you babe, I'll tell them straight It's all good today though we'll make mistakes And then come Tuesday we'll still be best mates”
Example (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have not a girl that's mine I have not a friend I have not got a place to live Indeed it seems the end But it ain't, for me as I've got myself, which matters most throughout the life I lead. I have not a penny in my pocket, and if soon I should be found just as badly broken I won't gloom cos it ain't, for me as I've got myself which matters most throughout the life I lead”
Gilbert O'Sullivan (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To exist, you don’t have to put in any effort, apart from may be eating. But to live, you have to do certain things, to add value to your life. Christianity is also a life. You can profess it, but add nothing to it. On the other hand, you can also go an extra mile and participate actively in the various activities of the Church.”
Christopher Kakooza (born 1952) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bishop Kakooza praises Mbaziira (5 May 2021)
“Everybody needs a passion. That’s what keeps life interesting. If you live without passion, you can go through life without leaving any footprints.”
Betty White (1922–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everybody needs a passion. That's what keeps life interesting. If you live without passing, you can go through life without leaving any footprints.”
Betty White (1922–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I still don’t know how to define or answer what is the meaning behind life and death. And I don’t think I will be able to define them in the future either. It’s difficult. What I can do, is to live my life, which is only given to me once, without regret until it runs its course. That’s I think the best I can do, at the present.”
Gong Yoo (born 1979) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gong Yoo talks life, death and 20 years in the business" in Korea JoongAng Daily (19 April 2021)
“I can neither live according to models, nor shall I ever be able to provide a model for anyone else. On the contrary, what I shall quite certainly do is to shape my own life according to myself, whatever may come of it. In this I have no principle to put forth, but something much more wonderful -- something that is within oneself and is hot with sheer life, and rejoices and wants to come out.”
Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to her former teacher, Hendrik Gillot, March 26, 1882; translation by Frank Beck, 2022
“The Christian life really starts from an inner renewal, from a conversion: the return to God. I believe it is a good opportunity to rediscover the foundations of the fundamental choice of Christian life: live it every day in relationship with others and in a dimension of solidarity and openness to the world.”
Renzo Fratini (born 1944) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Papal Nuncio: World Youth Day will transcend Spain’s economic woes (4 August 2011)
“What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist the right to life as a rich woman has it, the right to life, and the sun, and music, and art....The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too.”
Rose Schneiderman (1882–1972) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1912 quote, included in The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology (1989) edited by Irena Klepfisz and Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
“Live your best life. Work hard, play hard, love the people who matter, make money and be happy, because life is so unpredictable.”
Gbemi Olateru Olagbegi (born 1984) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Her life mantra (February 2022)
“I have learnt to keep my privacy out of the public purview especially in discussions with journalists. But there is nothing hidden in my life. I live a very open life. But I decided from day one not to discuss my family on the pages of newspapers, because it is not fair to them. They do not have the opportunity to present themselves the way they would have liked to. And that is not fair.”
Onyeka Onwenu (1952–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It will never be off my back, sadly. That's something that will live with me for ever ... I've learned a million things from that day and the years that followed it ... When something goes wrong in your life it doesn't finish you and you should become braver, knowing that you've got to go for things in life and don't regret because you didn't try to be as good as you might be.”
Gareth Southgate (born 1970) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How England broke their penalty shoot-out jinx against Columbia in The Indian Weekender, volume 10, issue 16, 2018-07-06 p. 22
“I’m driven by my goals, and I am very passionate. I don’t see any reason why I should be mediocre or ordinary when I can excel. I am the kind of person who wants something and goes all the way to get it. I always get what I want. I believe that you should live life to the fullest, and take every opportunity that life presents you with.”
“You have to learn again to trust, to reconcile yourself, your life, come to the point where you say this life is worth it and I have the right to live again.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A family looks back on Rwanda's genocide and considers when forgiveness is 'too much to ask'. TheWorld. (April 2019)
“You have to trust me by getting to know how I live, what priorities I place in my life. My life kind of has to be an open book. That is to say, there can't be any secret part to it.”
Robert Nugent Lynch (born 1941) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bishop Robert Nugent Lynch, at retirement, reflects on church scandals, lessons learned (3 December 2016) Tampa Bay Times
“I spent the years of my life as a stone, and then I longed to live the rest of my life with her, as a human.”
Sanu Sharma wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I also like to give back in life. I like to make sure the way I live my life I can influence young people.”
Veronica Campbell Brown (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you want to become a university lecturer then learn and listen to what the from the lecturers, if you want to be a great leader then learn about the leader you desire to become like in your life, you must live now the kind of life you want to experience in the future.”
Tulia Ackson (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am even now constantly tormented by the thought of those years of life we were not allowed to live. I am always wondering what they would have been like if we had not been cheated of them. (28: Stages in My Life)”
Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everyone's like, ‘Oh, you're on a spiritual journey.’ I was not. It could have been a karate class or ceramics class,” “This was 4,000 years of wisdom on the human condition. What it means to be a good person, what it means to live a worthy life, what it means to find profound spiritual connection. I just felt like, ‘where has this been all my life?’”
Sarah Hurwitz (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is well enough to be interested in one's profession, but to restrict one's leisure to association with the members of one's guild, so to speak, is to be doomed to artificiality and eventually to sterility. In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.”
Marie Dressler (1868–1934) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Own Story (1934), Ch. 3
“We really hope this great Pope – great in life, great in suffering, great in death – will, even after his death, live on in our hearts, because there is a new generation who only know him through books and through pictures, we have to give testimony to his life and suffering so that people can know the good that John Paul II did for sick people.”
Zygmunt Zimowski (1949–2016) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vatican conference examines Bl. John Paul’s suffering (22 November 2011) Catholic News Agency
“I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die. I want nothing. I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. Therefore I am free. For during life it is our wants, our hopes, our fears that enslave us.”
Nawal El Tatawy (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Each of us is the captain of our own life. Live with positivity, remind yourself that you are beautiful, intelligent, and destined for greatness. Aim high, remove negativity from your life, and let go of people who bring you down, because the world may try to tell you otherwise.”
Princess Kasune (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the major results of the stimulation of your intellectual life that occurs in the College is the shrinking of your spiritual life. Sometimes, students get so confused with reconciling their classroom activities with the clashing of so many faiths that their spiritual live begins to weaken tremendously”
Margaret Ladipo (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It probably changed my life, no doubt about it. But then, like I tell most people, I live life one day at a time, and what happens, happens. And that just happened to be a part of it. I didn't do any great big planning about my career- except I never wanted to be unemployed.”
Walter D. Ehlers (1921–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing, I love to be very happy. I never let my sadness, my tension come into my life. I always think positive, I always live life positive.”
Rachna Banerjee (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“„So, life is often very difficult, and we can mainly be content with how we managed to live that difficult life.”
Stanislav Stodulka (born 1982) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ERROR (groWsoul, 2024), p. 205
“I believe that I should live a conscious life. That I should be quiet regularly so that the noise of life does not determine who I am and where I am going. I want to be aware of where I can still grow, where I can contribute, and where I can make a difference”
Milan Murray (born 1974) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Milan Murray: 'My story is far from over',| December 15, 2023,By Susan Goosen
“For me, life is about choices and whatever you choose to stand for, you have people who want to live that life with you”
Eedris Abdulkareem (born 1974) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I’ve Been Vindicated Because Nigeria Is Still ‘Jaga Jaga’ – Eedris Abdulkareem 12 January 2020, Channel TV (Nigeria).
“Suppose there was someone who would accumulate bad karma and go to hell if allowed to live. And suppose an enlightened individual thought that it was better to terminate the person's life and gave the person poa ... Objectively speaking, it is a destruction of life.... However, based on the notion of Vajrayana, it is no other than respectable poa.”
Shoko Asahara (1955–2018) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vajrayana kosu, p. 83, published sometime after April 30, 1994, quoted in Watanabe 1998, p. 88, quoted in Walliss 2004, p. 176
“Life is about choices. I keep the end goal in mind and choose to live a life of balance.”
Angela Ahrendts (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I founded the company because my passion is to get more black people into successful areas because it is possible. This is the life I want to live, one that is not selfish, the life that makes it possible for others. I’m thankful to God for it.”
Adeola Olubamiji (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Absolutely not! My life plan was not to be an entrepreneur; my life plan was definitely not to live in Nigeria.”