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“Food security and healthy living is the ability of every citizen to have regular access to enough food to meet his or her nutritional requirements for a healthy, active and reproductive life.”
Lilian Salami (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am grateful to the Almighty God for all he has made possible in the last 50 years. That I am alive today is the sheer miracle of God. Being 50 is a milestone in an individual’s life, particularly for those living in Nigeria with all its challenges. I am grateful for the kind of support I have received from my family, particularly my husband. It is also a time of stocktaking.”
Peju Layiwola (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe in living my own life and do what I love even when those around me do things different. It does not mean I am better than them, this is just who I want to be and do things".”
Mercy Cherono (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mahatma Gandhi is the father of the nation who preached and practiced peace. Living for others and selfless giving is taught by Swami Vivekananda. They are icons of the world and there is so much that one can learn from their way of life. Peace is achieved from within ourselves. Caring for others is what makes a society with human beings.”
Ayo Ayoola-Amale (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I sat there quietly in Geneva, listening, and thought – do these people really know what they’re talking about? I worked in a hospital all my life, and in return I got a son who suffered oxygen deprivation. And now I’m looking after him, and living with it. That’s what prompted me to speak.”
Olaitan Soyannwo wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nearly 10 years ago, my father went to prison. I had just turned 23 and was heading home after a long day at work when my then boyfriend, now husband, rang me and delivered the news. I had known my dad was in trouble, but he kept his business life so separate, I didn’t even know he was going to court the day he ended up being imprisoned for living off immoral earnings.”
Emma Barnett (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Subway performs a very important role in public transportation in a developing city. This is not only a means of transport, but a factor that directly affects the living environment and quality of life of citizens. On the other hand, it will be a major gate for the economy and development of the city.”
Dolgorsürengiin Sumyaabazar (born 1974) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolgorsürengiin Sumyaabazar (2023) cited in: "Taking shortcut through Ulaanbaatar's traffic" in The UB Post, 28 June 2023.
“In the footballing aspect, it was Drogba because I saw him and I tried to model my game to his, and I tried to see how he plays, and how he’s living life outside of football. So, I have to be grateful for that man because for all I am now, I think I attribute some of my successes to him.”
Victor Osimhen (born 1998) first seen 1000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ]https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/029f-1f1d4ed5aaa3-8cba76dd1f3e-1000--victor-osimhen-
“The gift for Chile is that we become a living Gospel, that this word written by youth may become a word written in our life, in our heart, and in our works. We want to become light to the world, so that the Gospel may come alive in our country and that, once more, the entire culture may become a place of love, hope, justice, peace, and truth.”
Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa (born 1933) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cardinal Errazuriz tells Chilean youth to be “light of Christ for the world,” in accord with the Pope's Message for Mission Sunday 2009 (20 October 2009) Fides News Agency
“We want to leverage the objectives of business—not only profit and monetary gain—but also the transformational value that it brings to society—making life better, worth living, equitable, and inclusive. I remain optimistic about the potential for positive transformation.”
Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson (born 1948) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Francesca Merlo and Mario Galgano, Cardinal Turkson at Davos: Business should foster economic solidarity, Vatican News (January 18, 2024)
“About a year and a half ago, I quit my job, moved to the countryside, and started a new life. Since then I've learned quite a few lessons on how to cultivate a feeling of abundance while living simply.”
Paola Merrill (born 1997) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Parents, pay attention to your children. They will save your life one day. I am telling you, I am living proof today”
Sophie Lichaba (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But what I would prefer is that I’m the poster child for living my life on my terms. And that there’s a version of that for everyone.”
Tracee Ellis Ross (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“May you encounter a Church that is not only an institution, an institution to be defended, to be protected, which you have wisely done for 500 years now, but also a community, a believing community which has met the living and true Christ, which loves him, and intends to serve him in everyday life.”
Luigi Roberto Cona (born 1965) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Swiss Guards postpone swearing-in of new recruits due to coronavirus (6 May 2020) Catholic News Agency
“My passion is to find a balance between living a full productive, healthy life as a woman, as a wife and as a friend. It is my mission to help you do the same.”
Teresa Moodie (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are a lot of fears, anxiety, and uncertainty in that [for me], but you push past that and the best that can happen is you’re living your life to the max.”
Yvonne Orji (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life is a journey. Once you understand that some of the most important things are purpose and passion driven, combined with a deeper need to make a difference beyond self as well as contribute in some way to what is happening around you, it certainly makes waking up daily an easier task for me. When you earn a living this way, it is certainly more fulfilling.”
Omoyemi Akerele (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[...] I am living proof that gays, contrary to what homophobes say, don't always think about sex. I have had a satisfying love life, rich and intense relationships, including the one I experience today. But many of them ended because my boyfriends dumped me, "you're married to politics". When you do politics, you are a priest. I fought for something that I wasn't able to experience personally".”
Franco Grillini (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams , living the life you have imagined, What is worth doing is worth doing well.”
Angela Essien wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The inner logic of ... Much of it is imposed by thermodynamics; some is facilitated by catalysts. Some is refined by genes. And part stems from the vicissitudes of life itself, which forced evolution down improbable paths, while transforming our geologically restless globe from a sterile, anoxic planet into the living, high-octane world of today.”
Nick Lane (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“if anyone works hard and diligently shows up for duty, dreams do come true. I am a living testimony that your background, surname, temporary setbacks and blips in life must not define our destiny.”
Esther Okenyuri Anyieni (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I feel like I'm at a transition where I need to figure it out. In the meantime, I just keep living my life and having fun.”
Oluchi Onweagba (born 1980) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Joy Sewing, Supermodel Oluchi Onweagba takes on the world, Chron, March 24, 2010.
“You are not privileged and living in a safe area, you can get mugged or you can lose your life.”
Pamela Adie (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don’t be desperate to get a role by living a fast life, it kills and destroys.”
Barbara Soky (born 2000) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Barbara advise young actors in 2014
“I wanted to speak to my mother but I didn’t feel she was there. I couldn’t imagine her under the ground though I was sure that she was. It was like I knew for sure that one day I too would die but I couldn’t imagine it. All my life I had been living. How to imagine any other state? What was my mother feeling now? Did she know I was here? (p158)”
Leila Aboulela (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The triumph of stumbling, falling, surviving, living, and rising through it all, not only prods me on, but also assures that I stand, tall; even taller than I am––striding high with my life’s calabash-full of water balanced on my head (and no shaking!); knowing that with the healing grace of the Almighty, I have been through so many thorny hills and valleys before.”
Osonye Tess Onwueme (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Intelligence is not merely the capacity which enables us to profit by experience; it is the function of personality which gives experience its past, present and future meaning. Habits belong to existence, intelligence to living. Life becomes a creative venture in proportion to the amount and quality of intelligence which accompanies conduct.”
Eduard C. Lindeman (1885–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Am simply living my life, am not any of that and I don’t think I need any of it right now.”
Naira Ali (born 1988) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Who is Naira Ali? Things You Didn’t Know About Her. Times Uganda. (February 6, 2021)
“In myriad swarms, each summer sun An insect nation shows; Whose being, since he rose, begun; And e’er he sets will close.Brief is their date, confin’d their pow’rs, The fluttering of a day;— Yet life’s worth living, ev’n for hours, When all those hours—are play.”
Samuel Bishop (1731–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you’re 16, there are qualities you wish you didn’t have, and then when you’re 30 you’re like, ‘Thank god I have that otherwise I’d be living less vividly’. You only get one life so you might as well feel all the feelings.”
Greta Gerwig (born 1983) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Greta Gerwig gets real" Dazed (August 27, 2015)
“Of all the regions of the Earth (India is) the only Public theatre of Justice and Tenderness to Brutes and all living creatures." He also found that, because of their diet, the Hindus kept a comely and proportionate body and lived a long life. The simple and meatless food made their thoughts 'quick and nimble,' their 'comprehension of things' easier and developed in them a spirit of fearlessness.”
John Ovington (1653–1731) said by 1731 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Voyage to Surat as quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture
“No man ever took better care of his life. He lived only to go on living." I waited for more, but he said no more, so I asked, "What became of him, Master Cuachic?" "He died." "That is all?" "What else ever becomes of any man? I no longer remember even his name. No one remembers anything at all about him, except that he lived and then he died.”
Gary Jennings (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Shiva struggled out of Raje’s embrace and said, ‘Raje, there are many people who cry when someone dies. But very few who are willing to cry for a living person. Maharaj, you are shedding tears for someone like me. What more can I ask for? I am willing to give my life for each one of your tears. Don’t weep for me.’”
Ranjit Desai (1928–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Benjamin made this quote during a keynote speech at a biology conference, intending to inspire a sense of wonder and respect for the complexity and beauty of life among his audience, highlighting the interconnectedness of all living things.”
Benjamin Margate (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He had gotten it so easy, and she had it so hard, and why? There was no good reason. He passed a test, and she failed it. That was a judgment on the test, not on her, but now her life was a waking nightmare, and he had everything he ever wanted. He was living a fantasy. Her fantasy. She wanted it back.”
Lev Grossman (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The expression of the life-force which forms one’s personality, and which remains even in the deads after they have become non-living.”
Amos Tutuola (1920–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes you risk everything for a life worth living, even if you're not the one that'll be alive to see it." (p152)”
Cherie Dimaline (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe in good standards of living. I believe in hard work but I also know how to enjoy life and that is my motivation.”
Ibijoke Faborode (born 2000) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't think that building everything out of stones and living in animal skins is necessarily... healthier... I'm saying... life can be much more satisfying for an individual if he feels that he is in control of his destiny... Society and the tools of society, should be organized to give each one of us that feeling.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My life is like water that has gone over the dam and turned no mill wheels. Here I am, not happy, but not unhappy, as my days run on to the sea, idly—but not too swiftly—for I love living.”
Zoe Akins (1886–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am living the life I wanted now. But it has taken longer to get this clarity.”
Lynn Ngugi wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Establishing a school is a wonderful initiative as it offers the inmates opportunities of living a better life when released into society”
Ngozi Chuma-Udeh wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t even know when they do that, sometimes I think that they can only think of a few people so they just bung me on! I think it’s an honour to be thought of in those grandiose terms but I’m not living my life with an ambition to be on some list and I’m not even sure that it’s true – but its a great honour!”
Margaret Busby (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Darrow replied within the hour by tersely affirming his agnosticism on every point, concluding with his succinct answer as to the question of immortality: “I have been searching for proof of this all my life, with the same desire to find it that is incident to every living thing, and I have never found any evidence on the subject.”
Edward J. Larson (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The growth and rise of black talent is very slow, they aren't many and that's for different reasons also. Filmmaking is very hard so for young people to do that, not to earn a living, life is tough at home, they don't have families who can support them while they go to film schools, it's very difficult.”
Bridget Pickering (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I felt as if I was failing my people, but I'm 21. I'm still learning to walk; I'm still learning to crawl; I'm still learning life. Why do I feel so guilty for living, you know”
Aweng Ade-Chuol first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Rebirth of Aweng Chuol,28 June 2020,story by mario abad
“I’ve learned that although there is no separation between myself as an artist and myself as a human, I value the ability to continue living my life outside of the limelight which allows me to still be able to be authentic in my artistry”
Amanda Black (born 1993) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Amanda Black brings healing sounds home,19/02/2025,Ms Zandile Mbabela
“When what you do for a living becomes your entire identity, it’s easy to view your life as finished when things don’t go your way in a particular situation or experience. It’s important to have a vision of yourself that is larger than the job because, after all, the job comes from you, right”
Bonnie Mbuli (born 1979) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 12 Bonnie Mbuli Wellness Quotes,Dec 23, 2021,by Kemong Mopedi
“HIV/Aids is not a death sentence, once contracted the most important factor in your life is acceptance and living a healthy lifestyle”
Lesego Motsepe (1974–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds, and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them! Yet my town acquaintances look upon it as imprisonment, and burying, and I don't what besides, and would rend the air with their shrieks if condemned to such a life. Sometimes I fell as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find my happiness so easily.”
Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941) first seen 1898 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (175 pages; 1st edition published in 1898 by in London)