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“Life isn’t a fairy tale; the knight who kills the dragon doesn’t necessarily get the princess. So what? Who’d want to live in a cosmos less rich and various than the real one?”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.”
Phil Plait (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love the way You live so intensely enjoying every minute of life”
Kate Havnevik (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its depth The unfathomed sea!”
Elizabeth Prentiss (1818–1878) first seen 1873 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Mystery of Life in Christ", stanza 5, in Religious Poems (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, 1873), p. 41.
“Cain is not the city and Abel is not the country; but the relationship between them also illuminates ... the relationship between the city and the country. ... The city was, from the day of its creation, incapable, because of the motives behind its construction, of any other destiny than that of killing the country, where God put man to enable him to live his life as best he could.”
Jacques Ellul (1912–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I see people giving me looks because I'm so opinionated. That hurts my feelings, but at the end of the day I have to live with me and respect myself. And I've done enough things in my life where I was confused and didn't respect myself that I will not do it any more.”
Sherilyn Fenn (born 1965) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sherilyn Fenn, quoted in "'Three of Hearts' may be Fenn's winning card", by Nancy Mills. Boston Herald (USA). April 25, 1993. p. 41
“A suit where I can fall down drunk in a ditch get up the next morning and go on to a wedding; or more likely a funeral at my time of life. I could go to six a week but no man can live on vol-au-vents alone.”
John Cooper Clarke (born 1949) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Series 1 - Textiles (9 Nov 2016)
“When hope lies dead—ah, when 'tis death to live, And wrongs remembered make the heart still bleed, Better are Sleep's kind lies for Life's blind need Than truth, if lies a little peace can give.”
Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ole man trouble Go find you someone else to pick on. I live my life now you see. Ole man trouble, Please stay away from me, now.Oh I look like I'm down in my luck. Please send faith to help pick me up. I've lived this way so many years Ole man trouble, Please wash away all my fears.”
Otis Redding (1941–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to live life to the ultimate high, Maybe I'll die young like heroes die, Maybe I'll kiss you some wild special way. If nobody kills me or thrills me soon, I'll die in your arms under the cherry moon.”
Prince (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I often ask myself if I am afraid of being detained again. I love freedom as much as anybody else, maybe more than most. But it is a tragedy to live your life in fear. It is worse than actually losing your freedom.”
“It's not a fantasy performance, Jane. Come on. Everything I do is real. It comes out of my head. I live this life every day. When I'm onstage it's my therapy. It's not a performance. It's a ritual. And the ultimate performance would be when I've reached my peak and I'm not there yet so don't you all clap when I say this I'll commit suicide and I'll take your kids with me.”
GG Allin (1956–1993) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: GG Allin on The Jane Whitney Show July 16. 1993.
“I must remember the things I have seen. I must keep them fresh in memory, see them again in my mind's eye, live through them again and again in my thoughts. And most of all, I must make good use of them in tomorrow's life.”
Thomas Anthony Dooley III (1927–1961) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Deliver Us From Evil (1956); recounting Dooley's life-changing experience in 1954, while in the Navy and stationed in Vietnam evacuating anti-Communist refugees, observing the misery of the people.
“I am a fighter. I believe in the bright future of my country. I believe that the people of my country deserve a decent life, and I know that my people want to live in freedom.”
Roza Otunbayeva (born 1950) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Situation Is Not Easy" by Lally Weymouth in Newsweek (26 April 2010)
“If, for instance, a man had a godless father or son or brother, who became a hindrance to his faith and an obstacle to the life above, let him not live in fellowship or agreement with him, but let him dissolve the fleshly relationship on account of the spiritual antagonism.”
Clement of Alexandria (150–215) said by 215 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To live a godly life is the best way to light up a lesson that the teacher can possibly employ.”
John Heyl Vincent (1832–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Winston Churchill led the life that many men would love to live. He survived 50 gunfights and drank 20,000 bottles of champagne.”
Mark Riebling (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I always loved the grand dichotomies of life. Dogs and cats. Cats and mice. Like Tom and Jerry. But as someone who grew up in Central Europe I never understood how a mouse can live inside a wall. Walls are made of bricks! They are not hollow. Way later I came to understand, when I learned that US-American houses are just made of wood, and their walls are really hollow.”
Johannes Grenzfurthner (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When with all thy heart thou strivest to live with truth and love, couldst thou do anything better? … If this be thy life, thou shalt not deem it a misfortune to lack the things men most crave and toil for.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do.”
Hank Green (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you intend to change, decide what you want and live your life accordingly.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Although time seems to fly by, it never travels faster than one day at a time. Each day is a new opportunity to live your life to the fullest.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no greater force for change than people inspired to live a better life.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it's when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Christian way is a life of faith. In order to hold on to the promises of God, you’ve got to believe them and live by them.”
James MacDonald (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m grandiose. Because I live a grandiose life. I’m not 'aw shucks' … because I'm gnarly. (The Howard Stern Show)”
Charlie Sheen (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a day coming when all of the suffering, all of the maladies of this life are destroyed, when we, in our glorified bodies, will live in heaven, on the new earth, eternally fulfilling God’s ordained purpose for us.”
“It is only as we fixate our eyes—our thoughts—on our future hope in heaven that we will be strengthened and enable to live wisely in this life.”
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Ernst Straus in Einstein: A Centenary Volume by A.P. French (1980), p. 32.
“For us, there is no longer a fundamental mystery about Life. It is all the process of extraordinary eruptions of information, and it is information which gives us this fantastically rich, complex world in which we live; but at the same time that we've discovered that we are destroying it at a rate that has no precedent in history, unless you go back to the point when we are hit by an asteroid!”
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The life that I aspire to live No man proposeth me— No trade upon the street Wears its emblazonry.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) first seen 1842 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Black Knight", l. 11. The Dial (October 1842) p. 180
“My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) said by 1862 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 285
“It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.”
Albert Camus (1913–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) first seen 1886 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence (1886)
“There is only one enduring happiness in life—to live for others.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud!”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m asking people to realize that whatever our job in the world is, whatever our dreams are, we are bigger than that. If we can find that, who we really are and live from that place, life is truly amazing no matter what the challenges and the obstacles are”
Arianna Huffington (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.”
Henry Miller (1891–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The truly great writer does not want to write: he wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination.”
Henry Miller (1891–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the principles that I've tried to live my life on, sometimes successfully, sometimes not as successfully, is 'to whom much is given much is required'.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We need a renewed emphasis on civic learning in schools. And our young people need positive role models. Bullying and prejudice in our public life sets a national tone, provides permission for cruelty and bigotry, and compromises the moral education of children. The only way to pass along civic values is to first live up to them.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Atheists have the intellectual courage to accept reality for what it is: wonderfully and shockingly explicable. As an atheist, you have the moral courage to live to the full the only life you’re ever going to get: to fully inhabit reality, rejoice in it, and do your best finally to leave it better than you found it.”
Richard Dawkins (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(Spectrum level 6) I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there. (p. 73)”
Richard Dawkins (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No, we never die for long, While we've got that little life To live for, where it's hid inside.”
“Have I not found a happy earth? I least should breathe a thought of pain. Would God renew me from my birth I'd almost live my life again. So sweet it seems with thee to walk, And once again to woo thee mine — It seems in after-dinner talk Across the walnuts and the wine —”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) first seen 1832 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Miller's Daughter" (1832)
“O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lift not the painted veil which those who live Call Life.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sonnet" (1824)