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“Two lives, living two lives I don't know which side of me is where the truth lies I'm living two lives, living two lives I got two sides of me try'n'a do right I got one on each shoulder both saying "I told ya" One is saying "Go" and the other's saying "No, no, no.”
Example (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life lives; and in the living flow, no questions are raised. The reason is that life is a living now! So, in order to live life whole-heartedly, the answer is life simply is.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think people should choose how they want to live their lives, I don’t think you should kill someone because they don’t live their lives the way you want them to live their lives.”
Shirleen Wangari first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gay People Are Here To Stay” Tahidi High’s Shish Says 8 April 2014
“Live while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day; Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies. Lord, in my views, let both united be: I live in pleasure when I live to thee.”
Philip Doddridge (1702–1751) said by 1751 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epigram on his Family Arms, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The Global Burden of Disease Study noted which foods, if added to the diet, might save lives. More nuts and seeds? 600,000 lives. How about vegetables? 860,000 lives. More whole grains. An incredible 1.6 million lives a year. Fruits. Worldwide, if humanity ate more fruits, we might save an estimated 1.7 million lives.”
Michael Greger (born 1972) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Michael Greger, How Not to Die (2025 Edition). Part 1, Chapter 5 (How Not to Die from High Blood Pressure), at p.102.
“But we have our lives to live, all of us, and nobody, I want to say nobody, will ever decide for us how to live our lives. We have strength, incredible strength, coming from this history that informs us, that tells us that you should never, never, allow anybody else to dictate to you how you live your life. And that is Rwanda today.”
Paul Kagame (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So, let this Asian-African Conference be a great success! Make the "Live and let live" principle and the "Unity in diversity" motto the unifying force which brings us all together-to seek in friendly, uninhibited discussion, ways and means by which each of us can live his own life, and let others live their own lives, in their own way, in harmony, and in peace.”
Sukarno (1901–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
Paul of Tarsus (5–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Language has life because it lives in humanity...Language lives in me because it lives in everyone and everyone lives with it.”
Clotilde Betances Jaeger (1890–1970) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: El Idioma Vive en MÍ" Artes y Letras [Nueva York], año II, núm 17. Noviembre de 1934, p. 4. Anthologized in “El feminismo no es nuevo”: Las crónicas de Clotilde Betances Jaeger edited by María Teresa Vera-Rojas (2020)
“To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.”
Margaret Atwood (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to tell all my fans at Nico Nico to live their life without any judgments, and be adventurous. When opportunity comes, put work into your faith, and don't be afraid to go out and live life. Whatever your sexuality is - gay, straight, boy, girl - go have fun. That's what life is all about. And live a life of yugamineena.”
Billy Herrington (1969–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is eternal life; a life of everlasting love, showing itself in everlasting good works; and whosoever lives that life, he lives the life of God, and hath eternal life.”
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) said by 1875 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've been keeping a diary since I was about 11. If you don't keep a diary everything washes away. And you can live everything three times: you live it when you live it, you live it when you write it down, and you live it a third time when you re-read it. Though I have to say rereading my diary for publication was a depressing experience. You shouldn't look back.”
Gyles Brandreth (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He would agree that life is a little worth living — or worth living a little; but would remark that, unfortunately, to live little enough, we have to live a great deal.”
Henry James (1843–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Been spendin' most their lives, livin' in the gangsta's paradise Been spendin' most their lives, livin' in the gangsta's paradise Keep spendin' most our lives, livin' in the gangsta's paradise Keep spendin' most our lives, livin' in the gangsta's paradise.”
Coolio (1963–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They've been spending most their lives Living in a pastime paradise. They've been spending most their lives Living in a pastime paradise. They've been wasting most their time Glorifying days long gone behind, They've been wasting most their days In remembrance of ignorance oldest praise.”
Stevie Wonder (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I reject the idea there are just two sides. I think that with the amount of ideas and thoughts there are, it's not even going to be consistent with the same person. People can hold liberal and conservative dogma points at the same time. They're not living their lives via platforms. They're living their lives. The whole thing is an awfully tired construct.”
Jon Stewart (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As we enhance the lives of others, protect our environment, and work toward abundance, all our lives can become richer and more secure. If these values were put into practice, it would enable all of us to achieve a much higher standard of living within a relatively short period of time; a standard of living that would be continuously improved.”
Jacque Fresco (1916–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I live, But live to die: and, living, see no thing To make death hateful, save an innate clinging, A loathsome and yet all invincible Instinct of life, which I abhor, as I Despise myself, yet cannot overcome— And so I live. Would I had never lived!”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) first seen 1821 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cain (1821), Act I, sc. i.
“Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love... It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigour of the earlier world?”
William Morris (1834–1896) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The History of Pattern-Designing" lecture (1882) The Collected Works of William Morris (1910 - 1915) Vol. 22
“(...) To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor not-being, neither living nor not-living. It is a state of pure awareness, beyond limitations of space and time. Once the illusion that the mind-body is oneself is abandoned, death loses its terror, it becomes a part of living.”
Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Living on silence, Living by the book. You get it to a science Of living on one good look. So put out all the fires And blow away the smoke. I'm getting pretty tired Of living on hope.”
Aimee Mann (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love this question! The thing is, I will only live one life, and during that life I will be the Eliane who was born in this place and did this and that. When I am on stage or in front of a camera, I get a chance to step in another life, another character and for the time of a performance I will kind of cheat on life and live someone else’s life”
Eliane Umuhire (born 1986) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: July is promising to be a busy month for local actor, dancer and dance instructor Eliane Umuhire. As a member of the Mashirika Performing Arts and Media Company, she will be part of the cast of ‘Imbabazi’, the musical b…
“I don't eat or wear animals and I have a pretty simple reason; because they are animals. They have lives, they feel pain, and I don't think they should give those lives nor feel pain for humans. As humans, we have the ability to understand that not only do we not need to eat meat; in fact we can live healthier lives without it.”
John Norris (reporter) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: John Norris: Vegetarian Testimonial,” video ad for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (26 August 2011).
“We hear of the dead past and the living present: we are bid (and we do well to remember that it is an American poet who so adapts the words) to let the dead past bury its dead. But surely the past lives in the present, the process by which we became what we are is a part of our living being; if we are cut off from what we were, we only half live.”
William Stubbs (1825–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.”
Augustine of Hippo (354–430) said by 430 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.”
Socrates (misattributed) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Presented as a full Socrates quote by various sources like this page, the first sentence of the quote is indeed attributed to Socrates in Plato's dialogue The Apology, but the second sentence is a description of Socrate…
“But I feel that you, in particular, are a person who cannot live without love." "Yet I am living without love." "Then you are either living a lie or not living at all.”
Nawal El Tatawy (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wonder will death be much lonelier than life. Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You can live close against other people yet your lives never touch. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even coming and going.”
Emily Carr (1871–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pink Collar: An Awfully Lonesome Affair" in Hundreds and Thousands : The Journals of Emily Carr (2006)
“Happiness is not defined by our wealth or our status, but by how we choose to live our lives. Only when we are not entangled in the pursuit of fame and wealth will we truly be liberated. A liberated life is a life truly worth living.”
Jun Hong Lu (1959–2021) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: New World Times, (29 June 2018).
“India lives in her villages, we are told in every other sanctimonious public speech, That's bullshit. India doesn't live in her villages. India dies in her villages. India gets kicked around in her villages. India lives in her cities. India's villages just live only to serve her cities. Her villages are her citizen's vassals and for that reason must be controlled and kept alive, but only just.”
Arundhati Roy (born 1961) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Greater Common Good May, 1999 .
“Most Americans don't live their lives solely as Democrats or Republicans or conservatives or liberals. Most Americans live their lives that are just a little bit late for something they have to do. Often it’s something they do not want to do, but they do it. Impossible things get done every day that are only made possible by the little, reasonable compromises.”
Jon Stewart (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How you answer the question, whether individuals should be persuaded to live their whole lives in a state of chemical dependency, first upon contraceptive steroids and then on replacement therapy, depends upon your regard for the autonomy of the individual. If men would not live their lives this way, why should women?”
Germaine Greer (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Most of us would say, if asked, that we live in a capitalist society, but vast amounts of how we live our everyday lives - our interactions with and commitments to family lives, friendships, avocations, membership in social, spiritual and political organizations-are in essence noncapitalist or even anticapitalist, full of things we do for free, out of love, and on principle.”
Rebecca Solnit (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we talk philosophically, then Covid-19 virus is also a living organism which wants to live and has a right to live just like humans. However, we consider ourselves more intelligent than any other living organism. We are now after it and to escape, the virus is changing its form constantly.”
Trivendra Singh Rawat (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape from any danger in order to live a moment longer. And the desire to live is most developed in man.”
Inayat Khan (1882–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here then is the secret: You must give yourself, if you desire to find yourself. "Give up thy life if thou wouldst live." Give up the small life, the petty life, the mean life, the restricted life, the little personal life which shuts you in - give it up and follow the light of the Star within you.”
Gottfried de Purucker (1874–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To live the Inhabitation is to live one's Baptism. It would be a grave error to believe that calling souls to nourish their lives with this adorable mystery is to call them to a special "devotion": it is rather an invitation to live by the grace that Baptism has given them, to penetrate the divine reality promised to us by Jesus: Veniemus et apud eum mansionem faciemus.”
Itala Mela (1904–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One trouble with living beyond your deserved number of years is that there's always some reason to live another year. And I'd like to live another year so that Nixon won't be President. If he's re-elected I'll have to live another four years.”
Rex Stout (1886–1975) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nixon was re-elected in 1972, but Stout survived his August 1974 resignation from the Presidency by more than a year.
“I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn’t going to be one of those people who die wondering, “What if?” I would keep putting my dream to the test — even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the Shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there. If you can't live here, get back to YOUR roots and LEARN to live here!”
Alex Haley (1921–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live. And often this living nobly means that you cannot live long.”
Seneca the Younger (5 BC–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only in us do the dead live. Water flows downhill through us. The sun cools in our bones. We are joined with all living in one singing web of energy. In us live the dead who made us. In us live the children unborn. Breathing each other’s air, drinking each other’s water, eating each other’s flesh, we grow like a tree from the earth." (p322)”
Marge Piercy (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There was sadness in her, of course, but she didn't wish to crack like fine china either. She could not wither away. In the world of the living, one must live. And had this not been her wish? To live. Truly live.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Because if you want to make it in life, you need no conscience and if you have conscience you won’t do anything. But I don’t mean you have to be bad, I mean you have to be able to live your life. If you are too afraid to grab life, it will be hard for you and you will be nowhere to be found. So if you know what is good for you, live life to the fullest because no one knows tomorrow”
Munachi Abii (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life is a creative endeavor. It is active, not passive. We are the yeast that leavens our lives into rich, fully baked loaves. When we experience our lives as flat and lackluster, it is our consciousness that is at fault. We hold the inner key that turns our lives from thankless to fruitful. That key is "Blessing.”
Julia Cameron (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We all have seven secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes; our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one ever knows these lives. Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone.”
Kim Stanley Robinson (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you’ve find meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward.”
Mitch Albom (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I used to think initially that what’s on the page is not our everyday life. It was more like writing about something else. And I think that’s part of our mission as writers to show our lives on page. I think it is getting better now. But we want more children’s books on lives that they identify with. Our everyday lives. Stories with traditional folktales.”
Doreen Baingana (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source