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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ Eleanor Roosevelt
My mom is from Venezuela, and my dad is German and Japanese, and we lived in Brazil when I was a kid for a couple of years, and then I grew up on Long Island. I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head. I was just around it a lot. Fred Armisen
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. Anais Nin
I’ll die before I’m 25, and when I do I’ll have lived the way I wanted to. Sid Vicious
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. Robert Louis Stevenson
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills. Radhanath Swami
Having known war I know the value of peace. Having lived under government control I know the value of freedom. Having lived with hatred, terror and corruption I know the value of faith and forgiveness. Phan Thi Kim Phuc
My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays. George Takei
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. Alfred Adler
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When I used to live in Chicago – went to school there for four years and lived there for two years after – the whole time, I worked at this restaurant called DMK, and people would come in, and I would wait on their tables, and they would say, ‘Oh my gosh, man. You look like the dude from ‘Parks and Rec.’ You look like Jean-Ralphio.’ Joe Keery
After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained. Ray Bradbury
My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. Clarence Budington Kelland
In every age ‘the good old days’ were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. Brooks Atkinson
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. Willa Cather
Where I grew up – I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights – that’s every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don’t want your kids to hear growing up. LeBron James
I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me. Humphrey Bogart
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves. Albert Camus
A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace. Suze Orman
We were on welfare, and my mom thought you needed the government to survive. ‘Don’t try to make it on your own, because it won’t be enough. The kids won’t be fed:’ My mom believed that lie. So I’ve lived with a poverty mentality. But after I got my first job, at a local McDonald’s, and I got my first check, I felt such a sense of pride. Lauren Boebert
To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest. Maria Montessori
It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done. Matthew Arnold
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. Sting
I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles. Adam Sandler
Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages. Edwin Louis Cole
Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace. Charles Spurgeon
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. Marcel Proust
It’s really hard coming of age in today’s society, where society wants you to make the decision of what you want to do with your life by the time you’re 16 years old. Most kids don’t know what they want to do. How could they? They haven’t lived in the real world yet. Rooney Mara
The people who have impacted the world didn’t live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history. Myles Munroe
During the Second World War, we lived in a flat on Whitechapel Road in the East End of London. At one point during the blitz, the air-raid sirens went off every night for 30 nights, and each time, my parents would grab my sister and me and take us to the shelter beneath Whitechapel underground station. Steven Berkoff
All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper – just running down the edges of different countries and continents, ‘looking for something’. Elizabeth Bishop
True life is lived when tiny changes occur. Leo Tolstoy
I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. Diane Ackerman
Once you’ve lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It’s a mentality, a double standard of existence. John le Carre
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise. Dante Alighieri
We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end. Ezra Taft Benson
I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives. Ann Voskamp
That’s the way I look at things – if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you’ve lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I’m telling you – it works for me. Michael J. Fox
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. Theodor W. Adorno
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around. Katharine Hepburn
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. J. K. Rowling
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Albert Einstein
I have no regrets. I wouldn’t have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say. Ingrid Bergman
Jesus said, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.’ I think if he lived nowadays, instead of ‘kingdom,’ he would have said, ‘dimension.’ And ‘heaven’ refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness. Eckhart Tolle
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. Erich Fromm
I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate. John Steinbeck
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. Helen Keller
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau
Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday. Marcus Aurelius
I traveled so much as a child. When I was four, we moved to the Oman in the Middle East. We lived there for three years and I got to explore Oman, as well as many places around there. Tate McRae
There are places on a man’s head that are as hard as a rock. Your head’s actually stronger than your body. And you don’t have too many instruments up there workin’. But you got a lot of tools workin’ in that body: the liver, the kidneys, the heart, the lungs. You soften that up and see what happens. I lived by the body shot. Joe Frazier
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. Anthony Hopkins
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Maya Angelou
A life lived in fear is a life half lived. Baz Luhrmann
Next door, there’s an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I’m sorry, I know that’s a strange way to tell you that I know we belong. Ben Folds
Dad was diagnosed with lung cancer when I was a lad. From then on, he lived in fear that death was just around the corner, and he set about programming me to work hard and bring in some cash. Marco Pierre White
Everyone’s the hero in their own story. You’ve lived your life. You’re the good guy of your life, the protagonist of your own movie. Everyone knows that they have more in them to offer than they sometimes show. Sami Zayn
These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived. Winston Churchill
Never have lives less lived been more chronicled. Dennis Miller
All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity. Robert Kennedy
Life must be lived as play. Plato
I lived somebody else’s life. It was never about me, it was really about him on every level. Priscilla Presley
I lived next to Russian soldiers. We had Russian army guys in our house when I grew up. We made lemonade for them; they were everywhere. I had a Russian school. I grew up with Russian traditions, I know Russian songs… it infiltrates me a lot. I even speak a little Russian. Till Lindemann
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. Ernest Hemingway
I haven’t lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that’s from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them. Kevin Costner
We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule. Ronald Reagan
A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living. Kirk Hammett
You’ve never lived till you’ve flown! Bessie Coleman
New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change. Sarah Ban Breathnach
Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have. William Arthur Ward
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. Henry Drummond
Once in one’s life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived. Sylvester Stallone
I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death! Anne Frank
I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music. Alan Lomax
Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‘hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now. Eminem
I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it. Indira Gandhi
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. Voltaire
I’m the greatest thing that ever lived! I’m the king of the world! I’m a bad man. I’m the prettiest thing that ever lived. Muhammad Ali
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. Leo Buscaglia
We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew. T. E. Lawrence
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. Theodore Roosevelt
I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty. Narendra Modi
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times. Friedrich Schiller
We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear. Jiddu Krishnamurti
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory. Julius Caesar
Anytime I was in Memphis with my dad and at the house, I was happy. That was, like, a given. It was what I lived for. And I still feel the same excitement and warmth. Lisa Marie Presley
But when I lived as a monk, solitude is often spoken of as a strength. And so the first thing I’d recommend is finding one thing that you can do every single day that brings you joy. It may be reading a book you love. It may be looking at a beautiful piece of art. Jay Shetty
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard
She who has never loved has never lived. John Gay
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. George S. Patton
Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived. William Wilberforce
I want history to remember me… not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America. Shirley Chisholm
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Bessie Anderson Stanley
There’s a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It’s impossible to be mature without having lived. Amy Grant
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. Hannah Arendt
Life is lived on the edge. Will Smith
Who would want a face that hasn’t seen or lived properly, hasn’t got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway. Cate Blanchett
When I’m in Brazil, I’m not Brazilian at all; I am a gringo. And then when I’m in England, I’m not really English, but when I lived in Canada, I was considered too English. So I never really felt like I clicked somewhere or that I belonged to one place. Mia Goth
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. Benjamin Franklin
I was born in Argentina, and have lived in England, Ireland, Africa and Malta. Chris de Burgh
