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The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.

Author: J. C. Ryle
Topics: Famous, Intellect, Lives, Meaningful, Memories, Tongue

I want to be clear : Many local jurisdictions, businesses and organizations have their own mask requirements and other mitigations that must be respected, throughout this pandemic, we’ve deployed the tools available to us as needed. Our approach has saved lives and kept our economy open and growing.

Author: J. B. Pritzker
Topics: Business, Clear, Economy, Famous, Growing, Lives, Local, Organizations, Pandemic, Proactive Approach, Requirement, Saved, Tools

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness

Author: A. C. Benson
Topics: Essential, Essentially, Family, Family Diversity, Family issues, Great, Life Choices, Life Cycle, Life expectancy, life lesson, Life lesson., Life Long Journey, Lives, Living, Living Being, Living Fully

Music – like narrative, like the experience of our lives as we live them – unfolds in time.

Author: Iain McGilchrist
Topics: Experience, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Lives, Meaningful, Narrative, People, Positive

I’ve followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don’t have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don’t.

Author: Kaki King
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Following, Learned, Lives, Pain, Past experiences, Thoughts, Write

People like these have done more to relieve human misery than any prophet with a manifesto ever will. They number in the millions, these mortals, but they don’t make it into the history books much. They don’t do anything sweeping or controversial. They live their lives, contribute their bits of good work, and die quietly in their beds without recognition or reward. Usually.

Author: Kage Baker
Topics: Contribute, Die, Famous, History, Human, Lives, Millions, Misery, Mortals, People, Recognition, Sadness, Sorrows, Work

The beauty of literature is that it allows us to live many lives in one

Author: A. B. Yehoshua
Topics: Literacy test, Literal interpretation, Lives, Living, Living Being, Many

My country is wherever liberty lives

Author: Thomas Paine
Topics: Country, Famous, Feelings, Liberty, Lives, Meaningful

The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives

Author: Thomas Merton
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Lives, Meaningful, Purpose

Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.

Author: Thomas Merton
Topics: Famous, God, Life, Light, Lives, Meaningful

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Author: H. L. Mencken
Topics: Decent, Famous, Government, Lives, Man

I worked a lot on ‘Conan’ as an actor, and when I moved to New York, a lot of my friends were on the first staff of that show. I started doing bit parts, which was the first thing I’d done on camera in front of a live audience.

Author: H. Jon Benjamin
Topics: Camera, Doing, Famous, Lives, New

A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with mens lives should not stake their own.

Author: H. G. Wells
Topics: Famous, International, Lives, Made, Men, Politician, Private homicide, Promoting, Reasonable, Surity, Time, War

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.

Author: H. G. Wells
Topics: Famous, Inspirational, Lives, Men, Reasonable

Death is a state of mind—many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Topics: Dead, Death, Earth, Famous, Lives, People, State of mind

Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.

Author: Theodor Herzl
Topics: Change, Change of Power, Condition, Famous, Life, Lives, Male friends, Man, Meaningful

Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom.

Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Topics: Famous, Inspirational, Lives, Vigorous

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Topics: Famous, Human Beings, Inspirational, Lives, Private, Public, Secrets

She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.

Author: Rudyard Kipling
Topics: Human, Intensely, Lives

Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance, also the lives of men

Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Topics: Lives, Living, Living Fully, Naturally, Nature, Resolution, Resolving, Resourceful, Sudden, Suffer

I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it’s a TV show or life.

Author: Gabriel Basso
Topics: Fact, Famous, Forever, Inspirational, Life, Lives, Reality, Think

Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.

Author: Ernest Hemingway
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Lived, Lives, Love interest, Love Life, Loved, Loved ones, Lovemaking, Meaningful

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

Author: Ernest Hemingway
Topics: Idea, Idea of Freedom, Idea of success, Lived, Lives, Mind, mind of state, Minded, Romance, Romantic

I never tell a lie. Liars lead very complex lives and I am simply afraid of getting caught out. So people conclude that I am cunning.

Author: Enzo Ferrari
Topics: Caught, Famous, Inspirational, Liar, Lie, Life, Lives, Meaningful, People, Simply

How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others.

Author: Emil Cioran
Topics: Importance, Important, Lesson, Letting go, Lived, Lives, Suffer, Suffering, Will, Will power

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Author: Robert Baden-Powell
Topics: Famous, Happiness, Lives, Worth

It’s sort of the U.S. team playing the team that lives in the U.S.

Author: Hale Irwin
Topics: Famous, Lives, Meaningful, Playing

There are many whose religion consists in theory. Their lives are not uplifted and ennobled by practicing the truth they profess. Faithful Christian men and women should have a distinguished appearance.

Author: Ellen G. White
Topics: Christian, Faithful, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Lives, Meaningful, Positive, profess, Religion, Theory, Truth, Uplifts, Women

Astronauts are very professional and when they’re preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

 

Author: Ellen Ochoa
Topics: Launch, Lives, Living Fully, Prepare for Danger, Preparing, Profession, Professional athlete, Science, Scientific, scientific community, Serious

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Choices, Die, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Lives, Long, Long term, Meaningful, Ourselves, Responsibility, Run, Shape

Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Topics: Children, Famous, Handicap, Lives

It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.

Author: Rita Moreno
Topics: Endures, Famous, Lives, People, Prevail

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Author: Brian Tracy
Topics: Famous, Goals, Inspirational, Learn, Life, Lives, Meaningful, Positive, positively, Scratch, Successful, Things

People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.

Author: Brian Tracy
Topics: Activities, Career, Decision, Decisions, Humble People, Inspire People, Live, Lives, People, People’s Opinions, Thoughtful, Thoughts, Time, Views

We must mirror God’s love in the midst of a world full of hatred. We are the mirrrors of God’s love, so we may show Jesus by our lives

 

Author: Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Fulfillment, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Life, Lives, Living Fully, Meaningful

This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.

Author: Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Experience, Lives, Living Fully, Passive, Past, Person, Person's character

We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.

 

Author: Confucius
Topics: Lesson, Letting go, Lives, Living Fully, Logic, Loved, Lovely, Realities, Reality Control, Realize, Times, Times of difficulty

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we’ve made choices by default, when we haven’t designed our lives on our own.

Author: Richard Bach
Topics: Choices, Designed, Famous, Feelings, Helpless, Lives, Power

We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought.

Author: Richard Bach
Topics: Famous, Hold, Lives, Magnetize

This isn’t a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.

Author: Groucho Marx
Topics: Famous, Inspirational, Law passed, Lives, Manipulate, Misguided belief, People, Think

They say cats have nine lives. I’ve had 12 already and I don’t know how many more I’ll have.

Author: Gordon Ramsay
Topics: Famous, Know, Lives

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.et circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

Author: Earl Nightingale
Topics: Charge, Circumstances, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Lives, Meaningful, Rule

The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.

Author: R. Buckminster Fuller
Topics: Famous, Generation, Lives, People, Purpose

Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.

Author: Paulo Coelho
Topics: Death, Famous, Lives, People, Usually

We never lose our loved ones. The accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.

Author: Paulo Coelho
Topics: Different, Disappear, Famous, Lives, Merely

We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming. If we don’t, our soul dies, and agape cannot reach it.

Author: Paulo Coelho
Topics: Desires, Dreams, Famous, Lives, Shattered, Soul, Times

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

Author: Paulo Coelho
Topics: Fairy tale, Famous, Lives, Moment

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Author: Paulo Coelho
Topics: Everyone, Famous, Idea, Lives, People

We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.

Author: Helen Keller
Topics: Compassion, Empathy, Famous, Happiness, Inspirational, Lives, Others, Positive, Positive Impact, Selflessness

Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber.

Author: Charlie Sheen
Topics: Fulfilling, Lived, Lives, Living Fully, Multiple personalities, Valuable advice, Valuable lesson

Writing lives forever, while you may not.

Author: P. T. Barnum
Topics: Famous, Forever, Lives, Meaningful

Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

Author: George Bernard Shaw
Topics: Expectations, Experience, Famous, Inspirational, Lives, Shape

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

 

Author: Charles Bukowski
Topics: Famous, Hardly, Inspirational, Life, Lives, Living Fully, Matter, Meaningful, Nothing, Notice, People, People’s Opinions, Strange, Totally, Wasting

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

 

Author: Charles Bukowski
Topics: Death, Enough, Laugh, Lives, Living, Odd feeling

Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn’t so.

 

Author: Charles Bukowski
Topics: Competitive, Complain, Famous, Feelings, Life, Lives, Living Fully, People, People’s Opinions, Solving, Somebody, Something, Something for nothing

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Author: Charles Bukowski
Topics: Crazy, Create, Hopes, Horrible, Lives, Living, People, People’s Opinions, True policy, Truly, Trust

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Author: George S. Patton
Topics: Contributions, Famous, Individuals, Inspirational, Lives, Motivational, Perspective

War is the only place where a man lives.

Author: George S. Patton
Topics: Famous, Lives, Man, Place, War

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times

Author: Carl Jung
Topics: Empty, General, Lives, Living, Suffer, Suffering, Times, Times of difficulty

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents

Author: Carl Jung
Topics: Familiar, Family, Great, Greater, Lives, Living, Living Fully, Parents, Tragedy

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.

Author: Melanie Martinez
Topics: Famous, Lives, Love, Meaningful, People, Truly

I am afraid of nothing but that we should miss the passing of our lives together.

Author: George Eliot
Topics: Famous, Lives, Missing, Together

Love, ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.

Author: Marcel Proust
Topics: Famous, Life, Lives, Love, Meaningful, Moment, Unsatisfied

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

Author: Audre Lorde
Topics: Lives, Remember

The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good.

Author: Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Greatest, Highest, Lives, Possible, Visions

The roles we play in each other’s lives are only as powerful as the trust and connection between us – the protection, safety, and caring we are willing to share.

Author: Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Caring, Connection, Lives, Powerful, Protected, Protection, Safety, Share

When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.

Author: Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Extraordinary, Lives, Ordinary, Transform

I am a person who lives my life based on intention. I don’t do anything without intention because intention determines the outcome of your life. It’s like cause and effect.

Author: Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Intention, Life, Lives, Person

Death tugs at my ear and says, ‘Live. I am coming.

Author: Mary Oliver
Topics: coming, Death, Famous, Live, Lives, Meaningful

Words save our lives, sometimes.

Author: Neil Gaiman
Topics: Famous, Lives, Meaningful, Words

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Kill, Lives, River, Stupid, Stupidest

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Author: Michelle Obama
Topics: Famous, Life, Lives, Meaningful, People, Quiet Strength, Strength

All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.

Author: Les Brown
Topics: Famous, Fulfilling, Grow, Lifelong Learning, Lives, Meaningful, Motivational, Personal Development

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Author: Benjamin Franklin
Topics: Famous, Lives

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Author: Baruch Spinoza
Topics: Famous, Live, Lives, Meaningful, Pursue

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund – managed by an independent third party – to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.

Author: Barack Obama
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Independent, Life, Lives, Meaningful, Positive

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

Author: Barack Obama
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Lives, Police, Positive, Public, Safety

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