30 Quotes About Lived

As prolific as they've been, the words of the great lived on through their written works. In fact, some of the most popular quotes from these exceptional authors have been compiled into a collection of wise and inspiring quotes. Whether you're looking for encouragement from a recent Nobel Peace Prize winner or a personal message from a legendary writer, these quotes will inspire you to live a life well-lived.

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It's possible that Knight believed he was one of the few sane people left. He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime of your life in a cubicle, spending hours a day at a computer, in exchange for money, was considered acceptable, but relaxing in a tent in the woods was disturbed. Observing the trees was indolent; cutting them down was enterprising. What did Knight do for a living? He lived for a living. . Michael Finkel
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21. Take in a great breath of air and then blow it out. Contained in that single breath were at least three nitrogen atoms that were breathed by every human being who ever lived, including Jesus Christ, William Shakespeare, Winston Churchill, and every president of the United States. This illustrates the fact that everything we do affects other people, positively or negatively. That’s why it is foolish to say, “Do your own thing if it doesn’t hurt anybody else.” Everything we do affects other people. James C. Dobson
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For all these stars, nothing is new. They’ve seen all kinds of warsand miracles, too. They know the messengers with their holy bookswill smile and wash their hands in blood. They know the politicians with their good lookswill make the poor eat pies of mud. They’ve seen the Earth freeze and then burn with greed. They’ve seen the treesand the seas emptied. Yet, you won’t hear their sneerswhen a man arrivesand, having experienced a number of years, proclaims: 'I have lived! ' Because nothing is new under these stars:the lies, the love, the memories and scars, the ruin, the revolution, the fakes and true, the families, the friends, none of it is new. All of it–even the me and you. Kamand Kojouri
If on any given day you don't cry from rejoicing...
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If on any given day you don't cry from rejoicing in the beauty of the world, then you have not lived that day. Kamand Kojouri
We are quick to surrender that which we deem as...
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We are quick to surrender that which we deem as long dead, when God is quick to restore that which He deems as never really having lived. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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I have outlived a few of the kids that I grew up with in Knowsley Village, Liverpool, UK. Two dropped dead at eighteen years of age from heart attacks! They lived across the road from each other and played together. I wonder if it was some exposure that was common to them? Curiously, an entire family of three ladies all got breast cancer just round the corner from them, it killed my friend! A little further up the road another friend dropped dead of brain cancer in her thirties. Always seemed like far too much premature death in such a small area. . Steven Magee
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Have we ever thought to consider that God allows things in our lives to die so that in that death we might come to the precious realization of how little we’ve actually lived in the first place? Craig D. Lounsbrough
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We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives .. . our vicarious way to feel alive. V.C. Andrews
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We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really ‘lived’ a day in our lives. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to a life fully dreamed and lived. Carew Papritz
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You have not lived until you have fled a city in a country where you do not speak the language in the middle of the night. Ken Poirot
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What is lived is what is valued. T.F. Hodge
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Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived. Unknown
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In a nice little house in Atro City there lived a man called Doktor Gleichstein. He was a kind of scientist, and he was very good at his job, which is why he always worked from home. He looked a little funny because he kept losing his eyebrows. Quantum Physics, is sort of like ordinary Physics, only you tend to spend a lot more time looking for the cat. He worked in the sitting room because he’d blown the garage up once already. Apparently a lot of things happened by accident in Quantum Physics. Christina Engela
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You are strong, tempered like steel in the fire and by the blows of the hammer of life. Nothing will break you again, only make you stronger and more whole. Perfection is the pride of those who have not lived, who know not these things in their arrogance. They remain the same - raw and without form. The hammer never touches them, and they lie on the shelf, gathering dust, slowly tarnishing and fading and crumbling. the blows of the hammer in the fire refine us into bright shining glory for the roles we play in life - until we are one with the anvil, becoming immune to the hammer's little knocks, and smile at it. Christina Engela
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Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in memorizing verses and going to church every week. Craig Groeschel
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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. Helen Keller
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Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. Buddha
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. Willa Cather
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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times. Friedrich Schiller
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By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived. Brennan Manning
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Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard
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The truth is lived, not taught. Hermann Hesse
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Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine. James J. Hill
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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive. Wyclef Jean
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My dad used to hunt ducks, and my mom would put them in the pot. We lived really modestly. We had very little money. Megan Fox
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Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred. Kid Rock
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Life must be lived as play. Plato
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle. Ralph Waldo Emerson