Lived Quote of the Day

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If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl

True wisdom cannot be learned in a lifetime,
but can be revealed in a moment,
for it has always lived within each and every one of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action.
A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.
- Neale Donald Walsch

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Since it is not granted to us to live long,
let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
- E. Joseph Cossman

It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller

Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Know that life is most joyfully lived boldly -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which I must stop and look fear in the face.
I say to myself, I've lived through this
and can take the next thing that comes along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every person who has ever lived there has come,
at last, a spring he will never see.
Glory then in the springs that are yours.
- Pam Brown

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked.
It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
- Amy Grant

The personal life deeply lived
always expands into truths beyond itself.
- Anais Nin

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.
- Frank Langella

Life cannot be lived fully or joyfully if
our thoughts are focused on regretting the past,
preoccupied with anticipating the future,
or lost in the mind-fog of unconscious habitual behavior.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

NO ONE has been granted the authority to tell me
how my life should be lived.
I answer only to myself and to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I know my country has not perfected itself.
At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty
and equality for all of our people.
We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times
when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
- Barack Obama

I confessed recently to an old friend,
"I realized I was looking at you,
in your visit, through old glasses.
Speaking old words.
Telling old stories.
I realize that in my life I've made so many
physical changes and I need to give my spirit time to catch up."
Time for my spirit to look at my friend
through the new glasses of current life experiences.
Old friends are precious.
They become even more treasured when they are wrapped
in the currentness of life experiences
and not relegated to the past in which they once lived.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The secret of merging with Spirit
and recognizing the oneness of the whole Universe
cannot be learned in a lifetime, but can be revealed in a moment,
for it has always lived within each and every one of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the
belief that most planning and architectural design
suffers for lack of real and basic purpose.
The ultimate purpose, it seems to me,
must be the improvement of mankind.
- James Rouse

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

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it,
we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it.
So the status quo has never been our god,
and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
- Carl T. Rowan

I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very
exclusive country club in Dayton,
Ohio.
And I saw how the other half lived, if you will.
- Martin Sheen

We lived together as kids, and now we're taking care of each other as men.
- Aaron Neville

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book.
I am not at all surprised.
She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing,
and then she read the book.
- Mary MacLane

There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to,
like China, where I lived and worked for some time.
I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted.
- Nicholas D. Kristof

I arrived in Hollywood and lived much of my life in America,
but the fans did not really know me.
- Persis Khambatta

Everything we did was criticized.
For about thirty years we lived with the world against us,
accusing us of things we didn't do!
- Ian Smith

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived.
I've never heard anyone like her.
- Brad Paisley

It was times like these when I thought my father,
who hated guns and had never been to any wars,
was the bravest man who ever lived.
- Harper Lee

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out
in a technological society.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely
dismantle all weapons of mass destruction,
and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.
- Barbara Boxer

I lived that life for real, so to talk about it was like a joke,
you know what I mean?
- Tone Loc

If you lived through the shooting of Jaws,
you can live through anything.
- Sam Mendes

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived,
which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
- Allan Bloom

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one
sad because the lives that people live here,
and have lived here, are so ugly.
- James Baldwin

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

But when it became an international hoopla where careers
lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar,
then it got out of hand.
- George C. Scott

We've always been the development project that lived
in a time pressured setting and always where commercial
entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame.
- Mitchell Baker

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

I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what
is real and what isn't any more.
- Dane Cook

I am a really big Harry Potter fan and I've seen all the sets,
I've lived Harry Potter and I don't think it's destroyed the books at all,
I think it's really spot on.
- Rupert Grint

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover.
She once counted up how many places she had lived in
during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
- Mary Wesley

Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't
have any noteworthy problem with it.
The problem that we have is not that there are now more elephants.
- Richard Leakey

If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley,
you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most
fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.
- Marguerite Young

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