Quotes About Lives Well Lived

#1. Looking at my patients and their families, I have a remarkable view not just of lives well lived, but of deep commitment and love. I wouldn't trade that for the world. Sure, sometimes I'm caring for people at their worst, but I'm also blessed to be with them at their best.

David Dosa

#2. The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#3. The years the couple have together are a shared conclusion to lives separately built, separately lived. There is no use wondering what might have happened if the man had met her in his forties, or in his twenties. He would not have married her then.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#4. I've lived nine lives ... And this is the worst.

Grumpy Cat

#5. People lived their lives, carelessly dropping information as if it were trash. The writer moved behind them like a ragpicker. She cleaned and separated their garbage, culled and collected it.

Nell Freudenberger

#6. Every memory becomes a golden treasure to us when we have lived our lives with tragedy and triumphs, sadness and happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#7. The man was Halpin Frayser. He lived in St. Helena, but where he lives now is uncertain, for he is dead.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. unspoken bond existed between the residents of Chapel Isle. The island was the same as the nets its fishermen cast at sea, a tight lattice of people tied by lives lived closely, knotted by friendship. Being here meant Abigail could become a part of that net as well, which was

Ellen Block

#9. How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.

Stephen Covey

#10. I have known exceptional people who have endured severe trials while others, at least on the surface, seem to have lived charmed lives.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#11. Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

Hanif Kureishi

#12. Seriousness is for fools and poor destitute families who have lived their entire lives on spam.

Jason Krumbine

#13. Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

Chris Lowe

#14. We see men and women who work as hard as they possibly can and still fall behind a little more every month. We see lives that look nothing like those lived by billionaires in eighteen-thousand-square-foot condos, because these people don't live in some fairy tale - they live in today's reality. *

Elizabeth Warren

#15. Quick, nervy and jumpy -yet to the children she was as constant as a staff, a tree that can be counted on not to pull up its root and shift in the night. She was the tree that grew in the centre of their lives and in whose shade they lived.

Anita Desai

#16. One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.

W.B.Yeats

#17. I thought Love lived in the hot sunshine,
But O, he lives in the moony light!
I thought to find Love in the heat of day,
But sweet Love is the comforter of night.

William Blake

#18. Random, and yet rooted in the moment in which he lived, in which his life was bound up with all other lives and particles in the universe.

Philip K. Dick

#19. No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

Eugene H. Peterson

#20. Left to themselves, humans have always managed their own affairs creatively and well. Indeed, for most of human evolution and history people have lived peaceful, co-operative lives without rulers, leaders, politicians, soldiers, policemen and taxmen.

Peter Marshall

#21. I believe that if we have lived our lives fully and well, and have accomplished, at least in part, the things we were put here to do, we will be prepared - mentally, physically and spiritually - for our separation from this world.

Loretta Young

#22. I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

Harold S. Kushner

#23. No matter what stage of illness we are in, whether we've just been diagnosed or we have lived with chronic migraines for decades, there are adjustments we can make to increase joy in our lives and to live more fully.

Sarah Hackley

#24. I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#25. Well, I think it's real important that people understand, first and foremost, those of us that have lived in Arizona or in southern California, we have a very diverse population. The Hispanic population has been part of all of our lives since we've been born here or since we've grown up here.

Jan Brewer

#26. And two more tiresome examples of blameless lives lived well I have rarely had the misfortune to examine.

Andrea K. Host

#27. After Arran died we could've fallen apart. But we didn't. Because you held it together. "Arran Lives" - you remember that?"
"I remember."
"He lived in you, Max. You done well. I like you. You're cool.

Charlie Higson

#28. I started writing my original scripts replete with kings and queens who lived in the cities and did not want their children to marry servants. They had enough money to throw around and their lives never ended well.

S.A. David

#29. Anyone can make a positive impact on the lives of other people. All we have to do is live our ordinary lives extraordinarily well. Be happy and positive. Do what you love and love your work. Reach out not only by using your hands, but with your heart as well. Life is lived wonderfully that way.

Kcat Yarza

#30. Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?'
Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.'
Merchant: 'Well spoken ...

Hermann Hesse

#31. Ordinary-size people, they don't know: their lives have been rehearsed and rehearsed by every single person who ever lived before them, inventions and improvements and unimportant notions each generation, each year. In 600BC somebody did something that makes your life easier today; in 1217, 1892.

Elizabeth McCracken

#32. It is always imagined before it is lived. In the world of thought, imaginations are lives, but people kill them before they grow to have life!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#33. The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.

Ronald Reagan

#34. For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.

Lillian B. Rubin

#35. I can't compare the lives I could have lived. One would have been comfort and security. But the other ... " She sighs. "It was the most love and the most pain and the most wonder I could have ever known.

Carrie Ryan

#36. We have lived with the shadow of separation our entire lives. Before we even knew of each other's existence, fate conspired to keep us apart. We've always known it could come to this.

Siobhan Davis

#37. After all, most of us have lived lives based on commitments made without any way of knowing where they would lead. The uncertainty is an essential element in commitment, the acceptance of consequences an essential element in fidelity. [p. 80]

Mary Catherine Bateson

#38. It was hard when I knew I was about to be flooded with memories of a life I hadn't lived yet. Really, two lives I hadn't lived yet.

Kasie West

#39. Houses seem to remember,' said he.
'Some rooms oppress us with a sense of lives that have been lived in them.

Emma Frances Dawson

#40. In this way Hassan lived the happiest of lives until he was overtaken by death, breaker of ties and destroyer of delights.

Ted Chiang

#41. Tonight there was something different. Something both deeper and shallower than friendship. Familiarity, perhaps, the sudden realisation that we lived our sealed-up little lives in closeness to each other. That we had something to share and something to lose. Something to protect together.

Alexis Hall

#42. Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives.

Leo Buscaglia

#43. We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.

Mark Lawrence

#44. I am tired from having lived seventeen different lives, compressed into the space of one.

Augusten Burroughs

#45. Older guys have too much emotional baggage. They've already lived their lives.

Edmund White

#46. In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

Roberto Clemente

#47. Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between, filling up their lives with distractions to avoid the emptiness where curiosity should have been.

Clive Barker

#48. It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges and quiet lives. People who lived in their thoughts as much as in the real, physical world.

Daphne Kalotay

#49. VLADIMIR: What do they say? ESTRAGON: They talk about their lives. VLADIMIR: To have lived is not enough for them. ESTRAGON: They have to talk about it.

Samuel Beckett

#50. We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals all over the planet.

Shane Claiborne

#51. It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin.

Sarah Dessen

#52. The oldest thing of all is the present, because there's never been anything else but present. No one has ever lived in the past, and no one lives in the future, either.

Harry Mulisch

#53. It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were.

Nicholas Sparks

#54. Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.

Nicholas Sparks

#55. 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

#56. We may not have known each other our whole lives but we've definitely lived them in parallel

Fisher Amelie

#57. Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#58. He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, I have lived.

Michel De Montaigne