L Quotes
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“Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.”
“Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sand of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solenm main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.”
Source: Voices of the Night
“Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.”
Source: Voices of the Night
“Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.”
“Lives of great men all remind us, Greatness takes no easy way, All the heroes of tomorrow, Are the heretics of today. Socrates and Galileo, John Brown, Thoreau, Christ, and Debs, Heard the night cry "Down with traitors!" And the dawn shout "Up the rebs!"”
“Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.”
“Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.”
Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“Lives should be measured in intensity.
Remember mine
For its glory-stretch of furious light
and wondrous beauty.”
Source: Broken Country
“Lives should never be down to mere words, but I suppose they always are. Whether declarations of war, law, or treaty... words ever determine lives.”
“Lives such as yours—how true it is!—though they should exceed
a thousand years, will contract into the smallest span: but those vices
of yours will swallow up any amount of time. This length of time you
have, that reason prolongs, however swift nature makes its sojourn,
is bound to pass quickly through your fingers; for you do not grasp
it, or seek to hold on to it, or try to delay the passing of the swiftest
thing of all, but allow it to depart, as if it were something surplus to
requirement and easily replaced.”
Source: On the Shortness of Life
“Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances. None of us know what a year may bring forth.”
Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
“Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?”
Source: Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle
“Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense.”
“Lives there upon any world such another as John Carter, Prince of Helium? Lives there another man who could fight his way back and forth across a warlike planet, facing savage beasts and hordes of savage men, for the love of a woman?”
Source: The Warlord of Mars
“Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
Lives to serve before I sleep,
Cause service is my salvation;
Wounds to heal before I sleep,
Cause time is wailing for absolution;
Bridges to build before I sleep,
Cause too many walls are raised already;
Peoples to unite before I sleep,
Cause civilization is trembling and walking unsteady.
Shackles to shatter before I sleep,
Cause corruption festers in the stagnant norm;
Labels to erase before I sleep,
Cause they've only confused our global dorm;
Sects to humanize before I sleep,
Cause segregation has weakened the human bond;
Blades to burn before I sleep,
Cause they've turned the world into a bloody pond.
Tears to wipe before I sleep,
Cause the society is lost in fun;
Homes to heal before I sleep,
Cause ego has wrecked the nests a ton;
Biases to alleviate before I sleep,
Cause bigotry has outweighed compassion;
Purity to pour before I sleep,
Cause all are chasing petty gratification.
Spirits to lift before I sleep,
Cause the minds are running dry;
Gods to build before I sleep,
Cause orthodoxy makes humanity cry;
Wars to end before I sleep,
Cause no life is expendable and puny;
Humans to raise before I sleep,
Cause where humans act human there reigns harmony.”
Source: Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
“Lives to serve before I sleep, service is my salvation.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“Lives to serve before I sleep,
Service is my salvation.
Wounds to heal before I sleep,
Selfless joy brings illumination.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“Lives to serve before I sleep,
Service is my salvation.
Wounds to heal before I sleep,
Selfless joy brings illumination.
Bridges to build before I sleep,
Walls are too savage a burden.
Tears to wipe before I sleep,
In human smile lies human heaven.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“Lives to Serve Before I Sleep (The Poem)
Lives to serve before I sleep,
'cause service is my salvation;
Wounds to heal before I sleep,
'cause time is wailing for absolution;
Bridges to build before I sleep,
'cause too many walls are raised already;
Peoples to unite before I sleep,
'cause civilization is trembling and walking unsteady.
Shackles to shatter before I sleep,
'cause corruption festers in the stagnant norm;
Labels to erase before I sleep,
'cause they've only confused our global dorm;
Sects to humanize before I sleep,
'cause segregation has weakened the human bond;
Blades to burn before I sleep,
'cause they've turned the world into a bloody pond.
Tears to wipe before I sleep,
'cause the society is lost in fun;
Homes to heal before I sleep,
'cause ego has wrecked the nests a ton;
Biases to alleviate before I sleep,
'cause bigotry has outweighed compassion;
Purity to pour before I sleep,
'cause all are chasing petty gratification.
Spirits to lift before I sleep,
'cause the minds are running dry;
Gods to build before I sleep,
'cause orthodoxy makes humanity cry;
Wars to end before I sleep,
'cause no life is expendable and puny;
Humans to raise before I sleep,
'cause where humans act human there reigns harmony.”
Source: Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
“Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
(The Sonnet)
Lives to serve before I sleep,
Service is my salvation.
Wounds to heal before I sleep,
Selfless joy brings illumination.
There are times people need help,
there are times they need motivation.
Keep your mouth absolutely shut,
if you cannot make the distinction.
Bridges to build before I sleep,
Walls are too savage a burden.
Tears to wipe before I sleep,
In human smile lies human heaven.
Chains to hack before I sleep,
Chains hack humanity to pieces.
Peace to plant before I sleep,
Come join me, let's grow a forest!”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.”
Source: Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage
“Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?”
“Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, like that of the Americas, is north/south rather than east/west. Those Eurasian domestic mammals spread southward very slowly in Africa, because they had to adapt to different climate zones and different animal diseases.”
“Livet består av en del galskap, og en del visdom; den som bare skriver ærbødig og konvensjonelt, utelater mer enn halvparten.”
Source: The Complete Essays
“Livet är ett ljusinstrument.”
Source: Världsviking: Gudomlig Poesi
“Livet är ett ljusinstrument,
Ljus är bara ljus när det delas.
Delat ljus är odödligt ljus,
Självisk andedräkt är bara luft.”
Source: Världsviking: Gudomlig Poesi
“Livet är kort,
Förlåt mycket,
Hjälp mycket,
Älska som en galning.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Livet är som månens cykel,
ibland lyser det fullt,
ibland lyser det till hälften,
andra gånger blir det totalt mörkt.
Livets oförutsägbarhet är
det som gör det förutsägbart.
Ibland regnar det katter och hundar,
i nästa ögonblick är solen oundviklig.”
Source: Världsviking: Gudomlig Poesi
“Livet är vad vi gör om det till att vara.”
Source: Handling the Undead
“Livia called out, "Slutenstien! I’m home."
"I’m up here, cock dribble,” Kyle replied.”
“Livia came close to kiss the baby’s head and then Blake’s lips. “Thank you.”
“For burping him?” Blake leaned forward to kiss her forehead.
She shook her head. “For fighting for this. For us. Every day.”
“It’s an honor, Mrs. Hartt.” Blake shifted back to his easy sway, keeping the baby locked in his slumber.”
“Livia could have made a sugo blindfold- she had been making it almost every day for years. The only difficulty was, there were as many different kinds of sugo as there were days in a month. There was the everyday version, which might be no more than a handful of ripe tomatoes squashed with the tip of a knife to release the juices, then quickly fried in oil. There was the classic version, in which the tomatoes were simmered along with some garlic and onions until they had reduced to a thick, pulpy stew. Then there was a richer version, in which pieces of meat were cooked for several hours to extract all the flavor, and so on all the way up to ragù del guardaporte, the gatekeeper's sauce, so called because it required someone to sit by it all day, adding little splashes of water to stop the rolls of meat stuffed with parsley, garlic and cheese from drying out.”
Source: The Wedding Officer
“Livia didn’t reappear. She must have gone out by the back alley. Yaqub came into the house alone, his neck scratched and full of love bites, his face still burning with passion. That’s how he left: his clothes rumpled, his face wet, and his hair full of twigs, leaves, and strands of blondish hair. He went quietly, leaving the house where he had lived with frugality and discretion. He had barely occupied the place, hardly more than a shadow.”
Source: Two Brothers
“Livia had burnt the onions. And not just any onions, but the ones in her famous sugo alla genovese, that wonderful sauce of reduced onions, flavored with beef stock, celery and chopped parsley, that together with pummarola and ragù form the holy trinity of Neapolitan pasta sauces. To make a true genovese the onions have to be cooked for around five hours over the gentlest heat, stirring occasionally to prevent them from sticking to the bottom of the pan and splashing them with water whenever they look like they are drying out. Onions are remarkable things, for cooked like this they lose almost all their familiar oniony taste and become an intensely sweet, aromatic jam, yet if a single piece happens to burn in the cooking, the acrid taste will permeate the whole dish.”
Source: The Wedding Officer
“livid, adj.
Fuck You for cheating on me. Fuck you for reducing it to the word cheating. As if this were a card game, and you sneaked a look at my hand. Who came up with the term cheating, anyway? A cheater, I imagine. Someone who thought liar was too harsh. Someone who thought devastator was too emotional. The same person who thought, oops, he’d gotten caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Fuck you. This isn’t about slipping yourself an extra twenty dollars of Monopoly money. These are our lives. You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
“Livin' ain't livin' if your livin' ain't givin'.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Livin' is like pourin' water out of a tumbler into a dang Coca-Cola bottle. If'n you skeered you can't do it, you cain't. If'n you say to yourself, "By dang, I can do it!" then, by dang, you won't slosh a drop.”
“Livin' la Vida Loca' is not Latin music. It does not represent Latin music what Jennifer Lopez put out. It's not Latin music. What Enrique Iglesias, it's not Latin music, no? It's Latin artists. There's a Latin artist doing it you could say.”
“Living
consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and
responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the
moment.”
“Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what narrative it is, because I'm living my life and not always reflecting on it, but as I edit these pages I am aware that I have an urge to see my sometimes random wandering as having a plot, a purpose guided by some underlying story.”
Source: Bicycle Diaries
“Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don't matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“Living a daring life is zealous pursuit.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Living a Deliciously Dazzling, Wildly Effervescent, Kick-Ass Life”
Source: Sparkle: The Girl's Guide to Living a Deliciously Dazzling, Wildly Effervescent, Kick-Ass Life
“Living a fruitful and purposeful life has eternal blessings”
“Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place.”
“Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.”
“Living a good life may keep you out of jail, but it cannot keep you out of hell.”
“Living a happier life shouldn't be one's goal. Happiness is an emotion that comes and goes, influenced by many factors beyond our control. Instead, focus on finding purpose, practicing gratitude, and embracing the present moment. This mindset can lead to a more fulfilling life.”
“Living a happy life is my main priority. You guys may think I am selfish for "wasting my talent" by staying away from events for a bit, but I am finally at a comfortable place where I can honestly say, if you guys see me out on tour again it's because I am there to win, and I'm going to go 100%.”
“Living a healthy, joyful life is a gift you give yourself.”
Source: Power Healing Foods, Refresh Your Health and Blood Sugar: The Best Foods, Superfoods, and Lifestyle for Prediabetes and Healthy Blood Sugar