I try to live life so that I can live with myself.
John Green
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I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
OPRAH WINFREY My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Some people live such boring lives; it’s Black & White, so dead! I choose to color my life with Fu...
RVM Before I can live with other folks, Ive got to live with myself. The one thing that doesnt abide...
HARPER LEE Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by...
ATTICUS Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abid...
HARPER LEE when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, ...
MITCH ALBOM You think your life belongs to you? Tenar gave me my life. That's why I have to live, so that I can ...
GORO MIYAZAKI Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't ...
HARPER LEE I don't particularly put myself in a bad place just so that I can write. It's not like that at all. ...
GLEN HANSARD I can live with myself, if you hate me for protecting you. But I could never live with myself if I d...
PATTY RASE HOPSON Live your best life, be your best self, give what you wish to receive.
MATTIE STEPANEK I even tried to tell myself to live my best life today.
JOHN GREEN Life is unexplainable. So, don't try to explain it. Just live it."
OLASOT I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back.
MEGAN FOX I try and live my life in bite-size chunks.
CRAIG FERGUSON I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.
RON CHERNOW I myself live downtown, and I just find it so convenient to everything.
MARK MATHES I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every mo...
GABOUREY SIDIBE Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
ORLANDO BLOOM I don't think of myself as a role model for others, but I like to live my life by my own integri...
LILY COLE I just couldnt live with myself knowing I had just killed myself.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I'm very moralistic, and I don't believe in anything. I see that this is the only life I have to liv...
BEN CRICKENBERGER I know that people can live celibate lives. I did it myself for many years.
HAMZA YUSUF I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.
KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR I told myself that I was going to live the rest of my life as if it were Saturday.
CHIP GAINES I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.
BELA KAROLYI My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
KANYE WEST If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
RICK RIORDAN I can live in at the Leela's or the road side, I am still John Alexander Tristram
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM The problem isn’t that I think so highly of myself. It is just that you think so little of yoursel...
SHANNON L. ALDER I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
ANNE TYLER I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
ANNE TYLOR Love is not just saying,that i can not live without you!Love is that even if i can not live with you...
PRASAD You can never live your life until you have learned how life can live with you.
PRATIK SHARDA So dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
JOHN MILTON What I write, only I can write, because of my singular sensibility, so I made a deal with the creati...
RODNEY CROWELL I have been so misused by chaste men with one wife, that I would live with satyrs all my life
ANNA WICKHAM I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
DAMIAN LEWIS I may be out of a job, ... but I can live with myself that I stood up for what I believed in and to ...
BOB ROSE You got one life to live. So I'm living it the way I want to live it.
FUTURE I started off doing live TV, so I kind of learnt that if I get myself into trouble, I get myself out...
CAT DEELEY That's just how I live my life. That's how I was raised: to demand excellence out of myself.
EZEKIEL ELLIOTT Live Strong. Live Free. This Life Is Your. Freedom Life. Shadows. Overcome. I Can Do This. I Will Do...
MARISSA JHONSON Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot realit...
RICHELLE MEAD I want to live a live so full of adventures that when the end of my life comes, I am totally exhaust...
LORRIN L. LEE And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
AARON MCGRUDER This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the ...
KANDI DOUGHERTY I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was tha...
HERMANN HESSE I don't wanna get hurt. I have to live. I love myself so much. I wanna duplicate myself for much mor...
EPHDAN Try to live your life so that you wouldn't be afraid to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
WILL ROGERS Don't try to live forever - You can't! But you can do things that will live forever.-RVM
RVM I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road...
DARREN ARONOFSKY I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by...
MICHELANGELO I can dunk! I can dunk, and not just in NBA Live.
CHRIS PAUL I cared about them. I wanted them to feel better, to live better lives. And then it occurred to me -...
CATE TIERNAN I refuse to live life with unsettled differences”.
JOHN PAUL WARREN They weren't just people paying to see a show. They were part of it. There was such a euphoric feeli...
LIVE AID There was something totally unique and I am not sure I've ever felt it since,
LIVE AID the largest ever TV audience; the busiest Web site in the world; the largest ever online petition --...
LIVE AID For God's sake, take this seriously. Don't behave normally. Don't look for compromises. Be great,
LIVE AID I think I'd go for Collingwood, who can bowl a few overs and bat a bit,
FIVE LIVE They go to Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United and set their stall to get a result so if it mea...
FIVE LIVE I would never have played Wilkinson in a million years,
FIVE LIVE I don't think the league is getting boring,
FIVE LIVE Even sarcastic play is not allowed - the referee cannot accept that.
FIVE LIVE The EU has 25 countries and in Europe there are 52 national associations. Fifa has 205 around the wo...
FIVE LIVE The EU is not against this,
FIVE LIVE According to one FA source I spoke to, 'Sven has a lot of thinking to do', particularly about the mi...
FIVE LIVE Graham needs more time,
FIVE LIVE Obviously I've been hoping to get a chance this summer and Simon's had this ankle problem over the l...
FIVE LIVE It would be difficult to throw Tremlett in.
FIVE LIVE I've never felt like this watching Test matches. It is incredible,
FIVE LIVE You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. I mean, some people do live...
BERNHARD GOETZ It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I ...
IMMANUEL KANT I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voic...
K. D. LANG I play with my tractors and live somewhat of a family life and just try to enjoy trying to retire so...
DICK TRICKLE You try building a pipeline through that mud -- it can be done, but the price would be so outrageous...
ANDRES STEPKOWSKI How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
MENANDER If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least a...
YUL VAZQUEZ They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions......
HARPER LEE I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to m...
MICHELANGELO Live for myself, so Is better that you die.
DHARM PANDEY If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.
NADINE STAIR I hold onto hope, I live with faith, I cherish the gift of life to teach to love to live and to resp...
JASMINA SIDEROVSKI I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The problem with Christianity is more people profess the truth than live it. So much hypocrisy aboun...
SHANNON L. ALDER I don't live life to be different.
I live life to be the same.
ANTHONY T.HINCKS The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will live forever in p...
KARON WADDELL Don't try to live forever - You can't! But you can do things that will live forever. -RVM #Ins...
RVM And when all's said and done, the final comment will be (from me at least) so what? I'll live with m...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I kinda live where I find myself.
BOB DYLAN I live my life on self-belief and I live it partly on going with the flow.
MELANIE BROWN Live to learn to love.
Learn to love to live.
Love to live to learn
so that you ma...
RICO DASHEEM I like to think of myself as a 'live life to its fullest' type of guy.
SHAUN SIPOS I notice that most people WORK HARD so they can afford to live their Ideal Life. I just skip the 'wo...
LORRIN L. LEE I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perfo...
KANYE WEST I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
D. H. LAWRENCE I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets
D.H. LAWRENCE Live honestly to a higher note. Life is too short. So, do the best you can and live your life to a h...
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'Right, i...
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'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut...
JOHN GREEN Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better th...
JOHN GREEN I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
JOHN GREEN You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.
JOHN GREEN I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don’t t...
JOHN GREEN I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or wha...
JOHN GREEN There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly lear...
JOHN GREEN Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you�...
JOHN GREEN I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I ...
JOHN GREEN If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit,...
JOHN GREEN If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.
JOHN GREEN I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like yo...
JOHN GREEN Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
JOHN GREEN Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will
JOHN GREEN