#lives

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#consists #direction #doing #done #each

All lives have an equal value. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#lives #value

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#apply #build #evil #good #how

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#around #change #constant #frightening #hold

I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#been #do you know #had #i #knew

I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode. ↗

— Martin Gore

#into #lead #lives #mode #rock

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation. ↗

— Richard Holloway

#art #attributes #clarity #creation #give

It's a hard call, but I've no desire to live my children's lives. I think my job as a father is to protect them, to allow them a safe place to grow up and to teach them what I've learned. ↗

— Ernie Hudson

#call #children #desire #father #grow

I feel like I've lived about three or four different lives. ↗

— Jennifer Hudson

#different #feel #four #i #i feel

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line. ↗

— Langston Hughes

#begins #being #black #censorship #color