I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an…

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.

— John Constable

I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes of punishing…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Some nights, I wake up knowing he is anxious. He is across the world in another woman's arms and the years have spread us…

— Sarah Kay

I think that when you're young, you carry the weight of the world on your shoulders. You're anxious; the world seems like a scary…

— Alesha Dixon

I think there's a curiosity that can make you feel anxious as to what the world's going to make of what you're doing. It's…

— Jeff Tweedy

The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.

— Confucius

How I feel about and behave toward myself is the basic determinant of most of my behavior. If I improve my self-regard, I will…

— William Schutz

Its not dying that you need to be afraid of, its never having lived in the first place.

— Anonymous

“She who does not make the world better for having lived in it has failed to be all that woman should be.”

— Karen Andreola

“It’s one of the best parts of growing up and growing older, I think, that feeling that you’ll just get through one day, and…

— Anna Quindlen

If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the destination that matters, but…

— Brandon Sanderson

“Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannot always…

— Kate DiCamillo

We're supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we're ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long…

— John Mayer

“One of the most significant facts about us may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds…

— Clifford Geertz

Life only avails, not the having lived.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson