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title: "1 Concern People Quotes By Harry Chapin"
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> [Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-chapin/our-lives-are-to-be-used-and-thus-to-be-lived-as-fully-as-possible/)

[Harry Chapin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-chapin/)

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## More by Harry Chapin

> [All my life's a circle; But I can't tell you why; Season's spinning round again; The years keep rollin' by.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-chapin/all-my-life-s-a-circle-but-i-can-t-tell-you-why-season-s-spinning/)

[Harry Chapin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-chapin/)

> [When I started this song I was still thirty-three The age that Mozart died and sweet Jesus was set free Keats and Shelley too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-chapin/when-i-started-this-song-i-was-still-thirty-three-the-age-that-mozart/)

[Harry Chapin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-chapin/)

> [You see, she was gonna be an actress and I was gonna learn to fly. She took off to find the footlights, and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-chapin/you-see-she-was-gonna-be-an-actress-and-i-was-gonna-learn-to-fly-she/)

[Harry Chapin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-chapin/)

> [And the look on her face as she opened the door Was like an old joke told by a friend. It'd taken ten more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-chapin/and-the-look-on-her-face-as-she-opened-the-door-was-like-an-old-joke/)

[Harry Chapin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-chapin/)

> [She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-chapin/she-knows-more-of-love-than-the-poets-can-say-and-her-eyes-offer/)

[Harry Chapin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-chapin/)

> [All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-chapin/all-of-us-should-be-involved-in-our-own-futures-to-create-a-world/)

[Harry Chapin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-chapin/)

> [No straight lines make up my life; And all my roads have bends; There's no clear-cut beginnings; And so far no dead-ends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-chapin/no-straight-lines-make-up-my-life-and-all-my-roads-have-bends-there-s/)

[Harry Chapin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-chapin/)

> [Good dreams don't come cheap You've got to pay for them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-chapin/good-dreams-don-t-come-cheap-you-ve-got-to-pay-for-them/)

[Harry Chapin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-chapin/)

> [Why did the little girls grow crippled While the little boys grow strong The boys allowed to come of age The girls just came…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-chapin/why-did-the-little-girls-grow-crippled-while-the-little-boys-grow/)

[Harry Chapin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-chapin/)

> [The reason nobody else in my business has any impact is because they're all comatose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-chapin/the-reason-nobody-else-in-my-business-has-any-impact-is-because-they/)

[Harry Chapin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-chapin/)

> [When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-chapin/when-you-re-going-nowhere-anywhere-s-a-better-place-to-be/)

[Harry Chapin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-chapin/)

> [What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-chapin/what-i-d-really-like-dad-is-to-borrow-the-car-keys/)

[Harry Chapin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-chapin/)

> [Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed me But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-chapin/strum-your-guitar-sing-it-kid-just-write-about-your-feelings-not-the/)

[Harry Chapin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-chapin/)

> [There are lessons to life That the lovers got to learn There are corners out there You know they're waitin' somewhere And you've got…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-chapin/there-are-lessons-to-life-that-the-lovers-got-to-learn-there-are/)

[Harry Chapin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-chapin/)

> [Remember when the music Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-chapin/remember-when-the-music-came-from-wooden-boxes-strung-with-silver/)

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