#Gerry refuses to let anyone cook

[astralsyst3m]

Sometimes DID is having a co-host who refuses to let literally anyone else in system cook because every time they do something goes wrong or someone does something stupid like put salt on a quesadilla. -Arrow (he/they/void)

[supercasey]

Dumb thoughts on the Child Avatars AU

I dunno, just some dumb ideas I’ve had since I started talking about the AU online/brainstorming about it. (Putting it under a readmore for everyone’s sake)

The “Daisy kidnaps Jon” situation in this AU is Daisy riding her bike to Simon Fairchild’s mansion, holding a water-gun up to both Mike and Jon’s heads, and ordering them to ride with her to the grocery store to buy soda and hang out at a nearby playground for the day. Cue Elias flipping tf out when Jon isn’t at Simon’s place when he goes to pick him up later, Simon being half asleep because he was napping while the kids hung out, and Mike getting soaked by Daisy before he agrees to go with her, and since this happens in, like, late fall or early winter, he gets pneumonia afterwards and can’t hang out for awhile, leading to the kids jokingly saying he’s dead. Btw the only reason the trio was found is because Basira was invited after they made it to the park, and she convinced Daisy to let the boys go home. Daisy literally only kidnapped them because she wanted to play with someone.

Also the Buried!Daisy arc is Daisy getting eaten by a Buried controlled sandbox and Jon jumping in after her. The rest of the kids, who thankfully witnessed this, spent the next three hours digging for them, with Breekon & Hope eventually joining in to help since they were in the area. Daisy and Jon form a trauma bond afterwards and are now best friends.

Jon keeps getting marked by shit and it’s stressing Elias out because hE’S NOT READY FOR THE WATCHER’S CROWN YET!!! He needs more time to prepare, but his son is literally getting marked faster than fucking Sonic.

Speaking of Sonic, seeing as the “Console Wars” (Sega vs Nintendo) are happening during this time period, the kids take the rivalry Very Seriously. The biggest arguments are had between Sasha, Daisy, Julia, and Mike, who are all on Team Sega, and Jon, Martin, Tim, and Danny, who are all on Team Nintendo.

Sasha, close to tears she’s so angry: “Sega DO what NintenDON’T, Tim!!!”

When Martin was born, he only had one thick clump of curly hair that was white, but as he’s grown older and entered the Lonely multiple times, more of his hair has begun to turn white. As of the time of the AU “starting” (so when he’s 8 years old), he looks like he has white highlights in his hair.

Trevor isn’t a fully-fledged Hunt avatar yet, but the girls more or less are, so if you’ve ever watched Wolf Children, that’s pretty much the situation Trevor is currently trapped in. His daughters keeping changing into wolf pups and running wild as he frantically tries to hide their powers from anyone who isn’t Gerry.

(All of the kids secretly know already, even Basira.)

Basira is pretty much the only “normal” kid of the avatar children, save MAYBE for Tim, but he’s been deeply marked by the circus and has a few tiny powers (think S3 Jon as he was figuring out some of his powers, but wasn’t a full-on Archivist just yet).

The season 1 gang (including Danny) are the closest group of friends in the AU, save for Daisy and Basira’s friendship, and they hang out a lot at each other’s homes on the weekends.

Adelard usually brings Jane with him for his “trips” away from the institute, so it’s not unusual for her to be gone for long periods of time. But she always sends postcards and gifts to the institute for everyone!

Helen is three years old, so theoretically she should be able to talk, but she rarely does so, preferring to communicate via giggles and laughter. Only Jon, the Stoker brothers, and Michael can understand her, and they take turns translating for everyone else.

Whenever she’s brought to the institute, Helen takes to toddling around after Jon and Martin, giggling up a storm the whole time. Jon finds it a bit annoying while Martin is endlessly amused by her antics.

A list of the guardian’s/adult’s ages before I fucking forget (as of when the AU “starts” in 1994): Gertrude Robinson - 62, Elias Bouchard “Jonah Magnus” - 51 (200+), Peter Lukas - 55, Simon Fairchild - 83 (300+), Gerard “Gerry” Keay - 30, Michael Shelley - 32, Alfred Grifter - Unknown, Adelard Dekker - 48, Nikola Orsinov - 30ish (100+), Annabelle Cane - 34 (Unknown), Trevor Herbert - 47, Agnes Montague - 25ish (60+), Jude Perry - 35, Jared Hopworth - 29, The Admiral - 10.

The “good” parents all keep trying to set up some kind of PTA meeting so they can actually talk about how to raise these supernatural kids properly, but it keeps going horribly wrong; last time they tried, Alfred Grifter and his band showed up and nearly made Simon go deaf, so no one wants to initiate the next attempt at a meeting.

Tbh, at this point the Fear rituals are more successful than Elias’s shitty attempts at forming a PTA.

At some point in the AU Gerry, Michael, and Trevor all pitch in to buy a decently big house together, which leads to some serious Shenanigans now that Melanie is around Michael and Trevor’s kids/wards... let’s just say there’s gonna be a lot of knife related accidents.

Gerry taught Melanie how to fight when he took her in and it is the single worst decision he’s ever made in his short, goth life, even if he’ll never admit it. Melanie can now beat the shit out of everyone but Julia and Daisy, and it’s pure chaos every time. Tim puts up a decent fight, but he’s been spoiled on easy wins over his brother all his life. Jon tries and fails to so much as push her. Martin runs away crying before Melanie even throws the first punch. Needless to say, the other kids are very cautious about playing with Melanie now.

None of the kids have an education of any kind except for Mike. I’m serious; the only kid who’s decently educated is being raised by Foxy Grandpa Off His Shits McGee! Julia and Daisy have had some public education but not much, Elias refuses to do anything but home-school Jon yet he sucks shit at math, Tim and Danny don’t even know what a school fucking looks like, Melanie and Jane were too young to go to school when they became avatars, Martin has only recently been allowed near other kids so fuck public school (Peter can do math but Nothing Else), Annabelle fucking forgot to give Sasha any kind of an education outside of Web stuff, and Helen is still a very small child. None of these kids have gone to school for more than a few years at most and dear g-d is that gonna suck for them later down the line.

As a result of this, Basira has taught the other kids a few things when she’s come over and insisted on playing “school” with everyone, but she’s still just a kid and can’t always get them to pay attention during her lessons.

Because of this Rosie, Gerry, Michael, and Gertrude have all started making an effort to more or less home-school all of the kids, which has gone... well enough, I suppose. However, things have recently taken a weird turn since Jon keeps giving everyone the answers to assignments/tests via telepathy.

Jon: Whoa, you can make tea all by yourself, Martin!? Martin: Yeah, I’ve been doing it by myself since I was a toddler. I can also do laundry, mop floors, vacuum, and cook a few things, too! Tim: Wow, that’s really cool, Martin! I wish I could do stuff like that. Gertrude, off to the side: *Gives Peter a horrified look* I’m sorry, but did Martin just say he’s been making tea on his own since he was a toddler? Peter:  ╮(╯ _╰ )╭  Unfortunately, I’m severely depressed.

Yeeeeeeeah, Martin’s in a similar childhood situation to his canon one, but at least there are people actually willing to help him out of it in this universe. Also, Peter will clean himself up at some point here, he’s just still dealing with more or less disowning himself from his family and learning hoe to not be so lonely.

Speaking Of Which, the Lukas family are pretty big antagonists in this AU, primarily through Peter’s mother (I’ll come up with a name for her later if I can’t find it on the wiki), who is trying to kidnap Martin and more or less feed him to the Lonely so Peter will get over his “childish feelings” and return to being her favorite child.

And yes, she DOES accidentally kidnap Jon instead at some point... this kid can literally not avoid getting kidnapped.

I like to think Mike and Julia are really good friends in this AU, being the closest in age and all. They hang out a lot since their dads are both so chill and won’t get upset about it, the two of them mostly just playing video games, watching movies, and biking around their respective neighborhoods together.

(Also they may or may not be responsible for a statement that involves a woman seeing a “flying wolf” passing over London... they’ve yet to confess to it, but Elias is dead certain they’re behind the incident.)

The worms incident is 100% Jane’s secret worm collection getting fucking loose... she was keeping them in the walls “for safe keeping” and No One Fucking Knew, not even Elias, until Jon saw a spider, punched the wall, and Revealed them.

Jon and Tim got their scars because Jane lost control of the worms and they burrowed into the kids. Cue a very panicked 999 call from someone in the institute and Child Services almost getting involved, but Elias managed to cover it up.

Afterwards, Jon is incredibly self-conscious about his worm scars, but Martin tells him “now we both have freckles!” and it honestly makes him feel a little better about the whole thing.

Also Adelard makes an effort to track down a child psychologist/counselor with institute ties so he can get Jane some therapy/help controlling her powers. He loves her to the moon and back, and he’s terrified of her getting traumatized by what she accidentally did.

During the incident, a Notthem gets loose from Artifact Storage and attacks Sasha, but seeing as Sasha is of the Web and the Notthem is connected to a Web artifact, it only manages to really hurt her, but thankfully not kill her. She ends up hospitalized for a few weeks, but comes out fine later on. The table mysteriously disappears afterwards, and no one knows if it was Gertrude or Annabelle’s doing, but either way, the kids never have to deal with a Notthem again.

At some point I wanna get into Jon’s paranoia in season 2 for this AU, but I’m considering changing it from being because of the Jane Prentiss issue to be because of Mr. Spider almost killing him. I dunno how exactly it’ll play out, but I think it has a lot of potential!

Okay, before I end this post full of weird rambling ideas for the AU, I wanna make a list of the powers that the kids have at the time of the story “starting”/the ones they develop down the line because Jonny Sims himself said that all avatars have different powers, and I really wanna infodump on my thoughts for the kids!

Current powers of Jonathan Sims-Bouchard: Can simply know things whenever he wants to (so long as the Eye lets him, but the Eye sometimes keeps him from knowing anything he isn’t mature enough to handle), can compel people to tell him things (the other kids are better at resisting it, and so are other people touched by the Eye), can survive on very little food if he’s fed mostly statements/other people’s trauma, can non-consensually feel the pain and emotions of the people around him, has some weak telepathy powers, and he can subconsciously summon tape recorders.

Future powers of Jonathan Sims-Bouchard: Increased healing abilities, can know most anything if he tries, ability to resist other Eye avatars’ compulsions, can survive purely off of statements/other people’s trauma, can choose whether or not to feel the pain and emotions of the people around him, has much stronger telepathy powers than before, can force himself into people’s minds and read their thoughts, and he can summon tape recorders at will (though some still show up without his knowledge sometimes).

Current powers of Martin Blackwood-Lukas: Can disappear into the Fog for several hours at a time (he cannot be seen by anyone but other Lonely avatars while in the fog), can summon clouds of fog that he can momentarily hide things in (including people), can “banish�� most anyone into the fog, and has “Sea Captain Eyes” (he knows where the Tundra is at all times, and can lead someone to it without a map or compass).

Future powers of Martin Blackwood-Lukas: Can change his hair color at will (only to red, white, and a mix of the two colors), can see much better in the Fog and can find anyone he’s pushed into it, can more or less teleport using the Fog, and he has what’s more or less a pocket dimension of fog for storage/hiding his friends from danger (think the inside of Gems in Steven Universe).

Current powers of Tim Stoker-Orsinov: Can make small bipedal toys “come to life” for a few minutes at a time (they can’t talk or communicate; only move around and perform small tasks/dances), can tell when a Notthem is masquerading as someone else, is supernaturally talented at gymnastics, and can dance alongside the creatures of the Stranger without being fully corrupted by them.

Future powers of Tim Stoker-Orsinov: Better control over the powers he already has as well as a high tolerance for the Spiral.

Current powers of Danny Stoker-Orsinov: Can order around creatures of the Stranger against their will, can tell when a Notthem is masquerading as someone else, can dance alongside the creatures of the Stranger without being fully corrupted by them, is supernaturally talented at gymnastics, and can change his voice to anything he likes (not always intentionally, though).

Future powers of Danny Stoker-Orsinov: Can more or less “teleport” to other circus locations by walking into theaters, can now change his voice to whatever he likes with his knowledge and consent, can take over as the Stranger’s ringmaster if necessary, can trigger a mesmerizing dance whenever he’d like, and has a high tolerance for the Spiral.

Current powers of Sasha James-Cane: Can communicate with spiders and have them send messages to other Web avatars, can read minds if she tries really hard, can “trap“ other entities in large webs that she can summon (takes a lot of energy), and she has Spider-Man-like abilities (can walk on walls and ceilings, can carry much more than her weight should allow, etc).

Future powers of Sasha James-Cane: Can now read minds without too much effort, can navigate almost any area that’s being controlled/influenced by the Web, can create webs without nearly as much effort as before, can transform her body to have more arms, legs, and eyes, and she now has venomous fangs (which can thankfully be controlled and/or hidden).

Current powers of Alice “Daisy” Tonner: Can turn into a wolf at will/when she’s especially emotional, can smell blood from several miles away, and has supernatural senses/physical abilities.

Future powers of Alice “Daisy” Tonner: Can now track most any monster she’s hunting once she gets at least one good look at them, can communicate with other Hunters via howling, and can navigate the Buried if needed (though this is very triggering for her and will cause her to pass out afterwards).

Current powers of Julia Montauk: Can turn into a wolf at will/when she’s especially emotional, can smell blood from several miles away, has supernatural senses/physical abilities, can track most any monster if she knows their name, can communicate with other Hunters via howling, and she can shift into a bipedal werewolf when she feels like she’s in danger.

Future powers of Julia Montauk: All of her previous powers have drastically improved, plus she has better control of them now.

Current powers of Basira Hussain: She has common fucking sense, something almost none of the other children have.

Future powers of Basira Hussain: She common sense AND she has a werewolf GF now. :) ((No dating for the babies, not until they’re at least teenagers))

Current powers of Melanie King-Grifter: Can listen to Grifter’s Bone without being damaged in any way, the music of Grifter’s Bone makes her powers exemplified for a period of time after she listens to it, the smell of blood triggers her to become violent, she can summon sharp weapons (knives, swords, etc) from thin air, and she can see a red aura around other people who have been marked by the Slaughter.

Future powers of Melanie King-Grifter: She has much better control of her abilities now, she can perform Grifter’s Bone songs for people and keep them from dying/going feral, and she can now also summon other weapons from thin air (guns, baseball bats, etc).

Current powers of Oliver Banks: Can see people’s deaths a week in advance via his dreams, he sees dark tentacles around people who are going to die soon, can see but not talk to ghosts, and he can smell death on anyone who’s undead/controlling other people’s bodies.

Future powers of Oliver Banks: Can raise the dead and control them to do his bidding (takes a lot of energy), can speak cat (not End related; Admiral related), and he can cause people to die within the week if he touches them in his dreams.

Current powers of Georgie Barker: Can see a “death countdown” over people who are going to die within the next thirty days, doesn’t feel any fear whatsoever, can see but not talk to ghosts, and she sees a dark sludge staining the clothes of people who have been marked by the End.

Future powers of Georgie Barker: Can bring people back to life for a minute or so by touching them (think Pushing Daisies type powers), can speak cat (not End related; Admiral is best cat dad), and she can communicate with ghosts much better now.

Current powers of Jane Prentiss-Dekker: Can summon bugs of most kinds from her mouth and under her fingernails, can communicate with bugs, and can fight off most diseases without any trouble.

Future powers of Jane Prentiss-Dekker: Can now completely control bugs via a hive mind effect, can summon bugs from anywhere on her body, has much stronger healing abilities than Jon, and she can see invisible bugs crawling on the skin of those who the Corruption wants her to get rid of (it’s hard for her not to give in to it’s desires).

Current powers of Mike Crew-Fairchild: Can levitate/fly at will, can summon clouds of any kind (rain, thunder, snow, etc) in any conditions, has much higher resistance to the weather/temperature, and he can “banish” people into the Vast at will.

Future powers of Mike Crew-Fairchild: Same as before, but with slightly better control than he had as a teenager.

Current powers for Helen Richardson-Shelley: Can change the world around her to be more like the Spiral (adding more doors, changing the colors of things, causing hallucinations, etc), can change any door into a doorway into the Spiral, and she can amplify her voice (very hard to control as a baby).

Future powers for Helen Richardson-Shelley: Can now summon doors that lead to the Spiral from thin air, has much better control over her powers and abilities than before, can morph her body to be longer and sharper at will, and she can “banish” people into the endless hallways of the Spiral.

((Holy shit, that took awhile))

Anyways, here’s a playlist I made for the AU, feel free to scream at me for my very weird taste in music: Pinky Swear That You Won’t Go Changing

[sortinghatchats]

On Ravenclaw Secondaries

Ravenclaws are collectors. Dedicated to knowledge, to facts, systems, tools, or skills, the things they have already learned are what they call on when things get tough. They can collect useful skills, build complex clever systems, invent vitally useful things, or just learn everything there is to know about the birds of South America.

Ravenclaws’ efficacy often relies on what situation they are in: what the problem is they have to solve and whether or not they’ve prepared the proper tools for that problem. While Hufflepuffs and Gryffindors can apply their skills at stockpiling trust or inspiring passion to attack various situations, Ravenclaws’ tools are necessarily task specific. Do they know how to ride horses? Speak Greek? Do they have contingency plans for earthquakes, zombie apocalypses, or a surprise visit from the in-laws? 

If they’ve already built themselves a tool set for a situation, they’re likely to excel at it. If they have not, they’re likely to blink a few times while they try to either invent something new for themselves or to cobble up something approximate from their existing resources. 

Ravenclaws, like Hufflepuff Secondaries, are at their best when they can prepare before the problems show up, not improvise or invent in the moment. Where Hufflepuffs invest in reputation, community, and effort, Ravenclaws invest in tools. These tools can vary from detailed knowledge of modern Romance languages, Mesopotamian history, Gothic architecture, and US civil court legal procedures; or mastering the skills of carjacking, gourmet vegan cooking, juggling, and staying level-headed in crisis; or keeping internal (or external) databases on their friends’, allies’, and enemies’ likes, dislikes, connections, obligations, fears, weaknesses, strengths, and goals. Some of these are more useful than others. Ravenclaws can collect their tools with the aim of eventual usefulness, but are likely to also collect knowledge just for the sake of knowledge. 

Ravenclaw secondaries gather information, or build problem-solving systems that become vital in times of stress and danger, invent powerful things or processes, or build real-world systems like lists, redundant supplies, skills, and schedulings. When they’re tossed into danger or stress and forced to survive, they don’t thrive on quick thinking. They don’t succeed by having people to fall back on or to call on. Ravenclaw secondaries will already have something in their mental or physical pockets that they can pull out and use.

There is an awful belief (even in canon) that Ravenclaw should be equated to intelligence. This is one of the places where we most death-of-the-author this sorting system, because while even the Sorting Hat calls Ravenclaws the cleverest, we refuse to admit intelligence as a prerequisite. You can have Ravenclaws who are bad at problem-solving or learning. You can have Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, and Slytherins who excel at it. This is not about ability. This is about comfort, safety, power, and connection. 

Tools v. Systems v. Skills – the Engineer v. the Mastermind v. Jack of All Trades

Like Hufflepuff secondaries, who can be the bubbly hostess or the grumpy workaholic depending on what they invest in, Ravenclaw secondaries differ strongly depending on what systems they build or things they collect. 

A Ravenclaw’s knowledge or skills can be collected and created in a way that makes the Ravenclaw an adaptable, creative problem solver; or a rigid rule follower who knows exactly what to do each day. Ravenclaws can range from the practical to the esoteric– are they an experienced tracker and woodsman who knows how to survive for months in the backcountry, or a slightly batty professor who knows everything (everything) about dirt ecology?  

While Ravenclaw is famous for its bookwork, you can easily have Ravenclaw secondaries who don’t like or can’t read or who wither in academia. A Ravenclaw can instead pour their time into learning practical skills, physical feats, strategy, or disaster prep. They might rely on their ability to speak languages, pick locks, and hotwire cars; or on the massive, varied set of experiences they’ve spent their life gathering, which lets them have some idea how to interact in most situations–whether haggling in a street market or attending a high society dinner. 

They might rely on the emergency kit in their car and the backup everything they have buried in their backyard. They might rely on their knowledge of ancient Egyptian funerary practices, and be utterly useless in situations that don’t hinge on that subject matter. Many (probably most) Ravenclaws spend some of their time investing in everyday practicalities– but Ravenclaws who let all things fall to the side for the sake of their few and impractical passions certainly exist. 

Ravenclaw + Slytherin = the Chessmaster

When a Ravenclaw Secondary adopts a Slytherin Secondary model, you tend to get the chessmaster or the evil mastermind (or the gentleman thief). Having both these skill sets and values lends particularly well to this– A Slytherin Secondary with a Ravenclaw Secondary model also tends to adopt this type of visage, leading that character type to be sometimes difficult to sort.

Albus Dumbledore, Nale and his father from OotS, Light Yagami from Death Note, and the MCU’s Loki as well as their Scott Lang are all examples of this Ravenclaw/Slytherin skillset combo–clever, adaptive, even manipulative, and good at planning and prep. 

It can often be hard to tell which is the actual secondary in these cases. The trick is to find the moment when everything starts to go wrong, when the plans fall apart. When they have to figure things out on the spot, try to see which skill set they fall back on. (The MCU’s Loki, who falls back on deceit and influence when weaponless, is a Slytherin Secondary at heart. The MCU’s Scott Lang, who Macgyvers and gerry-rigs his way through everything from unexpected fingerprint scanners to quantum space, is a Ravenclaw.)

Modeling Ravenclaw

Ravenclaw Secondary is one of the more useful models. A lot of people pick up the Ravenclaw skill of picking up tools for future use. What sets a Ravenclaw Secondary apart from someone just modeling a Ravenclaw Secondary is 

1) how strongly use comes into play when selecting knowledge and 

2) what they do when backed into a corner. 

Ravenclaws tend to use usefulness as an excuse to gain knowledge (“well, it might come in handy later…”), rather than to gather knowledge because it is useful. (There is a good contingent of Ravenclaw, also, who don’t factor usefulness into their choice of study at all). 

When under great stress, threat, need, or desire, when they are out of options, Ravenclaw Secondaries fall back on their gathered tools. Even if members of other secondary houses use Ravenclaw tools in everyday life or even times of stress, when shoved into a corner they will fall back on their own secondary strengths– a Gryffindor’s integrity and charge, a Slytherin’s adaptability, a Hufflepuff’s invested resources and ability to shape themselves to fit the need. It is Ravenclaw where the last resort of a desperate person is whatever they remembered to pack, learn, or build before they left home. 

To sum:

Ravenclaw, like Hufflepuff, is a Foundational Secondary. They succeed using the things they have built or invested in before the actual moment of conflict or use. While Hufflepuffs invest their work and energy in interpersonal connection, communities, or projects, Ravenclaws collect or create knowledge, systems, contingency plans, or skills. It is these tools or plans which the Ravenclaw falls back on and excels with.

Ravenclaw and Gryffindor are both Solid Secondaries, less flexible and transformative than Hufflepuff and Slytherin. Ravenclaws do best in spaces they've already prepared for, with the tools and tendencies they need coming easy to their hand. They often have a hard time misrepresenting the things and truths they know best, even if a lie would be useful.

Ravenclaw, like Slytherin, is a Situational Secondary. Their success depends on whether or not they have collected or built what they needed for that particular situation. Certain Ravenclaws would excel in a disaster situation but die (figuratively speaking) when forced into a surprise social encounter. Others might be ready to conquer in the interdepartmental politics of their workplace, because they have studied strategy all their life and know everything about everyone who is anyone there, but be utterly unable to discuss Kant, physics, or poetry. Their success depends on what they have invested in and what they have built, and whether or not it is relevant.

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[northoftheroad]

All about Alfred

I’ve come to realize I’ve got some mixed feelings about Alfred. One one hand, I love reading (and writing) his dry snark as much as the next person. 

Nightwing vol 2 # 86. By Devin Grayson, art Patrick Zircher, Andy Owens and Sean Parsons.

Nightwing # 141. By Peter J. Tomasi, art Rags Morales and Michael Bair.

Throwing away an empty dish to make a point to Bruce. Priceless. I mean, who can not love this chap?

Batman/TMNT Adventures # 1. By Matthew Manning, art Jon Sommariva.

On the other hand, I think he gets far too much credit. Especially in fanfic. For one thing, it is not humanly possible for one person to take care of the Manor, the cave and everyone in it and, on top of that, bake cookies every day. (Anyone who has ever had an old house knows they are a lot of work, and the Manor and the cave are huge!)

More importantly, if Alfred had been an okay caretaker for Bruce, there wouldn’t be a Batman. 

Initially, of course, Alfred (then Beagle) came to the Wayne household after Dick. This was retconned after Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985–1986). Since then, Alfred Pennyworth has raised Bruce after the murder of his parents. And clearly, failed at helping the boy to heal mentally. 

Dark Victory has a nice panel where it’s clear he feels he failed Bruce when he was a child, and that he want to do better with Dick.

Dark Victory. By Jeph Loeb, art Tim Sale.

It should also be noted that Alfred originally was nothing like the competent and sassy character we know today. He was more of a blundering, comical figure and when he managed to solve a crime, it was down to pure luck. 

To be fair, Alfred has, at times, questioned Bruce.

Nightwing vol 2 # 53. By Devin Grayson, art Rick Burchett and Rodney Ramos.

Batman Chronicles: The Gauntlet. By Bruce Canwell, art Lee Weeks.

But what Alfred mostly does is enabling Bruce, and his taking children into the war on crime. He can be passive-aggressive all he wants, as long as he tidies up the Manor and the cave and cooks and takes the kids to school, he is still making it possible for Bruce to spend his life as Batman – with sidekicks – fighting crime in tights.

Detective Comics # 523. By Gerry Conway, art Gene Colan and Tony DeZuniga.

Batman # 340. By Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas, art Gene Colan and Adrian Gonzales.

Batman vol 3 # 58. By Tom King, art Mikel Janín. 

Once, Alfred actually had enough and left Bruce. Not because he kicked Dick out and told him to leave the key, not when he let younger teenager Jason become Robin shortly after he deemed the position too dangerous for Dick, not when Jason was killed, not when he fired Tim and made Stephanie a very temporary Robin, or any other time when Bruce has been an ass to one of his fellow humans.

No, the tipping point for Alfred is when Bruce does not take care of himself.

In Batman # 440, when Bruce is shattered after Jason’s death and is careless and gets hurt a lot, Alfred threatens to leave. ”I do not intend to spend the rest of my life playing nurse.”

Batman # 440. By Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, art Jim Aparo and Mike DeCarlo.

Now, we all know that Tim turns up and becomes Robin, and Batman needs a Robin, so things look up for a period. However, Alfred finally carries out his threat to leave during Knightfall. Once again, the reason is that he thinks Bruce is self-destructive. After Bane broke his back, Bruce and Alfred travel to the Caribbean and England to search for Jack Drake and Shondra Kinsolving, Bruce’s physical therapist and current love interest. Finally, while in England, Alfred has had it with Bruce’s refusal to rest and recuperate; he resigns.

Shadow of the Bat # 31. By Alan Grant, art Bret Blevins.

Incidentally, you didn’t think that Bruce actually would search out Alfred and have a heart-to-heart about this, did you? Didn’t think so. (In Dick’s words, Bruce has too much respect for Alfred even to try to find out where Alfred went. Not unlike how Bruce wants to respect Dick’s wishes to have nothing to do with the family after he was shot in the head, recently. Now, you can discuss if this is respect or emotional cowardice. But that is another story.)

Of course, it’s Dick who goes to London and talks to Alfred. Possibly Dick wants him back because he doesn’t want to be stuck cooking, washing, and taking care of the Manor again, as he did when he and Tim were Batman and Robin in Knightfall Prodigal…

Batman # 513. By Doug Moench, art Mike Gustovich and Romeo Tanghal.

Anyway, the Alfred and Dick duo averts an anti-European Union terrorist attack and a military coup in the United Kingdom. In the end, Alfred goes back to Gotham.

Nightwing: Alfred’s Return. By Alan Grant, art Dick Giordano.

Alfred also leaves Wayne Manor another time, this time on Bruce’s order, to live with Tim at his boarding school Brentwood Academy. He leaves Tim and returns to Gotham when Bruce is accused of murder in ”Bruce Wayne: Murderer”.

Robin # 98. By Chuck Dixon, art Pete Woods and Andrew Pepoy.

Now, I’m not saying that he didn’t have his priorities right, in this instance. But Bruce always comes first, second, third and fourth for Alfred. The Manor probably takes a measly fifth place.

This boils down to that Alfred is a flawed character. Which is good, right? It makes him more relatable and interesting. He can be cool and sassy and still have done a poor job of helping Bruce to heal after his parents’ murder, and he lets Bruce get away with far too much in his relationship with the family. I still have a lot of love for Alfred. I’m just a teeny bit annoyed when he is put on a pedestal. 

And damn it, Bruce. Get some more hired help to take care of Wayne Manor. At least hire a few gardeners and take in some cleaning staff. Alfred isn’t getting any younger, you know...

This blog post is dedicated to Lightsider, who has written some of my favourite Batman/Young Justice the tv version-fics (do give them a try, you’ll find them on fanfic.net and AO3). It was exchanging comments about one of them that I got the idea to write this.

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We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike. – Maya Angelou • Everything’s a film idea if this is what you do.I’ve always been secretly confident that I’d never run out of ideas,because I’ve never had any. I just live my life, see things theway I do, and I’m just looking for a notion to hang it all on. – Alan Rudolph • Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark. – Amos Oz • Handicaps are mindsets. Whatever it is that stands in the way of achieving something, that’s when it’s a handicap. I prefer to see them as obstacles or challenges. This is how I’ve been my whole life. I don’t know any different. I just live my life through my feet. – Jessica Cox • He things that they’re rejecting are things that I can’t change. I can’t change my bra size. They’re natural! I can work out and I can stay healthy and motivated, but I can’t change some things. I really just live my life. I love my body. It’s what God gave me! I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great. – Kate Upton • Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. – Hunter S. Thompson • How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it? – William Logan • How you live your life is a testimony of what you believe about God. – Henry Blackaby • I am a Christian and I don’t want there to be any confusion about what I believe or who I am. I don’t believe gay people are going to hell. I believe that judgment is left to the one upstairs and I believe Jesus is all about love. If I can live my life even just a smidgen the way God made his son for us as an example, I’m happy. I do not judge other people for what they believe, but for me, this is what works. – Kristin Chenoweth • I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process. – Barry Goldwater • I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the [U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] as the person I was born to be. – Chelsea Manning • I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. – Abraham Lincoln • I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb. – Deborah Copaken • I am proud of my achievements, my work ethic, and the way I live my life. The PGA Tour not only treated me unfairly, but displayed a lack of professionalism that should concern every professional golfer and fan of the game. – Vijay Singh • I believe how I live my life every day is my act of worship. – Jack Layton • I can only live my life in this way. I don’t think I would be living it a different way if I wasn’t acting. – Dakota Fanning • I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence — I can find worlds bigger and deeper than my own in music, paintings, and books. And from my friends and family I receive the highest benediction, emotional contact, and personal affirmation. I can bow before the works of Man, from buildings to babies, and that fulfills my need for wonder. I can believe in the sanctity of Life, and that becomes the Revealed Word, to live my life as I believe it should be, not as I’m told to by self-appointed guides. – Neil Peart • I can’t live my life under the sort of “I cannot fail” philosophy, because then every time I do fail, which feels more inevitable than me being perfect all the time, it’s going to be soul crushing. And more importantly, I’ll never take any risks. – Damon Lindelof • I can’t play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn’t make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey. – LeBron James • I chose to live my life unafraid even during times when I WAS afraid. I discovered that opportunities don’t find you; you find your opportunities. – John Gokongwei • I couldn’t imagine living my life with another name. – Pete Postlethwaite • I didn’t ask to become a role model, but it was thrust upon all of us, regardless of whether you acknowledge it. You have to come to a decision as an adult and say, “I’ve got to live my life.” There’s nothing wrong with thinking ahead and being aware of how it might affect somebody – everything from a post to where you have dinner to who you’re with. But these aren’t things you can let consume your life. – Nick Jonas • I don’t smoke, I don’t drink, I don’t use drugs. That may be boring for some people, but that’s just me. That’s how I live my life. That stuff never appealed to me and I never understood getting so messed up that you can’t even walk home or remember the previous night. I choose to live my life without it. – CM Punk • I don’t ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that. – Hillary Clinton • I don’t like to let my celebrity interfere with me living my life. I like to meet people, I like to talk to people. – Rob Lowe • I don’t live my life as a Christian with trepidation, feeling that perhaps I’ve failed to give the best gospel possible on each occasion, but realising that God’s taking care of a lot through his Holy Spirit. – Larry Norman • I don’t live my life on the road. I’m getting on a bit and there’s a lot of other things in my life. Our lovely children and their lives. It’s more of a part-time business these days. – David Gilmour • I don’t live my life thinking about “if only.” I just try to think positively about the future. We’ll never know for certain what would have happened if we’d gone to Iraq. The important thing is that we’ve got to do everything we can to prevent other wars. – Richard Branson • I don’t look for [comedic moments] actually, I just live my life. – Gerry Dee • I don’t make plans. 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I want to make up a new world. – Peter Hedges • I feel like somehow I’m living my life mentally in reverse. It’s taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I’m going to be dancing on tables when I’m 50. I really hope I am. – Karen Elson • I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change – Jim Rohn • I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life. – Alison Goodman • I get that you’re scared and that you’ve been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve. – Kiersten White • I hate motorcycles. Because if I hit one, even if it’s not my fault, if I’ve done nothing wrong, I’m not charged with manslaughter, he’s gonna die, because he’s on a motorcycle. So I have to live my life knowing that I killed this guy. – Chuck Klosterman • I have always tried to live my life as a just and humble person. When the sanctions were announced, Europe should have questioned the people who have been sanctioned as well as to find the truth. That did not happen. How can Europe act fairly? Do they base their decisions on hearsay? – Joseph Kabila • I have seen many phases of life; I have moved in imperial circles, I have been a Minister of State; but if I had to live my life again, I would always remain in my laboratory, for the greatest joy of my life has been to accomplish original scientific work, and, next to that, to lecture to a set of intelligent students. – Jean-Baptiste Dumas • I just live my life and try to be present. – Lenny Kravitz • I just try to live my life and do my thing. – Robert Mapplethorpe • I just want to live my life the best way I can and enjoy the moment that I have off the court because you need to find a good balance. I think this is very important. – Grigor Dimitrov • I know how I live my life. I have a little magnet brain that attracts the kind of things that obsess me. – Sophie Calle • I know that I set an example so I don’t want niggas following my steps. I don’t want anybody to go do the things that I did cuz for real at times I didn’t even think I was gonna make it. I was hoping I didn’t get killed. I don’t want nobody to try to live my life. – Cormega • I know that what’s happened in the election has changed American reality, and I understand that I have to change with it. I have to rethink how I live my life. I’m not a political essayist; I don’t see that I would have any value cranking out articles for newspapers or magazines, because lots of people are doing that already. – Paul Auster • I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations. – Aaron Burr • I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist. – Henry Rollins • I live my life in a way that I feel completely comfortable with. 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The money won’t count for nothing. – Fetty Wap • I live my life with no regrets. Each decision of mine has define my life in a certain way – Katrina Kaif • I love my kids, I’m a proud father, a happy husband, and all of that. I live my life with my wife as a normal person, and that’s that. – Kevin Federline • I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right. – Tracy Chapman • I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth. – William F. Buckley, Jr. • I met my manager when I was in high school and I just started playing guitar. He came from a line of managing incredible artists. He said instead of opting for the quick fix he wanted me to go out and live my life and get some experience under my belt and keep in touch. It took me a long time to get to where I am but I wouldn’t change it for nothing. It’s been very valuable. Life happened and then the music came. – Courtney Jaye • I never imagined that I would be the kind of person who is recognized when I am out and about just living my life. – Roxane Gay • I now have faith in those who say they represent a faith. Whereas before I was like, ‘Do not give me a lecture on how to live my life when I know I’m a pretty decent human being. I might not go to church every day, but I know I do the right thing or try to. You’re going to church and you’re still sleeping around on your wife and spending everyone’s money. How are you better than I am?’ So I’ve finally met people that walk the walk and it’s made me happy, really happy. – Sandra Bullock • I put a lot of pressure on myself early in my life, like, “You have to be perfect; you can’t do anything.” You basically can’t show any emotion and speak up. And then I realized that I have to live my life for myself. – Rowan Blanchard • I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. 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It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by. – Ryan Holiday • I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it. – David Schwimmer • I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That’s how I live my life. – Sean Lennon • I think i’m just breathing, that’s all. And there’s a difference between breathing and being alive. – John Boyne • I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life. – Mickalene Thomas • I truly do live my life a day at a time. When I talk to people trying to get through anything, it’s a day at a time. 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Scott Fitzgerald • It’s believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits. – Amy Purdy • It’s fantastic because I’ve been living thousands of lives, not only my life. – Claudia Cardinale • It’s my choice, to choose how to live my life. – Virginia Woolf • It’s nice to have some perspective, when you are just touring, touring, touring, it becomes kind of a crazy experience. But, when I have time off and live my life at home, and then I get back to the airport and I am back with my whole family again. My brother, my band, my tour manager and sound guy get to re-unite, it’s kind of an uplifting feeling to be rolling with such a crew and so much gear from country to country. It feels good. – Justin Nozuka • It’s not something that I can put on and take off anymore, like I said, I’ve had my years of confusion and wondering who I really (was) and why and how do I live my life and make sense of it all, but I’m not confused about that any longer. I think the world might be — but I’m not. – Rachel Dolezal • It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined. – Henry James • It’s true that the Internet is an equalizer, and everybody can be a star now. Musicians are more touchable these days, and that’s a good thing. It’s certainly the way I like to live my life, and it’s why I don’t do concerts in big arenas – I prefer to be in touch with my audience. – Cat Stevens • I’ve been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don’t live that long. It doesn’t matter. – Louis C. K. • I’ve just decided that I have to continue to live my life and do what I do. Hopefully, people love me because of who I am, not who I pretend to be. – Ashley Greene • I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. – Mark Twain • I’ve never been one to get up on a soapbox and preach. I just live my life the way I live my life. – Ingrid Michaelson • Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it. – Eben Alexander • LIFE = (L)ive (I)N (F)ull (E)ffect!!!!!!! – Joseph Simmons • Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. – Soren Kierkegaard • Life is not a dress rehearsal – wake up every day excited to live out your purpose. – Andrew Wommack • Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. – Ralph Ellison • Life isn’t long enough to do all you could accomplish. And what a privilege even to be alive. In spite of all the pollutions and horrors, how beautiful this world is. Supposing you only saw the stars once every year. Think what you would think. The wonder of it! – Tasha Tudor • Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo. – Nomi Prins • Live your life to the fullest. – Shakira • Look what they did to MaCauley Culkin. The poor child. I know because I’ve been there. But I could say after living my life, truth will always win out. And no one can take my character away from me anymore. – Linda Blair • Look, a lot of people don’t think that the way that I live my life is a real thing, that it exists, that having a broad spectrum of sexual orientation is even possible. – Nico Tortorella • Man’s ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature. – Seneca the Younger • My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. – Clarence Budington Kelland • My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared. – Mary Kay Ash • My mom was an enthusiastic, positive, glass-is-half-full type of person and that is how I live my life and I owe that to her. She was an amazing woman. – Kliff Kingsbury • No matter your obstacles, live a happy life. – Sam Berns • Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. – Mortimer Adler • Now I still see those things but I’m completely over it. I threw negativity out the window and just live my life for me and my baby. Hopefully I inspire women to do the same in life, with whatever makes them happy. – Amber Rose • One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness. – Giorgio de Chirico • Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy. – Jim Rohn • Part One: I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. Part Two: Everybody else is free to do whatever they feel like doing, for a living. Part Three: Responsible is Able to Respond, able to answer for the way we choose to live. There’s only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves. – Richard Bach • People ask me: “Do I consider myself to be a Latino writer?” “What does it mean to be Latino?” Those are very strange questions to answer , but feminism is easier because it’s just an ideology, a way I live my life. And absolutely in the most political sense I try to sit down and write very strong female roles. – Quiara Alegria Hudes • Photography is all about capturing a mood, a feeling. I feel a special connection with nature, often very powerful. This late afternoon was phenomenal. Standing on the edge of the ocean, I gasped in awe as the holy light illuminated this cathedral window. Witnessing such a moment and capturing it is what I live for. Mother Nature is so powerful, I never underestimate Her. – Peter Lik • Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone. – Kodo Sawaki • Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. – Oscar Wilde • Some 30 years later I found myself back here again [in Vietnam] on what was to be a short visit that lasted months, and since then I’ve been living my life with one foot in Ho Chi Minh City and the other in Fair Oaks, California. – Doug Rice • Some men live their lives terrified. Terrified of the night and all that is dark. I will live my life eternally in fear of the light of day. – Barnabas • Some people are going to be happy (with my decision). Some people aren’t. But I must live my life. – Thomas Hearns • Some people have learned to earn well but they haven’t learned to live well. – Jim Rohn • Sometimes you gotta go with your first instinct. You gotta go with your gut. That’s kind of how I live my life, you gotta go with your gut. – Michael B. Jordan • Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive! – Abhinavagupta • Thankfully, I’m not put in a position where I’m made to feel like I can’t live my life. – Nicholas Thorburn • The doctrines of Jesus are simple and tend all to the happiness of man, that there is only one God and God is perfect. That God and man are one. That to love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself, is the sum of religion. These are the great points on which I endeavor to reform and live my life. – Thomas Jefferson • The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. – Socrates • The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. – Charles R. Swindoll • The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. – Alan Watts • The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it–to do what I think is right and what I think is good. – Jaye Davidson • The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life. – Anna Quindlen • The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that writers should provide an example of how to live. Virginia Woolf ended her life by putting a rock in her sweater one day and walking into a lake. She is not a model of how I want to live my life. On the other hand, the bravery of her syntax, of her sentences, written during her deepest depression, is a kind of example for me. But I do not want to become Virginia Woolf. That is not why I read her. – Richard Rodriguez • The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they’re always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back. – Norman Rockwell • The trail compels you to know yourself and to be yourself, and puts you in harmony with the universe. It makes you glad to be living. It gives health, hope, and courage, and it extends that touch of nature which tends to make you kind.- Enos Mills • The way I played the game, the way I live my life, is very emotional. – Brett Favre • Theater is the foundation of how I live my life, actually. My father was a playwright, so I was around it all the time and loved to talk shop with him, just loved it. And basically everything that I hold to be good and true and worthy, I learned in the theater. So not even just about the work, but just about life. Discipline, problem solving, creativity, how to get along with people. – Laura Linney • There is no stress. I live my life, I enjoy it and when I am comfortable I can get married. – Usain Bolt • There’s a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim I’ll live my life regretting that I never jumped in – Laura Marling • There’s no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol – the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life. – Pamela Anderson • Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity. – Charles Spurgeon • To hell with your cancer. I’ve been living with cancer for the better part of a year. Right from the start, it’s a death sentence. That’s what they keep telling me. Well, guess what? Every life comes with a death sentence, so every few months I come in here for my regular scan, knowing full well that one of these times – hell, maybe even today – I’m gonna hear some bad news. But until then, who’s in charge? Me. That’s how I live my life. – Walter White • To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing. – Socrates • Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. – Golda Meir • Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another’s life, another’s death, I stake my whole eternity. – Horatius Bonar • We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift. – Yul Brynner • We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who’s watching my movie. – Donald Glover • We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared. – Mary Kay Ash • We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other. – Frank Schaeffer • We’ve been living on a high, they’ve been talking on the low. But it’s cool, know you heard it all before. – Drake • What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission? – Pope John Paul II • What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future, — a future in which there is no expiation except through my own better conduct. No one can save me. No one can live my life for me. It is mine for better or for worse. If I am wise, I shall begin to-day by the simplest and most natural of all processes to build my own truer and better world from within. – Horatio Dresser • What lasting impact will I make on the world and those around me? What will I live my life for? How will I be remembered? I want to leave the world a better place than it was when I got here. I want to experience as much as I can in this very short life that we have. – Theo Rossi • When I was 19, I was in a horrific car accident, and it taught me that at the end of our life, we ask all these questions. And my questions, I discovered, were: Did I really live my life? Did I love? Did I matter? And I was unhappy with the answers. – Brendon Burchard • With regard to life, modern painting is a revolutionary activity…We need it in order to transform the world into a more humane place where mankind can live in liberty…We must accept these things with passion. It means that we must live imaginatively. – Wifredo Lam • Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don’t transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better. – Donna Farhi • Yoga has expanded beyond asana for me. It’s how I live my life and currently I’m throwing myself into a meditation practice. – Kathryn Budig • You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole–like the world, or the person you loved. – Stewart O’Nan • You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life. – Jim Rohn

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• After three straight years of writing, though, I definitely needed a break to just go live my life. – Andy Cohen • As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today. – Aminu Kano • As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him. – Charles de Foucauld • At times, my parents said, “Let’s get the child married,” and I said a big no. Impossible. How could I be with a woman? I told them, “If you try to get me married, I’ll get myself castrated and commit suicide.” It was the best weapon. They were shocked, and they knew that if I decided, I would do it. I was selfish. I just wanted to live my life. – Laxmi Narayan Tripathi • Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live. – Paulo Coelho

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[clickbank-storefront-bestselling] • Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved. – Jean Giono • Cooking, I mean, food, cooking foods is just everything that I do from morning to night. It’s how I choose to live my life: through cooking, people that are in food culture. And I love it. – Rene Redzepi • Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. – Dolly Parton • Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike. – Maya Angelou • Everything’s a film idea if this is what you do.I’ve always been secretly confident that I’d never run out of ideas,because I’ve never had any. I just live my life, see things theway I do, and I’m just looking for a notion to hang it all on. – Alan Rudolph • Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark. – Amos Oz • Handicaps are mindsets. Whatever it is that stands in the way of achieving something, that’s when it’s a handicap. I prefer to see them as obstacles or challenges. This is how I’ve been my whole life. I don’t know any different. I just live my life through my feet. – Jessica Cox • He things that they’re rejecting are things that I can’t change. I can’t change my bra size. They’re natural! I can work out and I can stay healthy and motivated, but I can’t change some things. I really just live my life. I love my body. It’s what God gave me! I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great. – Kate Upton • Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. – Hunter S. Thompson • How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it? – William Logan • How you live your life is a testimony of what you believe about God. – Henry Blackaby • I am a Christian and I don’t want there to be any confusion about what I believe or who I am. I don’t believe gay people are going to hell. I believe that judgment is left to the one upstairs and I believe Jesus is all about love. If I can live my life even just a smidgen the way God made his son for us as an example, I’m happy. I do not judge other people for what they believe, but for me, this is what works. – Kristin Chenoweth • I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process. – Barry Goldwater • I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the [U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] as the person I was born to be. – Chelsea Manning • I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. – Abraham Lincoln • I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb. – Deborah Copaken • I am proud of my achievements, my work ethic, and the way I live my life. The PGA Tour not only treated me unfairly, but displayed a lack of professionalism that should concern every professional golfer and fan of the game. – Vijay Singh • I believe how I live my life every day is my act of worship. – Jack Layton • I can only live my life in this way. I don’t think I would be living it a different way if I wasn’t acting. – Dakota Fanning • I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence — I can find worlds bigger and deeper than my own in music, paintings, and books. And from my friends and family I receive the highest benediction, emotional contact, and personal affirmation. I can bow before the works of Man, from buildings to babies, and that fulfills my need for wonder. I can believe in the sanctity of Life, and that becomes the Revealed Word, to live my life as I believe it should be, not as I’m told to by self-appointed guides. – Neil Peart • I can’t live my life under the sort of ���I cannot fail” philosophy, because then every time I do fail, which feels more inevitable than me being perfect all the time, it’s going to be soul crushing. And more importantly, I’ll never take any risks. – Damon Lindelof • I can’t play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn’t make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey. – LeBron James • I chose to live my life unafraid even during times when I WAS afraid. I discovered that opportunities don’t find you; you find your opportunities. – John Gokongwei • I couldn’t imagine living my life with another name. – Pete Postlethwaite • I didn’t ask to become a role model, but it was thrust upon all of us, regardless of whether you acknowledge it. You have to come to a decision as an adult and say, “I’ve got to live my life.” There’s nothing wrong with thinking ahead and being aware of how it might affect somebody – everything from a post to where you have dinner to who you’re with. But these aren’t things you can let consume your life. – Nick Jonas • I don’t smoke, I don’t drink, I don’t use drugs. That may be boring for some people, but that’s just me. That’s how I live my life. That stuff never appealed to me and I never understood getting so messed up that you can’t even walk home or remember the previous night. I choose to live my life without it. – CM Punk • I don’t ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that. – Hillary Clinton • I don’t like to let my celebrity interfere with me living my life. I like to meet people, I like to talk to people. – Rob Lowe • I don’t live my life as a Christian with trepidation, feeling that perhaps I’ve failed to give the best gospel possible on each occasion, but realising that God’s taking care of a lot through his Holy Spirit. – Larry Norman • I don’t live my life on the road. I’m getting on a bit and there’s a lot of other things in my life. Our lovely children and their lives. It’s more of a part-time business these days. – David Gilmour • I don’t live my life thinking about “if only.” I just try to think positively about the future. We’ll never know for certain what would have happened if we’d gone to Iraq. The important thing is that we’ve got to do everything we can to prevent other wars. – Richard Branson • I don’t look for [comedic moments] actually, I just live my life. – Gerry Dee • I don’t make plans. I live my life on a daily basis. – Paulo Coelho • I don’t really ever live my life in fear. I really live my life in gratitude and feeling positive for the most part. – Ellen DeGeneres • I don’t really know how to live my life, just like lots of other people don’t. I guess you just learn along the way. – Marina and the Diamonds • I don’t really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don’t live my life thinking about dance – Paul Taylor • I don’t think anything has changed about me but my priorities have changed. At one point I was living my life and I didn’t see a direct correlation between who I was affecting with my actions. I’m not as reckless, I’m probably not as fun or funny. I’ve turned to my dad’s sense of humor. I think that having a family has put a lot more focus on what I do. – Anthony Green • I don’t want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world. – Peter Hedges • I feel like somehow I’m living my life mentally in reverse. It’s taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I’m going to be dancing on tables when I’m 50. I really hope I am. – Karen Elson • I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change – Jim Rohn • I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life. – Alison Goodman • I get that you’re scared and that you’ve been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve. – Kiersten White • I hate motorcycles. Because if I hit one, even if it’s not my fault, if I’ve done nothing wrong, I’m not charged with manslaughter, he’s gonna die, because he’s on a motorcycle. So I have to live my life knowing that I killed this guy. – Chuck Klosterman • I have always tried to live my life as a just and humble person. When the sanctions were announced, Europe should have questioned the people who have been sanctioned as well as to find the truth. That did not happen. How can Europe act fairly? Do they base their decisions on hearsay? – Joseph Kabila • I have seen many phases of life; I have moved in imperial circles, I have been a Minister of State; but if I had to live my life again, I would always remain in my laboratory, for the greatest joy of my life has been to accomplish original scientific work, and, next to that, to lecture to a set of intelligent students. – Jean-Baptiste Dumas • I just live my life and try to be present. – Lenny Kravitz • I just try to live my life and do my thing. – Robert Mapplethorpe • I just want to live my life the best way I can and enjoy the moment that I have off the court because you need to find a good balance. I think this is very important. – Grigor Dimitrov • I know how I live my life. I have a little magnet brain that attracts the kind of things that obsess me. – Sophie Calle • I know that I set an example so I don’t want niggas following my steps. I don’t want anybody to go do the things that I did cuz for real at times I didn’t even think I was gonna make it. I was hoping I didn’t get killed. I don’t want nobody to try to live my life. – Cormega • I know that what’s happened in the election has changed American reality, and I understand that I have to change with it. I have to rethink how I live my life. I’m not a political essayist; I don’t see that I would have any value cranking out articles for newspapers or magazines, because lots of people are doing that already. – Paul Auster • I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations. – Aaron Burr • I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist. – Henry Rollins • I live my life in a way that I feel completely comfortable with. I don’t struggle with who I am, who I date, who I love, what I say or what I stand for, not just sexuality but everything. – Sara Quin • I live my life in faith as I explore and challenge myself and others. – Anna Eshoo • I live my life like there’s no yesterday. – Dane Cook • I live my life on self-belief and I live it partly on going with the flow. – Melanie Brown • I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties. – Werner Herzog • I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities. – Henry Rollins • I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man. – Julius Erving • I live my life until there’s no more living to be done. Because you never know when it’s going to stop. Wake up tomorrow and it could all be gone, bro. All the cars, all the motorcycles, everything. All the memories. We could go into a state of emergency, you know, and the world goes to war. The money won’t count for nothing. – Fetty Wap • I live my life with no regrets. Each decision of mine has define my life in a certain way – Katrina Kaif • I love my kids, I’m a proud father, a happy husband, and all of that. I live my life with my wife as a normal person, and that’s that. – Kevin Federline • I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right. – Tracy Chapman • I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth. – William F. Buckley, Jr. • I met my manager when I was in high school and I just started playing guitar. He came from a line of managing incredible artists. He said instead of opting for the quick fix he wanted me to go out and live my life and get some experience under my belt and keep in touch. It took me a long time to get to where I am but I wouldn’t change it for nothing. It’s been very valuable. Life happened and then the music came. – Courtney Jaye • I never imagined that I would be the kind of person who is recognized when I am out and about just living my life. – Roxane Gay • I now have faith in those who say they represent a faith. Whereas before I was like, ‘Do not give me a lecture on how to live my life when I know I’m a pretty decent human being. I might not go to church every day, but I know I do the right thing or try to. You’re going to church and you’re still sleeping around on your wife and spending everyone’s money. How are you better than I am?’ So I’ve finally met people that walk the walk and it’s made me happy, really happy. – Sandra Bullock • I put a lot of pressure on myself early in my life, like, “You have to be perfect; you can’t do anything.” You basically can’t show any emotion and speak up. And then I realized that I have to live my life for myself. – Rowan Blanchard • I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to you differently and maybe put you up on a pedestal. I want people to just be normal with me. I just want to live my life. – Assata Shakur • I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don’t mean to be reckless, but setting a goal that seems a bit daunting actually is very helpful toward recovery. – Christopher • I refuse to live my life in fear. – Fela Kuti • I research, write, travel and teach. I rarely arrange for spare time. If we do not fill our days with high priority actions they will fill with low priority actions. I would prefer to live my life according to my highest priorities and do what I love, which again is research, write, travel and teach. It is my mission and calling. It is what inspires me. It is my destiny. – John Frederick Demartini • I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by. – Ryan Holiday • I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it. – David Schwimmer • I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That’s how I live my life. – Sean Lennon • I think i’m just breathing, that’s all. And there’s a difference between breathing and being alive. – John Boyne • I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life. – Mickalene Thomas • I truly do live my life a day at a time. When I talk to people trying to get through anything, it’s a day at a time. If people stop to think, “It’s going to be potentially three years and 10 months for the new president to come in,” that’s a very long time and that can have major effects on somebody’s psyche. But if you take this thing a day at a time, and break it down a little differently, and do what you can do today, it will make it easier for people to move forward, and it makes it easier for me to move forward. – Marty Walsh • I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages. Most of the time, I feel better and happier and I learn more when I’m not on my phone, all day, or a computer, or an iPad. – Jane Levy • I try to live my life like my father lives his. He always takes care of everyone else first. He won’t even start eating until he’s sure everyone else in the family has started eating. Another thing: My dad never judges me by whether I win or lose. – Ben Roethlisberger • I try to live my life to the best, but I just always preach that you should just work hard and do your best. – Usain Bolt • I used to be a bit obsessed by acting but not anymore. I do enjoy acting but I probably enjoy it more now because it’s easier. I can’t work in the theater because to me it’s too serious. It’s like being in prison for me. I admire people that can do that but I can’t do it. I’d rather live my life and do a bit of acting in between. – Anthony Hopkins • I want to grow up, live my life, experience things, make movies about those experiences and by the time the audience catches up, hopefully they’ll have a movie there that helps them get through that next phase when they discover life isn’t always like High School Musical. – Zac Efron • I want to live my life in a way that when I get really old, I look back at my life and say: aaah I lived it, not survived it. – Kate Moss • I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden. – Candice Swanepoel • I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets. – D. H. Lawrence • I was constantly told and challenged to live my life as a warrior. As a warrior, you assume responsibility for yourself. The warrior humbles himself. And the warrior learns the power of giving. – Billy Mills • I was just living my life, and that’s what I wanted to do. – Fred Korematsu • I wear my heart on my sleeve and live my life as openly and honestly as I can. – Nico Tortorella • I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God’s business. – Eugene H. Peterson • I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is. – Albert Camus • I wouldn’t want to promote teenage girls having sex. But the reality is, it’s happening, and they’re just a little too young to understand how careful they need to be. That’s a big battle with me, because I’m 23, and a lot of my fans are eight years younger than I am, so there’s a bit of a tug-of-war there. I want to set the right example and, at the same time, live my life. – Rihanna • If I can’t be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don’t really see the point of being on this planet. – Madonna Ciccone • If I could change the way I live my life today, I wouldn’t change a single thing. – Lisa Stansfield If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. – Tallulah Bankhead • If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice. – Terry Pratchett • If I read a script and the subject stays with me – then that’s when I want to go to work. Before, I was very addicted to being on set, and I was doing three or four movies a year for many years. Now, fortunately, I can go to work only when I am passionate about a project, and the rest of the time, I can live my life. I’m not interested in doing movies just as a marathon. When I go to work now, I have much more to give. But the other way, you get empty. – Penelope Cruz • If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. – Henry James • If I’m using Nonviolent Communication I never, never, never hear what somebody thinks about me. Never hear what somebody thinks about you, you’ll live longer. You’ll enjoy life more. Hear the truth. The truth is that when somebody’s telling you what’s wrong with you, the truth is they have a need that isn’t getting met. Hear that they’re in pain. Don’t hear the analysis. – Marshall B. Rosenberg • If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that is not where I want to live my life. I want to live my life in Carthage, in Athens. I want to live my life in Rome. I want to live my life in the center of the world. I want to live my life in Los Angeles. – Richard Rodriguez • I’m a high femme lesbian who loves butch women. That erotic identity has an enormous amount to do with how I live my life, who I live my life with and what it is we can or can’t do. – Amber Hollibaugh • I’m a really big believer in self care. One of the ways I nourish my soul is I eat the way I live my life – joyfully. – Tracee Ellis Ross • I’m connected to the event of 9/11 by my desire to do something to honor the 9/11 survivors and those who didn’t survive. Something that moves our society forward, something that engages children in what it means to be a citizen and encourages them to love and be inclusive. Because if we don’t live our lives well – if I don’t live my life well – it’s an affront to all the people who were involved in the tragedy of 9/11. – Jewell Parker Rhodes • I’m just going to live my life and be who I am. – Halle Berry • I’m just living my life, and I’m not gonna live my life for other people. – Taylor Momsen • I’m just living my life. – Curtis Joseph • I’m living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He’s pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they’ll be pleased. – Anne Graham Lotz • I’m making art and making decisions and editing things. I don’t live my life to broadcast it into the art world; I don’t see it as my life on the stage. – Frances Stark • I’m more comfortable with my beliefs and with who I am. I honestly don’t think about it that much. I just try to live my life and I try to love people. I try to love God well and I try to love people well. Those are my main objectives. – Kelly Clark • I’m not going to wallow in self-pity and not live my life. There are always going to be some falls in life for everybody, no matter what career you have. You have to roll with the punches and keep going. – Naomi Campbell • I’m not living my life under the spotlight for anybody. – Annie Lennox • I’m not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love… there is joy… there is laughter. – Christopher Reeve • I’m pretty comfortable with my body. I’m imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once. – Kate Hudson • I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to. – Jimi Hendrix • I’m trying to focus as much on the here and now as possible. To live my life in a way that the humans that I know here on the planet Earth feel like they’ve been treated with respect by me, whether they’re people that I’m very close to or the audience who’s watching my work. – Damon Lindelof • In general I usually don’t really go by or live my life by a clock and outside of touring I don’t really ask anyone else to. It’s not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional. – Axl Rose • In today’s world where, more than ever, the ongoing concentration of money and power in the hands of a self-selected few, relies on political and public apathy, Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo. – Nomi Prins • It felt to me like I was living my life in a way that didn’t make mockery of my values. That’s what I intended to do. So, that became a very radicalizing proposition for me. – Bill Ayers • It gives me great peace to know that no matter how good or how bad I do, the Lord loves me. That’s all that really matters to me. Baseball isn’t what everything is about. It’s about the way I’m being a Christian husband, a Christian father, or the way I’m living my life and trying to be a Christian testimony to people. – Andy Pettitte • It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. – Marcus Aurelius • It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived. – Helen Walton • It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living. – Terry Pratchett • It seems to me if I would want to access the special, mysterious, mystical, powerful and most important, I simply need to live my life more fully. – Bryan Kest • It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living. – F. Scott Fitzgerald • It’s believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits. – Amy Purdy • It’s fantastic because I’ve been living thousands of lives, not only my life. – Claudia Cardinale • It’s my choice, to choose how to live my life. – Virginia Woolf • It’s nice to have some perspective, when you are just touring, touring, touring, it becomes kind of a crazy experience. But, when I have time off and live my life at home, and then I get back to the airport and I am back with my whole family again. My brother, my band, my tour manager and sound guy get to re-unite, it’s kind of an uplifting feeling to be rolling with such a crew and so much gear from country to country. It feels good. – Justin Nozuka • It’s not something that I can put on and take off anymore, like I said, I’ve had my years of confusion and wondering who I really (was) and why and how do I live my life and make sense of it all, but I’m not confused about that any longer. I think the world might be — but I’m not. – Rachel Dolezal • It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined. – Henry James • It’s true that the Internet is an equalizer, and everybody can be a star now. Musicians are more touchable these days, and that’s a good thing. It’s certainly the way I like to live my life, and it’s why I don’t do concerts in big arenas – I prefer to be in touch with my audience. – Cat Stevens • I’ve been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don’t live that long. It doesn’t matter. – Louis C. K. • I’ve just decided that I have to continue to live my life and do what I do. Hopefully, people love me because of who I am, not who I pretend to be. – Ashley Greene • I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. – Mark Twain • I’ve never been one to get up on a soapbox and preach. I just live my life the way I live my life. – Ingrid Michaelson • Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it. – Eben Alexander • LIFE = (L)ive (I)N (F)ull (E)ffect!!!!!!! – Joseph Simmons • Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. – Soren Kierkegaard • Life is not a dress rehearsal – wake up every day excited to live out your purpose. – Andrew Wommack • Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. – Ralph Ellison • Life isn’t long enough to do all you could accomplish. And what a privilege even to be alive. In spite of all the pollutions and horrors, how beautiful this world is. Supposing you only saw the stars once every year. Think what you would think. The wonder of it! – Tasha Tudor • Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo. – Nomi Prins • Live your life to the fullest. – Shakira • Look what they did to MaCauley Culkin. The poor child. I know because I’ve been there. But I could say after living my life, truth will always win out. And no one can take my character away from me anymore. – Linda Blair • Look, a lot of people don’t think that the way that I live my life is a real thing, that it exists, that having a broad spectrum of sexual orientation is even possible. – Nico Tortorella • Man’s ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature. – Seneca the Younger • My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. – Clarence Budington Kelland • My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared. – Mary Kay Ash • My mom was an enthusiastic, positive, glass-is-half-full type of person and that is how I live my life and I owe that to her. She was an amazing woman. – Kliff Kingsbury • No matter your obstacles, live a happy life. – Sam Berns • Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. – Mortimer Adler • Now I still see those things but I’m completely over it. I threw negativity out the window and just live my life for me and my baby. Hopefully I inspire women to do the same in life, with whatever makes them happy. – Amber Rose • One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness. – Giorgio de Chirico • Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy. – Jim Rohn • Part One: I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. Part Two: Everybody else is free to do whatever they feel like doing, for a living. Part Three: Responsible is Able to Respond, able to answer for the way we choose to live. There’s only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves. – Richard Bach • People ask me: “Do I consider myself to be a Latino writer?” “What does it mean to be Latino?” Those are very strange questions to answer , but feminism is easier because it’s just an ideology, a way I live my life. And absolutely in the most political sense I try to sit down and write very strong female roles. – Quiara Alegria Hudes • Photography is all about capturing a mood, a feeling. I feel a special connection with nature, often very powerful. This late afternoon was phenomenal. Standing on the edge of the ocean, I gasped in awe as the holy light illuminated this cathedral window. Witnessing such a moment and capturing it is what I live for. Mother Nature is so powerful, I never underestimate Her. – Peter Lik • Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone. – Kodo Sawaki • Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. – Oscar Wilde • Some 30 years later I found myself back here again [in Vietnam] on what was to be a short visit that lasted months, and since then I’ve been living my life with one foot in Ho Chi Minh City and the other in Fair Oaks, California. – Doug Rice • Some men live their lives terrified. Terrified of the night and all that is dark. I will live my life eternally in fear of the light of day. – Barnabas • Some people are going to be happy (with my decision). Some people aren’t. But I must live my life. – Thomas Hearns • Some people have learned to earn well but they haven’t learned to live well. – Jim Rohn • Sometimes you gotta go with your first instinct. You gotta go with your gut. That’s kind of how I live my life, you gotta go with your gut. – Michael B. Jordan • Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive! – Abhinavagupta • Thankfully, I’m not put in a position where I’m made to feel like I can’t live my life. – Nicholas Thorburn • The doctrines of Jesus are simple and tend all to the happiness of man, that there is only one God and God is perfect. That God and man are one. That to love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself, is the sum of religion. These are the great points on which I endeavor to reform and live my life. – Thomas Jefferson • The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. – Socrates • The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. – Charles R. Swindoll • The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. – Alan Watts • The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it–to do what I think is right and what I think is good. – Jaye Davidson • The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life. – Anna Quindlen • The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that writers should provide an example of how to live. Virginia Woolf ended her life by putting a rock in her sweater one day and walking into a lake. She is not a model of how I want to live my life. On the other hand, the bravery of her syntax, of her sentences, written during her deepest depression, is a kind of example for me. But I do not want to become Virginia Woolf. That is not why I read her. – Richard Rodriguez • The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they’re always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back. – Norman Rockwell • The trail compels you to know yourself and to be yourself, and puts you in harmony with the universe. It makes you glad to be living. It gives health, hope, and courage, and it extends that touch of nature which tends to make you kind.- Enos Mills • The way I played the game, the way I live my life, is very emotional. – Brett Favre • Theater is the foundation of how I live my life, actually. My father was a playwright, so I was around it all the time and loved to talk shop with him, just loved it. And basically everything that I hold to be good and true and worthy, I learned in the theater. So not even just about the work, but just about life. Discipline, problem solving, creativity, how to get along with people. – Laura Linney • There is no stress. I live my life, I enjoy it and when I am comfortable I can get married. – Usain Bolt • There’s a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim I’ll live my life regretting that I never jumped in – Laura Marling • There’s no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol – the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life. – Pamela Anderson • Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity. – Charles Spurgeon • To hell with your cancer. I’ve been living with cancer for the better part of a year. Right from the start, it’s a death sentence. That’s what they keep telling me. Well, guess what? Every life comes with a death sentence, so every few months I come in here for my regular scan, knowing full well that one of these times – hell, maybe even today – I’m gonna hear some bad news. But until then, who’s in charge? Me. That’s how I live my life. – Walter White • To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing. – Socrates • Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. – Golda Meir • Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another’s life, another’s death, I stake my whole eternity. – Horatius Bonar • We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift. – Yul Brynner • We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who’s watching my movie. – Donald Glover • We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared. – Mary Kay Ash • We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other. – Frank Schaeffer • We’ve been living on a high, they’ve been talking on the low. But it’s cool, know you heard it all before. – Drake • What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission? – Pope John Paul II • What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future, — a future in which there is no expiation except through my own better conduct. No one can save me. No one can live my life for me. It is mine for better or for worse. If I am wise, I shall begin to-day by the simplest and most natural of all processes to build my own truer and better world from within. – Horatio Dresser • What lasting impact will I make on the world and those around me? What will I live my life for? How will I be remembered? I want to leave the world a better place than it was when I got here. I want to experience as much as I can in this very short life that we have. – Theo Rossi • When I was 19, I was in a horrific car accident, and it taught me that at the end of our life, we ask all these questions. And my questions, I discovered, were: Did I really live my life? Did I love? Did I matter? And I was unhappy with the answers. – Brendon Burchard • With regard to life, modern painting is a revolutionary activity…We need it in order to transform the world into a more humane place where mankind can live in liberty…We must accept these things with passion. It means that we must live imaginatively. – Wifredo Lam • Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don’t transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better. – Donna Farhi • Yoga has expanded beyond asana for me. It’s how I live my life and currently I’m throwing myself into a meditation practice. – Kathryn Budig • You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole–like the world, or the person you loved. – Stewart O’Nan • You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life. – Jim Rohn

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