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Life.

Reflections on existence, meaning, and what makes life rich.

“When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.”

“Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness.”

“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.”

William Shakespeare

“Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.”

Jean Paul Richter

“Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.”

“Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.”

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.”

“The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.”

“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.”

“The generous and bold have the best lives.”

Norwegian proverbs

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

Winston Churchill

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

G.K. Chesterton

“Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.”

“Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.”

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.”

“The burden which is well borne becomes light.”

“Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.”

“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.”

“Leaders who refuse to listen eventually end up being surrounded by those who have nothing to say.”

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

“Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.”

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

“Remember, some of the best times of your life haven't even happened yet.”

“Even when the life's storms rage on you, don't let them dim your light.”

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.”

“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.”

Albert Einstein

“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?”

“It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter'. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.”

“What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.”

Sidonie Gabrielle Collette

“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”

Albert Einstein

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”

Albert Einstein

“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”

“Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”

“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”

“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.”

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”

“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

Marcus Aurelius

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

Albert Einstein

“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.”

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”

“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”

“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”

“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.”

“When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.”