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Life.

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

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”

“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.”

“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“I intend to live forever, or die trying.”

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”

“Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.”

Saint Augustine

“My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”

“It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.”

“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.”

George S. Patton

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”

Albert Einstein

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

Albert Einstein

“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

Abraham Lincoln

“If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.”

“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.”

“Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”

“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”

“Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.”

“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

“A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.”

“Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”

Miguel de Cervantes

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.”

“The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”

“Life is half spent before we know what it is.”

“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”

Jean Paul Richter

“A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.”

“Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.”

“Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“Facts are stubborn things.”

“Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.”

“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”

“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.”

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”

Marcus Aurelius

“We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives.”

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”

“What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”

“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”