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Life.

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

“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.”

“Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.”

“If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.”

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

“Remember that if you don't prioritize your life someone else will.”

“Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.”

“Some people come into our lives to show us that we deserve better.”

“If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you will stop living to impress people.”

Christopher Walken

“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.”

William Wallace

“Some storms come to your life to clear the path and make room for something better.”

“The only approval you need in life is your own.”

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”

Albert Einstein

“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.”

“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”

“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

“Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.”

“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

“A useless life is an early death.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.”

“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.”

“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”

“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”

“No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”

“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”

“If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.”

“Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.”

“Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.”

“The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse.”

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.”

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”

“Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.”

“People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that’s why they give up on it so early, too.”

“Every human being is under construction from conception to death.”

“No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.”

“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.”

“Death is sometimes a punishment, sometimes a gift; to many it has come as a favor.”

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

“The meaning that sustains life in all its tragedy and disappointment is to be found in shouldering a noble burden.”

Jordan Peterson

“If you confront the limitations of life courageously, that provides you with a certain psychological purpose that serves as an antidote to the suffering.”

Jordan Peterson

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.”

“Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.”

George Bernard Shaw

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

“The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.”

Albert Einstein

“Most people fail to realize that in life, it's not how much money you make, it's how much money you keep.”

Robert Kiyosaki

“Live your own life, for you will die your own death”