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through <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/metabolism" class="extiw" title="w:metabolism">metabolism</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/reproduction" class="extiw" title="w:reproduction">reproduction</a>. <div role="navigation" style="margin-left: 2em;"> Arranged alphabetically by author or source: <a href="#A">A</a> · <a href="#B">B</a> · <a href="#C">C</a> · <a href="#D">D</a> · <a href="#E">E</a> · <a href="#F">F</a> · <a href="#G">G</a> · <a href="#H">H</a> · <a href="#I">I</a> · <a href="#J">J</a> · <a href="#K">K</a> · <a href="#L">L</a> · <a href="#M">M</a> · <a href="#N">N</a> · <a href="#O">O</a> · <a href="#P">P</a> · <a href="#Q">Q</a> · <a href="#R">R</a> · <a href="#S">S</a> · <a href="#T">T</a> · <a href="#U">U</a> · <a href="#V">V</a> · <a href="#W">W</a> · <a href="#X">X</a> · <a href="#Y">Y</a> · <a href="#Z">Z</a> · <a href="#Anonymous">Anonymous</a> · <a href="#See_also">See also</a> · <a href="#External_links">External links</a> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="A">A</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: A">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Andreas-bogdain-balance2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Andreas-bogdain-balance2.jpg/220px-Andreas-bogdain-balance2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="303" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Andreas-bogdain-balance2.jpg/330px-Andreas-bogdain-balance2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Andreas-bogdain-balance2.jpg/440px-Andreas-bogdain-balance2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2729" data-file-height="3753" /></a><figcaption>The terrible events of life are great eye-openers. They force us to learn that which it is wholesome for us to know, but which habitually we try to ignore — namely, that really we have no claim on a long life; that we are each of us liable to be called off at any moment, and that the main point is not how long we live, but with what meaning we fill the short allotted span — for short it is at best. ~ <a href="/wiki/Felix_Adler" title="Felix Adler">Felix Adler</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Life is demanding without <a href="/wiki/Understanding" title="Understanding">understanding</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_of_Base" class="extiw" title="w:Ace of Base">Ace of Base</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqu132vTl5Y">"The Sign"</a> (1993), The Sign, Arista</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the fear of death from our minds. Then can we turn to life and fill the whole horizon of our souls with it, turn with added zest to all the serious tasks which it imposes and to the pure delights which here and there it affords. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Felix_Adler" title="Felix Adler">Felix Adler</a>, Life and Destiny (1913), Section 8: Suffering and Consolation.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Let us learn from the lips of death the lessons of life. Let us live truly while we live, live for what is true and good and lasting. And let the memory of our dead help us to do this. For they are not wholly separated from us, if we remain loyal to them. In spirit they are with us. And we may think of them as silent, invisible, but real presences in our households. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Felix_Adler" title="Felix Adler">Felix Adler</a>, Life and Destiny (1913), Section 8: Suffering and Consolation.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The bitter, yet merciful, lesson which death teaches us is to distinguish the gold from the tinsel, the true values from the worthless chaff. The terrible events of life are great eye-openers. They force us to learn that which it is wholesome for us to know, but which habitually we try to ignore — namely, that really we have no claim on a long life; that we are each of us liable to be called off at any moment, and that the main point is not how long we live, but with what meaning we fill the short allotted span — for short it is at best. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Felix_Adler" title="Felix Adler">Felix Adler</a>, Life and Destiny (1913), Section 8: Suffering and Consolation.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Reconciling the opposites of life and death, of celebration and grief, of laughter and rage is no simple task, yet it is one worthy of our best understanding and our best effort. If, in all these centuries of death, we have continued to endure, we must celebrate that fact and the fact of our vitality in the face of what seemed, to many, inevitable extinction. For however painful and futile our struggle becomes, we have but to look outside at the birds, the deer, and the seasons to understand that change does not mean destruction, that life, however painful and even elusive it is at times, contains much joy and hilarity, pleasure and beauty for those who live within its requirements with grace. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paula_Gunn_Allen" title="Paula Gunn Allen">Paula Gunn Allen</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book">The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions. Beacon Press. 1 September 1992. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8070-4617-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8070-4617-3">ISBN 978-0-8070-4617-3</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Sacred+Hoop%3A+Recovering+the+Feminine+in+American+Indian+Traditions&rft.date=1+September+1992&rft.pub=Beacon+Press&rft.isbn=978-0-8070-4617-3&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Life">  Chapter Two</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Amy: One day, I'm going to find a man who thinks I'm the meaning of life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Judging_Amy" title="Judging Amy">Judging Amy</a> (1999–2005), Season 3, Off the grid, Darkness For Light</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I once went through <a href="/wiki/Book" class="mw-redirect" title="Book">books</a> and wanted to understand what <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophers</a> said about life. Some of them saw everything as dark. "Since we are nothing and we will reach zero, there is no room for <a href="/wiki/Joy" title="Joy">joy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Happiness" title="Happiness">happiness</a> during our temporary life on earth," they said. I read other books, written by <a href="/wiki/Wisdom" title="Wisdom">wiser</a> men. They were saying: "Since the end is zero anyway, let us at least be joyful and <a href="/wiki/Cheerfulness" title="Cheerfulness">cheerful</a> as long as we live." For my own character I like the second view of life, but within these limits: A man who sees the <a href="/wiki/Existence" title="Existence">existence</a> of all mankind in his own person is pathetic. Obviously that man will perish as an individual. What is necessary for any man to be <a href="/wiki/Satisfaction" title="Satisfaction">satisfied</a> and happy as long as he lives is not to <a href="/wiki/Work" title="Work">work</a> for himself, but for those who will come after him. Only in this way can a man of understanding act. Complete <a href="/wiki/Pleasure" title="Pleasure">pleasure</a> and happiness in life can only be found in working for the <a href="/wiki/Honor" title="Honor">honor</a>, existence and happiness of <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a> <a href="/wiki/Generation" title="Generation">generations</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atat%C3%BCrk" title="Mustafa Kemal Atatürk">Mustafa Kemal Atatürk</a>, during <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20180628120602/http://www.atam.gov.tr/ataturkun-soylev-ve-demecleri/romanya-disisleri-bakani-antonescu-ile-konusma">his conversation with Romanian Foreign Minister Victor Antonescu on 20 March 1937</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Karma" title="Karma">Karma</a> is the <a href="/wiki/Law_of_Cause_and_Effect" class="mw-redirect" title="Law of Cause and Effect">Law of Cause and Effect</a> as applied to the life of the soul — the law whereby it reaps the results of its own sowing, or suffers the reaction from its own action... however, it has a larger meaning, and is used in the sense of the Law of Justice, or the Law of Reward and Punishment, operating along the lines of personal experience, personal life, and personal character. p. 223 <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_Atkinson" class="extiw" title="w:William Walker Atkinson">William Walker Atkinson</a> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26364">Reincarnation and the Law of Karma</a>, (1908)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="B">B</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: B">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B8.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B8.jpeg/220px-%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B8.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="282" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B8.jpeg/330px-%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B8.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B8.jpeg/440px-%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B8.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="974" data-file-height="1249" /></a><figcaption>All souls incarnate and <a href="/wiki/Reincarnation" title="Reincarnation">re-incarnate</a> under the Law of Rebirth. Hence each life is not only a recapitulation of life experience, but an assuming of ancient obligations, a recovery of old relations, an opportunity for the paying of old indebtedness, a chance to make restitution and progress, an awakening of deep-seated qualities, the recognition of old friends and enemies, the solution of revolting injustices, and the explanation of that which conditions the man, and makes him what he is. Such is the law which is crying <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">now</a> for universal recognition. ~ <a href="/wiki/Alice_Bailey" title="Alice Bailey">Alice Bailey</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Squirrel_posing.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Squirrel_posing.jpg/220px-Squirrel_posing.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="184" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Squirrel_posing.jpg/330px-Squirrel_posing.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Squirrel_posing.jpg/440px-Squirrel_posing.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1706" data-file-height="1426" /></a><figcaption>He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. ~ <a href="/wiki/Philip_James_Bailey" title="Philip James Bailey">Philip James Bailey</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Caput_mortuum.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Caput_mortuum.svg/220px-Caput_mortuum.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Caput_mortuum.svg/330px-Caput_mortuum.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Caput_mortuum.svg/440px-Caput_mortuum.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></a><figcaption>Life hath more awe than <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Philip_James_Bailey" title="Philip James Bailey">Philip James Bailey</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_George_Brown_-_Sympathy_(1885).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/John_George_Brown_-_Sympathy_%281885%29.jpg/220px-John_George_Brown_-_Sympathy_%281885%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="277" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/John_George_Brown_-_Sympathy_%281885%29.jpg/330px-John_George_Brown_-_Sympathy_%281885%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/John_George_Brown_-_Sympathy_%281885%29.jpg/440px-John_George_Brown_-_Sympathy_%281885%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2538" data-file-height="3200" /></a><figcaption>One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>, <a href="/wiki/Friendship" title="Friendship">friendship</a>, indignation and <a href="/wiki/Compassion" title="Compassion">compassion</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir" title="Simone de Beauvoir">Simone de Beauvoir</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:North_America_from_low_orbiting_satellite_Suomi_NPP.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/North_America_from_low_orbiting_satellite_Suomi_NPP.jpg/220px-North_America_from_low_orbiting_satellite_Suomi_NPP.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/North_America_from_low_orbiting_satellite_Suomi_NPP.jpg/330px-North_America_from_low_orbiting_satellite_Suomi_NPP.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/North_America_from_low_orbiting_satellite_Suomi_NPP.jpg/440px-North_America_from_low_orbiting_satellite_Suomi_NPP.jpg 2x" data-file-width="8000" data-file-height="8000" /></a><figcaption>What one needs to do at every <a href="/wiki/Moment" title="Moment">moment</a> of one's life is to put an <a href="/wiki/End" title="End">end</a> to the old <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> and to <a href="/wiki/Begin" class="mw-redirect" title="Begin">begin</a> a new world. ~ <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Berdyaev" title="Nikolai Berdyaev">Nikolai Berdyaev</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Le_Droit_humain-France-Annie_Besant.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Le_Droit_humain-France-Annie_Besant.jpg/220px-Le_Droit_humain-France-Annie_Besant.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="301" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Le_Droit_humain-France-Annie_Besant.jpg/330px-Le_Droit_humain-France-Annie_Besant.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Le_Droit_humain-France-Annie_Besant.jpg/440px-Le_Droit_humain-France-Annie_Besant.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1417" data-file-height="1936" /></a><figcaption>The loss of belief in <a href="/wiki/Reincarnation" title="Reincarnation">reincarnation</a>, and of a sane view as to the continuity of life, whether it were spent in this or in the next two worlds, brought with it various incongruities and indefensible assertions, among them the blasphemous and terrible idea of the <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">eternal torture</a> of the human soul for sins committed during the brief span of one life spent on earth. ~ <a href="/wiki/Annie_Besant" title="Annie Besant">Annie Besant</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Buddha_Statue_in_Vietnam.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Buddha_Statue_in_Vietnam.jpg/220px-Buddha_Statue_in_Vietnam.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Buddha_Statue_in_Vietnam.jpg/330px-Buddha_Statue_in_Vietnam.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Buddha_Statue_in_Vietnam.jpg/440px-Buddha_Statue_in_Vietnam.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="3072" /></a><figcaption> Suffering exists: Life is suffering.... Suffering is due to attachment... the desire to have and control things... There is an end to suffering....In order to end suffering... follow <a href="/wiki/Eightfold_Path" class="mw-redirect" title="Eightfold Path">the Eightfold Path</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LabyrinthAtLEAF.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/LabyrinthAtLEAF.JPG/220px-LabyrinthAtLEAF.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/LabyrinthAtLEAF.JPG/330px-LabyrinthAtLEAF.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/LabyrinthAtLEAF.JPG/440px-LabyrinthAtLEAF.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">Reason</a> is Life's sole arbiter, the <a href="/wiki/Magic" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic">magic</a> Laby'rinth's single clue... ~ <a href="/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton" title="Richard Francis Burton">Richard Francis Burton</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brighton_Kissing_-_geograph.org.uk_-_50480.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Brighton_Kissing_-_geograph.org.uk_-_50480.jpg/220px-Brighton_Kissing_-_geograph.org.uk_-_50480.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="384" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Brighton_Kissing_-_geograph.org.uk_-_50480.jpg/330px-Brighton_Kissing_-_geograph.org.uk_-_50480.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Brighton_Kissing_-_geograph.org.uk_-_50480.jpg 2x" data-file-width="364" data-file-height="635" /></a><figcaption>Life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear [...] Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,— How love might be, hath been indeed, and is. ~ <a href="/wiki/Robert_Browning" title="Robert Browning">Robert Browning</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>All souls incarnate and re-incarnate under the <a href="/wiki/Reincarnation" title="Reincarnation">Law of Rebirth</a>. Hence each life is not only a recapitulation of life experience, but an assuming of ancient obligations, a recovery of old relations, an opportunity for the paying of old indebtedness, a chance to make restitution and progress, an awakening of deep-seated qualities, the recognition of old friends and enemies, the solution of revolting injustices, and the explanation of that which conditions the man, and makes him what he is. Such is the law which is crying <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">now</a> for universal recognition. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Bailey" title="Alice Bailey">Alice A. Bailey</a>, in Esoteric Psychology Vol 1, p. 300, (1936)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The new <a href="/wiki/Psychology" title="Psychology">psychology</a> must inevitably be built upon the premise that this one life is not man's sole opportunity in which to achieve integration and eventual perfection. The great Law of Rebirth must be accepted, and it will then be found to be, in itself, a major releasing agent in any moment of crisis, or any psychological problem case. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Bailey" title="Alice Bailey">Alice A. Bailey</a>, in Esoteric Psychology Vol 2, p. 431, (1953)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Practically all the teaching given anent <a href="/wiki/Reincarnation" title="Reincarnation">rebirth or reincarnation</a>, has emphasised the <a href="/wiki/Material" class="mw-redirect" title="Material">material</a> phenomenal side, though there has always been a more or less casual reference to the <a href="/wiki/Spiritual" class="mw-redirect" title="Spiritual">spiritual</a> and mental gains acquired in the school of life upon this planet, from incarnation to incarnation. The true nature of the unfolding awareness, and the growth of the inner <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a> of the true man, have been little noted; the gain of each life in added grasp of the mechanism of contact, and the result of increased sensitivity to the environment, are seldom if ever stressed. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Bailey" title="Alice Bailey">Alice A. Bailey</a>, in Esoteric Psychology Vol 2,] p. 432, (1941)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We live in deeds, not years: in <a href="/wiki/Thoughts" class="mw-redirect" title="Thoughts">thoughts</a>, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> by <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a>-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philip_James_Bailey" title="Philip James Bailey">Philip James Bailey</a>, Festus (1839), scene A Country Town.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It matters not how long we live, but how. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philip_James_Bailey" title="Philip James Bailey">Philip James Bailey</a>, Festus (1839), scene Wood and Water.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life hath more <a href="/wiki/Awe" title="Awe">awe</a> than <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philip_James_Bailey" title="Philip James Bailey">Philip James Bailey</a>, Festus (1839), scene Wood and Water.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Art" title="Art">Art</a> would not be important if life were not important, and life is important. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Baldwin" title="James Baldwin">James Baldwin</a> "An interview with James Baldwin" (1961), in Conversations with James Baldwin, p. 21</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; Tis hard to part when friends are dear,— Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear. Then steal away, give little warning. Choose thine own time, Say not "Good-night," but in some brighter clime, Bid me "Good-morning." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anna_Letitia_Barbauld" title="Anna Letitia Barbauld">Anna Letitia Barbauld</a>, Life, in Lucy Aikin, ed., The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1825), p. 261.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life has compensations, but there’s no way of knowing what they are. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Barrett_Jr." class="extiw" title="w:Neal Barrett Jr.">Neal Barrett Jr.</a>, Diner (1987), reprinted in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner_Dozois" class="extiw" title="w:Gardner Dozois">Gardner Dozois</a> (ed.), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year%27s_Best_Science_Fiction:_Fifth_Annual_Collection" class="extiw" title="w:The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection">The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection</a>, p. 541</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Science leads to great achievements, which, quite rightly, fill of joy those who seek the truth, but if pursued, teaches us that we must seek other sources of ultimate truth and find answers to existential questions about the <a href="/wiki/Meaning_of_life" title="Meaning of life">meaning of life</a> and the mystery of <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Franco_Bassani" title="Franco Bassani">Franco Bassani</a>, "Knowing the universe. For whom?" “Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples”, Rimini meeting 2006, August 23, 2006</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>, <a href="/wiki/Friendship" title="Friendship">friendship</a>, indignation and <a href="/wiki/Compassion" title="Compassion">compassion</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir" title="Simone de Beauvoir">Simone de Beauvoir</a>, As quoted in Successful Aging : A Conference Report (1974) by Eric Pfeiffer, p. 142.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What one needs to do at every <a href="/wiki/Moment" title="Moment">moment</a> of one's life is to put an <a href="/wiki/End" title="End">end</a> to the old <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> and to <a href="/wiki/Begin" class="mw-redirect" title="Begin">begin</a> a new world. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Berdyaev" title="Nikolai Berdyaev">Nikolai Berdyaev</a>, The Beginning and the End (1947).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Human <a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">evolution</a> is the evolution of the <a href="/wiki/Thinker" class="mw-redirect" title="Thinker">Thinker</a>... At first, as little conscious as a baby’s earthly body, he almost slept through life after life, till the experiences playing on him from without awakened some of his latent forces into activity; but gradually he assumed more and more <a href="/wiki/Self-control" title="Self-control">part</a> in the direction of his life, until, with manhood reached, he <a href="/wiki/Self-realization" title="Self-realization">took his life</a> into his own hands, and an ever-increasing <a href="/wiki/Self-control" title="Self-control">control</a> over his future <a href="/wiki/Destiny" title="Destiny">destiny</a>. p. 131 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Annie_Besant" title="Annie Besant">Annie Besant</a> in The Ancient Wisdom (1897)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All <a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">evolution</a> consists of an evolving life, passing from form to form as it evolves, and storing up in itself the experiences gained through the forms; the <a href="/wiki/Reincarnation" title="Reincarnation">reincarnation</a> of the human soul is not the introduction of a new principle into evolution, but the adaptation of the universal principle to meet the conditions rendered necessary by the individualisation of the continuously evolving life... A life of extreme hardship, of ceaseless struggle with nature, will develop very different powers from those evolved amid the luxuriant plenty of a tropical island; both sets of powers are needed, for the soul is to conquer every region of nature, but striking differences may thus be evolved even in souls of the same age, and one may appear to be more advanced than the other, according as the observer estimates most highly the more “practical” or the more “contemplative” powers of the soul, the active outward-going energies, or the quiet inward-turned musing faculties. The perfected soul possesses all, but the soul in the making must develop them successively, and thus arises another cause of the immense variety found among human beings. For again, it must be remembered that human evolution is individual. p.180-202 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Annie_Besant" title="Annie Besant">Annie Besant</a> in The Ancient Wisdom (1897)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The loss of belief in <a href="/wiki/Reincarnation" title="Reincarnation">reincarnation</a>, and of a sane view as to the continuity of life, whether it were spent in this or in the next two worlds, brought with it various incongruities and indefensible assertions, among them the blasphemous and terrible idea of the <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">eternal torture of the human soul</a> for sins committed during the brief span of one life spent on earth. p. 307 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Annie_Besant" title="Annie Besant">Annie Besant</a>, in Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries, by Annie Besant, (1914)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The aim of life is inquiry into the <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">Truth</a>, and not the desire for enjoyment in <a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">heaven</a> by performing religious rites, Those who possess the knowledge of the Truth, call the knowledge of non-duality as the Truth, It is called <a href="/wiki/Brahman" title="Brahman">Brahman</a>, the Highest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atman_(Hinduism)" class="extiw" title="w:Atman (Hinduism)">Self</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavan" class="extiw" title="w:Bhagavan">w:Bhagavan</a>. <ul><li>Bhagavata Purana 1.2.10-11, translated by Daniel Sheridan 1986, p. 23</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed. The question, "Is life worth living?" has been much discussed; particularly by those who think it is not, many of whom have written at great length in support of their view and by careful observance of the laws of health enjoyed for long terms of years the honors of successful controversy. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce" title="Ambrose Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a>, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When one unacquainted with the noble doctrine looks around him, and observes the inequalities of birth and fortune, of intellect and capacities; when one sees honour paid fools and profligates, on whom fortune has heaped her favours by mere privilege of birth, and their nearest neighbor, with all his intellect and noble virtues -- far more deserving in every way -- perishing of want and for lack of sympathy; when one sees all this and has to turn away, helpless to relieve the undeserved suffering, one's ears ringing and heart aching with the cries of pain around him -- that blessed knowledge of <a href="/wiki/Karma" title="Karma">Karma</a> alone prevents him from cursing life and men, as well as their supposed Creator. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H.P._Blavatsky" class="mw-redirect" title="H.P. Blavatsky">H.P. Blavatsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Key_to_Theosophy" class="mw-redirect" title="The Key to Theosophy">The Key to Theosophy</a> (1889)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is built up by the sacrifice of the individual to the whole. Each cell in the living body must sacrifice itself to the perfection of the whole; when it is otherwise, disease and death enforce the lesson. ...Harmony is the law of life, discord its shadow; whence springs suffering, the teacher, the awakener of consciousness. ...The discovery and right use of the true essence of Being — this is the whole secret of life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H.P._Blavatsky" class="mw-redirect" title="H.P. Blavatsky">H.P. Blavatsky</a>, Gems from the East, a Birthday Book of Precepts and Axioms, (1890)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Everything in our life should be based on <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Bradbury" title="Ray Bradbury">Ray Bradbury</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://articles.cnn.com/2010-08-02/living/Bradbury_1_ray-bradbury-dandelion-wine-sam-weller?_s=PM:LIVING">"Sci-fi legend "Ray Bradbury on God, 'monsters and angels'" by John Blake, CNN : Living (2 August 2010)</a>, p. 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,— How love might be, hath been indeed, and is. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Browning" title="Robert Browning">Robert Browning</a>, A Death in the Desert (1864).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I suppose—one has to suppose—that to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence" class="extiw" title="w:Artificial intelligence">AIs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> is just one more quantifiable entity in a universe of quantifiable entities. Probably it’s as basic to them as a bit of clockwork; the right neurons firing, a few chemicals in the right combination. But then again, the same can be said of life itself. The sweet, living Earth, with all its countless green fronds and numberless beating hearts, is all just clockwork and chemistry, all eminently quantifiable and understandable. That doesn’t stop it from being something amazing and magical, measureless and infinite. <ul><li>Karl Bunker, They Have All One Breath (2016), in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner_Dozois" class="extiw" title="w:Gardner Dozois">Gardner Dozois</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year%27s_Best_Science_Fiction:_Thirty-Fourth_Annual_Collection" class="extiw" title="w:The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection">The Year’s Best Science Fiction 34</a>, pp. 504-505 (originally published in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimov%27s_Science_Fiction" class="extiw" title="w:Asimov's Science Fiction">Asimov's Science Fiction</a>, December 2016)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">Reason</a> is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue: Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ne%27er#Adverb" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:ne'er">ne'er</a> be true. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton" title="Richard Francis Burton">Richard Francis Burton</a>, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kasidah" class="extiw" title="w:The Kasidah">The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî</a> (1870), VII</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Lives matter in the sense that they assume physical form within the sphere of appearance; lives matter because they are to be valued equally. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Judith_Butler" title="Judith Butler">Judith Butler</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book">The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind. Verso Books. 4 February 2020. p. 12. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-78873-276-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-78873-276-5">ISBN 978-1-78873-276-5</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Force+of+Nonviolence%3A+An+Ethico-Political+Bind&rft.date=4+February+2020&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B12&rft.pub=Verso+Books&rft.isbn=978-1-78873-276-5&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Life"> </li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="C">C</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: C">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Moon_eclipse.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Moon_eclipse.jpg/220px-Moon_eclipse.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Moon_eclipse.jpg/330px-Moon_eclipse.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Moon_eclipse.jpg/440px-Moon_eclipse.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1067" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Everything" class="mw-redirect" title="Everything">Everything</a> in life is <a href="/wiki/Miraculous" class="mw-redirect" title="Miraculous">miraculous</a>. For the <a href="/wiki/Sigil" class="mw-redirect" title="Sigil">sigil</a> taught me that it rests within the <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a> of each of us to awaken at <a href="/wiki/Will" class="mw-disambig" title="Will">will</a> from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant <a href="/wiki/Tasks" class="mw-redirect" title="Tasks">tasks</a> and tedious useless little <a href="/wiki/Habits" class="mw-redirect" title="Habits">habits</a>, to see life as it really is, and to <a href="/wiki/Rejoice" class="mw-redirect" title="Rejoice">rejoice</a> in its exquisite <a href="/wiki/Wonderfulness" class="mw-redirect" title="Wonderfulness">wonderfulness</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/James_Branch_Cabell" title="James Branch Cabell">James Branch Cabell</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Auroras_and_Milky_Way.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Auroras_and_Milky_Way.jpg/220px-Auroras_and_Milky_Way.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Auroras_and_Milky_Way.jpg/330px-Auroras_and_Milky_Way.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Auroras_and_Milky_Way.jpg/440px-Auroras_and_Milky_Way.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1067" data-file-height="1600" /></a><figcaption>The realization that life is <a href="/wiki/Absurd" class="mw-redirect" title="Absurd">absurd</a> and cannot be an <a href="/wiki/End" title="End">end</a>, but only a <a href="/wiki/Beginning" class="mw-redirect" title="Beginning">beginning</a>. This is a truth nearly <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> <a href="/wiki/Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Great">great</a> <a href="/wiki/Minds" class="mw-redirect" title="Minds">minds</a> have taken as their starting point. ~ <a href="/wiki/Albert_Camus" title="Albert Camus">Albert Camus</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brockenspectre,_Cefn_Ysgolion_Duon_-_geograph.org.uk_-_242025.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Brockenspectre%2C_Cefn_Ysgolion_Duon_-_geograph.org.uk_-_242025.jpg/220px-Brockenspectre%2C_Cefn_Ysgolion_Duon_-_geograph.org.uk_-_242025.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Brockenspectre%2C_Cefn_Ysgolion_Duon_-_geograph.org.uk_-_242025.jpg/330px-Brockenspectre%2C_Cefn_Ysgolion_Duon_-_geograph.org.uk_-_242025.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Brockenspectre%2C_Cefn_Ysgolion_Duon_-_geograph.org.uk_-_242025.jpg/440px-Brockenspectre%2C_Cefn_Ysgolion_Duon_-_geograph.org.uk_-_242025.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption> I am the life That'll never, never <a href="/wiki/Die" class="mw-redirect" title="Die">die</a>; I'll live in you If you'll live in me — I am the Lord Of the <a href="/wiki/Dance" title="Dance">Dance</a>, said he. ~ <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Carter" title="Sydney Carter">Sydney Carter</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Christ_of_the_Abyss_Key_Largo_(2027447382).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Christ_of_the_Abyss_Key_Largo_%282027447382%29.jpg/220px-Christ_of_the_Abyss_Key_Largo_%282027447382%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="333" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Christ_of_the_Abyss_Key_Largo_%282027447382%29.jpg/330px-Christ_of_the_Abyss_Key_Largo_%282027447382%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Christ_of_the_Abyss_Key_Largo_%282027447382%29.jpg/440px-Christ_of_the_Abyss_Key_Largo_%282027447382%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1095" data-file-height="1659" /></a><figcaption>Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final <a href="/wiki/Enlightenment_(spiritual)" title="Enlightenment (spiritual)">enlightenment</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Sri_Chinmoy" title="Sri Chinmoy">Sri Chinmoy</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Top_of_Atmosphere.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Top_of_Atmosphere.jpg/220px-Top_of_Atmosphere.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Top_of_Atmosphere.jpg/330px-Top_of_Atmosphere.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Top_of_Atmosphere.jpg/440px-Top_of_Atmosphere.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3027" data-file-height="2010" /></a><figcaption>Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. ~ Vicki Corona. </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mariecurie.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Mariecurie.jpg/220px-Mariecurie.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="285" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Mariecurie.jpg/330px-Mariecurie.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Mariecurie.jpg/440px-Mariecurie.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="1987" /></a><figcaption>Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. ~ <a href="/wiki/Marie_Curie" title="Marie Curie">Marie Curie</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Everything" class="mw-redirect" title="Everything">Everything</a> in life is <a href="/wiki/Miraculous" class="mw-redirect" title="Miraculous">miraculous</a>. For the <a href="/wiki/Sigil" class="mw-redirect" title="Sigil">sigil</a> taught me that it rests within the <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a> of each of us to awaken at <a href="/wiki/Will" class="mw-disambig" title="Will">will</a> from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant <a href="/wiki/Tasks" class="mw-redirect" title="Tasks">tasks</a> and tedious useless little <a href="/wiki/Habits" class="mw-redirect" title="Habits">habits</a>, to see life as it really is, and to <a href="/wiki/Rejoice" class="mw-redirect" title="Rejoice">rejoice</a> in its exquisite <a href="/wiki/Wonderfulness" class="mw-redirect" title="Wonderfulness">wonderfulness</a>. If the sigil were <a href="/wiki/Proved" class="mw-redirect" title="Proved">proved</a> to be the top of a tomato-can, it would not alter that big <a href="/wiki/Fact" title="Fact">fact</a>, nor my fixed <a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">faith</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Branch_Cabell" title="James Branch Cabell">James Branch Cabell</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cream_of_the_Jest" class="extiw" title="w:The Cream of the Jest">The Cream of the Jest</a> (1917), The Epilogue : Which is the proper ending of all comedies; and heralds, it may be, an afterpiece.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is a pageant that passes very quickly, going hastily from one darkness to another darkness with only <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will-o%27-the-wisp" class="extiw" title="w:Will-o'-the-wisp">ignes fatui</a> to guide; and there is no sense in it. I learned that, Kerin, without <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moil#Verb" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:moil">moiling</a> over books. But life is a fine ardent spectacle; and I have loved the actors in it: and I have loved their youth and high-heartedness, and their ungrounded faiths, and their queer dreams, my Kerin, about their own importance and about the greatness of the destiny that awaited them, — while you were piddling after, of all things, the truth! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Branch_Cabell" title="James Branch Cabell">James Branch Cabell</a>, The Silver Stallion : A Comedy of Redemption (1926), Saraïde, in Book Seven : What Saraïde Wanted, Ch. XLVII : Economics of Saraïde.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is very marvelous … and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Branch_Cabell" title="James Branch Cabell">James Branch Cabell</a>, The Silver Stallion : A Comedy of Redemption (1926), The Gander, in Book Seven : What Saraïde Wanted, Ch. XLV : The Gander Also Generalizes.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The realization that life is <a href="/wiki/Absurd" class="mw-redirect" title="Absurd">absurd</a> and cannot be an <a href="/wiki/End" title="End">end</a>, but only a <a href="/wiki/Beginning" class="mw-redirect" title="Beginning">beginning</a>. This is a truth nearly <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> <a href="/wiki/Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Great">great</a> <a href="/wiki/Minds" class="mw-redirect" title="Minds">minds</a> have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the <a href="/wiki/Consequences" class="mw-redirect" title="Consequences">consequences</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rules" title="Rules">rules</a> of <a href="/wiki/Action" title="Action">action</a> drawn from it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Camus" title="Albert Camus">Albert Camus</a>, "The Reading Room," Alger Républicain (1938) critiquing Nausea by <a href="/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre" title="Jean-Paul Sartre">Jean-Paul Sartre</a>, as quoted in Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd (2002) by Avi Sagi, p. 43.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>People who see life as anything more than pure <a href="/wiki/Entertainment" title="Entertainment">entertainment</a> are missing the point. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Carlin" title="George Carlin">George Carlin</a>, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is a curious situation that the <a href="/wiki/Sea" title="Sea">sea</a>, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rachel_Carson" title="Rachel Carson">Rachel Carson</a>, The Sea Around Us (1951)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As <a href="/wiki/Human_beings" class="mw-redirect" title="Human beings">human beings</a>, we are part of the whole stream of <a class="mw-selflink selflink">life</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rachel_Carson" title="Rachel Carson">Rachel Carson</a> Speech (1954) In Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (1998)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. To a large extent, the physical form and the habits of the earth's vegetation and its animal life have been molded by the environment. Considering the whole span of earthly time, the opposite effect, in which life actually modifies its surroundings, has been relatively slight. Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species-man-acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rachel_Carson" title="Rachel Carson">Rachel Carson</a> Silent Spring (1962)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people can't. But I don't believe that the Federal Government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal, particularly when there is a moral factor involved. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Jimmy Carter</a>, answer to a question asking whether it is fair that women who can afford abortions can get them while women who cannot afford them are precluded, news conference, Washington, D.C. (July 12, 1977). Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977, book 2, p. 1237.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>They cut me down And I leapt up high; I am the life That'll never, never die; I'll live in you If you'll live in me — I am the Lord Of the Dance, said he. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Carter" title="Sydney Carter">Sydney Carter</a>, Lord of the Dance (1963) <ul><li>The quotes in Lord of the Dance are from the definitive lyrics to original "Lord of the Dance" song which was written to accompany the Shaker tune of "Simple Gifts" by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Brackett" title="Joseph Brackett">Joseph Brackett</a>. These were later adapted (in either ignorance or denial of the actual origins) without authorization or acknowledgments in the theatrical play "Lord of the Dance", and in other adaptations since.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In our lives there is a simple colour, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the colour of love. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marc_Chagall" title="Marc Chagall">Marc Chagall</a> in: C. Robertson (1998) Dictionary of quotations. p. 78 - Pagina 78</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final <a href="/wiki/Enlightenment_(spiritual)" title="Enlightenment (spiritual)">enlightenment</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Chinmoy" title="Sri Chinmoy">Sri Chinmoy</a>, Ten Thousand Flower Flames Part 1-100 (1979), #4029, Part 41.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>O <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a>, life’s guide! O searcher-out of <a href="/wiki/Virtue" title="Virtue">virtue</a> and expeller of <a href="/wiki/Vices" title="Vices">vices</a>! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>, Tusc. Quæst, Book V. 2. 5. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 596-97.</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Waterdrops_(4648726722).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Waterdrops_%284648726722%29.jpg/220px-Waterdrops_%284648726722%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Waterdrops_%284648726722%29.jpg/330px-Waterdrops_%284648726722%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Waterdrops_%284648726722%29.jpg/440px-Waterdrops_%284648726722%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1324" data-file-height="1986" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Happy" class="mw-redirect" title="Happy">happy</a> life consists in <a href="/wiki/Tranquility" title="Tranquility">tranquility</a> of mind. ~ <a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age—each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0039%3Asection%3D33">section 33</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Undoubtedly, as it seems to me at least, satiety of all pursuits causes satiety of life. Boyhood has certain pursuits: does youth yearn for them? Early youth has its pursuits: does the matured or so-called middle stage of life need them? Maturity, too, has such as are not even sought in old age, and finally, there are those suitable to old age. Therefore as the pleasures and pursuits of the earlier periods of life fall away, so also do those of old age; and when that happens man has his fill of life and the time is ripe for him to go. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0039%3Asection%3D76">section 76</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>How few philosophers are to be found who are such in character, so ordered in soul and in life, as reason demands; who regard their teaching not as a display of knowledge, but as the rule of life; who obey themselves, and submit to their own decrees! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>, Tusculan Disputations Book II, Chapter IV; translation by Andrew P. Peabody (45 BC)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We think a happy life consists in <a href="/wiki/Tranquility" title="Tranquility">tranquility</a> of mind. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>, De Natura Deorum – On the Nature of the Gods (45 BC)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paulo_Coelho" title="Paulo Coelho">Paulo Coelho</a> (2011) Aleph</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You try your damnedest, but something always goes wrong. That’s life. If you’re smart, you plan for it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Glen_Cook" title="Glen Cook">Glen Cook</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows_Linger" class="extiw" title="w:Shadows Linger">Shadows Linger</a> (1984), chapter 6</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is but a flicker shouting into the jaws of eternity. But it seems so damned unfair! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Glen_Cook" title="Glen Cook">Glen Cook</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Rose_(Cook_novel)" class="extiw" title="w:The White Rose (Cook novel)">The White Rose</a> (1985), chapter 39</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. <ul><li>Vicki Corona, Tahitian Choreographies (Aug 1, 1989) Dance Fantasy Productions, p. 36 (<a href="/wiki/Talk:Life#Life_is_not_measured_by_the_number_of_breaths_we_take.2C_but_by_the_moments_that_take_our_breath_away." title="Talk:Life">Discussion</a>).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Still ending, and beginning still. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Cowper" title="William Cowper">William Cowper</a>, The Task (1785), Book III, line 627.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Cowper" title="William Cowper">William Cowper</a>, The Task (1785), Book IV, line 55.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. <ul><li>'La vie n’est facile pour aucun de nous. Mais quoi, il faut avoir de la persévérance, et surtout de la confiance en soi. Il faut croire que l’on est doué pour quelque chose, et que, cette chose, il faut l'atteindre coûte que coûte.' <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marie_Curie" title="Marie Curie">Marie Curie</a>, As quoted in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, p. 69.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>One is born, one runs up bills, one dies. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Curtis" title="Richard Curtis">Richard Curtis</a> (English screenwriter and film director) and <a href="/wiki/Ben_Elton" title="Ben Elton">Ben Elton</a> (British-Australian comedian and author). Stated by Rowan Atkinson playing Edmund Blackadder in the BBC situation comedy, Blackadder the Third, episode four, 'Amy and Amiability', 1987.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="D">D</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: D">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tamme-Lauri_tamm_suvep%C3%A4eval.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Tamme-Lauri_tamm_suvep%C3%A4eval.jpg/220px-Tamme-Lauri_tamm_suvep%C3%A4eval.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Tamme-Lauri_tamm_suvep%C3%A4eval.jpg/330px-Tamme-Lauri_tamm_suvep%C3%A4eval.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Tamme-Lauri_tamm_suvep%C3%A4eval.jpg/440px-Tamme-Lauri_tamm_suvep%C3%A4eval.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7360" data-file-height="4912" /></a><figcaption>For with <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">You</a> is the source of life; By <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a> from you we can see light. ~ <a href="/wiki/David" title="David">David</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:31-primavera,Taccuino_Sanitatis,_Casanatense_4182..jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/31-primavera%2CTaccuino_Sanitatis%2C_Casanatense_4182..jpg/220px-31-primavera%2CTaccuino_Sanitatis%2C_Casanatense_4182..jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="235" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/31-primavera%2CTaccuino_Sanitatis%2C_Casanatense_4182..jpg/330px-31-primavera%2CTaccuino_Sanitatis%2C_Casanatense_4182..jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/31-primavera%2CTaccuino_Sanitatis%2C_Casanatense_4182..jpg/440px-31-primavera%2CTaccuino_Sanitatis%2C_Casanatense_4182..jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1070" /></a><figcaption>Life's a garden, dig it! ~ <a href="/wiki/Joe_Dirt" title="Joe Dirt">Joe Dirt</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Axis_axis_(Nagarhole,_2010).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Axis_axis_%28Nagarhole%2C_2010%29.jpg/220px-Axis_axis_%28Nagarhole%2C_2010%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Axis_axis_%28Nagarhole%2C_2010%29.jpg/330px-Axis_axis_%28Nagarhole%2C_2010%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Axis_axis_%28Nagarhole%2C_2010%29.jpg/440px-Axis_axis_%28Nagarhole%2C_2010%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3200" data-file-height="2134" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a> of life is higher than life. ~ <a href="/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Fyodor Dostoevsky">Fyodor Dostoevsky</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>In life, if not in literature, there is always anticlimax. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Avram_Davidson" title="Avram Davidson">Avram Davidson</a>, Sleep Well of Nights (1978), in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Carr" class="extiw" title="w:Terry Carr">Terry Carr (ed.)</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Carr" class="extiw" title="w:Terry Carr">The Year's Finest Fantasy: Volume 2</a>, p. 201 (originally published in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magazine_of_Fantasy_%26_Science_Fiction" class="extiw" title="w:The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction">The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction</a>, August 1978)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Every living movement is a sliding toward death. But if they are willing to look it in the face they also discover that every movement toward death is life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir" title="Simone de Beauvoir">Simone de Beauvoir</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ethics_of_Ambiguity" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The Ethics of Ambiguity">The Ethics of Ambiguity</a>. Philosophical Library. 1948. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8065-0160-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8065-0160-4">ISBN 978-0-8065-0160-4</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%5B%5B%3Awikipedia%3AThe+Ethics+of+Ambiguity%7CThe+Ethics+of+Ambiguity%5D%5D&rft.date=1948&rft.pub=Philosophical+Library&rft.isbn=978-0-8065-0160-4&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Life">  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/ambiguity/ch03.htm">Part III: The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[T]he only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Dennett" title="Daniel Dennett">Daniel Dennett</a> (1995) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s_Dangerous_Idea" class="extiw" title="w:Darwin's Dangerous Idea">Darwin's Dangerous Idea</a>'</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is an urge of the Universe to understand itself. <ul><li>N. S. Dhami, "A Phrase Steps Out of the Past".</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them — all <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/porter#Noun_2" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:porter">porter</a> and <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skittles#Noun_2" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:skittles">skittles</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pickwick_Papers" class="mw-redirect" title="Pickwick Papers">Pickwick Papers</a> (1836), Chapter XL, of original edition.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life's a garden, dig it! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Dirt" title="Joe Dirt">Joe Dirt</a>, Joe Dirt (2001).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/Dream" class="mw-redirect" title="Dream">dream</a>! What is a dream? And is not our life a dream? I will say more. Suppose that this <a href="/wiki/Paradise" title="Paradise">paradise</a> will never come to pass (that I <a href="/wiki/Understand" class="mw-redirect" title="Understand">understand</a>), yet I shall go on preaching it. And yet how <a href="/wiki/Simple" class="mw-redirect" title="Simple">simple</a> it is: in one <a href="/wiki/Day" title="Day">day</a>, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> others like <a href="/wiki/Self" title="Self">yourself</a>, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted — you will find out at once how to arrange it <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a>. And yet it's an old <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a> which has been told and retold a billion times — but it has not formed part of our lives! The <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a> of life is higher than life, the <a href="/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge">knowledge</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Laws" class="mw-redirect" title="Laws">laws</a> of <a href="/wiki/Happiness" title="Happiness">happiness</a> is higher than happiness — that is what one must contend against. And I shall. If only everyone wants it, it can be arranged at once. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Fyodor Dostoevsky">Fyodor Dostoevsky</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_a_Ridiculous_Man" class="extiw" title="w:The Dream of a Ridiculous Man">The Dream of a Ridiculous Man</a> (1877), V.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Bankrupt of life, yet <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prodigal#Adjective" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:prodigal">prodigal</a> of ease. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Dryden" title="John Dryden">John Dryden</a>, Absalom and Achitophel (1681), line 168.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="E">E</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: E">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:RWEmerson.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/RWEmerson.jpg/220px-RWEmerson.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/RWEmerson.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="239" data-file-height="359" /></a><figcaption>The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself. He is not to live the future as described to him but to live the real future to the real present. ~ <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fiori_di_mandorlo.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Fiori_di_mandorlo.jpg/220px-Fiori_di_mandorlo.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Fiori_di_mandorlo.jpg/330px-Fiori_di_mandorlo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Fiori_di_mandorlo.jpg/440px-Fiori_di_mandorlo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>When life is true to the poles of nature, the streams of truth will roll through us in song. ~ <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>If it wasn’t disappointing, you wouldn’t know it was life. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Edghill" class="extiw" title="w:Rosemary Edghill">Rosemary Edghill</a>, A Winter’s Tale, in Denise Little (ed.) The Magic Shop (2004), <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7564-0173-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-7564-0173-9">ISBN 0-7564-0173-9</a>, p. 318</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What is the <a href="/wiki/Meaning_of_life" title="Meaning of life">meaning of human life</a>, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>, The World As I See It (1949)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>, Einstein and the Poet: Fourth conversation (1954)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>, Why Socialism? (1949)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Eliot" title="George Eliot">George Eliot</a>, Spanish Gypsy (1868), Book III.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself. He is not to live the future as described to him but to live the real future to the real present. The highest revelation is that God is in every man. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>, Journals (1822–1863), 8 September 1833. As quoted in: Maurice York and Rick Spaulding (2008): <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.de/books?id=_pRMlDQavQwC&pg=PA240&dq=A+man+contains+all+that+is+needful+to+his+government+within+himself&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiahO73qqfeAhUwpIsKHRqzDswQ6AEIQDAD#v=onepage&q=A%20man%20contains%20all%20that%20is%20needful%20to%20his%20government%20within%20himself&f=false">Ralph Waldo Emerson – The Infinitude of the Private Man: A Biography.</a> Chicago and Raleigh: Wrighwood Press, pages 240 – 241. Derived from: Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes (1909): Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with annotations, III, pages 200-201.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Sooner or later that which is <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">now</a> life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>, Letters and Social Aims (1876), Poetry and Imagination.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When life is true to the poles of nature, the streams of truth will roll through us in song. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>, Letters and Social Aims (1876), Poetry and Imagination.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>So likewise all this life of martall men, What is it but a certaine kynde of stage plaie? Where men come forthe disguised one in one arraie, An other in an other eche plaiying his part. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Erasmus" class="mw-redirect" title="Erasmus">Erasmus</a>, Praise of Folie. Challoner's translation (1549), p. 43.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Sometimes I think life is all one long fucking count: We count the hours, the bulls count us, and the head bulls count counts. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Benjamin" class="extiw" title="w:Paul Benjamin">Paul Benajmin</a> as English, an inmate at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatraz_Federal_Penitentiary" class="extiw" title="w:Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary">the titular prison</a> in the 1979 film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_Alcatraz_(film)" class="extiw" title="w:Escape from Alcatraz (film)">Escape from Alcatraz</a>. Regular counts of inmates are a standard security practice at prisons.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="F">F</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: F">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bubble_Ring_in_Sunlight.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Bubble_Ring_in_Sunlight.JPG/220px-Bubble_Ring_in_Sunlight.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Bubble_Ring_in_Sunlight.JPG/330px-Bubble_Ring_in_Sunlight.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Bubble_Ring_in_Sunlight.JPG/440px-Bubble_Ring_in_Sunlight.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>Life is like the sea. There'll be a direction to follow even if you sail more than one day or one life... the promise of a new land is your guide, because you know that the sea is a huge world that's beautiful only if there's a shore. ~ Patricky Field </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AnneFrankSchoolPhoto.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/AnneFrankSchoolPhoto.jpg/220px-AnneFrankSchoolPhoto.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="362" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/AnneFrankSchoolPhoto.jpg/330px-AnneFrankSchoolPhoto.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/AnneFrankSchoolPhoto.jpg/440px-AnneFrankSchoolPhoto.jpg 2x" data-file-width="933" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>We're <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> alive, but we don't <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a> why or what for; we're all <a href="/wiki/Searching" class="mw-redirect" title="Searching">searching</a> for <a href="/wiki/Happiness" title="Happiness">happiness</a>; we're all leading lives that are different and yet the same. ~ <a href="/wiki/Anne_Frank" title="Anne Frank">Anne Frank</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LuMaxArt_Golden_Family_With_World_Religions.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/LuMaxArt_Golden_Family_With_World_Religions.jpg/220px-LuMaxArt_Golden_Family_With_World_Religions.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/LuMaxArt_Golden_Family_With_World_Religions.jpg/330px-LuMaxArt_Golden_Family_With_World_Religions.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/LuMaxArt_Golden_Family_With_World_Religions.jpg/440px-LuMaxArt_Golden_Family_With_World_Religions.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1500" /></a><figcaption>I <a href="/wiki/Believe" class="mw-redirect" title="Believe">believe</a> that none can "save" his fellow man by making a <a href="/wiki/Choice" title="Choice">choice</a> for him. To <a href="/wiki/Help" title="Help">help</a> him, he can indicate the possible alternatives, with <a href="/wiki/Sincerity" title="Sincerity">sincerity</a> and <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>, without being sentimental and without <a href="/wiki/Illusion" title="Illusion">illusion</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge">knowledge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Awareness" title="Awareness">awareness</a> of the freeing alternatives can reawaken in an <a href="/wiki/Individual" class="mw-redirect" title="Individual">individual</a> <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> his hidden <a href="/wiki/Energies" class="mw-redirect" title="Energies">energies</a> and put him on the path to choosing <a href="/wiki/Respect" title="Respect">respect</a> for life" instead of for "<a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a>." ~ <a href="/wiki/Erich_Fromm" title="Erich Fromm">Erich Fromm</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mount_Fuji_from_Lake_Kawaguchi.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Mount_Fuji_from_Lake_Kawaguchi.jpg/220px-Mount_Fuji_from_Lake_Kawaguchi.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Mount_Fuji_from_Lake_Kawaguchi.jpg/330px-Mount_Fuji_from_Lake_Kawaguchi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Mount_Fuji_from_Lake_Kawaguchi.jpg/440px-Mount_Fuji_from_Lake_Kawaguchi.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1728" data-file-height="1152" /></a><figcaption>Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. ~ <a href="/wiki/Robert_Frost" title="Robert Frost">Robert Frost</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>The sea is only beautiful if there's a shore. Life is like the sea. There'll be a direction to follow even if you sail more than one day or one life... the promise of a new land is your guide, because you know that the sea is a huge world that's beautiful only if there's a shore. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricky_Field" class="extiw" title="w:Patricky Field">Patricky Field</a>, as quoted in Beautiful if there's a shore (2008) song by Patricky Field.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>O ja, ik wil niet zoals de meeste mensen voor niets geleefd hebben. Ik wil van nut of plezier zijn voor de mensen, die om mij heen leven en die mij toch niet kennen. <ul><li>I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Frank" title="Anne Frank">Anne Frank</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The Diary of a Young Girl">The Diary of a Young Girl</a> (1942 - 1944), 5 April 1944.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Wij leven allen, maar weten niet waarom en waarvoor, wij leven allen met het doel gelukkig te worden, we leven allen verschillend en toch gelijk. <ul><li>We're all alive, but we don't know why or what for; we're all searching for happiness; we're all leading lives that are different and yet the same.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Frank" title="Anne Frank">Anne Frank</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The Diary of a Young Girl">The Diary of a Young Girl</a> (1942 - 1944), 6 July 1944.</li> <li>Variant translation: We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Frankl" title="Viktor Frankl">Viktor Frankl</a>, Man's Search for Meaning, p. 126 in the 1984 Pocket Books edition.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Dost thou love life? then do not squander <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>; for that is the stuff life is made of. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a>, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 582</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I believe that none can "save" his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the possible alternatives, with sincerity and love, without being sentimental and without <a href="/wiki/Illusion" title="Illusion">illusion</a>. The knowledge and awareness of the freeing alternatives can reawaken in an individual all his hidden energies and put him on the path to choosing respect for "life" instead of for "death." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Erich_Fromm" title="Erich Fromm">Erich Fromm</a>, Credo (1965), First published in English in On Being Human (1994) by Erich From, edited by Rainer Funk, pp. 99-105. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.erich-fromm.de/e/index.htm?/e/play.php?shownews=89">Full text online</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Human beings desire more than small pleasures in the routines of life. We also seek great challenges in the face of death. <ul><li>Matt Frose, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/03/the-anti-christian-alt-right">"The Anti-Christian Alt-Right"</a> (2018), First Things</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Frost" title="Robert Frost">Robert Frost</a>, as quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) edited by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 261.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Frost" title="Robert Frost">Robert Frost</a>, West-running Brook</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="G">G</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: G">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shakyamuni_buddha.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Shakyamuni_buddha.jpg/220px-Shakyamuni_buddha.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Shakyamuni_buddha.jpg/330px-Shakyamuni_buddha.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Shakyamuni_buddha.jpg/440px-Shakyamuni_buddha.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1296" data-file-height="828" /></a><figcaption>All manifested life is sorrow, unless man knows how to live it. ~ <a href="/wiki/Gautama_Buddha" title="Gautama Buddha">Gautama Buddha</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Life is life, and it is infinitely better than the alternative, or so we presume, for nobody returns to dispute it. Such is my motto. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a>, An Invocation of Incuriosity in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigger_Warning_(book)" class="extiw" title="w:Trigger Warning (book)">Trigger Warning</a> (2015), <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-305204-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-305204-8">ISBN 978-0-06-305204-8</a>, pp. 176-177</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The First Truth is an assertion that all manifested life is sorrow, unless man knows how to live it. In commenting upon this, the Bodhisattva said that there are two senses in which manifested life is sorrowful. One of these is to some extent inevitable, but the other is an entire mistake and is very easily to be avoided... Even though we may be only a tiny fragment—indeed, a fragment of a fragment—we are nevertheless a part of a magnificent reality. There is nothing to be proud of in being only a fragment, but there is a certainty that because we are therefore part of the higher, we can eventually rise into the higher and become one therewith. That is the end and aim of our evolution. And even when we attain that, remember that it is not for the sake of our delight in the advancement, but that we may be able to help in the scheme. All these sacrifices and limitations may rightly be described as involving suffering; but they are undertaken gladly as soon as the ego [soul/God within] fully understands. An ego has not the perfection of the Monad, and so he does not fully understand at first; he has to learn like everybody else. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gautama_Buddha" title="Gautama Buddha">Gautama Buddha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Four_Noble_Truths" title="Four Noble Truths">The Four Noble Truths</a>, the Essence of Gautama Buddha's Teachings ~5th-century CE</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is another sense in which life is often <a href="/wiki/Sorrow" title="Sorrow">sorrow</a>, but a kind of sorrow that can be entirely avoided. The man who lives the ordinary life of the world often finds himself in trouble of various kinds. It would not be true to say that he is always in sorrow, but he is often in anxiety, and he is always liable at any moment to fall into great sorrow or anxiety. The reason for this is that he is full of lower <a href="/wiki/Desire" title="Desire">desires</a> of various kinds, not at all necessarily wicked, but desires for lower things; and because of these desires he is tied down and confined. He is constantly striving to attain something which he has not, and he is full of anxiety as to whether he will attain it; and when he has attained it, he is anxious lest he should lose it. This is true not only of money but of position and power, of fame and of social advancement. All these cravings cause incessant trouble in many different ways. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gautama_Buddha" title="Gautama Buddha">Gautama Buddha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Four_Noble_Truths" title="Four Noble Truths">The Four Noble Truths</a>, the Essence of Gautama Buddha's Teachings ~5th-century CE</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The thought occurred to me: 'When an untaught, run-of-the-mill person, himself subject to death, not beyond death, sees another who is dead, he is horrified, humiliated, & disgusted, oblivious to himself that he too is subject to death, not beyond death. And if I — who am subject to death, not beyond death — were to be horrified, humiliated, & disgusted on seeing another person who is dead, that would not be fitting for me.' As I noticed this, the living person's intoxication with life entirely dropped away. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gautama_Buddha" title="Gautama Buddha">Gautama Buddha</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%E1%B9%85guttara_Nik%C4%81ya" class="extiw" title="w:Aṅguttara Nikāya">Aṅguttara Nikāya</a> 3:8 as translated by <a href="/wiki/Thanissaro_Bhikkhu" class="mw-redirect" title="Thanissaro Bhikkhu">Thanissaro Bhikkhu</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is a <a href="/wiki/Jest" class="mw-redirect" title="Jest">jest</a>; and <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> things show it. I <a href="/wiki/Thought" title="Thought">thought</a> so once; and <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">now</a> I <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a> it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Gay" title="John Gay">John Gay</a> My Own Epitaph, inscribed on Gay’s monument in Westminster Abbey; also quoted as "I thought so once; but <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">now</a> I know it".</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Audrey_Hepburn_and_Cary_Grant_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Audrey_Hepburn_and_Cary_Grant_1.jpg/220px-Audrey_Hepburn_and_Cary_Grant_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Audrey_Hepburn_and_Cary_Grant_1.jpg/330px-Audrey_Hepburn_and_Cary_Grant_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Audrey_Hepburn_and_Cary_Grant_1.jpg/440px-Audrey_Hepburn_and_Cary_Grant_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="501" data-file-height="396" /></a><figcaption>It is the <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">law</a> of life that if you are <a href="/wiki/Kind" class="mw-redirect" title="Kind">kind</a> to someone you <a href="/wiki/Feel" class="mw-redirect" title="Feel">feel</a> <a href="/wiki/Happy" class="mw-redirect" title="Happy">happy</a>.  If you are <a href="/wiki/Cruel" class="mw-redirect" title="Cruel">cruel</a> you are <a href="/wiki/Unhappy" class="mw-redirect" title="Unhappy">unhappy</a>.  And if you <a href="/wiki/Hurt" class="mw-redirect" title="Hurt">hurt</a> someone, you will be hurt back. ~ <a href="/wiki/Cary_Grant" title="Cary Grant">Cary Grant</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>The goal, the project of living a human life, a truly human life, is all about self-mastering. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_P._George" title="Robert P. George">Robert P. George</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/video/robert-p-george/">interview with Bill Kristol</a> (April 2016), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/transcript/robert-george-transcript/">transcript</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Timeless" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeless">timeless</a> in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Khalil_Gibran" class="mw-redirect" title="Khalil Gibran">Khalil Gibran</a>, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prophet_(book)" class="extiw" title="w:The Prophet (book)">The Prophet</a>,(1923)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All the bloomy flush of life is fled. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Goldsmith" title="Oliver Goldsmith">Oliver Goldsmith</a>, The Deserted Village (1770), 128.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is a reaching out for something or someone. That is its definition. We choose one thing and then another to reach for, climbing to a new rung on the ladder as awareness grows, but they are all only symbols, even human love at its highest and most redemptive. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Goudge" title="Elizabeth Goudge">Elizabeth Goudge</a>, The Scent of Water (1963), Ch. XIII.2.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is the <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">law</a> of life that if you are <a href="/wiki/Kind" class="mw-redirect" title="Kind">kind</a> to someone you feel <a href="/wiki/Happy" class="mw-redirect" title="Happy">happy</a>. If you are <a href="/wiki/Cruel" class="mw-redirect" title="Cruel">cruel</a> you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cary_Grant" title="Cary Grant">Cary Grant</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.carygrant.net/articles/thinks%20about.htm">"Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About"</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheilah_Graham_Westbrook" class="extiw" title="w:Sheilah Graham Westbrook">Sheilah Graham Westbrook</a> in Motion Picture (June 1964).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. <ul><li>Generally attributed to <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Grellet" title="Stephen Grellet">Stephen Grellet</a>, but not found in his published writings. Same idea found in The Spectator. (Addison). No. I, Volume I. March 1. 1710. Canon Jepson positively claimed it for Emerson. Attributed to Edward Courtenay, due to the resemblance of the Earl's epitaph. See Literary World, March 15, 1905. Also to Carlyle, Miss A. B. Hageman, Rowland Hill, <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius" title="Marcus Aurelius">Marcus Aurelius</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In non-theistic traditions, such as <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a>, everything is due to its own causes. <a href="/wiki/Karma" title="Karma">Karma</a> may come from this lifetime, but it may even come from previous lifetimes. From the Buddhist point of view, we must make forceful positive karma, which can be stronger than the previous negative karma. This can reduce or even eliminate the previous negative karma. So look forward. Lead some kind of new life, full of determination. Lead your life in an honest way, a truthful way. By <a href="/wiki/Truthful" class="mw-redirect" title="Truthful">truthful</a> acts, by <a href="/wiki/Compassionate" class="mw-redirect" title="Compassionate">compassionate</a> acts, increase positive <a href="/wiki/Karma" title="Karma">karma</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama" title="Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama">Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dalailama.com/news/2011/the-transformation-of-pain">The Transformation of Pain</a> (5 November 2011)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="H">H</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: H">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hercules_Musei_Capitolini_MC1265_n2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Hercules_Musei_Capitolini_MC1265_n2.jpg/220px-Hercules_Musei_Capitolini_MC1265_n2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="386" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Hercules_Musei_Capitolini_MC1265_n2.jpg/330px-Hercules_Musei_Capitolini_MC1265_n2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Hercules_Musei_Capitolini_MC1265_n2.jpg/440px-Hercules_Musei_Capitolini_MC1265_n2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="564" data-file-height="990" /></a><figcaption>The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory. ~ <a href="/wiki/Edith_Hamilton" title="Edith Hamilton">Edith Hamilton</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Woman_in_chef%27s_uniform.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Woman_in_chef%27s_uniform.jpg/220px-Woman_in_chef%27s_uniform.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="327" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Woman_in_chef%27s_uniform.jpg/330px-Woman_in_chef%27s_uniform.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Woman_in_chef%27s_uniform.jpg/440px-Woman_in_chef%27s_uniform.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6741" data-file-height="10020" /></a><figcaption>What kind of life a person is reborn into depends on Karma. Karma refers to all the <a href="/wiki/Deeds" title="Deeds">deeds</a>, <a href="/wiki/Words" title="Words">words</a>, and thoughts of one’s <a class="mw-selflink selflink">life</a>... Karma is the deciding factor in one's fate in his or her next life. ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hazen" class="extiw" title="w:Walter Hazen">Walter Hazen</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brocken-tanzawa2.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Brocken-tanzawa2.JPG/220px-Brocken-tanzawa2.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Brocken-tanzawa2.JPG/330px-Brocken-tanzawa2.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Brocken-tanzawa2.JPG/440px-Brocken-tanzawa2.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1600" /></a><figcaption>Life is worth Living Through every grain of it, From the foundations To the last edge Of the cornerstone, death. ~ <a href="/wiki/William_Ernest_Henley" title="William Ernest Henley">William Ernest Henley</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Golden_Bough_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/The_Golden_Bough_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG/220px-The_Golden_Bough_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="295" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/The_Golden_Bough_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG/330px-The_Golden_Bough_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/The_Golden_Bough_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG/440px-The_Golden_Bough_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG 2x" data-file-width="444" data-file-height="596" /></a><figcaption>Life — life — let there be life! ~ <a href="/wiki/William_Ernest_Henley" title="William Ernest Henley">William Ernest Henley</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Larus_glaucescens_adult_flight.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Larus_glaucescens_adult_flight.jpg/220px-Larus_glaucescens_adult_flight.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Larus_glaucescens_adult_flight.jpg/330px-Larus_glaucescens_adult_flight.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Larus_glaucescens_adult_flight.jpg/440px-Larus_glaucescens_adult_flight.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="1595" /></a><figcaption>If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this <a href="/wiki/Beauty" title="Beauty">beauty</a> together! ~ <a href="/wiki/Frank_Herbert" title="Frank Herbert">Frank Herbert</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Trogon_surrucura_brazil.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Trogon_surrucura_brazil.jpg/220px-Trogon_surrucura_brazil.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Trogon_surrucura_brazil.jpg/330px-Trogon_surrucura_brazil.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Trogon_surrucura_brazil.jpg/440px-Trogon_surrucura_brazil.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5315" data-file-height="3543" /></a><figcaption> Rather than accept the fantastically small probability of life having arisen through the blind forces of nature, it seemed better to suppose that the origin of life was a deliberate intellectual act. ~ <a href="/wiki/Fred_Hoyle" title="Fred Hoyle">Fred Hoyle</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a> of being matched against a great adversary suffices and who can dispense with success. Life for him was an adventure, perilous indeed, but men are not made for safe havens. The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edith_Hamilton" title="Edith Hamilton">Edith Hamilton</a>, The Great Age of Greek Literature (1942), p. 243. She was referring to Aeschylus.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What kind of life a person is reborn into depends on <a href="/wiki/Karma" title="Karma">Karma</a>. Karma refers to all the <a href="/wiki/Deeds" title="Deeds">deeds</a>, <a href="/wiki/Words" title="Words">words</a>, and thoughts of one’s <a class="mw-selflink selflink">life</a>. <a href="/wiki/Buddhists" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddhists">Buddhists</a> believe karma is the deciding factor in one's fate in his or her next life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a>, as explained by Walter Hazen, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=kUjOIaywM9YC&pg=PA12">Inside Buddhism</a>, p. 12</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep <a href="/wiki/Work" title="Work">working</a>. It keeps me busy and happy, and gives me a reason to stay alive. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Heesters" class="extiw" title="w:Johannes Heesters">Johannes Heesters</a> (Dutch-German actor, singer, entertainer and media-personality).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Even in the <a href="/wiki/Harshest" class="mw-redirect" title="Harshest">harshest</a> places there is still <a href="/wiki/Wonder" title="Wonder">wonder</a> and <a href="/wiki/Beauty" title="Beauty">beauty</a>. Times are tough, but <a href="/wiki/Never" title="Never">never</a> <a href="/wiki/Forget" class="mw-redirect" title="Forget">forget</a> the <a href="/wiki/Awe" title="Awe">awe</a> and <a href="/wiki/Majesty" class="mw-redirect" title="Majesty">majesty</a> of life on this <a href="/wiki/Strange" class="mw-redirect" title="Strange">strange</a> blue <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">planet</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rebecca_Helm" title="Rebecca Helm">Rebecca Helm</a>, in a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mobile.twitter.com/RebeccaRHelm/status/1260680352990990337">Twitter post</a>, quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cnet.com/news/scientists-discover-new-colorful-glitter-fighting-worms-living-deep-underwater/">Newly discovered 'glitter worms' dance and fight one another underwater</a> (May 14, 2020) by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Burton" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Bonnie Burton">Bonnie Burton</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNET" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:CNET">CNET</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li> 'Life is worth Living Through every grain of it, From the foundations To the last edge Of the cornerstone, death.' <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Ernest_Henley" title="William Ernest Henley">William Ernest Henley</a>, Rhymes And Rhythms, XIV.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life — life — let there be life! Better a thousand times the roaring hours When wave and wind, Like the Arch-Murderer in flight From the Avenger at his heel, Storm through the desolate fastnesses And wild waste places of the world! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Ernest_Henley" title="William Ernest Henley">William Ernest Henley</a>, Rhymes And Rhythms, XVI.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life — give me life until the end, That at the very top of being, The battle-spirit shouting in my blood, Out of the reddest hell of the fight I may be snatched and flung Into the everlasting lull, The immortal, incommunicable dream. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Ernest_Henley" title="William Ernest Henley">William Ernest Henley</a>, Rhymes And Rhythms, XVI.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life — life — life! 'Tis the sole great thing This side of death, Heart on heart in the wonder of Spring! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Ernest_Henley" title="William Ernest Henley">William Ernest Henley</a>, Hawthorn and Lavender (1901), XI.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Henry" title="Patrick Henry">Patrick Henry</a>, Speech at the Second Virginia Convention at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia (23 March 1775)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>One doth but break-fast here, another dine; he that lives longest does but suppe; we must all goe to bed in another World. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Henshaw" title="Joseph Henshaw">Joseph Henshaw</a>, Horæ Subcessivæ (1631), p. 80.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this <a href="/wiki/Beauty" title="Beauty">beauty</a> together! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Herbert" title="Frank Herbert">Frank Herbert</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_Messiah" class="extiw" title="w:Dune Messiah">Dune Messiah</a> (1969).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Let all live as they would die. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Herbert" title="George Herbert">George Herbert</a>, Jacula Prudentum (1651).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we … kill those people. "Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok … But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>. The eyes of <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a> want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride.' Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead <a href="/wiki/Sharing" title="Sharing">spend it</a> feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Hicks" title="Bill Hicks">Bill Hicks</a>, Revelations (1993).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">Death</a> is Certain, Life is not. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Augustus_Hill&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Augustus Hill (page does not exist)">Augustus Hill</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Oz" class="mw-redirect" title="Oz">Oz</a> [<a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Citing_sources" title="Wikiquote:Citing sources">specific citation needed</a>]</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The life so short, the craft so long to learn. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hippocrates" title="Hippocrates">Hippocrates</a>, Aphorisms, I, i, as translated via the Latin (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_longa,_vita_brevis" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ars longa, vita brevis">Ars longa, vita brevis</a>) by <a href="/wiki/Chaucer" class="mw-redirect" title="Chaucer">Chaucer</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Parlement_of_Foules" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The Parlement of Foules">The Parlement of Foules</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes" title="Thomas Hobbes">Thomas Hobbes</a>, Leviathan (1651), Part I, Of Man, Chapter XVIII.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The bones of this body say, <a href="/wiki/Dance" title="Dance">dance</a>. Dance the story of life <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Linda_Hogan_(writer)" title="Linda Hogan (writer)">Linda Hogan (writer)</a> Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems (2014)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>live so nothing will be left for death at the end <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Linda_Hogan_(writer)" title="Linda Hogan (writer)">Linda Hogan (writer)</a> Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems (2014)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>O Damsel Dorothy! Dorothy Q.! Strange is the gift that I owe to you; Such a gift as never a king Save to daughter or son might bring,— All my tenure of heart and hand, All my title to house and land; Mother and sister and child and wife And joy and sorrow and death and life! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Sr." class="mw-redirect" title="Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.">Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.</a>, "Dorothy Q"., stanza 5, in The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes (1975), p. 187. Dorothy Quincy was Holmes's great-grandmother, and, as he explained in a head-note to the poem, p. 186–87, "the daughter of Judge Edmund Quincy, and the aunt of Josiah Quincy, junior, the young patriot and orator who died just before the American Revolution, of which he was one of the most eloquent and effective promoters".</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wheat_harvest.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Wheat_harvest.jpg/220px-Wheat_harvest.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Wheat_harvest.jpg/330px-Wheat_harvest.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Wheat_harvest.jpg/440px-Wheat_harvest.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="417" /></a><figcaption>What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand? <a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand? <ul><li>Book I, satire i, line 48</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If my character is flawed by a few minor faults, but is otherwise decent and moral, if you can point out only a few scattered blemishes on an otherwise immaculate surface, if no one can accuse me of greed, or of prurience, or of profligacy, if I live a virtuous life, free of defilement (pardon, for a moment, my self-praise), and if I am to my friends a good friend, my father deserves all the credit... As it is now, he deserves from me unstinting gratitude and praise. I could never be ashamed of such a father, nor do I feel any need, as many people do, to apologize for being a freedman's son. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a>, Satires, Book I, satire vi, lines 65–92 (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus. <ul><li>Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. / Life has given nothing to mortals without great labor.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a>, Satires, Book I, satire ix, line 59 (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Then take, good sir, your pleasure while you may; With life so short 'twere wrong to lose a day. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a>, Satires, Book II, satire viii, line 96 (trans. Conington) (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a>, Odes, Book III, ode xxix, line 41 (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Tomorrow we will be back on the vast ocean. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a>, The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs and Sayings</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is a hopeless rear guard action against an overwhelming foe; still how can we not admire those who battle on regardless? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Hughes_(writer)" title="Matthew Hughes (writer)">Matthew Hughes</a>, Majestrum (2006), <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-59780-061-9" title="Special:BookSources/1-59780-061-9">ISBN 1-59780-061-9</a>, p. 93</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We have really lost in our <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a> the sense of the sacredness of life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Basil_Hume" title="Basil Hume">Basil Hume</a>, The Observer Review (1995)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="I">I</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: I">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="J">J</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: J">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Halo_solaire_21112006_003.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Halo_solaire_21112006_003.jpg/220px-Halo_solaire_21112006_003.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Halo_solaire_21112006_003.jpg/330px-Halo_solaire_21112006_003.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Halo_solaire_21112006_003.jpg/440px-Halo_solaire_21112006_003.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1504" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your <a href="/wiki/Belief" title="Belief">belief</a> will help create the <a href="/wiki/Fact" title="Fact">fact</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/William_James" title="William James">William James</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-CROP.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-CROP.jpg/220px-Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-CROP.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="216" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-CROP.jpg/330px-Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-CROP.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-CROP.jpg/440px-Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-CROP.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3259" data-file-height="3194" /></a><figcaption>Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. ~ <a href="/wiki/Steve_Jobs" title="Steve Jobs">Steve Jobs</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Death's got to be easy, because life is hard. It'll leave you physically, mentally, and emotionally scarred. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/50_Cent" title="50 Cent">Curtis J. Jackson</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D3crqpClPY">"Many Men"</a> (2003), Get Rich or Die Tryin'</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://biblehub.com/james/4-14.htm">James 4:14</a>, The Bible</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our <a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">faith</a> beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_James" title="William James">William James</a>, in "Is Life Worth Living?" The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your <a href="/wiki/Belief" title="Belief">belief</a> will help create the <a href="/wiki/Fact" title="Fact">fact</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_James" title="William James">William James</a>, in "Is Life Worth Living?" The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I am the <a href="/wiki/Resurrection" title="Resurrection">resurrection</a> and the life. The one who exercises <a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">faith</a> in me, even though he dies, will come to life; and everyone who is living and exercises faith in me will never die at all. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jw.org/en/publications/bible/nwt/books/john/11/">John 11:25-26</a>, <a href="/wiki/NWT" class="mw-redirect" title="NWT">NWT</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a>, John 17:3 (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_International_Version" class="extiw" title="w:New International Version">NIV</a>).</li> <li>Variants:</li> <li>And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. <ul><li>John 17:3 (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorized_King_James_Version" class="extiw" title="w:Authorized King James Version">KJV</a>)</li></ul></li> <li>This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.watchtower.org/e/bible/joh/chapter_017.htm#bk3">John 17:3 (New World Translation)</a>.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to <a href="/wiki/Trust" title="Trust">trust</a> that the dots will somehow connect in your <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a>. You have to trust in something - your gut, <a href="/wiki/Destiny" title="Destiny">destiny</a>, life, <a href="/wiki/Karma" title="Karma">karma</a>, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Jobs" title="Steve Jobs">Steve Jobs</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=Rvrm6pyH2dkC&pg=PA163">Edgewalkers: People and Organizations That Take Risks, Build Bridges, and ...</a>, p. 163</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by <a href="/wiki/Dogma" title="Dogma">dogma</a> — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Jobs" title="Steve Jobs">Steve Jobs</a>, Address at Stanford University (12 June, 2005).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a>, Anecdotes of Johnson by Mrs Piozzi.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What then is the universe for, and for what final purpose is man the immortal thinker here in evolution? It is all for the experience and emancipation of the soul, for the purpose of raising the entire mass of manifested matter up to the stature, nature, and dignity of conscious god-hood. The great aim is to reach self-consciousness; not through a race or a tribe or some favored nation, but by and through the perfecting, after transformation, of the whole mass of matter as well as what we <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">now</a> call <a href="/wiki/Higher_self" title="Higher self">soul</a>. Nothing is or is to be left out. The aim for present man is his <a href="/wiki/Initiation_(theosophy)" title="Initiation (theosophy)">initiation</a> into <a href="/wiki/Ageless_Wisdom_teachings" title="Ageless Wisdom teachings">complete knowledge</a>, and for the other kingdoms below him that they may be raised up gradually from stage to stage to be in time initiated also. This is evolution carried to its highest power; it is a magnificent prospect; it makes of man a god, and gives to every part of nature the possibility of being one day the same; there is strength and nobility in it, for by this no man is dwarfed and belittled, for no one is so originally sinful that he cannot rise above all sin. Treated from the materialistic position of Science, evolution takes in but half of life; while the religious conception of it is a mixture of nonsense and fear. Present religions keep the element of fear, and at the same time imagine that an Almighty being can think of no other earth but this and has to govern this one very imperfectly. But the old theosophical view makes the universe a vast, complete, and perfect whole. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Quan_Judge" title="William Quan Judge">William Quan Judge</a> in: The Ocean of Theosophy (1893), Chapter 8</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Karma" title="Karma">Karma</a> is an unfamiliar word for Western ears....Applied to man's moral life it is the law of ethical causation, justice, reward and punishment; the cause for birth and rebirth, yet equally the means for escape from incarnation. Viewed from another point it is merely effect flowing from cause, action and reaction, exact result for every thought and act. It is act and the result of act; for the word's literal meaning is action. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Quan_Judge" title="William Quan Judge">William Quan Judge</a> in: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/ocean/oce-11.htm">The Ocean of Theosophy (1893), Chapter 11</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="K">K</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: K">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:3_Leuchtherzen_mit_Schweif.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/3_Leuchtherzen_mit_Schweif.JPG/220px-3_Leuchtherzen_mit_Schweif.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="305" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/3_Leuchtherzen_mit_Schweif.JPG/330px-3_Leuchtherzen_mit_Schweif.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/3_Leuchtherzen_mit_Schweif.JPG/440px-3_Leuchtherzen_mit_Schweif.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2327" data-file-height="3228" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">Love</a> will come find you Just to remind you Of who you are [...] See that's the thing about love [...] Then life It will embrace you Totally amaze you So you don't give up ~ <a href="/wiki/Alicia_Keys" title="Alicia Keys">Alicia Keys</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fountain_of_Eternal_Life_crop.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Fountain_of_Eternal_Life_crop.jpg/220px-Fountain_of_Eternal_Life_crop.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Fountain_of_Eternal_Life_crop.jpg/330px-Fountain_of_Eternal_Life_crop.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Fountain_of_Eternal_Life_crop.jpg/440px-Fountain_of_Eternal_Life_crop.jpg 2x" data-file-width="589" data-file-height="786" /></a><figcaption>I came like Water, and like Wind I go. ~ <a href="/wiki/Omar_Khayyam" class="mw-redirect" title="Omar Khayyam">Omar Khayyam</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Oceanbubblecloud.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Oceanbubblecloud.jpg/220px-Oceanbubblecloud.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Oceanbubblecloud.jpg/330px-Oceanbubblecloud.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Oceanbubblecloud.jpg/440px-Oceanbubblecloud.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>And fear not lest Existence closing your Account should lose or know the type no more: The Eternal Sáki from that Bowl has poured Millions of Bubbles like us and will pour. ~ <a href="/wiki/Omar_Khayyam" class="mw-redirect" title="Omar Khayyam">Omar Khayyam</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:View_through_green_leaves_into_the_sunlight_above_the_top_of_L%C3%BCneburger_Kalkberg_in_May_2012.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/View_through_green_leaves_into_the_sunlight_above_the_top_of_L%C3%BCneburger_Kalkberg_in_May_2012.JPG/220px-View_through_green_leaves_into_the_sunlight_above_the_top_of_L%C3%BCneburger_Kalkberg_in_May_2012.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/View_through_green_leaves_into_the_sunlight_above_the_top_of_L%C3%BCneburger_Kalkberg_in_May_2012.JPG/330px-View_through_green_leaves_into_the_sunlight_above_the_top_of_L%C3%BCneburger_Kalkberg_in_May_2012.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/View_through_green_leaves_into_the_sunlight_above_the_top_of_L%C3%BCneburger_Kalkberg_in_May_2012.JPG/440px-View_through_green_leaves_into_the_sunlight_above_the_top_of_L%C3%BCneburger_Kalkberg_in_May_2012.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. ~ <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King" class="mw-redirect" title="Martin Luther King">Martin Luther King</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dialogue_between_Krishna_and_Arjuna_on_the_battlefield_of_Kurukshetra_(6124590103).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Dialogue_between_Krishna_and_Arjuna_on_the_battlefield_of_Kurukshetra_%286124590103%29.jpg/220px-Dialogue_between_Krishna_and_Arjuna_on_the_battlefield_of_Kurukshetra_%286124590103%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Dialogue_between_Krishna_and_Arjuna_on_the_battlefield_of_Kurukshetra_%286124590103%29.jpg/330px-Dialogue_between_Krishna_and_Arjuna_on_the_battlefield_of_Kurukshetra_%286124590103%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Dialogue_between_Krishna_and_Arjuna_on_the_battlefield_of_Kurukshetra_%286124590103%29.jpg/440px-Dialogue_between_Krishna_and_Arjuna_on_the_battlefield_of_Kurukshetra_%286124590103%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1460" data-file-height="1084" /></a><figcaption>Every selfless act, Arjuna, is born from Brahman, the eternal, infinite Godhead. Brahman is present in every act of service. All life turns on this law O Arjuna. Those who violate it, indulging the senses for their own pleasure and ignoring the needs of others, have wasted their life... Strive constantly to serve the welfare of the world; by devotion to selfless work one attains the supreme goal of life.. ~ Lord <a href="/wiki/Krishna" title="Krishna">Krishna</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Life.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Life.jpg/220px-Life.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="109" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Life.jpg/330px-Life.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Life.jpg/440px-Life.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4192" data-file-height="2086" /></a><figcaption>it may be better to die fighting for survival, or for a cause, than to live a long but empty and purposeless life. ~ <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Kaczynski" title="Theodore Kaczynski">Theodore Kaczynski</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>To many of us, freedom and dignity are more important than a long life or avoidance of physical pain. Besides, we all have to die some time, and it may be better to die fighting for survival, or for a cause, than to live a long but empty and purposeless life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Kaczynski" title="Theodore Kaczynski">Theodore Kaczynski</a>, Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)</li> <li>Kaczynski was originally only known as the Unabomber, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unabomber_Manifesto" class="extiw" title="w:Unabomber Manifesto">his Manifesto</a> assisted in his identification and eventual imprisonment.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Azazel: You've been on the force so long you think you've seen it all, but you haven't. 'Cause life's always got one more surprise for you. And sometimes, it's a big one. <ul><li>Nicholas Kazan, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_(1998_film)" class="extiw" title="w:Fallen (1998 film)">Fallen (1998 film)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Keats" title="John Keats">John Keats</a>, letter to J. H. Reynolds, 3rd May 1818[<a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Citing_sources" title="Wikiquote:Citing sources">specific citation needed</a>]</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">Love</a> will come find you Just to remind you Of who you are [...] See that's the thing about love [...] Then life It will embrace you Totally amaze you So you don't give up <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alicia_Keys" title="Alicia Keys">Alicia Keys</a>, The Thing About Love from the 2007 album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_I_Am" class="extiw" title="w:As I Am">As I Am</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brahman" title="Brahman">Brahman</a>/Achheram word is the immutable self on which all that lives, moves and has its being rests. <a href="/wiki/Self" title="Self">Self</a> is the spirit in man and nature. Karma is the creative impulse out of which life’s forms issue. The whole <a href="/wiki/Cosmic" class="mw-redirect" title="Cosmic">cosmic</a> evolution is called karma. <ul><li>Jitendra Dhoj Khand on <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=xzmODUiGm7YC&pg=PA113">Supreme God: Body, Will, Wisdom, and Work</a>], p. 113</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Omar_Khayyam" class="mw-redirect" title="Omar Khayyam">Omar Khayyam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rubaiyat_of_Omar_Khayyam" class="mw-redirect" title="Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam">Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam</a> (1120), Stanza III. FitzGerald's translation.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits—and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Omar_Khayyam" class="mw-redirect" title="Omar Khayyam">Omar Khayyam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rubaiyat_of_Omar_Khayyam" class="mw-redirect" title="Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam">Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam</a> (1120), Stanza IX. FitzGerald's Trans.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destin'd Hour and went his way. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Omar_Khayyam" class="mw-redirect" title="Omar Khayyam">Omar Khayyam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rubaiyat_of_Omar_Khayyam" class="mw-redirect" title="Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam">Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam</a> (1120), Stanza XVII. FitzGerald's Trans.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I came like Water, and like Wind I go. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Omar_Khayyam" class="mw-redirect" title="Omar Khayyam">Omar Khayyam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rubaiyat_of_Omar_Khayyam" class="mw-redirect" title="Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam">Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam</a> (1120), Stanza XXVIII.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A Moment's Halt—a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste— And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING it set out from. Oh, make haste! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Omar_Khayyam" class="mw-redirect" title="Omar Khayyam">Omar Khayyam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rubaiyat_of_Omar_Khayyam" class="mw-redirect" title="Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam">Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam</a> (1120), Stanza XLVIII. FitzGerald's Trans.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Omar_Khayyam" class="mw-redirect" title="Omar Khayyam">Omar Khayyam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rubaiyat_of_Omar_Khayyam" class="mw-redirect" title="Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam">Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam</a> (1120), Stanza LXIX. FitzGerald's translation.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And fear not lest Existence closing your Account should lose or know the type no more: The Eternal Sáki from that Bowl has poured Millions of Bubbles like us and will pour. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Omar_Khayyam" class="mw-redirect" title="Omar Khayyam">Omar Khayyam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rubaiyat_of_Omar_Khayyam" class="mw-redirect" title="Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam">Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam</a> (1120), FitzGerald's Translation (In the edition of 1889 the second line reads: "Account and mine, should know the like no more").</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Measure thy life by loss instead of gain; Not by the wine drunk, but by the wine poured forth. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_King_(poet)" class="extiw" title="w:Harriet King (poet)">Harriet King</a>,The Disciples (1873), Ugo Bassi, III ("The Sermon in the Hospital").</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>(What is the most amazing thing about life?) IK: That it persists despite its fragility. Everything sort of hangs by a hair's breadth and yet somehow it manages.... You hear such horrible stories about people's lives...war, abuse, poverty-that anybody survives is remarkable. <a href="/wiki/Audre_Lorde" title="Audre Lorde">Audre Lorde</a> once said, "None of us were meant to survive." There's truth to that, and I remain amazed that so many of us do. It's extraordinary that we can even walk around and function in a minimal way, much less in a productive way. For whatever turmoil goes on internally with people and the pain that they experience at night in their dreams, they still manage somehow to construct lives during the day which are meaningful to other people and to themselves. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Irena_Klepfisz" title="Irena Klepfisz">Irena Klepfisz</a> 1997 interview in Meaning and Memory: Interviews with Fourteen Jewish Poets by Gary Pacernick (2001)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hatred" title="Hatred">Hatred</a> paralyzes life; <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Martin Luther King, Jr.">Martin Luther King, Jr.</a>, Strength to Love (1963), Last paragraph of section III of Antidotes for fear, page 122 (see link at top of the section).</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Koothoomi.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Koothoomi.jpg/220px-Koothoomi.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="273" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Koothoomi.jpg/330px-Koothoomi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Koothoomi.jpg 2x" data-file-width="438" data-file-height="544" /></a><figcaption>We say that life is <a href="/wiki/Service" title="Service">service</a> for <a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">evolution</a>. One might find it simpler to say that life is evolution, but We emphasize the idea of service. Indeed, everything is in the process of evolution, but life’s full expression can come only under conditions of voluntary service. ~ <a href="/wiki/Koot_Hoomi" title="Koot Hoomi">Koot Hoomi</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>We say that life is <a href="/wiki/Service" title="Service">service</a> for <a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">evolution</a>. One might find it simpler to say that life is evolution, but We emphasize the idea of <a href="/wiki/Service" title="Service">service</a>. Indeed, everything is in the process of evolution, but life’s full expression can come only under conditions of <a href="/wiki/Volunteering" title="Volunteering">voluntary service</a>. It is the voluntary quality of service that indicates the rightness of the path. In general, people dislike the concept of <a href="/wiki/Public_service" title="Public service">service</a>. They dream about a time when there will be no need for it, and would be horrified to learn that all of life is unending service... It is hard for them to understand that <a href="/wiki/Art" title="Art">art</a> is a refined aid for evolution, and that We recommend the mastery of any art or craft as a rapid approach to service. A master will willingly agree to perpetual service in the perfection of his art, and feels no need to count the hours of labor.... Our life is a voluntary mastership and is not concerned with limits. 305 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Koot_Hoomi" title="Koot Hoomi">Koot Hoomi</a>, Supermundane (1938)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Even on Earth it is possible to almost forget <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Service" title="Service">service</a> becomes <a href="/wiki/Joy" title="Joy">joy</a>. I affirm that one can prepare oneself for such <a href="/wiki/Service" title="Service">service</a> under all circumstances. One need not be a <a href="/wiki/Sage_(philosophy)" title="Sage (philosophy)">sage</a> to accept life as something important and responsible. There are examples of even simple farmers who were ready to devote themselves to the idea of service. It was the loss of this concept of service that turned earthly life into <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slavery</a> and <a href="/wiki/Insanity" title="Insanity">insanity</a>. But the time is approaching when people will be looking, even unwittingly, for the <a href="/wiki/Meaning_of_life" title="Meaning of life">purpose of life</a>. They will first refer to <a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">evolution</a> in scientific terms, but the next step will be the acceptance of service as the right approach to life. The Thinker taught that the concept of service can solve the riddles of life. 305 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Koot_Hoomi" title="Koot Hoomi">Koot Hoomi</a>, Supermundane (1938)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>At the beginning, mankind and the obligation of selfless service were created together. Through selfless service, you will always be fruitful and find the fulfillment of your desires: this is the promise of the Creator... Every selfless act, Arjuna, is born from Brahman, the eternal, infinite Godhead. Brahman is present in every act of service. All life turns on this law O Arjuna. Those who violate it, indulging the senses for their own pleasure and ignoring the needs of others, have wasted their life. But those who realize the Self are always satisfied. Having found the source of <a href="/wiki/Joy" title="Joy">joy</a> and fulfillment, they no longer seek happiness from the external world. They have nothing to gain or lose by any action; neither people nor things can affect their security. Strive constantly to serve the welfare of the world; by devotion to selfless work one attains the supreme goal of life. <ul><li>Lord <a href="/wiki/Krishna" title="Krishna">Krishna</a> speaking to Arjuna in <a href="/wiki/The_Bhagavad_Gita" class="mw-redirect" title="The Bhagavad Gita">The Bhagavad Gita</a>, Chapter 3</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If you are eating well and your condition is pure and clean, life itself becomes like the dreams or visions that you have when sleeping. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michio_Kushi" title="Michio Kushi">Michio Kushi</a> with <a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Esko&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edward Esko (page does not exist)">Edward Esko</a>, Spiritual Journey (1994), p. 64.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="L">L</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: L">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hong_kong_bruce_lee_statue.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Hong_kong_bruce_lee_statue.jpg/220px-Hong_kong_bruce_lee_statue.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Hong_kong_bruce_lee_statue.jpg/330px-Hong_kong_bruce_lee_statue.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Hong_kong_bruce_lee_statue.jpg/440px-Hong_kong_bruce_lee_statue.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1641" data-file-height="1131" /></a><figcaption>If you love life, don't waste <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>, for time is what life is made up of. ~ <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Lee" title="Bruce Lee">Bruce Lee</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Earth_Pacific_jul_30_2010.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Earth_Pacific_jul_30_2010.jpg/220px-Earth_Pacific_jul_30_2010.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Earth_Pacific_jul_30_2010.jpg/330px-Earth_Pacific_jul_30_2010.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Earth_Pacific_jul_30_2010.jpg/440px-Earth_Pacific_jul_30_2010.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4096" data-file-height="2732" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Mystery" title="Mystery">mystery</a> of life is not a <a href="/wiki/Problem" title="Problem">problem</a> to be solved; it is a <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a> to be <a href="/wiki/Experienced" class="mw-redirect" title="Experienced">experienced</a>. ~ Jacobus Johannes Leeuw </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Trees_and_sunshine.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Trees_and_sunshine.JPG/220px-Trees_and_sunshine.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Trees_and_sunshine.JPG/330px-Trees_and_sunshine.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Trees_and_sunshine.JPG/440px-Trees_and_sunshine.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>Life — a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. ~ <a href="/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh" title="Charles Lindbergh">Charles Lindbergh</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LinkinParkBerlin2010.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/LinkinParkBerlin2010.jpg/220px-LinkinParkBerlin2010.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="122" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/LinkinParkBerlin2010.jpg/330px-LinkinParkBerlin2010.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/LinkinParkBerlin2010.jpg/440px-LinkinParkBerlin2010.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1137" /></a><figcaption>When life leaves us blind Love keeps us kind. ~ <a href="/wiki/Linkin_Park" title="Linkin Park">Linkin Park</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Buddha_by_Isabella_Bird.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Buddha_by_Isabella_Bird.jpg/220px-Buddha_by_Isabella_Bird.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="259" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Buddha_by_Isabella_Bird.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="324" data-file-height="382" /></a><figcaption>This is a school in which no pupil ever fails; every one must go on to the end. He has no choice as to that; but the length of time which he will take in qualifying himself for the higher examinations is left entirely to his own discretion. The wise pupil, seeing that school-life is not a thing in itself, but only a preparation... endeavours to comprehend as fully as possible the rules of his school, and shapes his life in accordance with them as closely as he can, so that no time may be lost in the learning of whatever lessons are necessary. ~ <a href="/wiki/C.W._Leadbeater" class="mw-redirect" title="C.W. Leadbeater">C.W. Leadbeater</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Life is too short and hard and strange not to blame God for what He done made of the world. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jay_Lake" title="Jay Lake">Jay Lake</a>, The Temptation of Eustace Prudence McAllen (2012), reprinted in Last Plane to Heaven, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7653-7798-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7653-7798-2">ISBN 978-0-7653-7798-2</a>, p. 175</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is years of sheer, endless boredom punctuated by bouts of the mildly interesting. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jay_Lake" title="Jay Lake">Jay Lake</a>, The Cancer Catechism (2011), reprinted in Last Plane to Heaven, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7653-7798-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7653-7798-2">ISBN 978-0-7653-7798-2</a>, p. 310</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Oh, Life ! — the wearisome, the vexatious — whose pleasures are either placed beyond our reach, or within it when we no longer desire them — when youth toils for the riches, age may possess but not enjoy; — where we trust to friendship, one light word may destroy ; or to love, that dies even of itself; — where we talk of glory, philosophical, literary, military, political — die, or, what is much more, live for it — and this coveted possession dwells in the consent of men of whom no two agree about it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon" title="Letitia Elizabeth Landon">Letitia Elizabeth Landon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Romance_and_Reality" title="Romance and Reality">Romance and Reality</a> (1831) Vol. II, chapter 3</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Yes! Life is a banquet, and most poor sons-of-bitches are starving to death! Live! <ul><li>Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee , Auntie Mame, act II, scene vi (1957). Auntie Mame is speaking. Based on the novel of the same title by Patrick Dennis.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Every one of us has a long line of... physical lives behind him... Each of such lives is a day at school. The ego puts upon himself his garment of flesh and goes forth into the school of the physical world to learn certain lessons. He learns them, or does not learn them, or partially learns them, as the case may be, during his school day of earth-life; then he lays aside the vesture of the flesh and returns home to his own level for rest and refreshment. In the morning of each new life he takes up again his lesson at the point where he left it the night before. Some lessons he may be able to learn in one day, while others may take him many days. If he is an apt pupil and learns quickly what is needed, if he obtains an intelligent grasp of the rules of the school, and takes the trouble to adapt his conduct to them, his school-life is comparatively short... <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Webster_Leadbeater" title="Charles Webster Leadbeater">Charles Webster Leadbeater</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blavatskyarchives.com/theosophypdfs/leadbeater_textbook_of_theosophy_1918.pdf">A Textbook of Theosophy, Chapter VII</a>, (1912)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This is a school in which no pupil ever fails; every one must go on to the end. He has no choice as to that; but the length of time which he will take in qualifying himself for the higher examinations is left entirely to his own discretion. The wise pupil, seeing that school-life is not a thing in itself, but only a preparation... endeavours to comprehend as fully as possible the rules of his school, and shapes his life in accordance with them as closely as he can, so that no time may be lost in the learning of whatever lessons are necessary. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Webster_Leadbeater" title="Charles Webster Leadbeater">Charles Webster Leadbeater</a>, A Textbook of Theosophy, Chapter VII, (1912)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Certain broad facts are always put before men in some form or other. They are explained even to savage tribes by their medicine-men, and to the rest of mankind by various religious teachers and in all kinds of scriptures. It is very true that scriptures and religions differ, but the points in which they all agree have to be accepted by a man before he can understand life sufficiently to live happily. One of these facts is the eternal <a href="/wiki/Law_of_Cause_and_Effect" class="mw-redirect" title="Law of Cause and Effect">Law of Cause and Effect</a>. If a man lives under the delusion that he can do anything that he likes, and that the effect of his actions will never recoil upon himself, he will most certainly find that some of these actions eventually involve him in unhappiness and suffering. If, again, he does not understand that the object of his life is progress, that God’s Will for him is that he shall grow to be something better and nobler than he is now, then also he will bring unhappiness and suffering upon himself, because he will be likely to live for the lower side of life only, and that lower side of life never finally satisfies the inner man. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/C.W._Leadbeater" class="mw-redirect" title="C.W. Leadbeater">C.W. Leadbeater</a>, (Speaking about the <a href="/wiki/Four_Noble_Truths" title="Four Noble Truths">Four Noble Truths</a> in <a href="/wiki/The_Masters_and_the_Path" title="The Masters and the Path">The Masters and the Path</a> (1925) p. 306</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">Time</a> means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the <a href="/wiki/Joy" title="Joy">joy</a> of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>, for time is what life is made up of. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Lee" title="Bruce Lee">Bruce Lee</a>, Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 10; Here Lee paraphrases a much older English proverb: If you care for life, don't waste your time; for time is what life is made of. (as quoted in Bordighera and the Western Riviera (1883) by Frederick Fitzroy Hamilton, p. 189).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Mystery" title="Mystery">mystery</a> of life is not a problem to be solved; it is a <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a> to be experienced. <ul><li>Jacobus Johannes Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion (1928), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=OFdVAAAAMAAJ&q=%22not+a+problem+to+be+solved%22#search_anchor">p. 9</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Hey, hey, hey. A life. A life, Jimmy. Do you know what that is? It's the shit that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come. <ul><li>Lester Freamon to Jimmy McNulty, <a href="/wiki/The_Wire" title="The Wire">The Wire</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life — a culmination of the past, an awareness of the <a href="/wiki/Present" title="Present">present</a>, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh" title="Charles Lindbergh">Charles Lindbergh</a>, "Is Civilization Progress?" in Reader's Digest (July 1964)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Back home where life leaves us blind Love keeps us kind [...] When life leaves us blind Love keeps us kind <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Linkin_Park" title="Linkin Park">Linkin Park</a>, The Messenger from the album "A Thousand Suns" (September 13, 2010)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/D.H._Lawrence" class="mw-redirect" title="D.H. Lawrence">D.H. Lawrence</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Chatterley%27s_Lover" class="extiw" title="w:Lady Chatterley's Lover">Lady Chatterley's Lover</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What shall we call this undetermin'd state, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless oceans, That whence we came, and that to which we tend? <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Lillo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="George Lillo (page does not exist)">George Lillo</a>, Arden of Feversham (performed in 1759), Act III, scene 2.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This life of ours is a wild æolian harp of many a joyous strain, But under them all there runs a loud perpetual wail, as of souls in pain. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a>, Christus, The Golden Legend (1872), Part IV, Stanza 2.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>My life, I live to the limit and I love it. <ul><li>Jennifer Lopez, "I'm Real (Murder Remix)" (2001).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft" title="H. P. Lovecraft">H. P. Lovecraft</a>, Facts concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="M">M</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: M">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:George_and_Louisa_MacDonald_on_their_50th_anniversary.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/George_and_Louisa_MacDonald_on_their_50th_anniversary.jpg/220px-George_and_Louisa_MacDonald_on_their_50th_anniversary.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/George_and_Louisa_MacDonald_on_their_50th_anniversary.jpg/330px-George_and_Louisa_MacDonald_on_their_50th_anniversary.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/George_and_Louisa_MacDonald_on_their_50th_anniversary.jpg/440px-George_and_Louisa_MacDonald_on_their_50th_anniversary.jpg 2x" data-file-width="775" data-file-height="565" /></a><figcaption>In the midst of <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a> we are in <a class="mw-selflink selflink">life</a>. Life is the only <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a>; what men call death is but a <a href="/wiki/Shadow" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow">shadow</a>… ~ <a href="/wiki/George_MacDonald" title="George MacDonald">George MacDonald</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Force-of-change-evolution.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Force-of-change-evolution.jpg/220px-Force-of-change-evolution.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="207" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Force-of-change-evolution.jpg/330px-Force-of-change-evolution.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Force-of-change-evolution.jpg/440px-Force-of-change-evolution.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2655" data-file-height="2502" /></a><figcaption>What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead. ~ <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Mandela" title="Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Optiko.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Optiko.JPG/220px-Optiko.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Optiko.JPG/330px-Optiko.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Optiko.JPG/440px-Optiko.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>I have very <a href="/wiki/Strongly" class="mw-redirect" title="Strongly">strongly</a> this <a href="/wiki/Feeling" class="mw-redirect" title="Feeling">feeling</a>... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet <a href="/wiki/Mysterious" class="mw-redirect" title="Mysterious">mysterious</a> and <a href="/wiki/Extraordinary" class="mw-redirect" title="Extraordinary">extraordinary</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Bryan_Magee" title="Bryan Magee">Bryan Magee</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Friendship_love_and_truth.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Friendship_love_and_truth.jpg/220px-Friendship_love_and_truth.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Friendship_love_and_truth.jpg/330px-Friendship_love_and_truth.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Friendship_love_and_truth.jpg/440px-Friendship_love_and_truth.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1518" data-file-height="1075" /></a><figcaption>Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about. ~ <a href="/wiki/Rollo_May" title="Rollo May">Rollo May</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Morning_Sun_Rays_(5077976668).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Morning_Sun_Rays_%285077976668%29.jpg/220px-Morning_Sun_Rays_%285077976668%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Morning_Sun_Rays_%285077976668%29.jpg/330px-Morning_Sun_Rays_%285077976668%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Morning_Sun_Rays_%285077976668%29.jpg/440px-Morning_Sun_Rays_%285077976668%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2303" data-file-height="1535" /></a><figcaption>Life hath set No landmarks before us. ~ <a href="/wiki/Owen_Meredith" class="mw-redirect" title="Owen Meredith">Owen Meredith</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tema_Nezahat_Gokyigit_Park_1060584_nymphaea.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Tema_Nezahat_Gokyigit_Park_1060584_nymphaea.jpg/220px-Tema_Nezahat_Gokyigit_Park_1060584_nymphaea.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Tema_Nezahat_Gokyigit_Park_1060584_nymphaea.jpg/330px-Tema_Nezahat_Gokyigit_Park_1060584_nymphaea.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Tema_Nezahat_Gokyigit_Park_1060584_nymphaea.jpg/440px-Tema_Nezahat_Gokyigit_Park_1060584_nymphaea.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Karma" title="Karma">karma</a> principle can be explained easily with the help of the <a href="/wiki/Lotus" title="Lotus">lotus</a>. The flower signifies human life as being governed by cause and effect. Every cause produces an imprint leading to an effect that can be experienced during the doer's lifetime or in his future life.... ~ V N Mittal, and TOI Crest</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Outdoors_(7534725614).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Outdoors_%287534725614%29.jpg/220px-Outdoors_%287534725614%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="317" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Outdoors_%287534725614%29.jpg/330px-Outdoors_%287534725614%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Outdoors_%287534725614%29.jpg/440px-Outdoors_%287534725614%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2091" data-file-height="3016" /></a><figcaption>The difficulty in life is the <a href="/wiki/Choice" title="Choice">choice</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/George_Moore_(novelist)" title="George Moore (novelist)">George Moore</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brown_bear_(Ursus_arctos_arctos)_running.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Brown_bear_%28Ursus_arctos_arctos%29_running.jpg/220px-Brown_bear_%28Ursus_arctos_arctos%29_running.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Brown_bear_%28Ursus_arctos_arctos%29_running.jpg/330px-Brown_bear_%28Ursus_arctos_arctos%29_running.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Brown_bear_%28Ursus_arctos_arctos%29_running.jpg/440px-Brown_bear_%28Ursus_arctos_arctos%29_running.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1933" data-file-height="1456" /></a><figcaption>There is only one <a href="/wiki/Success" title="Success">success</a> … to be able to spend your life in your own way. ~ <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Morley" title="Christopher Morley">Christopher Morley</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>"In the midst of <a class="mw-selflink selflink">life</a> we are in death," said one; it is more true that in the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a>; what men call death is but a <a href="/wiki/Shadow" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow">shadow</a> — a <a href="/wiki/Word" class="mw-redirect" title="Word">word</a> for that which cannot be — a negation, owing the very <a href="/wiki/Idea" class="mw-redirect" title="Idea">idea</a> of itself to that which it would deny. But for life there could be no death. If God were not, there would not even be <a href="/wiki/Nothing" class="mw-redirect" title="Nothing">nothing</a>. Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_MacDonald" title="George MacDonald">George MacDonald</a>, From "Life" (Essay).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I have very <a href="/wiki/Strongly" class="mw-redirect" title="Strongly">strongly</a> this <a href="/wiki/Feeling" class="mw-redirect" title="Feeling">feeling</a>... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet <a href="/wiki/Mysterious" class="mw-redirect" title="Mysterious">mysterious</a> and <a href="/wiki/Extraordinary" class="mw-redirect" title="Extraordinary">extraordinary</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bryan_Magee" title="Bryan Magee">Bryan Magee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Martin_Heidegger" title="Martin Heidegger">Heidegger</a> and Modern Existentialism (1977), BBC Productions.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is a kind of flower, its blooms dying but exquisite. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_N._Malzberg" class="extiw" title="w:Barry N. Malzberg">Barry N. Malzberg</a>, There the Lovelies Bleeding, in <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magazine_of_Fantasy_%26_Science_Fiction">The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction</a>, September 1981, p. 107</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nelson_Mandela" title="Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a> on life, 90th Birthday celebration of Walter Sisulu, Walter Sisulu Hall, Randburg, Johannesburg, South Africa (18 May 2002). Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/mini-site/selected-quotes">From Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations © 2010 by Nelson R. Mandela and The Nelson Mandela Foundation</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within — and make the point: This can be done. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Maslow" title="Abraham Maslow">Abraham Maslow</a> As quoted in The Meaning of Life : According to the Great and the Good (2007) edited by Richard T. Kinnier</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life ain't great now, but it's much improved. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubba_Sparxxx" class="extiw" title="w:Bubba Sparxxx">Warren A. Mathis</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxV3O9KfK7Q">"Ugly"</a> (6 August 2001), Dark Days, Bright Nights</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rollo_May" title="Rollo May">Rollo May</a>, Love and Will (1969), p. 290.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life hath set No landmarks before us. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Owen_Meredith" class="mw-redirect" title="Owen Meredith">Owen Meredith</a> (Lord Lytton), Lucile (1860), Pt II, Canto V, Stanza 14.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When life leaps in the veins, when it beats in the heart, When it thrills as it fills every animate part, Where lurks it? how works it? * * * we scarcely detect it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Owen_Meredith" class="mw-redirect" title="Owen Meredith">Owen Meredith</a> (Lord Lytton), Lucile (1860), Part II, Canto I, Stanza 5.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paradise_Lost" title="Paradise Lost">Paradise Lost</a> (1667; 1674), Book VIII, line 250.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well; how long or short permit to heav'n. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paradise_Lost" title="Paradise Lost">Paradise Lost</a> (1667; 1674), Book XI, line 553.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is a better teacher of virtue than politicians. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Minogue" title="Kenneth Minogue">Kenneth Minogue</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=580vvyjWIfsC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3#v=onepage">The Servile Mind, How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life</a> (2010), Encounter Books, p. 3</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Moore" title="Alan Moore">Alan Moore</a>, The Mustard magazine interview (January 2005)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The difficulty in life is the choice. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Moore_(novelist)" title="George Moore (novelist)">George Moore</a>, The Bending of the Bough (1900), Act IV.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Moore" title="Thomas Moore">Thomas Moore</a>, Lalla Rookh (1817), Veiled Prophet. Idea given as a quotation in the Spectator. No. 590, Sept. 6, 1714.</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hogarth-Satan-Sin-and-Death.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Hogarth-Satan-Sin-and-Death.jpg/220px-Hogarth-Satan-Sin-and-Death.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Hogarth-Satan-Sin-and-Death.jpg/330px-Hogarth-Satan-Sin-and-Death.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Hogarth-Satan-Sin-and-Death.jpg/440px-Hogarth-Satan-Sin-and-Death.jpg 2x" data-file-width="550" data-file-height="448" /></a><figcaption>At his birth there is weeping and travailing, in his youth pain and groans, all his days are 'full of trouble,' and in the end he returns unto dust. ~ Mordecai </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Who is man that he should act proudly and arrogantly? man born of woman and few in days? At his birth there is weeping and travailing, in his youth pain and groans, all his days are 'full of trouble,' and in the end he returns unto dust. <ul><li>Mordecai, in Louis Ginzberg's <a href="/wiki/Legends_of_the_Jews" title="Legends of the Jews">Legends of the Jews</a> (1909)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is only one <a href="/wiki/Success" title="Success">success</a> … to be able to spend your life in your own way. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Morley" title="Christopher Morley">Christopher Morley</a>, Where the Blue Begins (1922).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The goal and the meaning of existence is to strive upward beyond the limits of the known, and to help one another. <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Morya" title="Morya">Master Morya</a>]]</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>"You're talking about a search for the meaning of life?" I asked. "No, no, no," he said. "For the <a href="/wiki/Experience" title="Experience">experience</a> of being alive." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Moyers" title="Bill Moyers">Bill Moyers</a> (1988) The Power of Myth, in the Introduction</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="N">N</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: N">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chamaeleo_namaquensis_(Namib-Naukluft,_2011).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Chamaeleo_namaquensis_%28Namib-Naukluft%2C_2011%29.jpg/220px-Chamaeleo_namaquensis_%28Namib-Naukluft%2C_2011%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Chamaeleo_namaquensis_%28Namib-Naukluft%2C_2011%29.jpg/330px-Chamaeleo_namaquensis_%28Namib-Naukluft%2C_2011%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Chamaeleo_namaquensis_%28Namib-Naukluft%2C_2011%29.jpg/440px-Chamaeleo_namaquensis_%28Namib-Naukluft%2C_2011%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="2666" /></a><figcaption>Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. ~ <a href="/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin" title="Anaïs Nin">Anaïs Nin</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Beside_Dean_Copse_-_geograph.org.uk_-_580413.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Beside_Dean_Copse_-_geograph.org.uk_-_580413.jpg/220px-Beside_Dean_Copse_-_geograph.org.uk_-_580413.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="289" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Beside_Dean_Copse_-_geograph.org.uk_-_580413.jpg/330px-Beside_Dean_Copse_-_geograph.org.uk_-_580413.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Beside_Dean_Copse_-_geograph.org.uk_-_580413.jpg/440px-Beside_Dean_Copse_-_geograph.org.uk_-_580413.jpg 2x" data-file-width="487" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage. ~ <a href="/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin" title="Anaïs Nin">Anaïs Nin</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Poco a poco y también mucho a mucho me sucedió la vida... <ul><li>Little by little, and also in great leaps, Life happened to me...</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pablo_Neruda" title="Pablo Neruda">Pablo Neruda</a>, October Fullness (1964)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What is life? - Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die; Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against anything that is growing weak and old in us, and not just in us. Life - therefore means: being devoid of respect for the dying, the wretched, the aged? Always being a murderer? And yet old Moses said: 'Thou shalt not kill.' <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Friedrich Nietzsche">Friedrich Nietzsche</a>, The Gay Science, Book One, 26. (1882), translated by Josefine Nauckhoff</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin" title="Anaïs Nin">Anaïs Nin</a>, D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study (1932).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection. We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves that it is eternal. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin" title="Anaïs Nin">Anaïs Nin</a>, entry for February 1954, in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5 as quoted in Woman as Writer (1978) by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, p. 38.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin" title="Anaïs Nin">Anaïs Nin</a>, as quoted in French Writers of the Past (2000) by Carol A. Dingle, p. 126.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A Sanskrit Scholar, J.W. Hauer, speaking of the central message of the "Gita" says, "We are not called to solve the meaning of life, but to find out the deed demanded by us and to work, and so by action to master the riddle of life." Whilst Sanskara says that the essential purpose of the "Gita" is to teach us a way out of bondage and not merely enjoin action. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peter_de_Noronha" title="Peter de Noronha">Peter de Noronha</a> (1964) The Pageant of Life. p. 63-64</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And life in a continual state of <a href="/wiki/Apprehension" class="mw-redirect" title="Apprehension">apprehension</a> was no life at all. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andre_Norton" title="Andre Norton">Andre Norton</a>, Here Abide Monsters (1973), Chapter 17</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our life is no dream, but it should and perhaps will become one. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Novalis" title="Novalis">Novalis</a>, Fragments, "Magische Philosophie"</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="O">O</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: O">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Earthheart_square.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Earthheart_square.jpg/220px-Earthheart_square.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Earthheart_square.jpg/330px-Earthheart_square.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Earthheart_square.jpg/440px-Earthheart_square.jpg 2x" data-file-width="758" data-file-height="758" /></a><figcaption>To live in this <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> you must be able to do three things: to <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. ~ <a href="/wiki/Mary_Oliver" title="Mary Oliver">Mary Oliver</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>I'm alright. I love you. I love my life. I'm always close to you. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ritsuko_Okazaki" title="Ritsuko Okazaki">Ritsuko Okazaki</a>, I'm Always Close to You, For Ritz</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To live in this <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> you must be able to do three things: to <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Oliver" title="Mary Oliver">Mary Oliver</a>, American Primitive (1983), "In Blackwater Woods"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There's a reason for the world you and I <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Ondrasik&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Ondrasik (page does not exist)">John Ondrasik</a> (2006) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Riddle_(You_and_I)" class="extiw" title="w:The Riddle (You and I)">The Riddle</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="P">P</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: P">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:._Nepali_poet_Suman_Pokhrel_950.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/._Nepali_poet_Suman_Pokhrel_950.jpg/220px-._Nepali_poet_Suman_Pokhrel_950.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="287" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/._Nepali_poet_Suman_Pokhrel_950.jpg/330px-._Nepali_poet_Suman_Pokhrel_950.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/._Nepali_poet_Suman_Pokhrel_950.jpg/440px-._Nepali_poet_Suman_Pokhrel_950.jpg 2x" data-file-width="830" data-file-height="1084" /></a><figcaption>I asked none why life ends in ways uncertain. ~ <a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Der_Sensemann2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Der_Sensemann2.jpg/220px-Der_Sensemann2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Der_Sensemann2.jpg/330px-Der_Sensemann2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Der_Sensemann2.jpg/440px-Der_Sensemann2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption> We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully — for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up. ~ <a href="/wiki/Randy_Pausch" title="Randy Pausch">Randy Pausch</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Enterprise-D_crew_quarters_with_captain_Jean-Luc_Picard.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Enterprise-D_crew_quarters_with_captain_Jean-Luc_Picard.jpg/220px-Enterprise-D_crew_quarters_with_captain_Jean-Luc_Picard.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Enterprise-D_crew_quarters_with_captain_Jean-Luc_Picard.jpg/330px-Enterprise-D_crew_quarters_with_captain_Jean-Luc_Picard.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Enterprise-D_crew_quarters_with_captain_Jean-Luc_Picard.jpg/440px-Enterprise-D_crew_quarters_with_captain_Jean-Luc_Picard.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3456" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption> It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life. ~ <a href="/wiki/Jean-Luc_Picard" title="Jean-Luc Picard">Jean-Luc Picard</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jean-Luc_Picard_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Jean-Luc_Picard_2.jpg/220px-Jean-Luc_Picard_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="197" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Jean-Luc_Picard_2.jpg/330px-Jean-Luc_Picard_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Jean-Luc_Picard_2.jpg/440px-Jean-Luc_Picard_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1009" data-file-height="904" /></a><figcaption> Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. ~ <a href="/wiki/Jean-Luc_Picard" title="Jean-Luc Picard">Jean-Luc Picard</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Terry_Pratchett_Arms.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Terry_Pratchett_Arms.svg/220px-Terry_Pratchett_Arms.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="242" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Terry_Pratchett_Arms.svg/330px-Terry_Pratchett_Arms.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Terry_Pratchett_Arms.svg/440px-Terry_Pratchett_Arms.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="660" /></a><figcaption>It was said that life was cheap in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ankh-Morpork&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ankh-Morpork (page does not exist)">Ankh-Morpork</a>. This was, of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a> for free. ~ <a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a> in <a href="/wiki/Discworld#Pyramids_.281989.29" title="Discworld">Pyramids</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Many solutions are offered as to how to gain the something more in life. ...Wealth, strength, and keenness of intellect, taken separately of together, do not constitute the essence of real life. ...At its best, life consists of these things, plus something more. ...In Jesus Christ we see <a href="/wiki/Perfection" title="Perfection">perfection</a> in life. ...From an imperfect understanding of Jesus Christ, it would appear that real life depends upon the fulfilling of three conditions — the dwelling on friendly and affectionate terms with <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>, with ourselves, and with our fellowmen. ...If we fulfill to any degree these three conditions of being in friendly relations with God, ourselves, and our fellows, we shall discover something more of the meaning of life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kirby_Page" title="Kirby Page">Kirby Page</a> (1920) Something More, A Consideration of the Vast, Undeveloped Resources of Life. p. 63-67</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to <a href="/wiki/Christ" title="Christ">Christ</a> who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ who is the fullness of <a href="/wiki/Humanity" title="Humanity">humanity</a>. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world... look to Christ. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II">John Paul II</a> "Address to High School Students", Source: Libreria Editrice Vaticana</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Do not tell <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a> how to live their lives. Just tell them <a href="/wiki/Stories" class="mw-redirect" title="Stories">stories</a>. And they will figure out how those stories apply to them. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Randy_Pausch" title="Randy Pausch">Randy Pausch</a>, in The Last Lecture (2008).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully — for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up. Because when he shows up, it’s too late to do all the things that you’re always gonna, kinda get around to. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Randy_Pausch" title="Randy Pausch">Randy Pausch</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATiyfX1I45I">Graduation address at CMU (18 May 2008)</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Randy_Pausch" title="Randy Pausch">Randy Pausch</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATiyfX1I45I">Graduation address at CMU (18 May 2008)</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cesare_Pavese" title="Cesare Pavese">Cesare Pavese</a>, The Beach.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Luc_Picard" title="Jean-Luc Picard">Jean-Luc Picard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Star_Trek#Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation" class="mw-disambig" title="Star Trek">Star Trek: The Next Generation</a>, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_Performance_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)" class="extiw" title="w:Peak Performance (Star Trek: The Next Generation)">Peak Performance</a>" (10 July 1989) by David Kemper.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Luc_Picard" title="Jean-Luc Picard">Jean-Luc Picard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Star_Trek_Generations" title="Star Trek Generations">Star Trek Generations</a> (1994) story by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brannon_Braga" class="extiw" title="w:Brannon Braga">Brannon Braga</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_D._Moore" class="extiw" title="w:Ronald D. Moore">Ronald D. Moore</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Berman" class="extiw" title="w:Rick Berman">Rick Berman</a>; On living in the moment.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>An uneasy rhythm of life is more life like than an easy death. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a>, Khorampa</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I asked none why life ends in ways uncertain. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a>, Khorampa</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life was running, running after a mirage-like desires. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a>, An Encounter with Life</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I asked my life why it carried along my dreams but chose to escape me. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a>, An Encounter with Life</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Still enveloped in a blanket of dreams my life continued to lie still, pretending as if it was in a deep slumber. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a>, An Encounter with Life</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Will you please go journeying for your own sake, till I come living a moment of life? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a>, Entanglements</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>May life remain enamored of its own charm <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a>, Song of Soul</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This ME made whole by combining countless fragments could not live in any one part with complete ease. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a>, 'Song of Soul'</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>May I splinter away from myself break into whole units and live in each with perfection! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a>, 'Song of Soul'</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Every moment age is creeping up stealthily, but life, life is melting down like a candle that is flickering around. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a>, A Birthday Greeting to Myself</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is withering away like a candle that is melting down. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a>, A Birthday Greeting to Myself</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life incinerates incessantly trying to smile and keeps broiling continuously pretending to be alive. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a>, A Birthday Greeting to Myself</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Death is shaping up slowly and quietly but life, life is melting down like a candle that is flickering all night. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a>, A Birthday Greeting to Myself</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Unaware about my surrounding, unconscious I live. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a>, I'm in Oblivion</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It’s not my wish to walk intoxicated; to live for never is not my choice. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a>, I'm in Oblivion</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A portion of life, every moment gets torn out of me hurting, and flees away. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a>, I'm in Oblivion</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle I, line 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Placed on this isthmus of a middle state. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle II, line 3.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle II, line 63.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle II, line 107.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle III, line 19.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, Moral Essays (1731-35), Epistle I, line 29.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, Moral Essays (1731-35), Epistle II, line 243.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was, of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a> in <a href="/wiki/Discworld#Pyramids_.281989.29" title="Discworld">Pyramids</a> (1989).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>General:... when one considers the meaning of life, it is a struggle between alternative viewpoints of life itself. And without the ability to defend one's own viewpoint against other perhaps more aggressive ideologies, then reasonableness and moderation could, quite simply, disappear. That is why we'll always need an army, and may God strike me down were it to be otherwise. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_The_Meaning_of_Life" title="Monty Python's The Meaning of Life">Monty Python,The Meaning of Life</a>, (1983). Part III: Fighting Each Other</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Chairman: Item six on the agenda, the Meaning of Life. Now Harry, you’ve had some thoughts on this. :Harry: That’s right, yeah. I’ve had a team working on this over the past few weeks, and what we’ve come up with can be reduced to two fundamental concepts. One, people are not wearing enough hats. Two, matter is energy. In the Universe there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person’s soul. However, this soul does not exist ab initio as orthodox Christianity teaches; it has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved owing to man’s unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia. [Pause.] :Max: What was that about hats? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_The_Meaning_of_Life" title="Monty Python's The Meaning of Life">Monty Python,The Meaning of Life</a>, (1983). Part V: Live Organ Transplants</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Q">Q</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Q">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Panel_containing_excerpt_from_Quran_chapter_56.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Panel_containing_excerpt_from_Quran_chapter_56.png/220px-Panel_containing_excerpt_from_Quran_chapter_56.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="315" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Panel_containing_excerpt_from_Quran_chapter_56.png/330px-Panel_containing_excerpt_from_Quran_chapter_56.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Panel_containing_excerpt_from_Quran_chapter_56.png/440px-Panel_containing_excerpt_from_Quran_chapter_56.png 2x" data-file-width="609" data-file-height="871" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">Know</a> that the life of this <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> is only a <a href="/wiki/Game" title="Game">game</a>, a temporary <a href="/wiki/Beauty" title="Beauty">attraction</a>, a means of <a href="/wiki/Boasting" title="Boasting">boastfulness</a> among <a href="/wiki/Yourselves" class="mw-redirect" title="Yourselves">yourselves</a> and a place for multiplying your <a href="/wiki/Wealth" title="Wealth">wealth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Children" title="Children">children</a>. It is like the <a href="/wiki/Rain" title="Rain">rain</a> which produces <a href="/wiki/Plants" title="Plants">plants</a> that are attractive to the unbelievers. These plants flourish, turn yellow, and then become crushed bits of straw. In the <a href="/wiki/Afterlife" title="Afterlife">hereafter</a> there will be severe <a href="/wiki/Punishment" title="Punishment">punishment</a> or <a href="/wiki/Forgiveness" title="Forgiveness">forgiveness</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mercy" title="Mercy">mercy</a> from <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>. This <a href="/wiki/Worldliness" title="Worldliness">worldly</a> life is only an <a href="/wiki/Illusion" title="Illusion">illusion</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Participate in your life, don't just bear witness to the rain washing you away. <ul><li>Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows (2010).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our Life is nothing but a Winter's day; Some only break their Fast, and so away: Others stay to Dinner, and depart full fed: The deepest Age but Sups, and goes to Bed: He's most in debt that lingers out the Day: Who dies betime, has less, and less to pay. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Quarles" title="Francis Quarles">Francis Quarles</a>, Divine Fancies, On The Life of Man (1633). Quoted in different forms for epitaphs.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Know that the life of this world is only a game, a temporary attraction, a means of boastfulness among yourselves and a place for multiplying your wealth and children. It is like the rain which produces plants that are attractive to the unbelievers. These plants flourish, turn yellow, and then become crushed bits of straw. In the hereafter there will be severe punishment or forgiveness and mercy from God. This worldly life is only an <a href="/wiki/Illusion" title="Illusion">illusion</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a> 57:20</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="R">R</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: R">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Earth_Eastern_Hemisphere.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Earth_Eastern_Hemisphere.jpg/220px-Earth_Eastern_Hemisphere.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Earth_Eastern_Hemisphere.jpg/330px-Earth_Eastern_Hemisphere.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Earth_Eastern_Hemisphere.jpg/440px-Earth_Eastern_Hemisphere.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="2048" /></a><figcaption>Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love. ~ <a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bertrand_Russell.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Bertrand_Russell.jpeg/220px-Bertrand_Russell.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="252" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Bertrand_Russell.jpeg/330px-Bertrand_Russell.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Bertrand_Russell.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="340" data-file-height="390" /></a><figcaption>To <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a> <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">dead</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Et là commençay à penser qu'il est bien vray ce que l'on dit, que la moitié du monde ne sçait comment l'aultre vit. <dl><dd>And there I began to think that it is very true, which is said, that half the world does not know how the other half lives.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Rabelais" title="François Rabelais">François Rabelais</a>, Pantagruel (1532), Chapter XXXII.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Vivat, fifat, pipat, bibat. <dl><dd>May he live, fife, pipe, drink.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Rabelais" title="François Rabelais">François Rabelais</a>, Pantagruel (1532), Book IV, Chapter 53. Called by Epistemon, "O secret apocalyptique." It suggests "Old King Cole".</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What is life? For the happy a pleasure, for the poor a torture, and to all an expectation of death. <ul><li><cite style="font-style:normal" class="book" id="CITEREFEmmanuel_Rhoides1866">Emmanuel Rhoides (1866). Pope Joan. Penguin Books. p. 24-25. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-1400-3760-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-1400-3760-8">ISBN 0-1400-3760-8</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Pope+Joan&rft.aulast=Emmanuel+Rhoides&rft.au=Emmanuel+Rhoides&rft.date=1866&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B24-25&rft.pub=Penguin+Books&rft.isbn=0-1400-3760-8&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Life">  Translated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Durrell" class="extiw" title="w:Lawrence Durrell">Lawrence Durrell</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store; For Life is a just employer, He gives you what you ask, But once you have set the wages, Why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have paid. <ul><li>Jessie B. Rittenhouse, "My Wage", The Door of Dreams (1918), p. 25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Many people ask, for example: What is the purpose of my life? Meaning: What am I meant to do? but the purpose of your life, and each life, is in its being. That being may include certain actions, but the acts themselves are only important in that they spring out of the essence of your life, which simply by being is bound to fulfill its purposes. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Roberts" title="Jane Roberts">Jane Roberts</a>, in Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume One, Session 899, Page 225</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We know how complicated life is today, how difficult it is, and we feel distressed about each lack of <a href="/wiki/Understanding" title="Understanding">understanding</a>, about each delay, about everything that complicates the progress. The neglect of one's duties can never be expiated. Your task is not an easy one, but with easy things one will not perfect oneself. Pure striving is always supported by the Great Teacher. Therefore, be victorious! The Great Teacher is always ready to give a helping hand to the striving disciple, but such help usually comes after all possibilities have been exhausted by the disciple himself. And herein lies the greatest wisdom and a great cosmic law of evolution. Only at the very limit of tension are our forces transmuted into the finest energies. Our thoughts are with you, and we know that all will come about safely unless we ourselves sever the silver cord by our selfishness, sluggardliness, and superficial attitude toward the Advices. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Helena_Roerich" title="Helena Roerich">Helena Roerich</a>, Letters I, 7 October 1931</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I must agree, life is the best <a href="/wiki/Teachers" title="Teachers">teacher</a>, and without life nothing can be learned. But someone has to open our eyes, and without the leading Principle all evolution would be retarded for endless centuries. Therefore, the books of <a href="/wiki/Theosophy" title="Theosophy">the Teaching</a> are so essential. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Helena_Roerich" title="Helena Roerich">Helena Roerich</a>, Letters I, 27 January 1933</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Verily, life is full of <a href="/wiki/Miracles" title="Miracles">miracles</a> if we approach everything with an open heart and with striving to beauty and self-perfection. And not by way of all sorts of artificial <a href="/wiki/Meditation" title="Meditation">meditations</a> and concentrations and other mechanical means, but in the great deed of everyday life. This great deed of life in all its severe beauty is practised by N.K. His life is the life of complete <a href="/wiki/Renunciation" title="Renunciation">renunciation</a>; he lives for the great service to humanity. Nothing belongs to him and he himself belongs not to himself. The greatest <a href="/wiki/Tolerance" title="Tolerance">tolerance</a> is his nature, and, like a magnet, he attracts the most diverse people and groups them around his name. The wisdom of <a href="/wiki/Morya" title="Morya">the Master</a> is his wisdom. Had it been otherwise, how could he be such a <a href="/wiki/Prophet" title="Prophet">prophet</a>? How could he succeed in the entrusted mission in spite of the dreadful obstacles which are raised by the dark ones at the end of <a href="/wiki/Kali_Yuga" title="Kali Yuga">Kali Yuga</a>, during the dreadful <a href="/wiki/Armageddon" title="Armageddon">Armageddon</a>? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Helena_Roerich" title="Helena Roerich">Helena Roerich</a>, Letters I, 17 February 1934</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is most complicated, and only the <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a> which is united with the Higher Will can sense the right direction and steer its vessel through all storms. But the storms are inevitable and useful, for the ship as well as for the pilot and the whole crew, because only in this way are strength and firmness tested and also fearlessness and alertness developed. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Helena_Roerich" title="Helena Roerich">Helena Roerich</a>, Letters I, 17 August 1934</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Indeed, all the foundations of the Living Ethics must be applied in life, as otherwise life is impossible. With the new combinations of the planets, there will be a favorable radiation of spiritual rays, which will enable people to awaken their dormant energies. And verily, the feeling of reverence and highest devotion must again be sensed by humanity, if it is to continue its <a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">evolution</a>. Likewise, cooperation between all the branches of life is becoming more and more possible. Precisely, science will stretch out a helping hand to religion, and the Indications of the Great Teachers will assume the radiance and power of the rays from the laboratories. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Helena_Roerich" title="Helena Roerich">Helena Roerich</a>, Letters I, 8 March 1935</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In short, in life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a>, "The American Boy", published in St. Nicholas 27, no. 7 (May 1900), p. 574</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a>, Mysticism and Logic, 'A free Man's Worship'.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a>, Political Ideals (1917), Chapter V: National Independence and Internationalism.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_and_Morals" class="extiw" title="w:Marriage and Morals">Marriage and Morals</a> (1929),Ch. 19: Sex and Individual Well-Being</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The good life is one inspired by love and guided by <a href="/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge">knowledge</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_I_Believe" class="extiw" title="w:What I Believe">What I Believe</a> (1925).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="S">S</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: S">edit</a>]</div> <dl><dd>See also: <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare_quotes_about_life" title="William Shakespeare quotes about life">William Shakespeare quotes about life</a></dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Trapeze_Artists_in_Circus.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Trapeze_Artists_in_Circus.jpg/220px-Trapeze_Artists_in_Circus.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Trapeze_Artists_in_Circus.jpg/330px-Trapeze_Artists_in_Circus.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Trapeze_Artists_in_Circus.jpg/440px-Trapeze_Artists_in_Circus.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1256" data-file-height="857" /></a><figcaption>Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you <a href="/wiki/Laugh" class="mw-redirect" title="Laugh">laugh</a>, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be <a href="/wiki/Dead" class="mw-redirect" title="Dead">dead</a> soon enough.... ~ <a href="/wiki/William_Saroyan" title="William Saroyan">William Saroyan</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thanksgiving_chapel_interior.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Thanksgiving_chapel_interior.jpg/220px-Thanksgiving_chapel_interior.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Thanksgiving_chapel_interior.jpg/330px-Thanksgiving_chapel_interior.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Thanksgiving_chapel_interior.jpg/440px-Thanksgiving_chapel_interior.jpg 2x" data-file-width="650" data-file-height="488" /></a><figcaption>Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. ~ <a href="/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" title="Percy Bysshe Shelley">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:GroveSunrise(byPhilippReiner).JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/GroveSunrise%28byPhilippReiner%29.JPG/220px-GroveSunrise%28byPhilippReiner%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/GroveSunrise%28byPhilippReiner%29.JPG/330px-GroveSunrise%28byPhilippReiner%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/GroveSunrise%28byPhilippReiner%29.JPG/440px-GroveSunrise%28byPhilippReiner%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2880" data-file-height="1800" /></a><figcaption>There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. ~ <a href="/wiki/Logan_Pearsall_Smith" title="Logan Pearsall Smith">Logan Pearsall Smith</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sanu_Sharma.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Quotation" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Sanu_Sharma.jpg/220px-Sanu_Sharma.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="292" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Sanu_Sharma.jpg/330px-Sanu_Sharma.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Sanu_Sharma.jpg/440px-Sanu_Sharma.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="1194" /></a><figcaption>Life could not be lived wet, whether it be in rain or tears. ~ <a href="/wiki/Sanu_Sharma" title="Sanu Sharma">Sanu Sharma</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:La_Mort_de_Socrates.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/La_Mort_de_Socrates.jpg/220px-La_Mort_de_Socrates.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/La_Mort_de_Socrates.jpg/330px-La_Mort_de_Socrates.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/La_Mort_de_Socrates.jpg/440px-La_Mort_de_Socrates.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2961" data-file-height="1973" /></a><figcaption>The inexperienced in <a href="/wiki/Wisdom" title="Wisdom">wisdom</a> and <a href="/wiki/Virtue" title="Virtue">virtue</a>, ever occupied with <a href="/wiki/Eating_disorder" title="Eating disorder">feasting</a> and such, are carried downward, and there, as is fitting, they wander their whole life long, neither ever looking upward to the <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a> above them nor rising toward it, nor tasting pure and lasting pleasures. Like <a href="/wiki/Cattle" title="Cattle">cattle</a>, always looking downward with their heads bent toward the ground and the banquet tables, they <a href="/wiki/Gluttony" title="Gluttony">feed</a>, fatten, and <a href="/wiki/Fornication" title="Fornication">fornicate</a>. In order to increase their possessions they kick and butt with horns and hoofs of steel and <a href="/wiki/Homicide" title="Homicide">kill</a> each other, insatiable as they are. ~ <a href="/wiki/Socrates" title="Socrates">Socrates</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brent_Spiner_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Brent_Spiner_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg/220px-Brent_Spiner_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="355" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Brent_Spiner_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg/330px-Brent_Spiner_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Brent_Spiner_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg/440px-Brent_Spiner_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1216" data-file-height="1960" /></a><figcaption>This is just a thing, and things can be replaced. Lives cannot. ~ Melinda M. Snodgrass </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Meriones_unguiculatus_-_Wilhelma.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Meriones_unguiculatus_-_Wilhelma.jpg/220px-Meriones_unguiculatus_-_Wilhelma.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Meriones_unguiculatus_-_Wilhelma.jpg/330px-Meriones_unguiculatus_-_Wilhelma.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Meriones_unguiculatus_-_Wilhelma.jpg/440px-Meriones_unguiculatus_-_Wilhelma.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3798" data-file-height="2778" /></a><figcaption>Life is nothing more but a <a href="/wiki/Grace" title="Grace">grace</a> period for turning the best of our genetic material into the next generation. ~ Solidus Snake </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sensenmann_auf_dem_Melaten-Friedhof,_K%C3%B6ln.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Sensenmann_auf_dem_Melaten-Friedhof%2C_K%C3%B6ln.jpg/220px-Sensenmann_auf_dem_Melaten-Friedhof%2C_K%C3%B6ln.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Sensenmann_auf_dem_Melaten-Friedhof%2C_K%C3%B6ln.jpg/330px-Sensenmann_auf_dem_Melaten-Friedhof%2C_K%C3%B6ln.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Sensenmann_auf_dem_Melaten-Friedhof%2C_K%C3%B6ln.jpg/440px-Sensenmann_auf_dem_Melaten-Friedhof%2C_K%C3%B6ln.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>How we face death is at least as important as how we deal with life. ~ Jack B. Sowards </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Meditating_in_Madison_Square_Park.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Meditating_in_Madison_Square_Park.jpg/220px-Meditating_in_Madison_Square_Park.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Meditating_in_Madison_Square_Park.jpg/330px-Meditating_in_Madison_Square_Park.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Meditating_in_Madison_Square_Park.jpg/440px-Meditating_in_Madison_Square_Park.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2512" data-file-height="1540" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Free" class="mw-redirect" title="Free">free</a> man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a <a href="/wiki/Meditation" title="Meditation">meditation</a> not on death but on life. ~ <a href="/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza" title="Baruch Spinoza">Baruch Spinoza</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LightningOverEdson.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/LightningOverEdson.JPG/220px-LightningOverEdson.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/LightningOverEdson.JPG/330px-LightningOverEdson.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/LightningOverEdson.JPG/440px-LightningOverEdson.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>Life into <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a>—life’s other shape; no rupture, only crossing. ~ <a href="/wiki/Dejan_Stojanovic" title="Dejan Stojanovic">Dejan Stojanovic</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sisyphus_by_von_Stuck.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Sisyphus_by_von_Stuck.jpg/220px-Sisyphus_by_von_Stuck.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="254" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Sisyphus_by_von_Stuck.jpg/330px-Sisyphus_by_von_Stuck.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Sisyphus_by_von_Stuck.jpg/440px-Sisyphus_by_von_Stuck.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1552" data-file-height="1793" /></a><figcaption>Creating means living. ~ <a href="/wiki/Dejan_Stojanovic" title="Dejan Stojanovic">Dejan Stojanovic</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Almond_flower.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Almond_flower.jpg/220px-Almond_flower.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="336" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Almond_flower.jpg/330px-Almond_flower.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Almond_flower.jpg 2x" data-file-width="393" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>If <a href="/wiki/Birth" title="Birth">birth</a> is a manifestation of life, death is another. ~ <a href="/wiki/Dejan_Stojanovic" title="Dejan Stojanovic">Dejan Stojanovic</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Acrux.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Acrux.png/220px-Acrux.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Acrux.png/330px-Acrux.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Acrux.png 2x" data-file-width="428" data-file-height="341" /></a><figcaption>All life is unspeakably precious, because it’s only here for a brief <a href="/wiki/Moment" title="Moment">moment</a>, a flare against the <a href="/wiki/Dark" class="mw-redirect" title="Dark">dark</a>, and then it’s gone forever. ~ <a href="/wiki/J._Michael_Straczynski" title="J. Michael Straczynski">J. Michael Straczynski</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Sed multi mortales dediti ventri atque somno, indocti incultique vitam sicuti peregrinantes transiere. <ul><li>Yet many human beings, resigned to <a href="/wiki/Sensuality" class="mw-redirect" title="Sensuality">sensuality</a> and <a href="/wiki/Indolence" title="Indolence">indolence</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ignorance" title="Ignorance">un-instructed</a> and unimproved, have passed through life like travellers in a strange country.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sallust" title="Sallust">Sallust</a>, Bellum Catilinae, chapter II, (c. 44 BC).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our biggest tragedy is not knowing what to do with our lives. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Saramago" title="José Saramago">José Saramago</a>, during the opening lecture of the course Literature and Power, Lights and Shadows, at the University Carlos III in Madrid, as quoted in Weissheimer Saramago prega retorno à filosofia para salvar democracia, Agência Carta Maior (19 January 2004).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Quem mihi dabis qui aliquod pretium tempori ponat, qui diem aestimet, qui intellegat se cotidie mori? <ul><li>What man can you show me who places any value on his <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter I: On Saving Time, as translated by Richard Mott Gummere.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In hoc enim fallimur, quod mortem prospicimus: magna pars eius iam praeterit; quidquid aetatis retro est mors tenet. <ul><li>For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter I: On Saving Time, as translated by Richard Mott Gummere.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Nulli potest secura vita contingere qui de producenda nimis cogitat. <ul><li>No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter IV: On the terrors of death, line 4 as translated by Richard Mott Gummere.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><ul><li>Art is long, life is short.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca</a>'s (De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1) Latin translation of the Greek by <a href="/wiki/Hippocrates" title="Hippocrates">Hippocrates</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Nemo quam bene vivat sed quam diu curat, cum omnibus possit contingere ut bene vivant, ut diu nulli. <ul><li>Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXII: On the futility of half-way measures, line 17 as translated by Richard Mott Gummere.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Sapiens vivit quantum debet, non quantum potest. <ul><li>The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXX: On the proper time to slip the cable, line 4 as translated by Richard Mott Gummere.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sikhs" title="Sikhs">Sikhs</a> believe that human beings spend their time in a cycle of birth, life, and rebirth. They share this belief with followers of other Indian religious traditions such as <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jainism" title="Jainism">Jainism</a>. The quality of each particular life depends on the <a href="/wiki/Karma" title="Karma">law of Karma</a>. Karma sets the quality of a life according to how well or badly a person behaved in their previous life. The only way out of this cycle, which all faiths regard as painful, is to achieve a total knowledge of and union with God. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhism" class="extiw" title="w:Sikhism">Sikhism</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/sikhism/beliefs/beliefs.shtml">Sikh Beliefs</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly <a class="mw-selflink selflink">alive</a> with all your might, and when you <a href="/wiki/Laughter" title="Laughter">laugh</a>, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">dead</a> soon enough. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Saroyan" title="William Saroyan">William Saroyan</a>, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934), Preface.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Saroyan" title="William Saroyan">William Saroyan</a>, Antranik and the Spirit of Armenia.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life could not be lived wet, whether it be in rain or tears. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sanu_Sharma" title="Sanu Sharma">Sanu Sharma</a>, Utsarga</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life doesn't end just because someone leaves. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sanu_Sharma" title="Sanu Sharma">Sanu Sharma</a>, from the short story Lockdown</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>My life is devoted to pulling me underground yet, I stand strong on my battleground determined I am not to let my life defeat my pride. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sanu_Sharma" title="Sanu Sharma">Sanu Sharma</a>, Me and My Life</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, — but it returneth! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" title="Percy Bysshe Shelley">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hellas" class="extiw" title="s:Hellas">Hellas</a> (1821).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" title="Percy Bysshe Shelley">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a> in Adonais, LII.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If you oppress a man you will suffer oppression in this or another life and reap the fruit of the seed you have sown in this life. If you feed the poor, you will have plenty of food in this or another life. There is no power on this earth, which can stop the action from yielding their fruits. Such is the <a href="/wiki/Karma" title="Karma">Law of Karma</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Sivananda" class="extiw" title="w:Swami Sivananda">Shivananda</a> on <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a> quoted in "Explore Hinduism", p. 78</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Oakes_Smith" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Elizabeth Oakes Smith">Elizabeth Oakes Smith</a>, "Sonnet III: The Unattained", line 10, in The Poetical Writings of Elizabeth Oakes Smith (New York: J. S. Redfield, 1845), p. 97.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Logan_Pearsall_Smith" title="Logan Pearsall Smith">Logan Pearsall Smith</a>, Afterthoughts (1931), 'Life and Human Nature'.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Logan_Pearsall_Smith" title="Logan Pearsall Smith">Logan Pearsall Smith</a>, Afterthoughts (1931), 'Myself'.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This is just a thing, and things can be replaced. Lives cannot. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data" class="extiw" title="w:Data">Data</a> (played by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Spiner" class="extiw" title="w:Brent Spiner">Brent Spiner</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation" title="Star Trek: The Next Generation">Star Trek: The Next Generation</a> episode "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ensigns_of_Command" class="extiw" title="w:The Ensigns of Command">The Ensigns of Command</a>" (2 October 1989) by Melinda M. Snodgrass. See also: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILbLGNDqUxA&t=1m22s">The middle</a> of Youtube Video "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILbLGNDqUxA">TNG Picard owns the Sheliak (Ensigns of Command)</a>" (08.02.2012) by user "trekclip123". Context: Picard exploits a loophole in the treaty with the Sheliak and offers the Sheliak a choice: either wait six months for third-party arbitrators, or give Picard three weeks to evacuate the colony. Outmaneuvered, the Sheliak agree to the three weeks.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The inexperienced in <a href="/wiki/Wisdom" title="Wisdom">wisdom</a> and <a href="/wiki/Virtue" title="Virtue">virtue</a>, ever occupied with feasting and such, are carried downward, and there, as is fitting, they wander their whole life long, neither ever looking upward to the <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a> above them nor rising toward it, nor tasting pure and lasting pleasures. Like <a href="/wiki/Cattle" title="Cattle">cattle</a>, always looking downward with their heads bent toward the ground and the banquet tables, they <a href="/wiki/Gluttony" title="Gluttony">feed</a>, fatten, and <a href="/wiki/Fornication" title="Fornication">fornicate</a>. In order to increase their possessions they kick and butt with horns and hoofs of steel and <a href="/wiki/Homicide" title="Homicide">kill</a> each other, insatiable as they are. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Socrates" title="Socrates">Socrates</a>, in Plato, Republic IX: 586a-b <a href="/wiki/Socrates" title="Socrates">Socrates</a> ]]</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is nothing more but a grace period for turning the best of our genetic material into the next generation. <ul><li>Solidus Snake Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Expectation postponed makes the <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a> sick, but a desire realized is a tree of life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Solomon" title="Solomon">Solomon</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jw.org/en/publications/bible/nwt/books/proverbs/13/">Proverbs 13:12</a>, <a href="/wiki/NWT" class="mw-redirect" title="NWT">NWT</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Lives We try to make never seem to get Us anywhere but Dead. <ul><li>Soundgarden in "The Day I Tried To Live" (1994).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>How we face death is at least as important as how we deal with life. <ul><li>James T. Kirk, <a href="/wiki/Star_Trek_II:_The_Wrath_of_Khan" title="Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan">Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan</a>, screenplay by Jack B. Sowards and Nicholas Meyer. Story by Harve Bennett, Jack B. Sowards, Nicholas Meyer and Samuel A. Peeples</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>"Life is not lost," said she, "for which is bought Endlesse renowne." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser">Edmund Spenser</a>, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book III, Canto XI, Stanza 19.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A free man thinks of <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a> least of all things; and his wisdom is a <a href="/wiki/Meditation" title="Meditation">meditation</a> not of death but of life. <ul><li>Variant translation: A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza" title="Baruch Spinoza">Baruch Spinoza</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_(book)" class="extiw" title="w:Ethics (book)">Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata</a> (Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated) (published in 1677), Part IV: Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Emotions, Prop. 67, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ethics_(Spinoza)/Part_4" class="extiw" title="s:Ethics (Spinoza)/Part 4">Full text online</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It’s not until they tell you you’re going to die soon that you realize how short life is. Time is the most valuable thing in life because it never comes back. And whether you spend it in the arms of a loved one or alone in a prison-cell, life is what you make of it. Dream big. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stef%C3%A1n_Karl_Stef%C3%A1nsson" title="Stefán Karl Stefánsson">Stefán Karl Stefánsson</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://metro.co.uk/2018/03/16/lazytowns-stefan-karl-stefansson-confirms-inoperable-cancer-returned-7392066/">"LazyTown’s Stefan Karl Stefansson confirms ‘inoperable’ cancer has returned"</a> (16 March 2018), by Emma Kelly, Metro</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Away with funeral music—set The pipe to powerful lips— The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson" title="Robert Louis Stevenson">Robert Louis Stevenson</a>, At Boulogne (1872).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it. Every heart that has beat strong and <a href="/wiki/Cheerfully" class="mw-redirect" title="Cheerfully">cheerfully</a> has left a <a href="/wiki/Hopeful" class="mw-redirect" title="Hopeful">hopeful</a> impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. And even if death catch people, like an open pitfall, and in mid-career, laying out vast projects, and planning monstrous foundations, flushed with hope, and their mouths full of boastful language, they should be at once tripped up and silenced: is there not something brave and spirited in such a termination? and does not life go down with a better grace, foaming in full body over a precipice, than miserably straggling to an end in sandy deltas? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson" title="Robert Louis Stevenson">Robert Louis Stevenson</a>, "Aes Triplex" (1878).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only <a href="/wiki/Goal" class="mw-redirect" title="Goal">end</a> of life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson" title="Robert Louis Stevenson">Robert Louis Stevenson</a>, Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life into <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a>—life’s other shape; no rupture, only crossing. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dejan_Stojanovic" title="Dejan Stojanovic">Dejan Stojanovic</a> in Circling, “Awakening of a Flower” (Sequence: “A Conversations with Atoms”).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cosmos" title="Cosmos">Cosmos</a> is <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>, who whispered the syllable of life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dejan_Stojanovic" title="Dejan Stojanovic">Dejan Stojanovic</a> in The Sun Watches the Sun, “Cosmos” (Sequence: “Sky-Motion”).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is only a flicker of melted ice. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dejan_Stojanovic" title="Dejan Stojanovic">Dejan Stojanovic</a> in The Sun Watches the Sun, “Rain of the Absolute” (Sequence “Skywalking”).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Creating means living. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dejan_Stojanovic" title="Dejan Stojanovic">Dejan Stojanovic</a> in The Shape, "The Life of the Shape" (Sequence: "Happiness of Atoms").</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dejan_Stojanovic" title="Dejan Stojanovic">Dejan Stojanovic</a> in ”Death”</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As an <a href="/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">atheist</a>, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because it’s only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and then it’s gone forever. No afterlives, no second chances, no backsies. So there can be nothing crueler than the abuse, destruction or wanton taking of a life. It is a crime no less than burning the Mona Lisa, for there is always just one of each. So I cannot forgive. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._Michael_Straczynski" title="J. Michael Straczynski">J. Michael Straczynski</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/countries/us/guide/048.html">Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5 : "Passing Through Gethsemane : jms speaks" (13 July (2004)</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to study the two items separately. Similarly, we can not separate life from living matter, in order to study only living matter and its reactions. Inevitably, studying living matter and its reactions, we study life itself. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Szent-Gy%C3%B6rgyi" title="Albert Szent-Györgyi">Albert Szent-Györgyi</a>, The Nature of Life (1948)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="William_Shakespeare_on_Life">William Shakespeare on Life</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: William Shakespeare on Life">edit</a>]</div> <dl><dd><div class="noprint">Main article: <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare_quotes_about_life" title="William Shakespeare quotes about life">William Shakespeare quotes about life</a></div></dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Prague_-_Astronomical_Clock_Detail_1.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Prague_-_Astronomical_Clock_Detail_1.JPG/220px-Prague_-_Astronomical_Clock_Detail_1.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Prague_-_Astronomical_Clock_Detail_1.JPG/330px-Prague_-_Astronomical_Clock_Detail_1.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Prague_-_Astronomical_Clock_Detail_1.JPG/440px-Prague_-_Astronomical_Clock_Detail_1.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920" /></a><figcaption>All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. ~ <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Papageitaucher_Fratercula_arctica_02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Papageitaucher_Fratercula_arctica_02.jpg/220px-Papageitaucher_Fratercula_arctica_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Papageitaucher_Fratercula_arctica_02.jpg/330px-Papageitaucher_Fratercula_arctica_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Papageitaucher_Fratercula_arctica_02.jpg/440px-Papageitaucher_Fratercula_arctica_02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2037" data-file-height="2546" /></a><figcaption>Thy life's a miracle. ~ <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Common_Kingfisher_Alcedo_atthis.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Common_Kingfisher_Alcedo_atthis.jpg/220px-Common_Kingfisher_Alcedo_atthis.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Common_Kingfisher_Alcedo_atthis.jpg/330px-Common_Kingfisher_Alcedo_atthis.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Common_Kingfisher_Alcedo_atthis.jpg/440px-Common_Kingfisher_Alcedo_atthis.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>Our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. ~ <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/As_You_Like_It" title="As You Like It">As You Like It</a> (c.1599-1600), Act II, scene 1, line 15.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar_(play)" title="Julius Caesar (play)">Julius Cæsar</a> (1599), Act I, scene 2, line 93.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <a href="/wiki/King_John" title="King John">King John</a> (1598), Act III, scene 4, line 108.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Good <a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a>, cast thy nighted color off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. Do not be forever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust: Thou know'st tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark</a> (Between 1599 and 1601), Act I, scene 2, spoken by the character Gertrude</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To be or not to be, that is the question. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a> (1600–1), Act III, scene 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Thy life's a miracle. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <a href="/wiki/King_Lear" title="King Lear">King Lear</a> (1608), Act IV, scene 6, line 55.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, A poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <a href="/wiki/Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a> (c. 1605), Act V, Scene 5, line 23.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="T">T</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: T">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:988_Suicide_%26_Crisis_Lifeline_logo_-_navy_-_square.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/988_Suicide_%26_Crisis_Lifeline_logo_-_navy_-_square.svg/220px-988_Suicide_%26_Crisis_Lifeline_logo_-_navy_-_square.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/988_Suicide_%26_Crisis_Lifeline_logo_-_navy_-_square.svg/330px-988_Suicide_%26_Crisis_Lifeline_logo_-_navy_-_square.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/988_Suicide_%26_Crisis_Lifeline_logo_-_navy_-_square.svg/440px-988_Suicide_%26_Crisis_Lifeline_logo_-_navy_-_square.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></a><figcaption>Whoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world. ~ Yerushalmi Talmud</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kayaking_Deep_Fork_Wildlife_Refuge_Oklahoma.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Kayaking_Deep_Fork_Wildlife_Refuge_Oklahoma.jpg/220px-Kayaking_Deep_Fork_Wildlife_Refuge_Oklahoma.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Kayaking_Deep_Fork_Wildlife_Refuge_Oklahoma.jpg/330px-Kayaking_Deep_Fork_Wildlife_Refuge_Oklahoma.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Kayaking_Deep_Fork_Wildlife_Refuge_Oklahoma.jpg/440px-Kayaking_Deep_Fork_Wildlife_Refuge_Oklahoma.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="2048" /></a><figcaption>Life is something that everyone should try at least once. ~ Henry J. Tillman </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Girasol.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Girasol.JPG/220px-Girasol.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Girasol.JPG/330px-Girasol.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Girasol.JPG/440px-Girasol.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="2048" /></a><figcaption>Life is <a href="/wiki/Beautiful" class="mw-redirect" title="Beautiful">beautiful</a>. Let the <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a> <a href="/wiki/Generations" class="mw-redirect" title="Generations">generations</a> cleanse it of all <a href="/wiki/Evil" title="Evil">evil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oppression" title="Oppression">oppression</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Violence" title="Violence">violence</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Enjoy" class="mw-redirect" title="Enjoy">enjoy</a> it to the full. ~ <a href="/wiki/Leon_Trotsky" title="Leon Trotsky">Leon Trotsky</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Palm_Beach_Waverider_(6593188047).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Palm_Beach_Waverider_%286593188047%29.jpg/220px-Palm_Beach_Waverider_%286593188047%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Palm_Beach_Waverider_%286593188047%29.jpg/330px-Palm_Beach_Waverider_%286593188047%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Palm_Beach_Waverider_%286593188047%29.jpg/440px-Palm_Beach_Waverider_%286593188047%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3144" data-file-height="1768" /></a><figcaption>Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive <a href="/wiki/Moments" class="mw-redirect" title="Moments">moments</a> of its existence is composed of the same particles. ~ <a href="/wiki/John_Tyndall" title="John Tyndall">John Tyndall</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Whoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world. <ul><li>Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:9; Yerushalmi Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin 37a.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>תֹּֽודִיעֵנִי֮ אֹ֤רַח חַ֫יִּ֥ים שֹׂ֣בַע מָחֹות אֶת־פָּנֶ֑יךָ נְעִמֹ֖ות בִּימִינְךָ֣ נֶֽצַח <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tanakh" title="Tanakh">Tanakh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Psalms" title="Psalms">Psalms</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalm_16" class="extiw" title="w:Psalm 16">16:11</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Codex" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Leningrad Codex">Leningrad Codex</a></li> <li>Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is the fulnesse of ioy: and at thy right hand there are pleasures for euermore. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Geneva_Bible" title="Geneva Bible">Geneva Bible</a></li></ul></li> <li>Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of <a href="/wiki/Joy" title="Joy">joy</a>; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/King_James_Version" title="King James Version">King James Version</a></li></ul></li> <li>You will teach me the right way to live. Just being with you will bring complete happiness. Being at your right side will make me happy forever. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Version" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Revised Version">Revised Version</a></li></ul></li> <li>You have let me experience the joys of life and the exquisite pleasures of your own eternal presence. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Living_Bible" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The Living Bible">The Living Bible</a></li></ul></li> <li>You will show me the path that leads to life; your presence fills me with joy and brings me pleasure forever. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_News_Bible" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Good News Bible">Good News Bible</a></li></ul></li> <li>You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_International_Version" title="New International Version">New International Version</a></li></ul></li> <li>You will teach me how to live a holy life. Being with you will fill me with joy; at your right hand I will find pleasure forever. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Century_Version" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:New Century Version">New Century Version</a></li></ul></li> <li>You have shown me the path to life, and you make me glad by being near to me. Sitting at your right side, I will always be joyful. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_English_Version" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Contemporary English Version">Contemporary English Version</a></li></ul></li> <li>You make the path of life known to me. Complete joy is in your presence. Pleasures are by your side forever. A <a href="/wiki/Prayer" title="Prayer">prayer</a> by David. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%27s_Word_Translation" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:God's Word Translation">God's Word Translation</a></li></ul></li> <li>You always show me the path of life. You will fill me with joy when I am with you. You will make me happy forever at your right hand. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_International_Reader%27s_Version" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:New International Reader's Version">New International Reader's Version</a></li></ul></li> <li>You make me know the path of life; in your presence is unbounded joy, in your right hand eternal delight. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messianic_Bible_translations#Complete_Jewish_Bible_(CJB)" class="extiw" title="w:Messianic Bible translations">Complete Jewish Bible</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">Now</a> you’ve got my feet on the life path, all radiant from the shining of your face. Ever since you took my hand, I’m on the right way. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Message_(Bible)" class="extiw" title="w:The Message (Bible)">The Message</a></li></ul></li> <li>You reveal the path of life to me; in Your presence is abundant joy; in Your right hand are eternal pleasures. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holman_Christian_Standard_Bible" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Holman Christian Standard Bible">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></li></ul></li> <li>You lead me in the path of life. I experience absolute joy in your presence; you always give me sheer delight. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_English_Translation" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:New English Translation">New English Translation</a></li></ul></li> <li>You teach me the way of life. In your presence is total celebration. Beautiful things are always in your right hand. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_English_Bible" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Common English Bible">Common English Bible</a></li></ul></li> <li>You direct me on the path that leads to a beautiful life. As I walk with You, the pleasures are never-ending, and I know true joy and contentment. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voice_(Bible_translation)" class="extiw" title="w:The Voice (Bible translation)">The Voice</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfred Tennyson">Alfred Tennyson</a>, <a href="/wiki/In_Memoriam_A.H.H." title="In Memoriam A.H.H.">In Memoriam A.H.H.</a> (1849), Part CXVIII, Stanza 5.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The life that I aspire to live No man proposeth me— No trade upon the street Wears its emblazonry. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau" title="Henry David Thoreau">Henry David Thoreau</a>, “Independence”</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste. Always he must know that the contradictions of life are not final or ultimate; he must distinguish between failure and a many-sided awareness so that he will not mistake conformity for harmony, uniformity for synthesis. He will know that for all men to be alike is the death of life in man, and yet perceive harmony that transcends all diversities and in which diversity finds its richness and significance. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Thurman" title="Howard Thurman">Howard Thurman</a> (1971) The Search For Common Ground : An Inquiry Into The Basis Of Man's Experience Of Community p. 6</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/germ#Noun" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:germ">Germs</a>... share all the attributes that... form the scientific definition of life. Simply put, they are born and they die, and in between they engage in the three processes of metabolism, growth, and reproduction. Metabolism comprises all of the physical and chemical processes... including extracting energy from the environment to fuel growth and reproduction. ...All living things on Earth share one more feature. They are made up of cells... The most elementary units of life, cells are bits of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cytoplasm" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:cytoplasm">cytoplasm</a> bounded by a thin membrane and containing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nucleic_acid" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:nucleic acid">nucleic acids</a> (DNA and RNA), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/amino_acid" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:amino acid">amino acids</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/protein" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:protein">proteins</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fat" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:fat">fats</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Carbohydrate" title="Carbohydrate">carbohydrates</a>. ...In the simplest terms, cells carry <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gene" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:gene">genes</a> on their DNA, and the job of genes is to code precise sequences of amino acids, known as <a href="/wiki/Peptide" title="Peptide">peptide</a> chains or peptide sequences, into proteins, the building blocks of life. All living organisms are made up largely of proteins, and the formation of carbohydrates and fats is governed by proteins acting as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/enzyme" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:enzyme">enzymes</a>. Every cell contains enough genetic information to reproduce itself, and single-celled creatures generally <a href="/wiki/Cloning" title="Cloning">clone</a> themselves by dividing in two. ...living material basically consists of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen. These fundamental elements of nature... occur throughout the universe... researchers recently identified... a sugar molecule called glycoaldehyde, in a dust cloud near the center of the Milky Way... it is not hard to imagine that glycoaldehyde or a similar sugar molecule, of stellar origin, could easily have formed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ribose" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:ribose">ribose</a>, the sugar backbone of the nucleic acids... <ul><li>Phillip M. Tierno Jr., The Secret Life of Germs: Observations and Lessons from a Microbe Hunter (2001)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is something that everyone should try at least once. <ul><li>Henry J. Tillman, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=hJOENpi9rUoC&pg=PT71&dq=%22Henry+J.+Tillman%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=apq8UcTPI8i5rgeKwICACQ&redir_esc=y">In Your 60s</a> (2009) by Judy Valon, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Wakefield Press">Wakefield Press</a>; and in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=FPtwdmXtjmoC&pg=PA426&dq=%22Henry+J.+Tillman%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=apq8UcTPI8i5rgeKwICACQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Henry%20J.%20Tillman%22&f=false">Pathological Altruism</a> (2012), edited by Barbara Oakley, Ariel Knafo, Guruprasad Madhavan, and David Sloan Wilson, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began, <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">Now</a> far ahead the <a href="/wiki/Road" class="mw-redirect" title="Road">Road</a> has gone, And I must follow if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" title="J. R. R. Tolkien">J. R. R. Tolkien</a>, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I (1954).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I have little use for the past and rarely think about it; however, I would briefly like to tell you how I came to be a spiritual teacher and how this book came into existence. Until my thirtieth year, I lived in a state of almost continuous anxiety interspersed with periods of suicidal depression. It feels <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">now</a> as if I am talking about some past lifetime or somebody else's life. Introduction <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart_Tolle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle#The_Power_of_Now_(1997)" title="Eckhart Tolle">The Power of Now</a> (1997)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life....The pain that you create <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">now</a> is always some form of non acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity. p. 25 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle#The_Power_of_Now_(1997)" title="Eckhart Tolle">The Power of Now</a> (1997)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath. Or when a dark mood comes upon you and you start getting into a negative mind-pattern and thinking how dreadful your life is, your thinking has become aligned with the pain-body, and you have become unconscious... p. 29-30 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle#The_Power_of_Now_(1997)" title="Eckhart Tolle">The Power of Now</a> (1997)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You think that your attention is in the present moment when it's actually taken up completely by time. You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now. What you refer to as your "life" should more accurately be called your "life situation." It is psychological time: past and future. p. 43 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle#The_Power_of_Now_(1997)" title="Eckhart Tolle">The Power of Now</a> (1997)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>On the surface it seems that the <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">present moment</a> is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it? (Chapter 4 The Now) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle#Stillness_Speaks_(2003)" title="Eckhart Tolle">Stillness Speaks (2003)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Confusion, anger, depression, violence, and conflict arise when humans forget who they are. Yet how easy it is to remember the truth and thus return home: I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.(Chapter 4 The Now) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle#Stillness_Speaks_(2003)" title="Eckhart Tolle">Stillness Speaks (2003)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When you walk though a forest that has not been tamed and interfered with by man, you will see not only abundant life around you, but you will also encounter fallen trees and decaying trunks, rotting leaves and decomposing matter at every step... Wherever you look, you will find death as well as life. Upon closer scrutiny, however, you will discover that the decomposing tree trunk and rotting leaves not only give birth to new life, but are full of life themselves... Microorganisms are at work. Molecules are rearranging themselves. So death isn’t to be found anywhere. There is only the metamorphosis of life forms. What can you learn from this?... Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.(Ch 9) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle#Stillness_Speaks_(2003)" title="Eckhart Tolle">Stillness Speaks (2003)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The interconnectedness of all things: Buddhists have always known it and physicists <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">now</a> confirm it. Nothing that happens is an isolated event, it only appears to be. The more we judge and label it, the more we isolate it....The wholeness of life becomes fragmented through our thinking. Yet the totality of life has brought this event about. It is part of the web of interconnectedness that is the cosmos. This means whatever is could not be otherwise... In most cases, we cannot begin to understand what role a seemingly senseless event may have within the totality of the cosmos but recognizing its inevitability within the vastness of the whole can be the beginning of an inner acceptance of what is and thus a realignment with the wholeness of life. (Ch 10) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle#Stillness_Speaks_(2003)" title="Eckhart Tolle">Stillness Speaks (2003)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person should do is to understand the meaning of life. But the majority of people who consider themselves to be educated are proud that they have reached such great height that they cease to care about the meaning of existence. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy" title="Leo Tolstoy">Leo Tolstoy</a> (1903-10) <a href="/wiki/A_Calendar_of_Wisdom" title="A Calendar of Wisdom">A Calendar of Wisdom</a>, April 30.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy" title="Leo Tolstoy">Leo Tolstoy</a> (1903-10) <a href="/wiki/A_Calendar_of_Wisdom" title="A Calendar of Wisdom">A Calendar of Wisdom</a>, April 30.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Could it be … that the <a href="/wiki/Hero" class="mw-redirect" title="Hero">hero</a> is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not <a href="/wiki/Knowing" class="mw-redirect" title="Knowing">knowing</a> what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/P._L._Travers" title="P. L. Travers">P. L. Travers</a>, in "The World of the Hero" (1976).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leon_Trotsky" title="Leon Trotsky">Leon Trotsky</a>, Trotsky's Testament (27 February 1940).</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nancy_Reagan_accepting_an_award_with_Donald_Trump_and_George_Allen_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Nancy_Reagan_accepting_an_award_with_Donald_Trump_and_George_Allen_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Nancy_Reagan_accepting_an_award_with_Donald_Trump_and_George_Allen_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Nancy_Reagan_accepting_an_award_with_Donald_Trump_and_George_Allen_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Nancy_Reagan_accepting_an_award_with_Donald_Trump_and_George_Allen_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Nancy_Reagan_accepting_an_award_with_Donald_Trump_and_George_Allen_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Nancy_Reagan_accepting_an_award_with_Donald_Trump_and_George_Allen_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="461" data-file-height="629" /></a><figcaption>I really look at life to a certain extent as combat. There has to be something. I mean we have to be in a test period or there has to be something after this. ~ <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>I think my philosophy basically is there has to be something to this. I mean we just can't be put here for the sake of living our 60, 70, 80, 90, 100 years, whatever it might be, and just end up with nothing at the end of that time after all the combat, and I really look at life to a certain extent as combat. There has to be something. I mean we have to be in a test period or there has to be something after this. Otherwise, it just seems so futile. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>, An <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-stat/graphics/politics/trump-archive/docs/rona-barrett-1980-interview-of-donald-trump.pdf">interview</a> with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rona_Barrett" class="extiw" title="w:Rona Barrett">Rona Barrett</a> (1980)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>“Life is hard.” Rodriguez shrugged. “And after life is done, then you die.” He shrugged again. “What can anyone do?” It was a good question. It was, when Pinkard thought about it, a very good question. If there were any better questions out there, he had no idea what they might be. “You do the best you can, is all,” he answered slowly, and then looked around at the hole in the ground in the middle of nowhere he was currently inhabiting. “If this here is the best I can do, I been doin’ somethin’ wrong up till now.” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Turtledove" title="Harry Turtledove">Harry Turtledove</a>, The Great War: Walk in Hell (1999), <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-345-40561-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-345-40561-7">ISBN 0-345-40561-7</a>, p. 310</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive <a href="/wiki/Moments" class="mw-redirect" title="Moments">moments</a> of its existence is composed of the same particles. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Tyndall" title="John Tyndall">John Tyndall</a>, Fragments of Science, Vol. II (1879) Vitality</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is totally about losing everything. As life goes on, we lose more than we acquire. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Tyson" title="Mike Tyson">Mike Tyson</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-12-tyson-retire-talk_x.htm">USA Today</a> (2005).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U">U</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: U">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="V">V</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: V">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Acrux.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Acrux.png/220px-Acrux.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Acrux.png/330px-Acrux.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Acrux.png 2x" data-file-width="428" data-file-height="341" /></a><figcaption>Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Verghese" class="extiw" title="w:Abraham Verghese">Abraham Verghese</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PERRIER-Francois-Aeneas-and-his-Companions-Fighting-the-Harpies.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/PERRIER-Francois-Aeneas-and-his-Companions-Fighting-the-Harpies.jpg/220px-PERRIER-Francois-Aeneas-and-his-Companions-Fighting-the-Harpies.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/PERRIER-Francois-Aeneas-and-his-Companions-Fighting-the-Harpies.jpg/330px-PERRIER-Francois-Aeneas-and-his-Companions-Fighting-the-Harpies.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/PERRIER-Francois-Aeneas-and-his-Companions-Fighting-the-Harpies.jpg/440px-PERRIER-Francois-Aeneas-and-his-Companions-Fighting-the-Harpies.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1046" data-file-height="724" /></a><figcaption>Endure the hardships of your present state, Live, and reserve yourselves for better fate. ~ <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:VaticanVergilFol045v046rAeneasAndSibyl.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/VaticanVergilFol045v046rAeneasAndSibyl.jpg/220px-VaticanVergilFol045v046rAeneasAndSibyl.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="121" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/VaticanVergilFol045v046rAeneasAndSibyl.jpg/330px-VaticanVergilFol045v046rAeneasAndSibyl.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/VaticanVergilFol045v046rAeneasAndSibyl.jpg/440px-VaticanVergilFol045v046rAeneasAndSibyl.jpg 2x" data-file-width="712" data-file-height="393" /></a><figcaption>Live and be blest! 'tis sweet to feel Fate's book is closed and under seal. For us, alas! that volume stern Has many another page to turn. ~ <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Verghese" class="extiw" title="w:Abraham Verghese">Abraham Verghese</a>, Cutting for Stone.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is an ulcer on the body of universe. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jerzy_Vetulani" title="Jerzy Vetulani">Jerzy Vetulani</a>, Starość okiem przyrodnika, „Psychogeriatria polska”, 2007; 4(3), pages 109–138.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis. <ul><li>'Endure the hardships of your present state, Live, and reserve yourselves for better fate.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a>, Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, line 207. (trans. <a href="/wiki/John_Dryden" title="John Dryden">John Dryden</a>).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Vivite felices, quibus est fortuna peracta Jam sua: nos alia ex aliis in fata vocamur. <ul><li>Live and be blest! 'tis sweet to feel Fate's book is closed and under seal. For us, alas! that volume stern Has many another page to turn.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a>, Aeneid, III, 493 (trans. <a href="/wiki/John_Conington" title="John Conington">John Conington</a>).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Everyone <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">now</a> knows how to find the <a href="/wiki/Meaning_of_life" title="Meaning of life">meaning of life</a> within himself. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut">Kurt Vonnegut</a> (1959) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sirens_of_Titan" class="extiw" title="w:The Sirens of Titan">The Sirens of Titan</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="W">W</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: W">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Life is a game and true love is a trophy. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rufus_Wainwright" title="Rufus Wainwright">Rufus Wainwright</a>, "Poses".</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Living should be perpetual and universal benediction. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wei_Wu_Wei" title="Wei Wu Wei">Wei Wu Wei</a> in Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen — Advaita — Tantra (2003).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Lo! on a narrow neck of land, 'Twixt two unbounded seas, I stand. Secure, insensible. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Wesley" title="Charles Wesley">Charles Wesley</a>, Hymn (1749).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I desire to have both heaven and hell ever in my eye, while I stand on this isthmus of life, between two boundless oceans. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Wesley" title="John Wesley">John Wesley</a>, letter to Charles Wesley (1747).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Jigsaw: Congratulations. You are still alive. Most people are so ungrateful to be alive. But not you. Not anymore. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Saw_(2004_film)" title="Saw (2004 film)">Saw</a> (2004), screenplay by Leigh Whannell</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You know life is cruel; life is never kind. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kim_Wilde" title="Kim Wilde">Kim Wilde</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2t4hCB2v80">"Kids in America"</a>, Kim Wilde (1981), United Kingdom: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rak_Records" class="extiw" title="w:Rak Records">RAK</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The essence of life is change, he said, and the essence of eternal life is eternal change. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Charles_Wilson" title="Robert Charles Wilson">Robert Charles Wilson</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinia_(novel)" class="extiw" title="w:Darwinia (novel)">Darwinia</a> (1998), Chapter 25</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein" title="Ludwig Wittgenstein">Ludwig Wittgenstein</a> Journal entry (8 July 1916), p. 74e</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down! <ul><li>Erik Wolpaw, with a line from Cave Johnson in Portal 2</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What is the meaning of life? That was all — a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Woolf" title="Virginia Woolf">Virginia Woolf</a> (1927) To the Lighthouse</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="X">X</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: X">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Y">Y</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Y">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>For what are men who grasp at praise sublime, But bubbles on the rapid stream of time, That rise, and fall, that swell, and are no more, Born, and forgot, ten thousand in an hour? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Young" title="Edward Young">Edward Young</a>, Love of Fame (1725-1728), Satire II, line 285.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>While man is growing, life is in decrease, And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb: Our birth is nothing but our death begun. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Young" title="Edward Young">Edward Young</a>, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night V, line 718.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>That life is long, which answers life's great end. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Young" title="Edward Young">Edward Young</a>, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night V, line 773.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Young" title="Edward Young">Edward Young</a>, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night VII, line 1,396.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Z">Z</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Z">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Alexandre_Cabanel_-_Echo.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Alexandre_Cabanel_-_Echo.jpg/220px-Alexandre_Cabanel_-_Echo.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="323" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Alexandre_Cabanel_-_Echo.jpg/330px-Alexandre_Cabanel_-_Echo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Alexandre_Cabanel_-_Echo.jpg/440px-Alexandre_Cabanel_-_Echo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1364" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. ~ <a href="/wiki/Zig_Ziglar" title="Zig Ziglar">Zig Ziglar</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Can life be counted upon to limit itself? No. It is the mindless striving of two to become infinity. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Zelazny" title="Roger Zelazny">Roger Zelazny</a>, Creatures of Light and Darkness (1969), Chapter 1, “Prelude in the House of the Dead”</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life cheap and death is free <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Warren_Zevon" title="Warren Zevon">Warren Zevon</a> and Stefan Arngrim, Transverse City from the 1989 album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse_City" class="extiw" title="w:Transverse City">Transverse City</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zig_Ziglar" title="Zig Ziglar">Zig Ziglar</a>, See You at the Top (2000).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Anonymous">Anonymous</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Anonymous">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Detail_d,_The_Voyage_of_Life_by_Thomas_Cole,_Old_Age_-_National_Gallery_of_Art,_Washington_-_DSC00082.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Detail_d%2C_The_Voyage_of_Life_by_Thomas_Cole%2C_Old_Age_-_National_Gallery_of_Art%2C_Washington_-_DSC00082.JPG/220px-Detail_d%2C_The_Voyage_of_Life_by_Thomas_Cole%2C_Old_Age_-_National_Gallery_of_Art%2C_Washington_-_DSC00082.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Detail_d%2C_The_Voyage_of_Life_by_Thomas_Cole%2C_Old_Age_-_National_Gallery_of_Art%2C_Washington_-_DSC00082.JPG/330px-Detail_d%2C_The_Voyage_of_Life_by_Thomas_Cole%2C_Old_Age_-_National_Gallery_of_Art%2C_Washington_-_DSC00082.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Detail_d%2C_The_Voyage_of_Life_by_Thomas_Cole%2C_Old_Age_-_National_Gallery_of_Art%2C_Washington_-_DSC00082.JPG/440px-Detail_d%2C_The_Voyage_of_Life_by_Thomas_Cole%2C_Old_Age_-_National_Gallery_of_Art%2C_Washington_-_DSC00082.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4320" data-file-height="3240" /></a><figcaption>Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a <a href="/wiki/Dream" class="mw-redirect" title="Dream">dream</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Anonymous" title="Anonymous">Anonymous</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. <ul><li>Anonymous proverb, published in Stockton Evening and Sunday Record (December 18, 1956), popularized by <a href="/wiki/John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a> in "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)" (1980)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a <a href="/wiki/Dream" class="mw-redirect" title="Dream">dream</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anonymous" title="Anonymous">Anonymous</a> author, in "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row,_Row,_Row_Your_Boat" class="extiw" title="w:Row, Row, Row Your Boat">Row, Row, Row Your Boat</a>", a nursery rhyme dating back to at least 1852; listed as Song #19236 the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roud_Folk_Song_Index" class="extiw" title="w:Roud Folk Song Index">Roud Folk Song Index</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hoyt's_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations">Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations">edit</a>]</div> <dl><dd>Quotes reported in <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hoyt%27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations_(1922)" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)">Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</a> (1922), p. 440-55.</dd></dl> <ul><li>Spesso è da forte, Più che il morire, il vivere. <dl><dd>Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vittorio_Alfieri" title="Vittorio Alfieri">Vittorio Alfieri</a>, Oreste, IV, 2.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I know not if the dark or bright Shall be my lot; If that wherein my hopes delight Be best or not. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Henry_M._Alford&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Henry M. Alford (page does not exist)">Henry M. Alford</a>, Life's Answer.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Christian_Andersen" title="Hans Christian Andersen">Hans Christian Andersen</a>, Preface to Works.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Archilochus" title="Archilochus">Archilochus</a>. See <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a>'s Morals, Volume I. Essay on the Laws, etc., of the Lacedemonians.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a>, Rhetoric, II. 15. Par, III. Quoted by Bishop Fraser in a sermon (Feb. 9, 1879).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life, A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_Arnold" title="Edwin Arnold">Edwin Arnold</a>, Light of Asia.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_Arnold" title="Edwin Arnold">Edwin Arnold</a>, Light of Asia.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Arnold" title="Matthew Arnold">Matthew Arnold</a>, Morality, Stanza 2.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Saw life steadily and saw it whole. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Arnold" title="Matthew Arnold">Matthew Arnold</a>, Sonnet to a Friend. (Said of Sophocles).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Arnold" title="Matthew Arnold">Matthew Arnold</a>, Scholar-Gypsy, Stanza 21.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Athen%C3%A6us" class="mw-redirect" title="Athenæus">Athenæus</a>, IV. 15. See Aulus Gellius, XVIII. 2. 8.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings—that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; and that for fifty years thou wilt live out thy life in ample wealth. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bacchylides&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bacchylides (page does not exist)">Bacchylides</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I would live to study, and not study to live. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Bacon" title="Francis Bacon">Francis Bacon</a>, Memorial of Access. From a Letter to King James I. See Birch's ed. of Bacon, Letters, Speeches, etc, p. 321. (Ed. 1763).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Bacon" title="Francis Bacon">Francis Bacon</a>, Life. Preface to the Translation of Certain Psalms.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I live for those who love me, For those who know me true; For the heaven so blue above me, And the good that I can do. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Linn%C3%A6us_Banks&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="George Linnæus Banks (page does not exist)">George Linnæus Banks</a>, My Aim, in Daisies of the Grass, p. 21 (Ed. 1865).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is a long lesson in humility. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._M._Barrie" title="J. M. Barrie">J. M. Barrie</a>, Little Minister, Chapter III.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Loin des sépultures célebres Vers un cimitière isolé Mon cœur, comme un tambour voilé Va battant des marches funèbres. <dl><dd>To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Baudelaire" title="Charles Baudelaire">Charles Baudelaire</a>, Les Fleurs du Mal, Le Guignon.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our lives are but our marches to the grave. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beaumont_and_Fletcher" title="Beaumont and Fletcher">Beaumont and Fletcher</a>, The Humorous Lieutenant, Act III, scene 5, line 76.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We sleep, but the loom of life never stops and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up to-morrow. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Ward_Beecher" title="Henry Ward Beecher">Henry Ward Beecher</a>, Life Thoughts, p. 12.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The day is short, the work is much. <ul><li>Saying of Ben Syra. (From the Hebrew).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We are all but Fellow-Travelers, Along Life's weary way; If any man can play the pipes, In God's name, let him play. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Bennett&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Bennett (page does not exist)">John Bennett</a>, Poem in The Century.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Bergson" title="Henri Bergson">Henri Bergson</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Evolution_(book)" class="extiw" title="w:Creative Evolution (book)">Creative Evolution</a> (1907), Chapter I.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Bergson" title="Henri Bergson">Henri Bergson</a>, Creative Revolution, Chapter II.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Nasci miserum, vivere pœna, angustia mori. <dl><dd>It is a misery to be born, a pain to live, a trouble to die.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/St._Bernard" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Bernard">St. Bernard</a>, Chapter III.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Alas, how scant the sheaves for all the trouble, The toil, the pain and the resolve sublime— A few full ears; the rest but weeds and stubble, And withered wild-flowers plucked before their time. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=A._B._Bragdon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A. B. Bragdon (page does not exist)">A. B. Bragdon</a>, The Old Campus.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For life is the mirror of king and slave, 'Tis just what we are and do; Then give to the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Madeleine_Bridges&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Madeleine Bridges (page does not exist)">Madeleine Bridges</a>, Life's Mirror.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave, There are souls that are pure and true; Then give to the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Madeleine_Bridges&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Madeleine Bridges (page does not exist)">Madeleine Bridges</a>, Life's Mirror.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life, believe, is not a dream, So dark as sages say; Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB" title="Charlotte Brontë">Charlotte Brontë</a>, Life.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A little sun, a little rain, A soft wind blowing from the west, And woods and fields are sweet again, And warmth within the mountain's breast A little love, a little trust, A soft impulse, a sudden dream, And life as dry as desert dust, Is fresher than a mountain stream. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stopford_A._Brooke&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stopford A. Brooke (page does not exist)">Stopford A. Brooke</a>, Earth and Man.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I would not live over my hours past … not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse. <ul><li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Browne" title="Thomas Browne">Thomas Browne</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. <ul><li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Browne" title="Thomas Browne">Thomas Browne</a>, Hydriotaphia, Chapter V.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying. <ul><li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Browne" title="Thomas Browne">Thomas Browne</a>, Hydriotaphia.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Browne" title="William Browne">William Browne</a>, Britannia Pastorals, Book I, Song II.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I know—is all the mourner saith, Knowledge by suffering entereth; And Life is perfected by Death. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning" title="Elizabeth Barrett Browning">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</a>, Vision of Poets, Stanza 321.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Have you found your life distasteful? My life did, and does, smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I saved and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish? When mine fail me, I'll complain. Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Browning" title="Robert Browning">Robert Browning</a>, At the "Mermaid", St. 10.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Browning" title="Robert Browning">Robert Browning</a>, In a Balcony.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Browning" title="Robert Browning">Robert Browning</a>, Prospice.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Burns" title="Robert Burns">Robert Burns</a>, Despondency.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like schoolboys, at the expected warning, To joy and play. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Burns" title="Robert Burns">Robert Burns</a>, Epistle to James Smith.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is but a day at most. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Burns" title="Robert Burns">Robert Burns</a>, Friars' Carse Hermitage.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Did man compute Existence by enjoyment, and count o'er Such hours 'gainst years of life, say, would he name threescore? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a>, <a href="/wiki/Childe_Harold%27s_Pilgrimage" title="Childe Harold's Pilgrimage">Childe Harold's Pilgrimage</a>, Canto III (1816), Stanza 34.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All is concentred in a life intense, Where not a beam, nor air, nor leaf is lost, But hath a part of being. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a>, <a href="/wiki/Childe_Harold%27s_Pilgrimage" title="Childe Harold's Pilgrimage">Childe Harold's Pilgrimage</a>, Canto III (1816), Stanza 89.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Through life's road, so dim and dirty, I have dragged to three and thirty; What have these years left to me? Nothing, except thirty-three. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a>, Diary. Jan. 22, 1821. In Moore's Life of Byron, Volume II, p. 414. First Ed.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our life is two-fold; sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a>, Dream, Stanza 1, line 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The dust we tread upon was once alive. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a>, Sardanapalus, Act IV, scene 1, line 66.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is with such all beer and skittles. They are not difficult to please About their victuals. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Stuart_Calverley" title="Charles Stuart Calverley">Charles Stuart Calverley</a>, Contentment.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Heaven gives our years of fading strength Indemnifying fleetness; And those of Youth a seeming length, Proportioned to their sweetness. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Campbell" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Campbell">Thomas Campbell</a>, A Thought Suggested by the New Year.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a>, Essays, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a>, Essays, Memoirs on the Life of Scott.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>One life;—a little gleam of Time between two Eternities. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a>, Heroes and Hero Worship (1840), The Hero as a Man of Letters.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Cary" title="Alice Cary">Alice Cary</a>, Life's Mysteries.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Bien predica quien bien vive. <dl><dd>He who lives well is the best preacher.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes" title="Miguel de Cervantes">Miguel de Cervantes</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote" class="extiw" title="w:Don Quixote">Don Quixote</a>, VI. 19.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>On entre, on crie, Et c'est la vie! On bâille, on sort, Et c'est la mort! <dl><dd>We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and that is death!</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ausone_De_Chancel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ausone De Chancel (page does not exist)">Ausone De Chancel</a>, Lines in an Album (1836).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>However, while I crawl upon this planet I think myself obliged to do what good I can in my narrow domestic sphere, to all my fellow-creatures, and to wish them all the good I cannot do. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Stanhope,_4th_Earl_of_Chesterfield" title="Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield">Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield</a>, in a letter to the Bishop of Waterford (Jan. 22, 1780).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Brevis a natura nobis vita data est; at memoria bene reditæ vitæ sempiterna. <dl><dd>The life given us by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>, Philippicæ, XIV. 12.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Natura dedit usuram vitæ tanquam pecuniæ nulla præstitua die. <dl><dd>Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>, Tusculanarum Disputationum, I. 39.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Nemo parum diu vixit, qui virtuis perfectæ perfecto functus est munere. <dl><dd>No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>, Tusculanarum Disputationum, I. 45.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To know, to esteem, to love,—and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a>, On Taking Leave of——.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is but thought. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a>, Youth and Age.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This life's a hollow bubble,      Don't you know? Just a painted piece of trouble,      Don't you know? We come to earth to cry, We grow older and we sigh, Older still, and then we die!      Don't you know? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Vance_Cooke" title="Edmund Vance Cooke">Edmund Vance Cooke</a>, Fin de Siècle.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Cowley" title="Abraham Cowley">Abraham Cowley</a>, Martial. Lib, II. XC.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Cowley" title="Abraham Cowley">Abraham Cowley</a>, On the Death of Mr. Crashaw, line 56.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is an incurable disease. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Cowley" title="Abraham Cowley">Abraham Cowley</a>, To Dr. Scarborough.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Cowper" title="William Cowper">William Cowper</a>, Hope, line 127.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Let's learn to live, for we must die alone. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Crabbe" title="George Crabbe">George Crabbe</a>, Borough, Letter X.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Shall he who soars, inspired by loftier views, Life's little cares and little pains refuse? Shall he not rather feel a double share Of mortal woe, when doubly arm'd to bear? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Crabbe" title="George Crabbe">George Crabbe</a>, Library.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life's bloomy flush was lost. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Crabbe" title="George Crabbe">George Crabbe</a>, Parish Register, Part II, 453.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is not measured by the time we live. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Crabbe" title="George Crabbe">George Crabbe</a>, Village, Book II.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort. <dl><dd>Every moment of life is a step toward the grave.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Claude_Prosper_Jolyot_de_Cr%C3%A9billon" title="Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon">Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon</a>, Tite et Bérénice, I, 5.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Non ò necessario Vivere, si scolpire olte quel termine Nostro nome: quæsto è necessario. <dl><dd>It is not necessary to live, But to carve our names beyond that point, This is necessary.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gabriele_d%27Annunzio&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gabriele d'Annunzio (page does not exist)">Gabriele d'Annunzio</a>, Canzone di Umberto Cagni.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, Che la diritta via era smarrita. <dl><dd>In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dante_Alighieri" title="Dante Alighieri">Dante Alighieri</a>, Inferno, I.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Questo misero modo Tengon l'anime triste di coloro Che visser senza infamia e senza lodo. <dl><dd>This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dante_Alighieri" title="Dante Alighieri">Dante Alighieri</a>, Inferno, III. 36.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>… There are two distinct classes of people in the world; those that feel that they themselves are in a body; and those that feel that they themselves are a body, with something working it. I feel like the contents of a bottle, and am curious to know what will happen when the bottle is uncorked. Perhaps I shall be mousseux—who knows? <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">Now</a> I know that many people feel like a strong moving engine, self-stoking, and often so anxious to keep the fire going that they put too much fuel on, and it has to be raked out and have the bars cleared. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_de_Morgan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William de Morgan (page does not exist)">William de Morgan</a>, Joseph Vance, Chapter XL</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Denham" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir John Denham">Sir John Denham</a>, Of Prudence, line 93.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Cette longue et cruelle maladie qu'on appele la vie. <dl><dd>That long and cruel malady which one calls life.</dd></dl> <ul><li>Deschamps.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt conquered a confirmed habit of living into which she had fallen. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>, Great Expectations, Chapter 16.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>My life is one demd horrid grind. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>, Nicholas Nickleby (1838-39), Volume II, Chapter XXXII.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>"Live, while you live," the epicure would say, "And seize the pleasures of the present day;" "Live, while you live," the sacred preacher cries, "And give to God each moment as it flies." "Lord, in my views let both united be; I live in pleasure, when I live to Thee." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Doddridge" title="Philip Doddridge">Philip Doddridge</a>, "Dum vivimus vivamus." Lines written under Motto of his Family Arms.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>So that my life be brave, what though not long? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Drummond_of_Hawthornden" title="William Drummond of Hawthornden">William Drummond of Hawthornden</a>, Sonnet.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>'Tis not for nothing that we life pursue; It pays our hopes with something still that's new. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Dryden" title="John Dryden">John Dryden</a>, Aureng-Zebe, Act IV, scene 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow's falser than the former day. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Dryden" title="John Dryden">John Dryden</a>, Aureng-Zebe, Act IV, scene 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend; The World's an Inn, and Death the journey's end. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Dryden" title="John Dryden">John Dryden</a>, Palamon and Arcite, III. 887.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Dryden" title="John Dryden">John Dryden</a>, Pythagorean Phil, line 705.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The wheels of weary life at last stood still. <ul><li>Dryden and Lee, Œdipus, Act IV, scene 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Living from hand to mouth. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Guillaume_de_Salluste_Du_Bartas" title="Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas">Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas</a>, Divine Weekes and Workes, Second Week, First Day, Part IV.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Dyer" title="John Dyer">John Dyer</a>, Grongar Hill, line 89.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A man's ingress into the world is naked and bare, His progress through the world is trouble and care; And lastly, his egress out of the world, is nobody knows where. If we do well here, we shall do well there; I can tell you no more if I preach a whole year. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Edwin" title="John Edwin">John Edwin</a>, The Eccentricities of John Edwin (second edition), Volume I, p. 74. Quoted in Longefellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn, Part II. Student's Tale.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is short, and time is swift; Roses fade, and shadows shift. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ebenezer_Elliot&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ebenezer Elliot (page does not exist)">Ebenezer Elliot</a>, Epigram.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life's like an inn where travelers stay, Some only breakfast and away; Others to dinner stop, and are full fed; The oldest only sup and go to bed. <ul><li>Epitaph on tomb in Silkstone, England, to the memory of John Ellis. (1766).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life's an Inn, my house will shew it;— I thought so once, but <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">now</a> I know it. <ul><li>Epitaphs printed by Mr. Fairley. Epitaphiana. (Ed. 1875). On an Innkeeper at Eton. The lines that follow are like those of Quarles.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This world's a city full of crooked streets, Death's the market-place where all men meet; If life were merchandise that men should buy, The rich would always live, the poor might die. <ul><li>Epitaph to John Gadsden, died 1739, in Stoke Goldington, England. See <a href="/w/index.php?title=E._R._Suffling&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="E. R. Suffling (page does not exist)">E. R. Suffling</a>, Epitaphia, p. 401. On P. 405 is a Scotch version of 1689. Same idea in Gay. The Messenger of Mortality, in Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry. A suggestion from Chaucer's Knight's Tale, line 2,487. Shakespeare and Fletcher. Two Noble Kinsmen, Act I, scene 5, line 15. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Waller&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Waller (page does not exist)">Waller</a>, Divine Poems.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Nulli desperandum, quam diu spirat. <dl><dd>No one is to be despaired of as long as he breathes. (While there is life there is hope).</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Erasmus" class="mw-redirect" title="Erasmus">Erasmus</a>, Colloq. Epicureus.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a>, Hippolytus (428 B.C.), l. 435.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is short, yet sweet. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a>, quoted in Fielding Select proverbs of all Nations (1824), p. 206.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For like a child, sent with a fluttering light To feel his way along a gusty night, Man walks the world. Again, and yet again, The lamp shall be by fits of passion slain; But shall not He who sent him from the door Relight the lamp once more, and yet once more? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_FitzGerald_(poet)" title="Edward FitzGerald (poet)">Edward FitzGerald</a>, translation of Attar's Mantik-ut-Tair (Bird Parliament). In Letters and Literary Remains of FitzGerald, Volume II, p. 457.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The King in a carriage may ride, And the Beggar may crawl at his side; But in the general race, They are traveling all the same pace. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_FitzGerald_(poet)" title="Edward FitzGerald (poet)">Edward FitzGerald</a>, Chrononoros.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a>, in his Life.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Dost thou love Life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a>, Poor Richard.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We live merely on the crust or rind of things. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Anthony_Froude" title="James Anthony Froude">James Anthony Froude</a>, Short Studies on Great Subjects, Lucian.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The old Quaker was right: "I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once." <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=W._C._Gannett&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="W. C. Gannett (page does not exist)">W. C. Gannett</a>, Blessed be Drudgery.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>How short is life! how frail is human trust! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Gay" title="John Gay">John Gay</a>, Trivia, Book III, line 235.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Lebe, wie Du, wenn du stirbst, Wünschen wirst, gelebt zu haben. <dl><dd>Live in such a way as, when you come to die, you will wish to have lived.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=C._F._Gellert&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="C. F. Gellert (page does not exist)">C. F. Gellert</a>, Geistliche Oden und Lieder, Vom Tode.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We are in this life as it were in another man's house…. In heaven is our home, in the world is our Inn: do not so entertain thyself in the Inn of this world for a day as to have thy mind withdrawn from longing after thy heavenly home. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gerhard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gerhard (page does not exist)">Gerhard</a>, Meditations, XXXVIII (c. 1630).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Die uns das Leben gaben, herrliche Gefühle, Erstarren in dem irdischen Gewühle. <dl><dd>The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe" title="Johann Wolfgang von Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Goethe%27s_Faust" title="Goethe's Faust">Faust</a>, I. 1. 286.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Grau, theurer Freund, ist alle Theorie Und grün des Lebens goldner Baum. <dl><dd>My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe" title="Johann Wolfgang von Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Goethe%27s_Faust" title="Goethe's Faust">Faust</a>, I. 4. 515.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ein unnütz Leben ist ein früher Tod. <dl><dd>A useless life is an early death.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe" title="Johann Wolfgang von Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a>, Iphigenia auf Tauris, I, 2, 63.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Singet nicht in Trauertönen. <dl><dd>Sing it not in mournful numbers.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe" title="Johann Wolfgang von Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a>, Wilhelm Meister, Philine.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I would live the same life over if I had to live again, And the chances are I go where most men go. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adam_Lindsay_Gordon" title="Adam Lindsay Gordon">Adam Lindsay Gordon</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone: Kindness in another's trouble Courage in our own. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adam_Lindsay_Gordon" title="Adam Lindsay Gordon">Adam Lindsay Gordon</a>, Ye Weary Wayfarer, Finis Exoptatus.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Along the cool sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Gray" title="Thomas Gray">Thomas Gray</a>, Elegy in a Country Churchyard, Stanza 19.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Qui n'a pas vécu dans les années voisines de 1789 ne sait pas ce que c'est le palisir de vivre. <ul><li>Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Maurice_de_Talleyrand-P%C3%A9rigord" title="Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord">Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord</a> to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Fran%C3%A7ois_Guizot&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="François Guizot (page does not exist)">François Guizot</a>, reported in Guizot, Memoirs pour Servir a l'histoire de nous Temps, Volume I, p. 6.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life's little ironies. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hardy" title="Thomas Hardy">Thomas Hardy</a>, title of a collection of stories.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[George Herbert] a conspicuous example of plain living and high thinking. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Haweis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Haweis (page does not exist)">Haweis</a>, Sermon on George Herbert, in Evenings for the People.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Who but knows How it goes! Life's a last year's Nightingale, Love's a last year's rose. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Ernest_Henley" title="William Ernest Henley">William Ernest Henley</a>, Echoes, XLV.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is a smoke that curls— Curls in a flickering skein, That winds and whisks and whirls, A figment thin and vain, Into the vast inane. One end for hut and hall. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Ernest_Henley" title="William Ernest Henley">William Ernest Henley</a>, Of the Nothingness of Things.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I made a posy, while the day ran by: Here will I smell my remnant out, and tie My life within this band. But time did beckon to the flowers, and they By noon most cunningly did steal away, And wither'd in my hand. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Herbert" title="George Herbert">George Herbert</a>, Life.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of the day. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, The Iliad, Book IX, line 524. Pope's translation.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, The Odyssey, Book VII, line 263. Pope's translation.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Vitæ summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare longam. Jam te premet nox, fabulæque Manes, Et domus exilis Plutonia. <dl><dd>The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a>, Carmina, I. 4. 15.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ille potens sui Lætusque deget, cui licet in diem Dixisse Vixi; cras vel atra Nube polum pater occupato, Vel sole puro, non tamen irritum Quodcunque retro est efficiet. <dl><dd>That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a>, Carmina, III. 29. 41.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis ævum. <dl><dd>He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide on forever.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a>, Epistles, I. 2. 41.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Nec vixit male qui natus moriensque fefellit. <dl><dd>Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a>, Epistles, I. 17. 10.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Exacto contentus tempore vita cedat uti conviva satur. <dl><dd>Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a>, Satires, I. 1. 118.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life isn't all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hughes" title="Thomas Hughes">Thomas Hughes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tom_Brown%27s_School_Days" title="Tom Brown's School Days">Tom Brown's School Days</a>, Part I, Chapter 2.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The great end of life is not knowledge but action. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Henry_Huxley" title="Thomas Henry Huxley">Thomas Henry Huxley</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE3/TechEd.html">Technical Education</a> (1877).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Huxley&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Huxley (page does not exist)">Huxley</a>, Liberal Education. In Science and Education.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is but halting for the wearied foot; The better way is hidden. Faith hath failed; One stronger far than reason mastered her. It is not reason makes faith hard, but life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Ingelow" title="Jean Ingelow">Jean Ingelow</a>, A Pastor's Letter to a Young Poet, Part II, line 231.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Isidore_of_Seville" title="Isidore of Seville">Isidore of Seville</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A fair, where thousands meet, but none can stay; An inn, where travellers bait, then post away. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Soame_Jenkyns&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Soame Jenkyns (page does not exist)">Soame Jenkyns</a>, Immortality of the Soul. Translated from the Latin of Isaac Hawkins Browne.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All that a man hath will he give for his life. <ul><li>Job, II. 4.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I would not live alway. <ul><li>Job, VII. 16.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The land of the living. <ul><li>Job, XXVIII. 13.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Learn that the present hour alone is man's. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a>, Irene, Act III, scene 2, line 33.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Reflect that life, like every other blessing, Derives its value from its use alone. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a>, Irene, Act III, scene 8, line 28.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a>, Prologue to opening of Drury Lane Theatre (1747).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>"Enlarge my life with multitude of days!" In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant <a href="/wiki/Prayer" title="Prayer">prays</a>: Hides from himself its state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a>, Vanity of Human Wishes, line 255.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a>, Vanity of Human Wishes, line 315.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer—man a flower; He dies—alas! how soon he dies! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a>, Winter, An Ode, line 33.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our whole life is like a play. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Jonson" title="Ben Jonson">Ben Jonson</a>, Discoveries de Vita Humana.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Festimat enim decurrere velox Flosculus angustæ miseræque brevissima vitæ Portio; dum bibimus dum serta unguenta puellas Poscimus obrepit non intellecta senectus. <dl><dd>The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Juvenal" title="Juvenal">Juvenal</a>, Satires (early 2nd century), IX. 127.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A sacred burden is this life ye bear, Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly; Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fanny_Kemble" title="Fanny Kemble">Fanny Kemble</a>, Lines to the Young Gentlemen leaving the Lennox Academy, Mass.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I have fought my fight, I have lived my life, I have drunk my share of wine; From Trier to Coln there was never a knight Led a merrier life than mine. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Kingsley" title="Charles Kingsley">Charles Kingsley</a>, The Knight's Leap. Similar lines appear under the picture of Franz Hals, The Laughing Cavalier.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>La plupart des hommes emploient la première partie de leur vie à rendre l'autre misérable. <dl><dd>Most men employ the first part of life to make the other part miserable.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean_de_La_Bruy%C3%A8re" title="Jean de La Bruyère">Jean de La Bruyère</a>, Les Caractères, XI.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life will be lengthened while growing, for Thought is the measure of life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Godfrey_Leland" title="Charles Godfrey Leland">Charles Godfrey Leland</a>, The Return of the Gods, line 85.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a>, The Song of Hiawatha (1855), Part X. Hiawatha's Wooing, line 265.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a>, Maidenhood, Stanza 9.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a>, A Psalm of Life, Stanza 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a>, A Psalm of Life, Stanza 4.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a>, The Village Blacksmith, Stanza 8.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Live and think. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Lover" title="Samuel Lover">Samuel Lover</a>, Father Roach.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Russell_Lowell" title="James Russell Lowell">James Russell Lowell</a>, Among my Books. First Series. New England Two Centuries Ago.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lucretius" title="Lucretius">Lucretius</a>, De Rerum Natura, 3, 1093. (Creech tr).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Vita dum superest, bene est. <dl><dd>Whilst life remains it is well.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C3%A6cenas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mæcenas (page does not exist)">Mæcenas</a>, quoted by <a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, Epigram 101.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>An ardent throng, we have wandered long, We have searched the centuries through, In flaming pride, we have fought and died, To keep its memory true. We fight and die, but our hopes beat high, In spite of the toil and tears, For we catch the gleam of our vanished dream Down the path of the Untrod Years. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wilma_Kate_McFarland&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wilma Kate McFarland (page does not exist)">Wilma Kate McFarland</a>, The Untrod Years. Pub. in Methodist Journal (July, 1912).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Victuros agimus semper, nec vivimus unquam. <dl><dd>We are always beginning to live, but are never living.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Manilius" title="Marcus Manilius">Marcus Manilius</a>, Astronomica, IV, 899.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie. <dl><dd>Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martial" title="Martial">Martial</a>, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), I. 15.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Non est, crede mihi sapientis dicere "vivam." Sera nimis vita est crastina, vive hodie. <dl><dd>It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, "I will live." To-morrow's life is too late; live to-day.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martial" title="Martial">Martial</a>, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), I. 16. 11.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Cras vives; hodie jam vivere, Postume, serum est. Ille sapit, quisquis, Postume, vixit heri. <dl><dd>To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martial" title="Martial">Martial</a>, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), V. 58. Cowley's translation. Danger of Procrastination. Quoted by Voltaire in Letter to Thieriot.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martial" title="Martial">Martial</a>, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book VI.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ampliat ætatis spatium sibi vir bonus: hoc est vivere bis, vita posse priore frui. <dl><dd>A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martial" title="Martial">Martial</a>, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), X. 23. 7.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>On the long dusty ribbon of the long city street, The pageant of life is passing me on multitudinous feet, With a word here of the hills, and a song there of the sea And—the great movement changes—the pageant passes me. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Masefield" title="John Masefield">John Masefield</a>, All ye that pass by!</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>While we least think it he prepares his Mate. Mate, and the King's pawn played, it never ceases, Though all the earth is dust of taken pieces. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Masefield" title="John Masefield">John Masefield</a>, Widow in the Bye Street, Part I. Last lines.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Man cannot call the brimming instant back; Time's an affair of instants spun to days; If man must make an instant gold, or black, Let him, he may; but Time must go his ways. Life may be duller for an instant's blaze. Life's an affair of instants spun to years, Instants are only cause of all these tears. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Masefield" title="John Masefield">John Masefield</a>, Widow in the Bye Street, Part V.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction. <ul><li>Matthew, VII. 13.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life. <ul><li>Matthew, VII. 14.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is a mission. Every other definition of life is false, and leads all who accept it astray. Religion, science, philosophy, though still at variance upon many points, all agree in this, that every existence is an aim. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mazzini&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mazzini (page does not exist)">Mazzini</a>, Life and Writings, Chapter V.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Il torre altrui la vita È facoltà commune Al più vil della terra; il darla è solo De' Numi, e de' Regnanti. <dl><dd>To take away life is a power which the vilest of the earth have in common; to give it belongs to gods and kings alone.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Metastasio" class="mw-redirect" title="Metastasio">Metastasio</a>, La Clemenza di Tito, III. 7.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Monckton_Milnes" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Monckton Milnes">Richard Monckton Milnes</a> (Lord Houghton), The Men of Old, Stanza 7.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne" title="Michel de Montaigne">Michel de Montaigne</a>, Essays, On Repentance, Book III, Chapter II.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>La vie est vaine: Un peu d'amour, Un peu de haine— Et puis-bonjour! La vie est brève: Un peu d'espoir, Un peu de rêve— Et puis—bon soir! <dl><dd>Life is but jest: A dream, a doom; A gleam, a gloom— And then—good rest! Life is but play; A throb, a tear: A sob, a sneer; And then—good day.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leon_de_Montenaeken&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Leon de Montenaeken (page does not exist)">Leon de Montenaeken</a>, Peu de Chose et Presque Trop. (Nought and too Much). English translation. by Author. Quoted by Du Maurier in Trilby.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>'Tis not the whole of life to live; Nor all of death to die. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Montgomery" class="mw-redirect" title="James Montgomery">James Montgomery</a>, The Issues of Life and Death.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In my opinion, the existence of life is a highly overrated phenomenon. <ul><li>Doctor Manhattan <a href="/wiki/Watchmen" title="Watchmen">Watchmen</a> volume XII, written by <a href="/wiki/Alan_Moore" title="Alan Moore">Alan Moore</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Vain were the man, and false as vain, Who said, were he ordained to run His long career of life again He would do all that he had done. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Moore" title="Thomas Moore">Thomas Moore</a>, My Birthday. In a footnote Moore refers to Fontenelie, "Si je recommençais ma carrière, je ferai tout ce que j'ai fait".</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The longer one lives the more he learns. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Moore" title="Thomas Moore">Thomas Moore</a>, Dream of Hindoostan.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns, And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Moore" title="Thomas Moore">Thomas Moore</a>, Oh! Think not My Spirits are always as Light.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Nor on one string are all life's jewels strung. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Morris" title="William Morris">William Morris</a>, Life and Death of Jason, Book 17, line 1,170.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I would not live alway; I ask not to stay Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_A._Muhlenberg&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William A. Muhlenberg (page does not exist)">William A. Muhlenberg</a>, I would not Live Alway.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our days begin with trouble here, our life is but a span, And cruel death is always near, so frail a thing is man. <ul><li>New England Primer (1777).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Wile some no other cause for life can give But a dull habitude to live. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Oldham" class="mw-redirect" title="John Oldham">John Oldham</a>, To the Memory of Norwent, Paragraph 5.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shade of evening close Is scatter'd on the ground to die. <ul><li>Claimed by Patrick O'Kelly. The Simile. Pub. 1824. Authorship doubted. The lines appeared in a Philadelphia paper about 1815–16, attributed to Richard Henry Wilde.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Id quoque, quod vivam, munus habere dei. This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, Tristium, I. 1. 20.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This life a theatre we well may call, Where very actor must perform with art, Or laugh it through, and make a farce of all, Or learn to bear with grace his tragic part. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palladas" title="Palladas">Palladas</a>. Epitaph in Palatine Anthology. X. 72. As translated by Robert Bland. (From the Greek). Part of this Sir Thomas Shadwell wished to have inscribed on the monument in Westminster Abbey to his father, Thomas Shadwell.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cesare_Pavese" title="Cesare Pavese">Cesare Pavese</a>, This Business of Living, 1946-09-16</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Condition de l'homme, inconstance, ennui, inquietude. <dl><dd>The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blaise_Pascal" title="Blaise Pascal">Blaise Pascal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pens%C3%A9es" title="Pensées">Pensées</a> (1669), Article VI. 46.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>On s'eveille, on se léve, on s'habille, et l'on sort; On rentre, on dine, on soupe, on se couche, et l'on dort. <dl><dd>One awakens, one rises, one dresses, and one goes forth; One returns, one dines, one sups, one retires and one sleeps.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pierre-Antoine-Augustin_de_Piis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pierre-Antoine-Augustin de Piis (page does not exist)">Pierre-Antoine-Augustin de Piis</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Natura, vero nihil hominibus brevitate vitæ præstitit melius. <dl><dd>Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" title="Pliny the Elder">Pliny the Elder</a>, Historia Naturalis, VII. 51. 3.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and <a href="/wiki/Prayer" title="Prayer">prayers</a> three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, Epistle to Miss Blount on Leaving Town, line 13.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, Second Book of Horace, Epistle II, line 322.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beilby_Porteus" title="Beilby Porteus">Beilby Porteus</a>,Death, line 109.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Amid two seas, on one small point of land, Wearied, uncertain, and amazed we stand. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Prior" title="Matthew Prior">Matthew Prior</a>, Solomon on the Vanity of Human Wishes, Part III, line 616.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Who breathes must suffer; and who thinks, must mourn; And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Prior" title="Matthew Prior">Matthew Prior</a>, Solomon on the Vanity of the World, Book III, line 240.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>So vanishes our state; so pass our days; So life but opens now, and <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">now</a> decays; The cradle and the tomb, alas! so nigh, To live is scarce distinguish'd from to die. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Prior" title="Matthew Prior">Matthew Prior</a>, Solomon on the Vanity of the World, Book III, line 527.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adelaide_Anne_Procter" title="Adelaide Anne Procter">Adelaide Anne Procter</a>, Dream-Life.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. <ul><li>Psalms, XXXIX. 4.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As for man his days are as grass; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth. <ul><li>Psalms. CIII. 15.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. <ul><li>Psalms. CIII. 16.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Man's life is like a Winter's day: Some only breakfast and away; Others to dinner stay and are full fed, The oldest man but sups and goes to bed. Long is his life who lingers out the day, Who goes the soonest has the least to pay; Death is the Waiter, some few run on tick, And some alas! must pay the bill to Nick! Tho' I owed much, I hope long trust is given, And truly mean to pay all bills in Heaven. <ul><li>Epitaph in Barnwell Churchyard, near Cambridge, England.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Paul_Richter" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean Paul Richter">Jean Paul Richter</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Der Mensch hat hier dritthalb Minuten, eine zu lächeln—eine zu seufzen—und eine halbe zu lieben: denn mitten in dieser Minute stirbt er. <dl><dd>Man has here two and a half minutes—one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Paul_Richter" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean Paul Richter">Jean Paul Richter</a>, Hesperus, IV.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Jeder Mensch hat eine Regen-Ecke seines Lebens aus der ihm das schlimme Wetter nachzieht. <dl><dd>Every man has a rainy corner of his life out of which foul weather proceeds and follows after him.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Paul_Richter" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean Paul Richter">Jean Paul Richter</a>, Titan, Zykel 123.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Die Parzen und Furien ziehen auch mit verbundnen Händen um das Leben, wie die Grazien und die Sirenen. <dl><dd>The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Paul_Richter" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean Paul Richter">Jean Paul Richter</a>, Titan, Zykel 140.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Nur Thaten geben dem Leben Stärke, nur Maas ihm Reiz. <dl><dd>Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Paul_Richter" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean Paul Richter">Jean Paul Richter</a>, Titan, Zykel 145.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jessie_B._Rittenhouse&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jessie B. Rittenhouse (page does not exist)">Jessie B. Rittenhouse</a>, My Wage.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have paid. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jessie_B._Rittenhouse&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jessie B. Rittenhouse (page does not exist)">Jessie B. Rittenhouse</a>, My Wage.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a>, at the Appomattox Day celebration of the Hamilton Club of Chicago (April 10, 1899).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This life is but the passage of a day, This life is but a pang and all is over; But in the life to come which fades not away Every love shall abide and every lover. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christina_G._Rossetti" class="mw-redirect" title="Christina G. Rossetti">Christina G. Rossetti</a>, Saints and Angels.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life's but a span, or a tale, or a word, That in a trice, or suddaine, is rehearsèd. <ul><li>The Roxburghe Ballads, A Friend's Advice, Part II. Edited by William Chappell</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est. <dl><dd>The very life which we enjoy is short.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sallust" title="Sallust">Sallust</a>, Catilina, I.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ignavia nemo immortalis factus: neque quisquam parens liberis, uti æterni forent, optavit; magis, uti boni honestique vitam exigerent. <dl><dd>No one has become immortal by <a href="/wiki/Sloth" class="mw-redirect" title="Sloth">sloth</a>; nor has any parent <a href="/wiki/Prayer" title="Prayer">prayed</a> that his children should live forever; but rather that they should lead an <a href="/wiki/Honorable" class="mw-redirect" title="Honorable">honorable</a> and upright life.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sallust" title="Sallust">Sallust</a>, Jugurtha, LXXXV.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Say, what is life? 'Tis to be born, A helpless Babe, to greet the light With a sharp wail, as if the morn Foretold a cloudy noon and night; To weep, to sleep, and weep again, With sunny smiles between; and then? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Godfrey_Saxe" title="John Godfrey Saxe">John Godfrey Saxe</a>, The Story of Life.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Wir, wir leben! Unser sind die Stunden Und der Lebende hat Recht. <dl><dd>We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller" title="Friedrich Schiller">Friedrich Schiller</a>, An die Freude, Stanza 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Nicht der Tummelplatz des Lebens—sein Gehalt bestimmt seinen Werth. <dl><dd>'Tis not the mere stage of life but the part we play thereon that gives the value.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller" title="Friedrich Schiller">Friedrich Schiller</a>, Fiesco, III. 2.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Nicht seine Freudenseite kehrte dir Das Leben zu. <dl><dd>Life did not present its sunny side to thee.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller" title="Friedrich Schiller">Friedrich Schiller</a>, Marie Stuart, II. 3. 136.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Pass the days of life's short measure, From the slow one counsel take, But a tool of him ne'er make; Ne'er as friend the swift one know, Nor the constant one as foe. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller" title="Friedrich Schiller">Friedrich Schiller</a>, Proverbs of Confucius. E. A. Bowring's translation.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Des Lebens Mai blüht einmal und nicht wieder. <dl><dd>The May of life blooms once and never again.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller" title="Friedrich Schiller">Friedrich Schiller</a>, Resignation, Stanza 2.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold— One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller" title="Friedrich Schiller">Friedrich Schiller</a>, Votive Tablets. Expectation and Fulfilment.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I've lived and loved. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller" title="Friedrich Schiller">Friedrich Schiller</a>, Wallenstein, Part I. Piccolomini. Song in Act II, scene 6. Coleridge's translation.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Das Spiel des Lebens sieht sich heiter an, Wenn man den sichern Schatz im Herzen trägt. <dl><dd>The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller" title="Friedrich Schiller">Friedrich Schiller</a>, Wallenstein, Part I. Piccolomini, Act III. 4.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Sein Spruch war: leben und leben lassen. <dl><dd>His saying was: live and let live.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller" title="Friedrich Schiller">Friedrich Schiller</a>, Wallenstein's Lager, VI. 106. 110.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>From a boy I gloated on existence. Earth to me Seemed all-sufficient and my sojourn there One trembling opportunity for joy. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Seeger" title="Alan Seeger">Alan Seeger</a>, Sonnet, I Loved.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. <dl><dd>The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, Consol. ad Polybium, 29.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Vita, si scias uti, longa est. <dl><dd>Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, De Brevitate Vitæ, II.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Exigua pars est vitæ quam nos vivimus. <dl><dd>The part of life which we really live is short.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, De Brevitate Vitæ, II.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Si ad naturam vivas, nunquam eris pauper; si ad opinionem, numquam dives. <dl><dd>If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, XVI.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Molestum est, semper vitam inchoare; male vivunt qui semper vivere incipiunt. <dl><dd>It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, XXIII.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ante senectutem curavi ut bene viverem, in senectute (curo) ut bene moriar; bene autem mori est libenter mori. <dl><dd>Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, LXI.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Non vivere bonum est, sed bene vivere. <dl><dd>To live is not a blessing, but to live well.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, LXX.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Atqui vivere, militare est. <dl><dd>But life is a warfare.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, XCVI.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Propra vivere et singulos dies singulas vitas puta. <dl><dd>Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, CI.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Non domus hoc corpus sed hospitium et quidem breve. <dl><dd>This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, CXX.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Quomodo fabula, sic vita: non quam diu, sed quam bene acta sit, refert. <dl><dd>As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, Epistles, LXXXVII.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Prima quæ vitam dedit hora, carpit. <dl><dd>The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, Hercules Furens, VIII. 74.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life was driving at brains—at its darling object: an organ by which it can attain not only self-consciousness but self-understanding. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Shaw" class="mw-redirect" title="Bernard Shaw">Bernard Shaw</a>, Man and Superman (1903), Act III.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>J'ai vécu. <dl><dd>I have survived.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Emmanuel-Joseph_Siey%C3%A8s" title="Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès">Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès</a>; after the Reign of Terror, when asked what he had done.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We have two lives; The soul of man is like the rolling world, One half in day, the other dipt in night; The one has music and the flying cloud, The other, silence and the wakeful stars. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Smith" title="Alexander Smith">Alexander Smith</a>, Horton, line 76.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To be honest, to be kind—to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation—above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself—here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson" title="Robert Louis Stevenson">Robert Louis Stevenson</a>, Christmas Sermon.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg" title="Emanuel Swedenborg">Emanuel Swedenborg</a>, True Christian Religion, Par. 504.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Gaudeamus igitur, Juvenes dum sumus Post jucundam juventutem. Post molestam senectutem. Nos habebit humus. <ul><li>Let us live then, and be glad While young life's before us After youthful pastime had, After old age hard and sad, Earth will slumber over us.</li> <li>Author Unknown. John Addington Symonds' Trans.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>O vita, misero longa! felici brevis! <dl><dd>O life! long to the wretched, short to the happy.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Syrus" class="mw-redirect" title="Syrus">Syrus</a>, Maxims.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore" title="Rabindranath Tagore">Rabindranath Tagore</a>, Gardener, 45.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>… The wise man warns me that life is but a dewdrop on the lotus leaf. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore" title="Rabindranath Tagore">Rabindranath Tagore</a>, Gardener, 46.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>So his life has flowed From its mysterious urn a sacred stream, In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill May hover round its surface, glides in light, And takes no shadow from them. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Noon_Talfourd" title="Thomas Noon Talfourd">Thomas Noon Talfourd</a>, Ion, Act I, scene 1, line 138.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For life lives only in success. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bayard_Taylor" title="Bayard Taylor">Bayard Taylor</a>, Amran's Wooing, Stanza 5.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our life is scarce the twinkle of a star In God's eternal day. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bayard_Taylor" title="Bayard Taylor">Bayard Taylor</a>, Autumnal Vespers.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The white flower of a blameless life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfred Tennyson">Alfred Tennyson</a>, Dedication to Idylls of the King.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfred Tennyson">Alfred Tennyson</a>, Ulysses, line 6.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is like a game of tables, the chances are not in our power, but the playing is. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Terence" title="Terence">Terence</a>, Adelphi; also <a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a>, Commonwealth. Quoted by <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Taylor" title="Jeremy Taylor">Jeremy Taylor</a>, Holy Living, Section VI. Of Contentedness.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Makepeace_Thackeray" title="William Makepeace Thackeray">William Makepeace Thackeray</a>. Article on Thackeray and his Novels in Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 1854.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>My life is like a stroll upon the beach. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau" title="Henry David Thoreau">Henry David Thoreau</a>, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground; 'Twas therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pain grows sharp, and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hester_L._Thrale&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hester L. Thrale (page does not exist)">Hester L. Thrale</a>, Three Warnings.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Chenevix_Trench" title="Richard Chenevix Trench">Richard Chenevix Trench</a>, To.——.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows, And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close; Why are we fond of toil and care? Why choose the rankling thorn to wear? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._M._Usteri" class="mw-redirect" title="J. M. Usteri">J. M. Usteri</a>, Life let us Cherish.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Pour exécuter de grandes choses, il faut vivre comme si on ne devait jamais mourir. <dl><dd>To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marquis_de_Vauvenargues" class="mw-redirect" title="Marquis de Vauvenargues">Marquis de Vauvenargues</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Qu'est-ce qu'une grande vie? C'est un rêve de jeunesse réalisé dans l'âge mûr. <dl><dd>What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_de_Vigny" title="Alfred de Vigny">Alfred de Vigny</a>, quoted by Louis Ratisbonne in an article in the Journal des Débats, (Oct. 4, 1863).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ma vie est un combat. <dl><dd>My life is a struggle.</dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Voltaire" title="Voltaire">Voltaire</a>, Le Fanatisme, II. 4.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is a comedy. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Horace_Walpole" title="Horace Walpole">Horace Walpole</a>, letter to Sir Horace Mann, Dec. 31, 1769. In a letter to same, March 5, 1772. "This world is a comedy, not Life".</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt. Blind are our efforts to control the forces That, though unseen, are no less strongly felt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled, But still I like the game and want to play; And through the long, long night will I, unruffled, Play what I get, until the break of day. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eugene_F._Ware&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eugene F. Ware (page does not exist)">Eugene F. Ware</a>, Whist.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Since the bounty of Providence is new every day, As we journey through life let us live by the way. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Walter_Watson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Walter Watson (page does not exist)">Walter Watson</a>, Drinking Song.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Yet I know that I dwell in the midst of the roar of the Cosmic Wheel In the hot collision of Forces, and the clangor of boundless Strife, Mid the sound of the speed of worlds, the rushing worlds, and the peal the thunder of Life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Watson" class="mw-redirect" title="William Watson">William Watson</a>, Dawn on the Headland.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone. Strange! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Watts" title="Isaac Watts">Isaac Watts</a>, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book II. Hymn XIX.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Long and long has the grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling round. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Whitman" title="Walt Whitman">Walt Whitman</a>, Exposition, I.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Whitman" title="Walt Whitman">Walt Whitman</a>, Song of the Rolling Earth, 3.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our lives are albums written through With good or ill, with false or true; And as the blessed angels turn The pages of our years, God grant they read the good with smiles, And blot the ill with tears! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Greenleaf_Whittier" title="John Greenleaf Whittier">John Greenleaf Whittier</a>, written in a Lady's Album.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The days grow shorter, the nights grow longer, The headstones thicken along the way; And life grows sadder, but love grows stronger For those who walk with us day by day. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ella_Wheeler_Wilcox" title="Ella Wheeler Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</a>, Interlude.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our lives are songs; God writes the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or sweet or sad, As we choose to fashion the measure. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ella_Wheeler_Wilcox" title="Ella Wheeler Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</a>, Our Lives, Stanza 102. Claimed for Rev. Thomas Gibbons. Appears in his 18th Century Book. See Notes and Queries (April 1, 1905), p. 249.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ah! somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a>, Humanitad, Stanza 60.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a>, A Woman of No Importance (1893), Act I.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a>, Excursion, Book IV.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Plain living and high thinking are no more. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a>, sonnet dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. No, XIII. Written in London (Sept. 1802).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A narrow isthmus betwixt time and eternity. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Young" title="Edward Young">Edward Young</a>, On Pleasure, Letter, III</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dictionary_of_Burning_Words_of_Brilliant_Writers_(1895)">Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)">edit</a>]</div> Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895). <ul><li>Man's life is so interwoven with the grand life of his Maker that it admits of no adequate or rational interpretation except when the Creator as Supreme and the creatures of His hand as subordinate, are seen working in unison. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_H._Anthony&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles H. Anthony (page does not exist)">Charles H. Anthony</a>, p. 382.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is great if properly viewed in any aspect; it is mainly great when viewed in connection with the world to come. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Barnes" title="Albert Barnes">Albert Barnes</a>, p. 382.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>While we seek to fill up life in a way that will best secure the ends of our existence here, our whole plan and course of action should be such as will not hinder but serve our preparation for a future world. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Barnes" title="Albert Barnes">Albert Barnes</a>, p. 383.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prayer" title="Prayer">Pray</a> for and <a href="/wiki/Work" title="Work">work</a> for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Phillips_Brooks" title="Phillips Brooks">Phillips Brooks</a>, p. 383.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some of His light. There is no life so meager that the greatest and wisest of us can afford to despise it. We cannot know at what moment it may flash forth with the life of God. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Phillips_Brooks" title="Phillips Brooks">Phillips Brooks</a>, p. 381.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a>, p. 381.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And thus does life go on, until death accomplishes the catastrophe in silence, takes the worn frame within his hand, and, as if it were a dried-up scroll, crumbles it in his grasp to ashes. The monuments of kingdoms, too, shall disappear. Still the globe shall move; still the stars shall burn; still the sun shall paint its colors on the day, and its colors on the year. What, then, is the individual, or what even is the race in the sublime recurrings of Time? Years, centuries, cycles, are nothing to these. The sun that measures out the ages of our planet is not a second-hand on the great dial of the universe. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Giles" title="Henry Giles">Henry Giles</a>, p. 384.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This is life's greatest moment, when the soul unfolds capacities which reach beyond earth's boundaries. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Isaac_Hecker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Isaac Hecker (page does not exist)">Isaac Hecker</a>, p. 385.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hippocrates" title="Hippocrates">Hippocrates</a>, p. 384.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is before you,— not earthly life alone, but life— a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Josiah_Gilbert_Holland" title="Josiah Gilbert Holland">Josiah Gilbert Holland</a>, p. 380.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Sr." class="mw-redirect" title="Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.">Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.</a>, p. 380.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The highest life is a broken column; the fairest life, a tar nished gem; the richest life, an unripened fruit. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Humpstone&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Humpstone (page does not exist)">John Humpstone</a>, p. 385.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinctions. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Jeffrey" class="mw-redirect" title="Francis Jeffrey">Francis Jeffrey</a>, p. 381.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Act as if you expected to live a hundred years, but might die to-morrow. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ann_Lee" title="Ann Lee">Ann Lee</a>, p. 383.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by its waves, yet unshaken, immovable; and other eyes will gaze on them for their brief day of life, and then they, too, will close. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Liddon" title="Henry Liddon">Henry Liddon</a>, p. 384.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a>, p. 380.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_MacDonald" title="George MacDonald">George MacDonald</a>, p. 382.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Oh, I believe that there is no away; that no love, no life, goes ever from us; it goes as He went, that it may come again, deeper and closer and surer, and be with us always, even to the end of the world. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_MacDonald" title="George MacDonald">George MacDonald</a>, p. 384.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A picture without sky has no glory. This present, unless we see gleaming beyond it the eternal calm of the heavens, above the tossing tree tops with withering leaves, and the smoky chimneys, is a poor thing for our eyes to gaze at, or our hearts to love, or our hands to toil on. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Maclaren" title="Alexander Maclaren">Alexander Maclaren</a>, p. 382.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Maclaren" title="Alexander Maclaren">Alexander Maclaren</a>, p. 382.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Martineau" title="James Martineau">James Martineau</a>, p. 382.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>They waste life in what are called good resolutions—partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Maturin" title="Charles Maturin">Charles Maturin</a>, p. 384.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>, p. 383.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The grand question of life is, Is my name written in heaven? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dwight_L._Moody" title="Dwight L. Moody">Dwight L. Moody</a>, p. 380.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Mountford" title="William Mountford">William Mountford</a>, p. 385.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As one climbs a mountain roadway, and looks off on the landscape through the forest trees or from some overtopping crag, at each step he sees more and more of the outlying beauty of field and lake and forest and hill and river, till he reaches the summit, where the whole vast scene opens to the view, and enthuses his soul with delight. So life should be a constant lookout, through the gray mists, through the falling shadows, through the running tears, till he comes to the shining top of life in God Himself, where the fogs lift, and the shadows fall, and the view is all undisturbed. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theodore_Bayard_Romeyn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Theodore Bayard Romeyn (page does not exist)">Theodore Bayard Romeyn</a>, p. 381.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Socrates" title="Socrates">Socrates</a>, p. 380.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Socrates" title="Socrates">Socrates</a>, p. 382.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Spurgeon" title="Charles Spurgeon">Charles Spurgeon</a>, p. 383.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Making their lives a prayer. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Greenleaf_Whittier" title="John Greenleaf Whittier">John Greenleaf Whittier</a>, p. 382.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is infamy to die, and not be missed. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Carlos_Wilcox" title="Carlos Wilcox">Carlos Wilcox</a>, p. 384.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Respectfully_Quoted:_A_Dictionary_of_Quotations_(1989)">Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989)</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989)">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so much we are. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>, "Natural History of Intellect", part 1, Natural History of Intellect and Other Papers (vol. 12 of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson), p. 10 (1921).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>… the giver of life, who gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, letter to James Monroe (May 20, 1782); in Julian P. Boyd, ed., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (1952), vol. 6, p. 186.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a>, news conference, March 21, 1962. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962, p. 259.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life involves suffering and transitoriness. No person can choose his age or the condition of his time. The past may rob the present of much joy and much mystery. The generation of Buchenwald and the Siberian labor camps cannot talk with the same optimism as its fathers. The bliss of Dante has been lost in our civilization. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Kissinger" title="Henry Kissinger">Henry Kissinger</a>, "The Meaning of History: Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee and Kant", senior thesis at Harvard College, as quoted in The New York Times, April 5, 1976, p. 20.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karl_Augustus_Menninger&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Karl Augustus Menninger (page does not exist)">Karl Augustus Menninger</a>, "Take Your Choice", This Week Magazine, October 16, 1949, p. 2.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of <a href="/wiki/Superficiality" title="Superficiality">superficiality</a> and the terrors of <a href="/wiki/Fatigue" title="Fatigue">fatigue</a>, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he <a href="/wiki/Knows" class="mw-redirect" title="Knows">knows</a>, to what he can do, to his friends and his tradition and his love, lest he be dissolved in a universal <a href="/wiki/Confusion" title="Confusion">confusion</a> and know nothing and love nothing. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer" class="mw-redirect" title="J. Robert Oppenheimer">J. Robert Oppenheimer</a> (1955), The Open Mind, p. 144.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life is not so important as the <a href="/wiki/Duties" class="mw-redirect" title="Duties">duties</a> of life. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Randolph&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Randolph (page does not exist)">John Randolph</a> of Roanoke. "Randolph's best epigram".—William Cabell Bruce, John Randolph of Roanoke, 1773–1833, vol. 2, chapter 7, p. 205 (1922, reprinted 1970).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Sandburg" title="Carl Sandburg">Carl Sandburg</a>, Remembrance Rock, chapter 2, p. 7 (1948).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The great fault of all <a href="/wiki/Ethics" title="Ethics">ethics</a> hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a>, however, the question is what is his attitude to the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> and all life that comes within his reach. A man is ethical only when life, as such, is <a href="/wiki/Sacredness" title="Sacredness">sacred</a> to him, and that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. Only the universal ethic of the feeling of <a href="/wiki/Responsibility" title="Responsibility">responsibility</a> in an ever-widening sphere for all that lives—only that ethic can be founded in thought…. The ethic of <a href="/wiki/Reverence" title="Reverence">Reverence</a> for <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Life</a>, therefore, comprehends within itself everything that can be described as <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>, <a href="/wiki/Devotion" title="Devotion">devotion</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sympathy" title="Sympathy">sympathy</a> whether in <a href="/wiki/Suffering" title="Suffering">suffering</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joy" title="Joy">joy</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Effort" title="Effort">effort</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer" title="Albert Schweitzer">Albert Schweitzer</a>, Out of My Life and Thought, An Autobiography, trans. C. T. Campion, chapter 13, p. 188 (1933).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true <a href="/wiki/Ethics" title="Ethics">ethics</a> whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer" title="Albert Schweitzer">Albert Schweitzer</a>, Civilization and Ethics, chapter 26.—The Philosophy of Civilization, trans. C. T. Campion, part 2, p. 321 (1949, reissued 1981).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means. <ul><li>Attributed to <a href="/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson" title="Robert Louis Stevenson">Robert Louis Stevenson</a> by Senator Sam Ervin in his last newsletter, Senator Sam Ervin Says, January 2, 1975, p. 2. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau" title="Henry David Thoreau">Henry David Thoreau</a>, Walden, chapter 6, conclusion (vol. 2 of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau), p. 170 (1906, reprinted 1968). Originally published in 1854.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afterlife" title="Afterlife">Afterlife</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Age" class="mw-redirect" title="Age">Age</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Biology" title="Biology">Biology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Birth" title="Birth">Birth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Body" title="Body">Body</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">Death</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Living" title="Living">Living</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">Soul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">Time</a></li></ul> <div style="padding: .5em; border: 1px solid black; background-color: #FCFCCC;"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Disputed">Disputed</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Disputed">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence; The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision: To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every To-morrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn! <ul><li>Author unknown. From the Sanskrit, "The Salutation of the Dawn". Masterpieces of Religious Verse, ed. James Dalton Morrison, p. 301 (1948). Attributed in some sources to Klidsa, Hindu dramatist and lyric poet of the fifth century, A.D.</li></ul></li></ul> </div> <div style="padding: .5em; border: 1px solid black; background-color: #FFE7CC;"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Misattributed">Misattributed</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Misattributed">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. <ul><li>Vicki Corona, Tahitian Choreographies, Dance Fantasy Productions, August 1, 1989, page 36. <a href="/wiki/Talk:Life#Life_is_not_measured_by_the_number_of_breaths_we_take.2C_but_by_the_moments_that_take_our_breath_away." title="Talk:Life">See also talk page</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anonymous" title="Anonymous">Anonymous</a> saying, attributed to various people:</li> <li>Claimed by Erica Frandsen in <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book" id="CITEREFKochmerErica_Frandsen2002">Kochmer, Casey; Erica Frandsen (2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=dFc27ogrYg8C&pg=PR15&dq=%22Life+is+not+measured+by+the+number+of+breaths+we+take%22+date:2001-2002&lr=&as_brr=0&sig=kmfYUiN3bONg5QBAkXPKyJEOXnQ">JSP and XML: Integrating XML and Web Services in Your JSP Application</a>. Addison-Wesley Professional. pp. p. xv. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0672323540" title="Special:BookSources/0672323540">ISBN 0672323540</a>. Retrieved on 2008-01-23.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=JSP+and+XML%3A+Integrating+XML+and+Web+Services+in+Your+JSP+Application&rft.aulast=Kochmer&rft.aufirst=Casey&rft.au=Kochmer%2C+Casey&rft.au=Erica+Frandsen&rft.date=2002&rft.pages=pp.%26nbsp%3Bp.+xv&rft.pub=Addison-Wesley+Professional&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DdFc27ogrYg8C%26pg%3DPR15%26dq%3D%2522Life%2Bis%2Bnot%2Bmeasured%2Bby%2Bthe%2Bnumber%2Bof%2Bbreaths%2Bwe%2Btake%2522%2Bdate%3A2001-2002%26lr%3D%26as_brr%3D0%26sig%3DkmfYUiN3bONg5QBAkXPKyJEOXnQ&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Life"> .</li> <li>Attributed to <a href="/wiki/George_Carlin" title="George Carlin">George Carlin</a> in: <ul><li><cite style="font-style:normal" class="book" id="CITEREFMcCollister2004">McCollister, John (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=akFN_Gccd64C&pg=PA73&dq=%22Life+is+not+measured+by+the+number+of+breaths+we+take%22+date:2003-2004&lr=&as_brr=0&sig=6lTiE5BY42Wk3ZNjnhDxMgBDWvc">Echoes From The Smithsonian: America's History Brought to Life</a>. Sports Publishing LLC. pp. p. 73. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1582612455" title="Special:BookSources/1582612455">ISBN 1582612455</a>. Retrieved on 2008-01-23.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Echoes+From+The+Smithsonian%3A+America%27s+History+Brought+to+Life&rft.aulast=McCollister&rft.aufirst=John&rft.au=McCollister%2C+John&rft.date=2004&rft.pages=pp.%26nbsp%3Bp.+73&rft.pub=Sports+Publishing+LLC&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DakFN_Gccd64C%26pg%3DPA73%26dq%3D%2522Life%2Bis%2Bnot%2Bmeasured%2Bby%2Bthe%2Bnumber%2Bof%2Bbreaths%2Bwe%2Btake%2522%2Bdate%3A2003-2004%26lr%3D%26as_brr%3D0%26sig%3D6lTiE5BY42Wk3ZNjnhDxMgBDWvc&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Life"> .</li> <li><cite style="font-style:normal" class="book" id="CITEREFConklin2004">Conklin, Todd (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=qBl84uqMZRAC&pg=PP15&dq=%22Life+is+not+measured+by+the+number+of+breaths+we+take%22+date:2003-2004&lr=&as_brr=0&sig=9JHiUKq0NQ7An-TekFnrwti8x00#PPP15,M1">Simple Revolutionary Acts: Ideas To Revitalize Yourself And Your Workplace</a>. iUniverse. pp. p. xiv. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0595320651" title="Special:BookSources/0595320651">ISBN 0595320651</a>. Retrieved on 2008-01-23.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Simple+Revolutionary+Acts%3A+Ideas+To+Revitalize+Yourself+And+Your+Workplace&rft.aulast=Conklin&rft.aufirst=Todd&rft.au=Conklin%2C+Todd&rft.date=2004&rft.pages=pp.%26nbsp%3Bp.+xiv&rft.pub=iUniverse&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DqBl84uqMZRAC%26pg%3DPP15%26dq%3D%2522Life%2Bis%2Bnot%2Bmeasured%2Bby%2Bthe%2Bnumber%2Bof%2Bbreaths%2Bwe%2Btake%2522%2Bdate%3A2003-2004%26lr%3D%26as_brr%3D0%26sig%3D9JHiUKq0NQ7An-TekFnrwti8x00%23PPP15%2CM1&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Life"> .</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Life&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/12px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/18px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/24px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="103" data-file-height="94" /> Encyclopedic article on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/Life" class="extiw" title="w:Special:Search/Life">Life</a> on Wikipedia</li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Wiktionary-logo.svg/12px-Wiktionary-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Wiktionary-logo.svg/18px-Wiktionary-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Wiktionary-logo.svg/24px-Wiktionary-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="370" data-file-height="350" /> The dictionary definition of <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/life" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:life">life</a> on Wiktionary</li></ul>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Life&oldid=3603682">https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Life&oldid=3603682</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Life" title="Category:Life">Life</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Nature" title="Category:Nature">Nature</a></li></ul></div><div id="mw-hidden-catlinks" class="mw-hidden-catlinks mw-hidden-cats-hidden">Hidden category: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Pages_with_inadequate_citations" title="Category:Pages with inadequate citations">Pages with inadequate citations</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 24 October 2024, at 22:06.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="//creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License</a>; additional terms may apply. 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