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- Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?
- Madame de Maintenon
- Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
- He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.
- Johnson
- I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
- Zona Gale
- Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.
- Augusta Jane Evans
- Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.
- Loren Eiseley
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