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- The tree of life is self pruning.
- Joel Determan, Darwin Awards
- One always dies too soon--or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are--your life, and nothing else.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), No Exit
- He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- If you live life, then you become what are.
- Dave Matthews, What You Are
- What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life?
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is neccessary.
- Margaret Cousins
- I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically gettin killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), The Myth of Sisyphus
- My life closed twice before its' close-
It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me. So huge, so hopeless to concieve As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. - Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
- ...free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.
- Tamora Pierce, Alanna The First Adventure
- Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.
- E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970), Howards End
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