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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings on life

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
William James on life

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Charlotte Bronte on life

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
William James on life

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov on life

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne on life

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
Will Rogers on life

The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Euripides on life

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James on life

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Robert Louis Stevenson on life

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell on life

While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on life

There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Euripides on life

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
H. L. Mencken on life

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
William James on life

Life is never easy for those who dream.
Robert James Waller on life

Life is too short to work so hard.
Vivien Leigh on life

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler on life

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
William Osler on life

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlin on life