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Life is but thought.
Sara Teasdale on life

Life itself is the proper binge.
Julia Child on life

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Horace Walpole on life

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver on life

Life is 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.
Charles Lindbergh on life

The less routine the more life.
Amos Bronson Alcott on life

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
Abraham Cahan on life

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West on life

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
Henry Adams on life

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
Jorge Luis Borges on life

What we play is life.
Louis Armstrong on life

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Vladimir Nabokov on life

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. Henry on life

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill on life

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
William Lyon Phelps on life

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
William Ellery Channing on life

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
Robert Herrick on life

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
Karl A. Menninger on life

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney on life

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.
George Gershwin on life