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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve Jobs on life

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Alan Cohen on life

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Khalil Gibran on life

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden on life

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.
Anais Nin on life

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford on life

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Maya Angelou on life

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Ronald Reagan on life

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Keller on life

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
Maya Angelou on life

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball on life

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau on life

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
Maya Angelou on life

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.
Chris Rock on life

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Helen Keller on life

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
John Lennon on life

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Benjamin Franklin on life

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Voltaire on life

We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last.
Muhammad Ali on life

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
Katharine Hepburn on life