The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. Horace Walpole
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
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
Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be. Abraham Cahan
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. Rebecca West
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
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