life
“La vraie vie est absente.”
“There is no wealth but life.”
“Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”
“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
“To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”
“And the days are not full enough and the nights are not full enough, and life slips by like a field mouse not shaking the grass.”
“The value of things is not the time they last but the intensity with which they occur.”
“We do not rest satisfied with the present; we anticipate the future as too slow in coming, and we recall the past to stop its rapid flight.”
“I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.”
“He that begins to live begins to die.”
“A man's best fortune, or his worst, is a wife.”
“We travel sea and soil; we pry and prowl; we progress, and we prog from pole to pole.”
“Seest thou good days? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its winter.”
“It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.”
“You cannot be really first rate at your work if your work is all you are. Get a life.”
“Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement.”
“You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.”
“As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.”
“Grief is not a state but a process, like a walk in a winding valley, where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.”