"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life   

"Life is short; live it up."

Khrushchev, Nikita on life   

"Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it."

Proverb, French on life
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"There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live."

La Bruyere, Jean De on life   

"If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other."

La Bruyere, Jean De on life
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"Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."

Mandino, Og on life
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"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on life
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"Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do."

Proverb on life
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"Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it."

Proverb, Indian on life
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"In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray."

Proverb, German on life
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"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one."

Nabokov, Vladimir on life
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"Life is a dead-end street."

Mencken, H. L. on life   

"We live, not as we wish to, but as we can."

Menander of Athens on life
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"Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time."

Mead, Margaret on life   

"Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect."

McMillan, Terry on life
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"We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story."

Mccarthy, Mary on life
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"Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about."

May, Rollo on life   

"It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead."

Markiewicz, William on life   

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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