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All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it. Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. And even if death catch people, like an open pitfall, and in mid-career, laying out vast projects, and planning monstrous foundations, flushed with hope, and their mouths full of boastful language, they should be at once tripped up and silenced: is there not something brave and spirited in such a termination? and does not life go down with a better grace, foaming in full body over a precipice, than miserably straggling to an end in sandy deltas?
Robert Louis Stevenson in "Aes Triplex" (1878)

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Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic, ‘A free Man's Worship.’

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I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.
John Keats, letter to J. H. Reynolds, 3rd May 1818.

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Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.
Samuel Johnson, in Anecdotes of Johnson by Mrs Piozzi.

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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.
Anaïs Nin, in D. H. Lawrence : An Unprofessional Study (1932)

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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare in Macbeth

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Claimed by Erica Frandsen in Kochmer, Casey; Erica Frandsen (2002). JSP and XML: Integrating XML and Web Services in Your JSP Application, p. xv, Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN 0672323540. URL accessed 2008-01-23.
Attributed to George Carlin in:
McCollister, John (2004). Echoes From The Smithsonian: America's History Brought to Life, p. 73, Sports Publishing LLC. ISBN 1582612455. URL accessed 2008-01-23.
Conklin, Todd (2004). Simple Revolutionary Acts: Ideas To Revitalize Yourself And Your Workplace, p. xiv, iUniverse. ISBN 0595320651. URL accessed 2008-01-23.
Commonly attributed to "Unknown"

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Life is the distance between dreams and reality.
Leonid S. Sukhorukov, All About Everything (2005)

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon, in "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)" (1980)

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Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.
Anaïs Nin, as quoted in French Writers of the Past (2000) by Carol A. Dingle, p. 126

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Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.
Wei Wu Wei in Why Lazarus Laughed : The Essential Doctrine, Zen — Advaita — Tantra (2003)

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My best friend gave me the best advice, He said each day's a gift and not a given right.
Nickelback If Today Was Your Last Day

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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
Hippocrates, Aphorisms, I. iOften translated in Latin as:Ars longa, vita brevis

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The sea is only beautiful if there's a shore. Life is like the sea. There'll be a direction to follow even if you sail more than one day or one life... the promise of a new land is your guide, because you know that the sea is a huge world that's beautiful only if there's a shore.
Patricky Field, as quoted in Beautiful if there's a shore (2008) song by Patricky Field

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life
Robert Louis Stevenson in Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882)

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We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection. We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves that it is eternal. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it.
Anaïs Nin, entry for February 1954, in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5 as quoted in Woman as Writer (1978) by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, p. 38

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Life is a music,it can be a sure hitbut one thing is for sure, it will end.
Harold Mamitag, BSECE2 SLU Baguio City, PHIL.

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