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Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our read more
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the read more
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.
Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle read more
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. -Samuel Ullman.