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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived
just the length read more
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived
just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as
well.
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world read more
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. -Indian saying.
The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the read more
The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven read more
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.