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.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and
that is death!
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We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and
that is death!
[Fr., On entre, on crie,
Et c'est la vie!
On baille, on sort,
Et c'est la mort!]

Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth. -Thich Nhat Hanh.

Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth. -Thich Nhat Hanh.

When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch.

When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch.

If you will do some deed before you die,
Remember not this caravan of death,
But have read more

If you will do some deed before you die,
Remember not this caravan of death,
But have belief that every little breath
Will stay with you for an eternity.

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what nerves read more

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what nerves let you do.