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Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.
Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed read more
Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed desstroys its container or else there would be no fruition. -Florida Scott-Maxwell.
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to read more
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only read more
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
 Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's 
troublesome.  
 Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's 
troublesome. 
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of read more
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
All you are is a soul and a voice, everything else is just a tool to help you get through read more
All you are is a soul and a voice, everything else is just a tool to help you get through the day easier.