• A life lived in love will never be dull.~ Leo Buscaglia
• Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God’s Paradise.~ Phillips Brooks
• Life is a temporary stop, death is the journey home.~ Vietnamese Proverb
• Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.~ Bertolt Brecht
• Even when months and days are long, life is short.~ Japanese Proverb
• For the first five years of your son’s life treat him as a prince, for the next ten years as a slave, then as a friend for the rest of his life.~ Indian Proverb
• He who wants what God wants of him will lead a free and happy life.~ Japanese Proverb
• I am not just here to make a living; I am here to make a life.~ Helice Bridges
• I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.~ Les Brown
• I count life just a stuff to try the soul’s strength on.~ Robert Browning
• In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.~ Sid Caesar
• In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.~ German Proverb
• It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.~ Irish Proverb
• It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.~ Evangeline Cory Booth
• It is precisely the uncertainty of this world that makes life worth living.~ Japanese Proverb
• It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.~ Lord Byron
• Leadership shortens life.~ Hebrew Proverb
• Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.~ Buddha
• Life’s but a day at most.~ George Burns
• Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.~ Indian Proverb
• Life is a long journey with a heavy bag on its back.~ Japanese Proverb
• Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.~ John Burroughs
• Life is like perpetual drunkenness, the pleasure passes but the headache remains.~ Iranian Proverb
• Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.~ Samuel Butler
• Life is like the flame of a lamp; it needs a little oil now and then.~ Indian Proverb
• Life is one long process of getting tired.~ Samuel Butler
• Life is the source of all things. ~ Japanese Proverb
• Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.~ Leo Buscaglia
• Live everyday fully as if it were your last.~ Buddha
• Live your own life, for you will die your own death.~ Latin Proverb
• Look to the future, because that is where you’ll spend the rest of your life.~ George Burns
• Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little.~ Edmund Burke
• No fate is worse than a life without a love.~ Mexican Proverb
• One moment of intense happiness prolongs life by a thousand years.~ Japanese Proverb
• Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.~ Philip Butler
• People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.~ Nicholas Murray Butler
• Real life seems to have no plots.~ Ivy Compton Burnett
• The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.~ Nadia Boulanger
• The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first.~ French Proverb
• The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.~ James Branch Cabell
• The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.~ Joan Borysenko
• The secret of joy is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.~ Pearl S. Buck
• The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.~ Heywood Broun
• This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.~ Buddha
• To enjoy life is worth so much more than it costs.~ French Proverb
• To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.~ Samuel Butler
• What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
• What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.~ Pedro  la Barca
• You are learning all your life and you die stupid.~ Lithuanian Proverb
• You will never learn enough looking for only the good things in life; you will always be a pupil.~ Japanese Proverb

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