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There are
three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and
death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and
forget to live.
-- Jean De La Bruyere
1645-1696, French Writer
To live
lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being
boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show
trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is
the art of living.
-- Jean De La Fontaine
1621-1695, French Poet
Nobody gets to
live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future
lies.
-- Ann Landers
1918-, American Advice
Columnist
Life has a
practice of living you, if you don't live it.
-- Philip Larkin
1922-1986, British Poet
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We only seem
to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it
seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all,
what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of
the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory
bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop
in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit
doesn't matter so much.
-- D. H. Lawrence
1885-1930, British Author
Life, we learn
too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and
hour.
-- Stephen B. Leacock
1869-1944, Canadian Humorist,
Economist
Most people
think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ.
I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies,
your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you
get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million
dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five
years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a
massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have
to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of
your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and
regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then --
one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and
BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.
-- Denis Leary
Life is
something you do when you can't get to sleep.
-- Fran Lebowitz
1951-, American Journalist
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