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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
— D.H. Lawrence(Attribution unverified)
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
— Andy Warhol(Attribution unverified)
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
— Emily Dickinson(Attribution unverified)
For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
— Johnny Carson(Attribution unverified)
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius(Attribution unverified)
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
— Carl Jung(Attribution unverified)
A shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
— Carl Jung(Attribution unverified)
Death is psychologically as important as birth. Shrinking away from it is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
— Carl Jung(Attribution unverified)
Life is to entered upon with courage.
— Alexis de Tocqueville(Attribution unverified)
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
— Theodore Roosevelt(Attribution unverified)
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
— Josh Billings(Attribution unverified)
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
— Oscar Wilde(Attribution unverified)
Life is just one damned thing after another.
— Elbert Hubbard(Attribution unverified)
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson(Attribution unverified)
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
— Robert Louis Stevenson(Attribution unverified)
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
— Carl Sagan(Attribution unverified)
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
— Pablo Picasso(Attribution unverified)
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
— Martin Luther King Jr.(Attribution unverified)
A leader is a dealer in hope.
— Napoleon Bonaparte(Attribution unverified)
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
— Victor Hugo(Attribution unverified)