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Life

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles. – Audrey Hepburn

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made silently. – Agnes de Mille

How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

My friend asked me the essence of life and I smiled. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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. – Henry Van Dyke

Life is a long lesson in humility. – James M. Barrie

Life grows beautiful flowers over old scars. – Terri Guillemets

It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is a mortal maze, and only a few truly find their way. – Terri Guillemets

To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – Samuel Butler

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain

Our search should not be a flight from life. – TKV Desikachar

You can hope for a miracle in your life, or you can realize that your life is the miracle. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him. – Lemony Snicket

Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life. – Baker Brownell, The College and the Community, 1952

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes. – José Ortega y Gasset

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. – Peter De Vries, Let Me Count the Ways, 1965

A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure. – Robert Louis Stevenson

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin