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What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. – Crowfoot, 1890, as quoted in Catch the Whisper of the Wind compiled by Cheewa Ja

Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers? – Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal, 1950

The meaning of life is not an unquestionable answer; it is an unanswerable question. – Terri Guillemets

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. – Brendan Gill

Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Ever get the feeling that sometime early in life there was a briefing you missed? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it. – Sai Baba

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. – George Bernard Shaw

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – William James

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. – Sholom Aleichem

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. – George Washington Carver

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. – John Lennon

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. – Charles Darwin

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. – Albert Einstein

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. – Joseph Campbell

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. – E. B. White

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. – Soren Kierkegaard

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. – Max de Pree