Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. – Mary Manin Morrissey

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. – William Hazlitt, On the Love of Life, 1815

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. – Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust. – Henry S. Haskins