Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
-Muriel Spark "Muriel Spark"
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.
-Sylvia Plath
Life is given to us; we earn it by giving it.
-Rabindranath Tagore
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
-Helen Keller
Every chapter in the Book of Life defines our character and tells us who we are
If there's a thing I've learned in my life, it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for, don't.
-Cassandra Clare
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
-Henry David Thoreau
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life.
-Natalie Babbitt
"Tuck Everlasting"
Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
-Khalil Gibran