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«Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.»
Author: Erik Erikson, Dr. | About: Fear, Life | Keywords: elders, healthy, integrity
«He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.»
Author: Max Stirner | About: Life | Keywords: expend, expended, expending, expends, prolong, seeking
«He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.»
«Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.»
«Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be.»
«Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life.»
Author: Martin Dansky (Actor, Artist, Writer) | About: Chess, Life
«Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the sky of the sky of a tree called life;Which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide.And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart.I carry your heart.I carry it in my heart.»
Author: E. E. Cummings | About: Hope, Life, Love, Secrets, Soul
«He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning | About: Life | Keywords: glare, glares, glaring, sunburn
«Having friends around for a pleasant evening is one of life's most cherished joys as far as I am concerned. But when those with me are fellow believers, how much greater that joy is, for we know that it's rekindled, one day in eternity.»
Author: James Stewart (Actor) | About: Friends, Joy, Life
«He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Life