“Much as we complain about our condition or feel victimized by fortune or fellow humans, we simply love being alive. We love life in others and in ourselves. We are in love with life. To love life is to love the activities of which it consists and to hope for more.” LifeFeelsHumansLife IsLove IsAliveConditionsActivityFellowsFortuneComplainingLove LifeSimply Love Book:In Love with Life: Reflections on the Joy of Living and why We Hate to Die Source: In Love with Life: Reflections on the Joy of Living and why We Hate to Die
“Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.” IfsMenReasonDeathCertainDiesAsksPleasureConditionsDemandComplainingFixedOur TimeMisfortunesComplaintsPayment Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.” ShouldWorstConditionsComplainingGrantsRequestJupiter Author:Jean de La Fontaine