“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
“It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something, when if we'd understood the situation better, we might have celebrated our good fortune insteadOne can never change the past, only the hold it has on you and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.” IfsYearsSometimesHardMightPastLife IsSituationTearsUnderstoodLuckFortuneReverseNeverthelessGood FortuneGood LuckNever Change Author:Merle Shain
“Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.” FeelsSometimesCharacterBigsLife IsGrowsGrowing UpBasketballMachinesFortuneIslandsTomsFortune TellerConey Island Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]” MenLife IsChangedFortune Author:Plautus