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“A long life is a life well spent.”

Life Wells Long Life Is Long Life

Book:Thoughts on Art and Life:

Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:

“What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!”

Life Long Happens Long Life

Book:The Eleven Comedies

Source: The Eleven Comedies

“Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.”

Ifs Life Long Able Wanted Creatures Fairs Essence Series Long Life Crushed Lilies Not Fair Pads Resourceful Nimble Hopping Lily Pads

Book:The Winner

Source: The Winner

“Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.”

Life Long Shows Life Is Denied Long Life

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say 'She lived a great life'?”

People Ifs Want Life Years Long Self Body Age Dies Ten Long Life Maintenance Absorption Self Absorption Hope To Live

Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.”

Ifs Men Life Giving Remember Asks Youth Longing Endure Delight Cease Vain Long Life

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

“I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.”

People Life Art Powerful Art Is Agree Longing Everyday Motive Most Powerful Everyday Life Long Life Art And Science

Author:Albert Einstein

“What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?”

Ifs Life Long Joy Difficult Misery Welcome Long Life Barren

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.”

Men Life Wells Long Enough Desire Evil Greater Deeds Good Deeds Long Life Live Well Desire To Live

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.”

Life Long Soul Young Wings Mathematician Vulgar Highways Particles Long Life

Book:The Laws of Verse: Or Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical Translations, Together with an Annotated Reprint of the Inaugural Presidential Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association at Exeter

Source: The Laws of Verse: Or Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical Translations, Together with an Annotated Reprint of the Inaugural Presidential Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association at Exeter

“I don't know in my long life that I ever worked with anybody that has quite the combination of policy knowledge and concern, political skills, of a personal touch with people, and a sense of innate fairness that inspires confidence.”

People Knows Life Long Political Policy Inspire Confidence Skills Concern Combination Fairness Innate Long Life Personal Touch

Author:William J. Clinton