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E. B. WHITE:
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
Charlotte, "Charlotte's Web"
EDITH WHARTON:
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY:
My candle burns at both its ends;
It will not last the night;
But oh, my foes, and oh, my friends --
It gives a lovely light.
Life is a quest and love a quarrel ...
ELBERT HUBBARD:
Life is just one damned thing after another.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT:
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
ELIE WIESEL:
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
