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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON:
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
ROY H. WILLIAMS:
Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?
SARAH BAN BREATHNACH:
An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
SARAH BERNHARDT:
Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
SEAN O'CASEY:
I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.
SENECA:
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
SHARON WELCH:
Injustice can be eliminated, but human conflicts and natural limitations cannot be removed. The conflicts of social life and the limitations of nature cannot be controlled or transcended. They can, however, be endured and survived. It is possible for there to be a dance with life, a creative response to its intrinsic limits and challenges ... [A Feminist Ethic of Risk]
