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“Mere longevity is a good things for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.”
“If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.”
“Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.”
“The object of Art is to give life shape.”
“Art without life is a poor affair.”
“A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip”
“Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.”
“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
“Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.”
“No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence.”
“Birth is the beginning of death.”
“For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.”
“The greatest work of art created first by God and then by man, is the creation of life. The whole process is an amazing art in itself. The fact that it takes two artists,man and woman,each bringing their own parts of a pallet to create a work of art that not only has a piece of both artists but is also a living,breathing,ever-changing,piece of art with an identity of it's own.”
“The moment you're born you're done for.”
“It is natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.”
“When we are born, we cry that we are come, To this great stage of fools.”
“For all men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.”
“Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.”
“Being born, we die, our end is consequent on our beginning.”
“I'm not scared of dyin', and I don't really care if it's peace you find in dyin'. Well then let the time be near. And when I die and when I'm gone there'll be one child born and a world to carry on.”
“My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.”
“Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.”
“We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.”
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