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But frankly, take life as it is – life, I
mean, regarded by itself – life on this earth, without a thought of the
hereafter, your life, my life, human life in general, considered under its
purely earthly aspects and relationships; let us look at it as a whole, and we
must admit that it is not all darkness; it has its crimson dawns, its rosy
sunsets. It is not all clouds, it is not all winter; but it has its summer days
in which ‘it is a luxury to breathe the breath of life.’ - James Platt
How small a portion of our life it is that we
really enjoy. In youth, we are looking forward to things that are to come; in
old age, we are looking backwards to things that are gone past; in manhood,
although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet
even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some
future day when we have time. - Charles
Caleb Colton
How is it that one day life is orderly and
you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then
without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another
place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange? - Jeanette Winterson
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