"She lived, we'll say, A harmless life,..." - Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)
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“The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.”
“A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?”
“The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.”
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“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
“It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.”
“I wrote when I did not know life;now that I do know the meaning of life,I have no more to write.Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.”