“Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.”
Source: Requiem for a Dream
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“There is only one enduring happiness in life—to live for others.”
Leo Tolstoy book Family Happiness
Part 1, chapter 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=eWU4AAAAYAAJ&q=%22there+is+only+one+enduring+happiness+in+life+to+live+for+others%22&pg=PA22#v=onepage <br class="br">Family Happiness (1859)
“the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.”
Anita Shreve (1946–2018) American writer
Source: The Last Time They Met
“We no longer live life. We consume it.”
Vicki Robin (1945) American writer
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) French writer and philosopher
A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)
“In all of living have much of fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.”
Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Stand True and Faithful, Ensign, May 1996, 91.
“If Lincoln had been a failure, he would have lived a longer life.”
James M. McPherson (1936) American historian
James M. McPherson. Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief (2008) "Epilogue"
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“So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
J.A. Hobson (1858–1940) English economist, social scientist and critic of imperialism
The Morals of Economic Irrationalism (1920)