“Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”

Source: Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less

Source: Little Town on the Prairie

Source: Man and His Symbols

Source: Woodcutters

Hyperion
Original: (de) Immerhin hat das den Staat zur Hölle gemacht, daß ihn der Mensch zu seinem Himmel machen wollte.

"Our Universal Civilization" in The New York Times (5 November 1990) https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/05/opinion/our-universal-civilization.html
Context: The universal civilization has been a long time in the making. It wasn't always universal; it wasn't always as attractive as it is today. The expansion of Europe gave it for at least three centuries a racial taint, which still causes pain. … This idea of the pursuit of happiness is at the heart of the attractiveness of the civilization to so many outside it or on its periphery. I find it marvelous to contemplate to what an extent, after two centuries, and after the terrible history of the earlier part of this century, the idea has come to a kind of fruition. It is an elastic idea; it fits all men. It implies a certain kind of society, a certain kind of awakened spirit. I don't imagine my father's Hindu parents would have been able to understand the idea. So much is contained in it: the idea of the individual, responsibility, choice, the life of the intellect, the idea of vocation and perfectibility and achievement. It is an immense human idea. It cannot be reduced to a fixed system. It cannot generate fanaticism. But it is known to exist, and because of that, other more rigid systems in the end blow away.

The Duchess of Cornwall meet Big Lunchers from across Scotland
Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Cornwall, meets Big Lunchers from across Scotland 11 May 2012 http://www.thebiglunchers.com/index.php/2012/05/her-royal-highnessthe-duchess-of-cornwall-meets-big-lunchers-from-across-scotland/

Source: As a professional hero and patriot, my goal is always to be proud of the name of Iran and Iranians, and in this way I fight with all my might to be able to raise the holy flag of my country in important and prestigious squares. https://www.mizan.news/003Ay1 Mizan News, (September 12, 2021)

Source: Ender's Game