“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Alesha Dixon cited in Strictly Come Dancing saved me http://www.ok.co.uk/celebnews/view/231/Alesha-Strictly-Come-Dancing-saved-me/?printer=1 at ok.co.uk, 25 December 2007
“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
“The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 71
Morarji Desai (1896–1995) Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former prime minister
19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814) writer and botanist from France
Source: Paul and Virginia by Bernardin de St. Pierre, Fiction, Literary
Alexander Ovechkin (1985) Russian ice hockey player
Ryan Miller, interview in John Vogl (December 4, 2006) "Ovechkin's star eclipsed by few - Briere hit a rare misstep for Capitals' boy wonder", The Buffalo News, p. D7.
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“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.”
Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
As quoted in Rolling Stone's The Immortals (2004) "Bob"
“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly.”
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Variant: Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Source: Eleven Minutes
“What has to be accepted, the given, is — so one could say — forms of life.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein book Philosophical Investigations
Pt II, p. 226 of the 1968 English edition
Philosophical Investigations (1953)