Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist
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Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Not by Twain, but from Edward Abbey's A Voice Crying In The Wilderness (1989).
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Jean de La Bruyère book Les Caractères
Il n'y a pour l'homme que trois événements: naître, vivre et mourir. Il ne se sent pas naître, il souffre à mourir, et il oublie de vivre.
Aphorism 48
Les Caractères (1688), De l'Homme
“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
“we can not prepare for defeat and expect to live a life in Victory.”
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
C. V. Raman (1888–1970) Indian physicist
In a public lecture at Bangalore in 1934, from [Singh, R, 2010, Letters to the Editor: Indian scientists vs. science and religion, http://www.scienceandculture-isna.org/july-aug10/Letter%20to%20editors.pdf, Science and Culture, 76, 7-8, 206]
“Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Prudence
“No man is born unto himself alone;
Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) English poet
Esther (1621), Sec. 1, Meditation 1.