“Enlarge my life with multitude of days!”
In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays:
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know
That life protracted is protracted woe.
Source: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 255
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In a tablet (𒁾) to Nanna, Text online http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section2/tr25413.htm at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, early 2nd millennium BC.
Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 21
Context: The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.”
Maxim 1075
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 115.
“My mission is to love human beings. … Each day is the best day of my life.”
as quoted in an interview published by "Reuters" ( in 2013 http://www.reuters.com/article/pakistan-edhi-idUSL8N19U460/interview). Retrieved on July 20, 2016
“Day One of my life was the day I met you.”
Source: Entwined with You
Preface to the Second Edition
The Grammar of Science (1900)