“Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.”
Erich Maria Remarque book The Black Obelisk
Source: The Black Obelisk
“Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it.”
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)
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Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer
"The Love of Long Ago"
Source: The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
Context: There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World Revisited
Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 3 (p. 20)
“The only two good things in life are doing mathematics and teaching it.”
Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840) French mathematician, mechanician and physicist
La vie n'est bonne qu'à deux choses : à faire des mathématiques et à les professer. <br class="br">quoted by François Arago in Notices biographiques, Volume 2 http://books.google.fr/books?pg=PA662&id=ZzNLAAAAYAAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false, 1854, p. 662.
