“A life by choice is one that is filled with love, happiness, and an appreciation of each day.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 78
“A life by choice is one that is filled with love, happiness, and an appreciation of each day.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 78
Richard Dawkins book A Devil's Chaplain
quoting F. W. Sanderson, "The Joy of Living Dangerously: Sanderson of Oundle"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)
“life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.”
Louisa May Alcott book Little Women
Source: Little Women
“Love is a golden bubble, full of dreams,
That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) English dramatist, poet, and translator
Hero and Leander: a poem (1600), begun by Christopher Marlowe, and finished by George Chapman. Sestiad III.
Jenny Colgan (1972) British writer
Source: Meet Me at the Cupcake Café
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
As quoted in LIFE magazine (22 April 1957), p. 152; also in Letters and Papers from Prison (1967), p. 47.
Context: Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.
“Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.”
Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe
Source: Nights in Rodanthe
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin
James Hamilton (1814–1867) Scottish minister and a prolific author of religious tracts
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 58.