"Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity."
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"None can lead this life who are not almost amphibious."
"The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence."
"I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is very temporary."
"Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?"
"And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death."
"Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but..."
"Hay algo más tonto en la vida Que llamarse Pablo Neruda? (is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?)"
"I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it."
"However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified."
"The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't."
"Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison."
"Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage."
"Once I realized that the only thing I can actually control in this life is my own mind, how I choose to react, feel, and perceive, I felt immediately liberated."
"This life is what I always wanted. I had a vision of our happiness."
"He sins against this life, who slights the next."
"What do I believe that I deserve in this life?"
"Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him eye to eye and said, "I already have, mister."
"To go through this life and see it through - what it really is - and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone."
"And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!"