What is life?
Shakespeare: ‘All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts’
— As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7
Jane Austen: ‘Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings’
— Mansfield Park
Robert Frost: ‘In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on’
Oscar Wilde: ‘To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all’
Mark Twain: ‘Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life’
Allen Saunders: ‘Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans’
douglas adams: ‘I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be’
George Bernard Shaw: ‘Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself’
Pablo Picasso: ‘Everything you can imagine is real’
Dr. Seuss: ‘Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple’
Albert Einstein: ‘Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving’
Stephen Chbosky: ‘Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody’
Pablo Picasso: ‘The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away’
Pablo Picasso: ‘Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life’
Sylvia Plath: I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
— The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Bessie Anderson Stanley: He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;
Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;
Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;
Who has left the world better than he found it,
Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;
Whose life was an inspiration;
Whose memory a benediction’
Ralph Waldo Emerson: ‘Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense’
Marilyn Monroe: This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about’
I know some of these don’t necessarily answer my question head on, but that’s pretty human to be fair. I feel conversations are far more interesting when they don’t just end with every answer.
