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Do not take life too seriously. You will not get out of it alive.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life. 
We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose, dying. Everything.
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.
The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life
At the end of all our wanderings, we will arrive at the place we started, and know it for the first time
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
Every theory is gray, and only is green the tree of golden fruits that is life.
Life is a state of mind. (From the film "Being There")
For life is a vice: the greatest one of all.
Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners...
In my end is my beginning.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly, that is what each of us is here for.
Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. 
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away.
We want to make life permanent, but in doing so we go against nature, and there lies our pain. Only the mind which is always moving, without resting places and fixed ideas, can be in tune with life and therefore joyful.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Life is a trap you can escape only by throwing yourself into it.
The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Biology is Engineering.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
The traditional view of purpose says it comes from on high, from God, from the Creator. Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. Whereas people used to think of meaning coming from on high and being ordained from the top down, now we have Darwin saying, "No, all of this design can happen, all of this purpose can emerge from the bottom up without any direction at all."
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
BIRTH: The first and dirtiest of all disasters.
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