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by Bruno Baceli

Life is the great mystery for you and me. Frankly, it can get a bit complex, but at least there is reassurance in the fact few seem to have figured it out.

Inspirational and Humorous Thoughts on Life

One's view of life often seems to be determined by how life is going at that time. In the good times, life is great. In the bad times, not so hot. Ultimately, the answer is often found in perseverance, to wit, simply plowing ahead through the bad times and into the good ones.

Then again, maybe not. After all, who am I to say on such a subject. In this case, I will defer to the thoughts of famous people through history.

1. And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

2. The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

3. The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

4. If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

Buddha

5. There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung

6. Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

7. Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

8. Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry Tillman

9. Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

10. Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

11. Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

12. Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

Are they right, wrong or just in conflict? I imagine you will just have to live life to find out!

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