Ten Quotes on Life

I was reviewing my posts since I started this blog a year ago and discovered to my surprise that, while I have sprinkled my previous posts with quotes about life, here and there, I have yet to devote a post dedicated to LIFE--the canvas on which I paint my thoughts in my other niche blog. So here goes:

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and have a new ending. -Maria Robinson

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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. -Albert Einstein

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. -Dorothy Thompson

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The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. -Friedrich Nietzsche

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The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -Joan Borysenko

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. -Diane Ackerman

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Why stay we on the earth except to grow? -Robert Browning

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Don't go through life, grow through life. -Eric Butterworth

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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. -Emily Dickinson

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Clipmarks: Famous Quotes from Albert Einstein

I don't know if you're a science nut, but I'm awed by Albert Einstein's genius. Now, I respect him even more as a person because of his all-too human side which I didn't see before. Try these quotes which I imported from Clipmarks.com, where I'm a registered member (if you're a blogger, why don't you become one yourself?):

clipped from www.ruhanirabin.com Famous Quotes from Albert Einstein We always have something to learn from this Talented Genius Albert Einstein . Here are some of his most famous quotes.  In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius (and a lot of courage) to move in the opposite direction. A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin - what else does a man need to be happy? Imagination is more important than knowledge. Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. One does not make wars less likely by formulating rules of warfare. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.