Things happen in life you can't stop. But it wasn't a reason to shut out the world.

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• A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. Essays, "Character," 1844
• Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it’s the moments that take your breath away.
• All of life is a foreign country.
• All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it.